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]20-metre-long escape tunnel found at Australian detention centre: Report
- The refugee advocates said that the fresh escape attempt has highlighted the prolonged detention of those held in the onshore detention centres in Australia.
Published on May 11, 2021 03:37 PM IST
hindustantimes.com | Edited by Kunal Gaurav, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Ghaziabad: SC/ST hostel to stay; UP’s first detention centre to come up in another location
Government officials said that a hunt is for a new place for the proposed detention facility
Published on Sep 18, 2020 01:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ghaziabad | HT Correspondent
Gauhati HC orders release of detention centre inmates who completed 2 years
Acting on two intervention petitions seeking the release of detention centre inmates over fears of them contracting Covid-19, the Supreme Court had ordered on April 13 that all detainees who had spent two years in detention should be released.
Published on Apr 18, 2020 10:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Guwahati | Utpal Parashar
Covid-19: 300 rounded up in Chandigarh, 35 booked in Mohali for violating curfew
In some parts of Chandigarh, stone pelting was reported when patrolling officers resorted to lathicharge to stop people from stepping out of their house
Updated on Mar 26, 2020 01:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | HT Correspondents, Chandigarh/mohali
No ‘exclusive’ detention centres, government tells Parliament
Minister of state for home Nityanand Rai made the statement while replying to a question from MP Pradyut Bordoloi in Lok Sabha.
Updated on Feb 04, 2020 11:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New DElhi | HT Correspondent
2 Pak nationals who crossed over to India in 2018 sent back home
While Mubshar Bilal was languishing in Hoshiarpur juvenile home, Sajjad Haider was at a detention centre in Delhi
Updated on Jan 14, 2020 11:19 PM IST
HT Correspondent, Chandigarh | HT Correspondent, Amritsar
Won’t separate children from families for now: Centre to SC on Assam NRC
The top court was hearing a petition filed by a non-profit that complained there were 60 children in detention centres because their citizenship was yet to be established.
Updated on Jan 06, 2020 01:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
On Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Jhooth’ jibe at PM Modi, BJP’s scathing comeback
PM Modi, while addressing a massive rally in Delhi on Sunday, had said there are no detention centres in India.
Updated on Dec 26, 2019 12:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
‘Check with social welfare dept’: Minister on detention centre in Karnataka
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said, “In qualified terms, it is not a detention centre. There is no purpose per se to detain someone on the issue of citizenship.”
Updated on Dec 25, 2019 06:23 PM IST
Bengaluru | Press Trust of India
‘Simple Google search’: Congress on PM Modi’s ‘no detention centre’ claim
The Congress also attached newspaper clippings to the tweet which quoted Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai saying that 28 illegal immigrants had died in detention centres across Assam.
Updated on Dec 22, 2019 08:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
‘Urban Naxals, Cong lying on detention centres for Muslims’: PM Modi on CAA
The Prime Minister earlier launched a blistering attack on the present dispensation and “dishonest” opposition, saying the Bharatiya Janata Party does not ignore people’s problems like the previous governments did in Delhi.
Updated on Dec 22, 2019 02:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
CAA-NRC: Lessons from the Assam experience
The government’s plan has disturbing domestic and international implications. Go back to the founding values
Updated on Dec 20, 2019 08:29 PM IST
Deb Mukharji
A case for posthumous citizenship for NRC victims
How precious it is for someone to belong somewhere, that the humiliation of “unbelonging” empties their desire to live. Even when he was sure that he will end his life, he wanted to be remembered as a citizen, not as someone illegal.
Updated on Nov 27, 2019 04:02 PM IST
Suraj Gogoi
Detained J&K leader’s son frisked, alleges kin
The police said a raid was conducted in the hostel where they recovered mobile phones from detained leaders. According to a relative of the NC leader, the forces also frisked the toddler while he was in his mother’s lap during a visit to the hostel.
Updated on Nov 24, 2019 06:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Srinagar | Ashiq Hussain
Assam forms panel to review condition at detention centres
Friday’s move comes days after the family of Dulal Paul, 65, who died on October 13 after spending two years at a detention centre, refused to accept his body till he was declared an Indian citizen.
Updated on Oct 26, 2019 02:34 AM IST
Guwahati | Utpal Parashar
Declare him Indian, says family of man pronounced foreigner who died in Assam
Dulal Chandra Paul, 65, who was declared a foreigner two years ago and was in a detention camp, died at a Guwahati hospital on Sunday
Updated on Oct 15, 2019 10:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Guwahati | Utpal Parashar
Final NRC status: 15 buildings, schools, hospital in detention centre for those not in Assam NRC
In the final list of National Register of Citizens (NRC) published on August 31, more than 19 lakh people were excluded. However, those left out can still apply to the designated Foreigners’ Tribunals within 120 days for their cases to be heard.
Updated on Sep 14, 2019 04:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Guwahati | HT Correspondent
For illegal immigrants: Plot in Nerul identified for detention centre
While there were claims that the proposal for the detention centre was linked to the national register of citizens (NRC), Brijesh Singh, senior IPS officer and state government’s spokesperson, refuted the same.
Updated on Sep 08, 2019 02:15 AM IST
Mumbai | Swapnil Rawal, Mumbai
Centaur hotel turns into detention centre in Srinagar, houses 50 top leaders
At least 50 top mainstream politicians including former ministers and legislators of the National Conference, the People’s Democratic Party, and the People’s Conference are housed there, according a government officer posted at SKICC.
Updated on Aug 24, 2019 12:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Srinagar | MIR EHSAN
No terror strike in Xinjiang since camps set up 3 years ago, says Beijing
Beijing said that Xinjiang has set up vocation centres to remedy religious extremism and terrorist incidents.
Updated on Aug 16, 2019 03:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Beijing | Sutirtho Patranobis
Over 500 leaders detained in J-K: Report
According to latest reports, about 560 such workers have been lodged in makeshift detention centres in Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Centre in Srinagar and other such centres in Baramulla and Gurez.
Published on Aug 08, 2019 05:05 AM IST
Srinagar | Press Trust of India
Detention centre for illegal foreign nationals to come up outside Patna’s Beur jail
The move to set up detention centres in select places has gained momentum following a fresh missive from the home ministry to states to set up at least one such centre with all modern facilities to house illegal immigrants/ foreigners for a longer period till the time formalities of deportation are complete.
Published on Aug 02, 2019 01:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Patna | Anirban Guha Roy, Patna
30 Bangladeshis lodged in Assam jails deported back
The Bangladeshis had entered India illegally, without valid documents, and were lodged in detention centres in Assam.
Updated on Jul 25, 2019 04:40 PM IST
Guwahati | Utpal Parashar
‘Return years I’ve lost’: Assam woman declared a foreigner
When the foreigners tribunal finally issued notices to appear about a decade ago, another person of a similar name in the village received the notice.
Updated on Jun 28, 2019 01:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Guwahati | Sadiq Naqvi
Assam seeks 10 more detention centres to hold ‘illegal foreigners’
The NRC list is due on July 31, 2019, the deadline set by the Supreme Court. Those whose names do not figure in the list have the option of approaching the foreigners tribunals to prove their Indian citizenship or the tribunal could declare them a foreigner.
Updated on Jun 15, 2019 12:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Guwahati | Sadiq Naqvi
Mystery over death of 88-year-old man whose name was missing from Assam NRC
The man had told his family that he was worried about the likelihood of being sent to a detention centre if he failed to prove he is an Indian citizen because his name did not figure in the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
Updated on May 26, 2019 04:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Guwahati | Utpal Parashar
58-year-old man dies in Assam detention camp for illegal immigrants
The body of Basudev Biswas was sent to his village in Ambagan in Nagaon district by the police on Sunday. His family initially refused to receive his body, claiming he was an Indian.
Updated on May 13, 2019 05:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Guwahati | Sadiq Naqvi
Over 110 declared foreigners sent to detention camps in Assam; families claim Indian citizens being harassed
Police in Assam have sent more than 110 declared foreigners to detention camps in the last fortnight. Families of these people say that Indians are being harassed within the country.
Updated on May 10, 2019 11:58 AM IST
Guwahati | Sadiq Naqvi
Supreme Court rejects plea seeking recusal of CJI in detention centre case
Mander was a member of the National Advisory Council (NAC), headed by Sonia Gandhi, during the UPA regime. NAC acted as the then government’s policy advisory body.
Published on May 03, 2019 02:43 AM IST
New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn to walk free, again, after court sets bail at $4.5 million
Ghosn’s lawyers on Monday filed the bail request after the former executive was indicted for aggravated breach of trust, accused of enriching himself at a cost of $5 million to Nissan from July 2017 through July 2018.
Updated on Apr 25, 2019 09:31 AM IST
Tokyo | Reuters
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