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detention centre news

Lucknow to get detention centre, holding areas for seized vehicles

A departmental detention centre near Ahimamau has already been prepared and is expected to become operational within the next 15 to 20 days. (For representation)
Published on May 11, 2026 04:18 am IST

MP HC refuses to order release of Bangladeshi woman from detention centre citing safety issue

MP HC refuses to order release of Bangladeshi woman from detention centre citing safety issue
Published on Feb 26, 2026 08:16 pm IST

How many detainees are currently in ICE custody?

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, including one wearing a 'NOT ICE' face covering, walk near their vehicles, in Richfield, Minnesota.
Published on Jan 17, 2026 07:31 am IST

Israeli police arrest ex-prosecutor after video of soldier abuse surfaces

Tomer-Yerushalmi disappeared for several hours on Sunday after she announced her resignation, with speculation swirling in the press of a possible suicide attempt.
Published on Nov 03, 2025 03:29 pm IST

There are always ways to resist: Wknd interviews dystopian author Laila Lalami

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(Photo by Beowulf and Shaheen)
Updated on Jul 19, 2025 01:01 pm IST

Awaiting deportation in a city defined by displacement

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Inside the detention centre in Sector 18 of Rohini. (HT Photo)
Published on Jul 16, 2025 06:36 am IST

‘I was chained…’: Indian researcher recounts detention horror in US

In this recent undated image provided by the ACLU of Virginia, Badar Khan Suri and his wife Mapheze Saleh pose. Suri, a Georgetown scholar from India, was arrested outside his Virginia home and detained by masked Homeland Security agents on allegations that he spread Hamas propaganda.
Updated on May 16, 2025 08:40 am IST

Italy to turn empty Albania migrant centre into repatriation hub

Italy to turn empty Albania migrant centre into repatriation hub
Published on Mar 28, 2025 08:50 pm IST

‘Turbans thrown into dustbin’: Indian deportee on stay at US detention camp

Indian immigrants who were deported from the US leave the Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport, in Amritsar.
Updated on Feb 19, 2025 07:59 am IST

New prisons reforms act passed; Mumbai to get a new multi-storey jail

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced a new high-security, multi-storey jail in Mumbai. (HT PHOTO)
Updated on Dec 21, 2024 08:27 am IST

Delhi Police launches verification drive against illegal Bangladeshi immigrants

Delhi Police launches verification drive against illegal Bangladeshi immigrants
Published on Dec 11, 2024 09:40 pm IST

Myanmarese in Manipur detention centre sit on hunger strike, demand release

(Representative Photo)
Published on Jul 21, 2024 02:14 pm IST

Detained US-Russian ballerina details horrific conditions at detention centre

A portrait of Ksenia Karelina, U.S, December 13, 2015. Eleonora Srebroski /Handout via REUTERS.
Published on Mar 05, 2024 09:45 pm IST

Trial court can’t send foreign citizen to detention while granting bail: Delhi HC

The court noted that the petitioner has already been in de facto custody for two years. (File)
Updated on May 31, 2023 11:55 pm IST

20-metre-long escape tunnel found at Australian detention centre: Report

The refugee advocates said that the tunnel ran from beneath the floor of room 6F in one of the accommodation blocks.
Published on May 11, 2021 03:38 pm IST

Ghaziabad: SC/ST hostel to stay; UP’s first detention centre to come up in another location

Workers at an under-construction detention centre in Matia, Assam, in January.
Published on Sept 18, 2020 01:07 pm IST

Gauhati HC orders release of detention centre inmates who completed 2 years

An under construction detention camp in Matia, Assam.
Published on Apr 18, 2020 10:12 am IST

Covid-19: 300 rounded up in Chandigarh, 35 booked in Mohali for violating curfew

Chandigarh police arresting curfew violators at Sector 22 in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
Updated on Mar 26, 2020 01:35 am IST

No ‘exclusive’ detention centres, government tells Parliament

The government informed the Parliament on Tuesday that no detention centres have been built in Assam “exclusively” to detain those who do not have documents proving their citizenship under National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC).
Updated on Feb 04, 2020 11:38 pm IST

2 Pak nationals who crossed over to India in 2018 sent back home

The BSF officials handed over the duo to the Pakistan Rangers at the zero line around 1.30pm.
Updated on Jan 14, 2020 11:19 pm IST

Won’t separate children from families for now: Centre to SC on Assam NRC

A bench led by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde told the government to file an affidavit in four weeks.
Updated on Jan 06, 2020 01:15 pm IST

On Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Jhooth’ jibe at PM Modi, BJP’s scathing comeback

NCongress MP Rahul Gandhi
Updated on Dec 26, 2019 12:52 pm IST

‘Check with social welfare dept’: Minister on detention centre in Karnataka

Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai objected to the term ‘Detention Centre’.
Updated on Dec 25, 2019 06:23 pm IST

‘Simple Google search’: Congress on PM Modi’s ‘no detention centre’ claim

Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves at people during a rally at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi on Sunday.
Updated on Dec 22, 2019 08:29 pm IST

‘Urban Naxals, Cong lying on detention centres for Muslims’: PM Modi on CAA

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a BJP rally at Ramlia Maidan, in New Delhi on December 22, 2019. (ANI Photo)
Updated on Dec 22, 2019 02:57 pm IST

CAA-NRC: Lessons from the Assam experience

The NRC considers each individual as a presumed non-citizen who must prove otherwise
Updated on Dec 20, 2019 08:29 pm IST

A case for posthumous citizenship for NRC victims

How long will the suffering of the 1.9 million people continue, or have we relegated them as “permanent aliens”?
Updated on Nov 27, 2019 04:02 pm IST

Detained J&K leader’s son frisked, alleges kin

The two-year-old son of a National Conference leader, who is currently under detention at Srinagar’s MLA hostel, was allegedly frisked by security forces at the detention centre (Photo by Waseem Andrabi / Hindustan Times)
Updated on Nov 24, 2019 06:17 am IST

Assam forms panel to review condition at detention centres

The Assam government on Friday constituted a committee to review the conditions prevailing in the six detention centres for illegal immigrants in the state.
Updated on Oct 26, 2019 02:34 am IST

Declare him Indian, says family of man pronounced foreigner who died in Assam

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) published on August 31 left out 1.9 million peole They will have to file appeals to prove that they are Indians.
Updated on Oct 15, 2019 10:41 pm IST