Deferred Belonging
In the border districts of West Bengal, citizenship is not an abstract legal status; it is a lived uncertainty.
In the border districts of West Bengal, citizenship is not an abstract legal status; it is a lived uncertainty.
The Central Government has issued the Immigration and Foreigners (Exemption) Order, 2025, introducing key exemptions from requirements related to valid passports, travel documents, and visas for specific categories of individuals and carriers.
Assam government has granted Indian citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act to two individuals out of the 39 applications so far.
The need to specify the date of entry to India in the application form, which they do not remember or have no proof in support of; filing an affidavit declaring citizenship at birth, etc., is worrying for them.
The TMC leader said that "we won't allow the BJP to run rollers on us with CAA."
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is inspired by the thoughts of Mahatma…
Appeals Muslims to maintain peace.
In a post on X, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the Modi Government today notified the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024.
CAA was passed by the Parliament in 2019 but the government is yet to notify its rules.
In an interview with Abhijit Deb, the young CM talked about his relationship with the BJP-led government at the Centre and his party's position on some of the key issues confronting the North East in general, Meghalaya in particular.