-The Indian Express “At a time when the economic situation in the country warrants the closest attention of the government, India can ill afford a situation where the citizenry and the government enter into confrontation on the roads,” said the letter. New Delhi: As many as 106 retired bureaucrats on Thursday issued an open letter, saying both NPR and NRC were “unnecessary and wasteful exercises” that will cause hardships to public. The...
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Can Assam look beyond ethnic and regional politics? -Suraj Gogoi and Rintu Borah
-Newsclick.in Today, the crisis of global migration is unsettling the logic of territorial sovereignty and citizenship that underpins the modern nation-state. On 12 December 2019, while presenting the ground reports on Kashmir and the National Register of Citizens in Washington DC, Gregory Stanton, founder of Genocide Watch, warned that “preparation for a genocide is definitely underway in India,” as the persecution of Muslims in Assam and in Kashmir clearly hints of an...
More »The Indian Constitution's unitary tilt -Aradhya Sethia
-The Hindu The Centre-State conflict over CAA in some places may lead to a fresh debate on the federal question The recent political developments around the citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) have revealed some of the most significant crevices of Indian federalism. Soon after the protests erupted, several State governments occupied by Opposition parties or partners of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) declared that they would...
More »Fall in cases registered over illegal immigration: NCRB data -Roshan Kishore and Neeraj Chauhan
-Hindustan Times To be sure, this does not reflect on whether or not illegal immigration into India -- a controversial subject right now -- has increased or decreased. Cases filed under laws governing people living in India illegally have been declining even as those pertaining to unlawful exits from the country have been on the rise, according to data for 2018 released by the NCRB (National Crime Records Bureau) on Wednesday. To be sure,...
More »Chief Justice Sharad Bobde scoffs at plea to declare CAA 'constitutional' -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu He explains to lawyer that any law passed by the legislature is anyway attached with “a presumption of constitutionality”. Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sharad A. Bobde said the country was already going through difficult times and an endeavour should be made to maintain peace. The CJI made the oral comments while hearing a petition seeking an “aggressive” implementation of the citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), which fast-tracks benefits of citizenship to...
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