-Scroll.in Assam Finance Minister Himanta BISwa Sarma claimed that the CAG of India had found ‘huge irregularities’ in the updation process of the NRC three years ago. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Assam government on Thursday said it will make public the district-wise figures of Bengali Hindus excluded from the final National Register of Citizens list in the current Assembly session, PTI reported. The Assam government had earlier urged the Centre to reject...
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Civil society criticizes the passage of 'Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights)' Bill in its current form
-Press release by National Alliance of Peoples' Movements dated 28 November, 2019 In yet another of its egregious legislative misadventures, the BJP Government with support from some other parties, passed the regressive 'Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights)' Bill, in the Rajya Sabha yesterday, despite wide-spread opposition by members of the transgender, intersex and gender non-confirming communities, seeking referral of the Bill to a Select Committee. We have all been witness to...
More »Tribal woman who teaches Sanskrit says qualification alone should matter -BIShwanath Ghosh
-The Hindu People may have long stopped speaking Sanskrit, but I don’t find a decline in interest in the subject, says Sarathi Hembram. Kolkata: Sarathi Hembram lives in a rural pocket of West Bengal, where life is largely untouched by the acrimonious political arguments vitiating social media, but she is aware what’s going on in the Banaras Hindu University at the moment. Thanks to TV, she has got to know about the protests...
More »Assam govt rejects present NRC, wants to be part of national NRC: Himanta BISwa Sarma -Hemanta Kumar Nath
-India Today Assam Finance Minister Dr Himanta BISwa Sarma on Wednesday said in Guwahati that the present NRC process in Assam should be scrapped and Assam wants to be a part of the national NRC process. Guwahati: Assam government rejected the present National Register of Citizens (NRC) wanting it to be part of a national NRC. Rejecting the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which was published on August 31, the Assam government welcomed...
More »Simply Put: What is driving onion prices -Parthasarathi BISwas
-The Indian Express Government has called for import of 1 lakh tonnes of onion to help control rising prices. What has been causing the increase in prices since May, and how far can the new move be expected to reverse the trend? Pune: LAST WEEK, Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Minister for Food and Civil Supplies, directed the state-owned trading corporation MMTC to import 1 lakh tonnes of onions to help ease...
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