CAA rules will be formulated by March 2024, says Union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra

The minister of state for home affairs was addressing a gathering of the Matua community in West Bengal who had fled religious persecution in Bangladesh.

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· Nov 27, 2023 · 10:56 am

Assam woman declared Indian six years after being labelled ‘foreigner’, sent to detention camp

There was a mismatch in her, her father’s and her grandfather’s names in different electoral rolls.

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· Oct 15, 2023 · 04:14 pm

Supreme Court to hear pleas challenging Section 6A of Citizenship Act from October 17

The section is a special provision that deals with the citizenship of those covered by the Assam Accord of 1985.

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· Sep 20, 2023 · 05:02 pm

Nepal implements new citizenship law, but long road ahead to end discrimination, statelessness

Nepal does not let women automatically pass citizenship to their children, leaving several without stateless, particularly in cases of mixed marriages.

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· Jul 10, 2023 · 07:30 pm

No property rights or welfare schemes for ‘declared foreigners’, Centre argues in Gauhati High Court

The court is examining the entitlements of a person declared a foreigner by Assam’s foreigners’ tribunals.

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· May 02, 2023 · 09:00 am

Jamia violence: Delhi HC sets aside discharge order of Sharjeel Imam, 10 others

A trial court had held there was no evidence that the activists were part of the violent mob which held protests against Citizenship Amendment Act in 2019.

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· Mar 28, 2023 · 12:47 pm

‘Victim of violence’: Sharjeel Imam tells HC on plea against his acquittal in 2019 Jamia case

The Delhi Police have filed the petition against a trail court discharing Imam and 10 others in a case pertaining to violence on Jamia Millia campus in 2019.

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· Mar 16, 2023 · 08:38 pm

Assam: All ‘declared foreigners’ shifted to state’s largest detention centre

Many of the detainees claim to be Indian citizens who were held as suspects by foreigner detection mechanisms or could not furnish adequate documents.

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· Mar 13, 2023 · 06:27 pm

Inside India’s largest detention centre: ‘It is better to die than live with no hope’

The Matia transit camp in Lower Assam currently holds 69 ‘foreigners’, along with 300 people arrested as part of the state’s crackdown on child marriage.

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· Mar 07, 2023 · 07:00 pm

Why thousands of people who thought they were British could lose their citizenship

The British citizenship of the children of EU nationals born before October 2, 2000, could be at risk.

Alice Welsh, The Conversation

· Mar 03, 2023 · 09:30 pm

Gauhati HC fines election officer for questioning citizenship of retired Gurkha soldier

The court also set aside a ruling by the foreigners’ tribunal that declared 85-year-old Jagat Bahadur Chetri as an illegal immigrant in 2012.

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· Feb 23, 2023 · 08:58 pm

Jamia violence: Delhi HC issues notice on plea against order to discharge Sharjeel Imam, 10 others

The case pertains to violence that had erupted at the Jamia Millia Islamia campus on December 15, 2019, during student protests against the CAA.

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· Feb 13, 2023 · 02:17 pm