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The Indian External Affairs Ministry on Sunday asserted that updating of the NRC in Assam was a statutory, transparent, legal process mandated by the Supreme Court and made it clear that people excluded from NRC would continue to get the rights or entitlements they have enjoyed so far.In a statement...
Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), a member of the ruling BJP-led alliance in Assam, on Saturday expressed dissatisfaction over the final NRC in the state and said there is scope for its review in the Supreme Court which supervised the updating process. The number of exclusion of names in the NRC appears to ...
Four years after the process was set in motion, the updated final National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, which validates bonafide Indian citizens, was Saturday published with over 19 lakh people failing to make the cut and staring at an uncertain future and a long and arduous legal battle. As...
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India has said it is willing to discuss outstanding issues with Pakistan at a bilateral level in an atmosphere free from terror and violence. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Friday made the remark during his meeting with European Union Commissioner Christos Stylianides in Brussels aft...
Amidst heightened security, the final National Register of Citizenship (NRC) in Assam is set to be made public on Saturday capping a four-year-old process, monitored by the Supreme Court, of weeding out ‘illegal immigrants’ from the state. Both the Indian and Assam governments have...
India and Bangladesh have agreed on developing a mechanism to share authentic information about operatives of fake currency notes and fake Indian currency notes on both sides of the border. At the from August 26 to 28, two nodal officers from both sides were nominated to serve as focal contact point...
A special court in Kolkata on Friday sentenced 19 people, including four Bangladeshi nationals, to jail terms ranging from six to 10 years for their involvement in a bomb blast in Burdwan in West Bengal less than four years ago. The four Bangladeshis convicted in the case were awarded 10 years' ...
The West Bengal legislative assembly on Friday passed a bill to check incidents of mob assaults and lynching and criminalized such actions. The West Bengal (Prevention of Lynching) Bill, 2019 was tabled in the House on Friday and supported by opposition Congress and CPI (M).The BJP, which has emerge...
India on Thursday said Pakistan has no locus standi on Kashmir and no country is backing it on the ‘current issue’. Addressing an event in Leh, the main city of Ladakh which has been bifurcated from Kashmir Valley on August 5, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh asked how can India tal...
A high security alert was sounded across Gujarat following intelligence inputs that Pakistan-trained commandos may have sneaked into the Gulf of Kutch, police sources said on Thursday.The alert followed Border Security Force (BSF) finding two Pakistani boats abandoned in 'Harami Nala' area o...
Four Bangladeshi nationals are among 19 persons convicted by a special court in Kolkata on Wednesday for all the charges against them in the case relating to the powerful bomb blast in a house in Burdwan on October 2 nearly five years ago.The quantum of sentence against the 19 convicts will be prono...
High schools across Kashmir Valley reopened on Wednesday after more than three weeks of closure in areas where restrictions on movement of people have been lifted but students kept away from classrooms. Officials said high schools reopened this morning. However, limited staff presence was seen in sc...
In a prize catch for Indian security agencies, a top operative of terror outfit Jamat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), who was involved in a blast aimed at Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama in January last year, has been arrested from by the special task force (STF) of the West Bengal Police in Bih...
India’s Navy chief Admiral Karambir Singh has said that an ‘underwater wing’ of Pakistan- based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) is training people to carry out attacks but assured the Navy is fully prepared to thwart any such attempt. "We have received intelligence (input)...
Amidst an outpour of grief and glowing tributes, India’s former Finance Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley was cremated on Sunday with full state honours in the presence of leaders from across the political spectrum and scores of his admirers and party workers.Jaitl...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Saturday honoured conferred the "Order of Zayed", the UAE's highest civilian award for his contribution to boost ties between the two nations. “Humbled to be conferred the ‘Order of Zayed’ a short while ago. More than an indi...
A delegation of nine Indian opposition parties led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited occupied Kashmir on Saturday despite pleas by local authorities to keep away. However, amid restrictions imposed in the region since the abrogation of Article-370, the delegation was not allowed to step out of...
Arun Jaitley, the former finance minister of India and a stalwart of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has died at the age of 66 on Saturday afternoon after a prolonged illness. Jaitley was admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi on August 9 after he complained of br...
Pakistan has been put in an ‘enhanced blacklist’ by global financial watchdog Financial Action Task Force's Asia-Pacific division for its failure to meet global standards, officials said on Friday. Pakistan now needs to focus on avoiding the blacklist in October meeting of the FATF w...
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India’s Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine the constitutional validity of a law passed by parliament last month outlawing the practice of instant triple talaq among Muslims."We will examine this," an apex court bench consisting of Justices N V Ramana and Ajay Rastogi told seni...
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