Tag: Citizenship

The Indian Union Muslim League on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court against a Union home ministry notification allowing 13 districts to accept, verify and approve citizenship applications from members of minority communities hailing from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, reported Bar and Bench.In a gazette notification issued on May 28, ...

It was on Friday, 28 May, that the Union government issued the notification, allowing non-Muslim refugees (Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians) from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, now residing in parts of India, to apply for citizenship.These people are living in the districts of Morbi, Rajkot, Patan, and ...

Last week, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued a notification empowering the District Collectors of 13 districts in Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana, as well as the Home Secretaries of Haryana and Punjab, to process applications for the grant of citizenship by registration as well as by ...

New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry has issued a notification under the 2009 rules of the Citizenship Act, 1955 asking non-Muslims belonging to Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan and residing in 13 districts of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Punjab to apply for Indian citizenship. The fresh order is in no ...

Congress party that has ruled the state of Assam for more than 50 years has joined with seven other regional parties to form a grand alliance or "Mahajot" whose sole purpose is to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Sputnik spoke with Gaurav Gogoi, Congress party's deputy leader in ...

One day in 1949, my grandmother, then all of seven, walked from East Pakistan into India holding her father’s hand. Their lives had been uprooted by a line drawn on a map by a British lawyer who had just five weeks to divide a country. They left their home ...

Sixty-eight year old Shamsuddin runs a printing press in Chennai’s bustling Triplicane locality. He pithily described the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s manifesto promise of persuading the central government to revoke the Citizenship Amendment Act as “pinching the baby and then trying to rock the cradle to pacify ...

Washington: The US House of Representatives has passed two key bills that would create a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants, some migrant farmworkers and children whose parents immigrated legally to the country, like those under the H-1B visa programme. The passage of the American Dream and Promise ...

India oi-Deepika S | Published: Sunday, March 14, 2021, 16:28 Chennai, Mar 14: DMK chief MK Stalin on Sunday said his party would continue to urge the union government to scrap the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act and confer citizenship on Sri Lankan Tamils living in refugee camps in ...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said that his party will never allow the implementation the Citizenship Amendment Act in Assam if voted to power after the Assembly elections. He addressed a rally in Sivasagar to kickstart the Congress’s election campaign. The Congress leader and his party colleagues were ...