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After Assam NRC fiasco, Modi govt changed gears to talk of NPR: Chidambaram

Speaking to reporters in Kolkata, Chidambaram said that NPR is "nothing but NRC in disguise".

More modern immigration

Microsoft CEO's remarks on CAA should be a wake-up call

Will strained Centre-state ties make 2020 a year of Constitutional crises?

States have started to take the battle to the Centre on multiple fronts, and things could get worse

Top US Senator urges Pompeo to press India for quick reversal of CAA, NRC

In a letter to Pompeo on Tuesday, Senator Bob Menendez, a Ranking Member of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, expressed concern over the Citizenship Amendment Act

Will quit if even one over half million gets citizenship in Assam: Sarma

The minister was speaking during the debate on the governor's address in the one-day special session of Assam Assembly

No politics on school premises, govt tells managements after BJP's CAA meet

Sources in the department said the notice has been issued to the management of schools to ensure students are kept away from any political event

Citizens should prod governments to act responsibly: Richard Thaler

Thaler, whose 'Nudge Thoery' won him the Nobel prize in 2017, said there are protests in every part of the world which have come to India and it shows that democracy is "fragile" right now

Oppn meets to strike balance over CAA as UP identifies 32K refugees

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar says no justification for the country-wide implementation of NRC

Best of BS Opinion: India's GDP growth, Citizens Amendment Act, and more

The opinion pages focus on aspects related to all three. Kanika Datta sums up the views here

Letter to BS: Mamata has a wider strategy to capture the anti-BJP space

Since the compulsion of state politics is at times at variance with the national narrative needs to be interpreted as her wider political strategy

Each oppressed Pak refugee will get Indian citizenship: Amit Shah

He was speaking at a public meeting organised here to drum up support for the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA)

Migration is the issue here

When people move to cities and countries, there is tension between "insiders" and "outsiders"

CAA discriminatory and divisive law; NPR is 'disguised NRC': Sonia Gandhi

Coming down hard on the National Population Register (NPR), Gandhi told Congress top brass not to be under any illusion that it was a "benign exercise".

Mamata meets PM Modi, asks him to withdraw CAA, reconsider NRC and NPR

Banerjee termed her meeting with PM Modi as 'courtsey visit' and said she has raised issues regarding the due financial assitance that the state is yet to receive

TMC, CPM activists protest against CAA, NRC ahead of PM's visit to Kolkata

Modi will attend sesquicentenary celebrations of Kolkata Port Trust and hold a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

NRC, CAA unnecessary, wasteful exercises: 106 former civil servants to govt

The retired bureaucrats said there was no need for the National Population Register (NPR) and the National Register of Indian Citizens

No Indian will be left out: Smriti Irani hits out at Mamata over NRC

The illegal infiltrators will be dealt with as per law, she asserted

Mend your ways or meet same fate as Chidambaram: BJP MLA warns Mamata

The MLA from Bairia Assembly constituency Surendra Singh said the Trinamool Congress supremo should "become the Prime Minister of Bangladesh" as she was opposed to the National Register of Citizens

Shah calls for pan-Indian rollout of NRC; not in Bengal, says Mamata

Banerjee said the NRC in Assam was part of Assam Accord signed during the tenure of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and that the exercise can never be implemented across the country

Don't fear anybody: Mamata Banerjee to students protesting against CAA, NRC

Lashing out at the BJP, the chief minister said that the party does not keep its promises