Topic: National Register of Citizens (NRC)

Teesta Setalvad's Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) has filed a petition before Guwahati High Court seeking effective legal aid for 1.9 million excluded from the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

Alameda County, an American city has passed a resolution against India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR) by declaring laws "are discriminatory towards Muslims, caste oppressed minorities, women and indigenous people."

The Madras High Court quashed the first information report filed against advocates T. Lajapathi Roy and Henri Tiphagne, two Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register Citizenship (NRC) protesters, and took cognisance that no untoward incident had taken place and observed that there were protests across the country against amendments to the Act.

From glorifying CM candidates to using dry development rhetoric, this state election is garden-variety for political parties even as young Muslim, Dalit and Adivasi voters forage for progressive undercurrents in Bihar after CAA and Hathras.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat's remarks on Sunday at the Sangh’s annual Vijayadashami rally in Nagpur on the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act that "some people misled our Muslim brothers" brought a stark response from All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi.

The resolution, passed by a unanimous vote at the Board’s meeting, categorically opposes the CAA, NRC and NPR as "discriminatory to Muslims, caste oppressed, women, indigenous peoples, and the LGBTQ community."