Described as the world’s most persecuted minority, India’s ‘Rohingya refugees’ are fearful of speaking out against India’s controversial new citizenship law which specifically excludes them. Mohammed Zubair pointed at a blue tin gate guarding a plot of land on which construction was busily afoot. A year ago, in 2018, the vacant plot served as a […]
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Has Modi Govt Always Denied NPR-NRC Link?
The BJP-led government claimed the National Population Register (NPR) had nothing to do with the controversial National Register of Citizens (NRC). “NPR has nothing to do with the NRC,” said Union Minister Prakash Javadekar while announcing that the government has approved over Rs 3,900 crore for carrying out the updating process of the NPR next […]