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'I feel afraid for my country': Selena Gomez on immigration crisis in US
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 2 (ANI): Pop star Selena Gomez finds the current immigration crisis in the United States of America utterly upsetting.
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Intruders will be shown the door, refugees given citizenship, says Shah in
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Oct 1 (ANI): Asserting that no "intruder" will be allowed to stay in the country while refugees belonging to Hindu and some other religions will be given citizenship, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday that the BJP-led government will bring Nation
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Infiltrators will not be allowed to stay, refugees will be given citizensh
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Oct 1 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday that the BJP-led Central government will not allow any "infiltrator" to stay in the county while refugees belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi, and Christian religions will be given citize
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West Bengal: Shah to speak on NRC,Citizenship Amendment Bill in Kolkata to
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 1 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be speaking on National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Bill at an event being organised at Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata on Tuesday.
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WB: Shah to speak on NRC, Citizenship Amendment Bill in Kolkata on Oct 1
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 24 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah to speak on National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Bill at Netaji Indoor Stadium here on October 1.
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Need to enact new Citizenship Act before implementing NRC nationally: BJP
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Sept 19 (ANI): Supporting Union Home Minister Amit Shah's suggestion that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) should be introduced throughout India, Rajya Sabha MP Swapan Dasgupta on Thursday said that it should not be done before enacting a new Citizenship Act as the
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Deprived of citizenship, 2.6 million Pak don't have social, political righ
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Sept 17 (ANI): An estimated 2.6 million women living in Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa do not possess a National Identity Card (NIC), rendering them ineligible to vote and restricting their ability to play a role in the political, social and econ
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Religion is nowhere mentioned in Indian citizenship laws: Owaisi
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Sept 4 (ANI): After a war of words broke out with Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Twitter over the National Register of Citizens (NRC), AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday said the word "religion" is nowhere mentioned in Indian citizenship l
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NRC 'erroneous', should have been more exclusions: Himanta Biswa Sarma
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], Aug 31 (ANI): Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said that the number of people excluded from the National Register of Citizens (NRC) should have been higher as the list which excluded 19 lakh people was erroneous.
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ISIS recruit Jack Letts stripped of British citizenship
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], Aug 19 (ANI): Jack Letts, a British-Canadian national who converted to Islam and fled his home in Oxford to join the Islamic State (ISIS) five years ago, has been stripped of his British citizenship while being held in a Syrian prison.
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Adnan Sami hits back at trolls questioning his loyalty to motherland
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Aug 15 (ANI): Pakistani singer Adnan Sami, who got Indian citizenship a few years back, clapped back at Pakistani trolls questioning about his father and his loyalty to his "motherland".
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SC asks Centre to maintain Aadhaar-like secrecy for Assam NRC data
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 13 (ANI): Considering the Citizenship Act and rules, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Centre to maintain Aadhaar-like secrecy for the data in Assam's National Register of Citizens (NRC).
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