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Post CAB nod, BJP to reach out to refugees, explain benefits
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Dec 12 (ANI): After its big push to the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) that helped it sailed through Parliament, making way for the grant of Indian citizenship to the persecuted non-Muslim minority refugees from the three neighbouring countries, the Bharatiya Janata Part
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Pakistani Hindu refugees hail passage of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in L
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 11 (ANI): Pakistani Hindu refugees staying at Bhati Mines in Sanjay Nagar here on Wednesday hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre and Union Minister Amit Shah for the passage of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 in the Lok Sabha.
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FIR registered against some AMU students for protesting against CAB
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Dec 11 (ANI): Police have registered an FIR against 20 identified and 200 unidentified students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) for protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill on Tuesday.
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Question will be whether classification between infiltrators and refugees
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 10 (ANI): Constitution expert Subhash Kashyap, while reacting to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB), has said the question will be whether the classification between infiltrators and refugees is reasonable and if that classification is reasonable, then there will b
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Delhi: Hindu refugees at Majnu-Ka-Tila eagerly waiting for passage of Citi
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 10 (ANI): Phulbanti, a Class VII student who migrated to India from Pakistan in 2013 with her family, is looking forward to the day when she can proudly hold a card, which declares her and her siblings as Indian citizens.
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Delhi: Hindu refugees from Pakistan celebrate passage of Citizenship (Amen
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 10 (ANI): Hindu refugees from Pakistan, living in Majnu-Ka-Tila area here, on Tuesday celebrated the passage of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019 in the Lok Sabha.
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'Inaccurate, unwarranted': India condemns USCIRF's statement on CAB
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 10 (ANI): Condemning the "inaccurate" and "unwarranted" comments made by US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Citizenship Amendment Bill that was passed in the Lok Sabha yesterday, India on Tuesday said that the Bill aims at providing expedited
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Disappointed to see JDU's support for Citizenship Amendment Bill, says Pra
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 10 (ANI): Janata Dal (United) leader Prashant Kishor has expressed disappointment over Nitish Kumar-led party supporting the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 that seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan.
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Lok Sabha passes citizenship amendment bill, Shah says government will bri
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 10 (ANI): The Lok Sabha a little past midnight on Monday passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill after a reply by Home Minister Amit Shah who said that the "historic" legislation will liberate crores of refugees who had come from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh f
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Lok Sabha passes Citizenship amendment bill, Shah says no need to link wit
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 10 (ANI): The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill after a reply by Home Minister Amit Shah who said that the legislation was a historic document to liberate the crores of refugees who had come from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh from adve
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Shiv Sena questions govt over Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in Parliament
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 9 (ANI): Shiv Sena, an erstwhile ally of the BJP, on Monday posed questions to the government over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and asked how much will country's population rise if all the refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh were granted citizenship.
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SC asks Centre to explain why it has stopped supply of ration to Mizoram B
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 9 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to explain within two weeks why it has stopped the supply of ration to the Mizoram Bru refugees in seven relief camps in Tripura that led to starvation deaths.
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