NEW DELHI, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- As violent protests over new citizenship law in India are spiralling across many states, authorities have now extended the internet ban to parts of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said Monday. The internet services were suspended in Uttar P...
Protesters shout slogans during a protest against new citizenship law in New Delhi, India, Dec. 18, 2019. India's top court Wednesday issued a notice to country's federal government over the controversial new citizenship law that triggered massive countrywide protests, officials said. (Xinhua/...
rule of lawcitizenshipIndiaadivasiThis article argues that the 'rule of law' has become a central goal in popular struggles the world over, and it is citizenship struggles which infuse the rule of law with substantive, as against a thin procedural, meaning. This is especially true in post-...
Understanding the following terms is also important to understanding citizenship in India:Person under the Citizenship act does not include companies, associations, or any body of individuals. Illegal immigrant under Indian law means a person that has travelled without a valid passport or tra...
The objective of immigration is gaining citizenship or nationality in a different country. In India, the law relating to citizenship or nationality is mainly governed by the provisions of the Constitution. The Constitution of India provides for single citizenship for the entire country. ...
When India became independent in 1947, its founders said it wanted to create a secular nation where all religions were welcomed versus neighboring Pakistan, which was widely considered a home for Muslims. Critics claim the new law is betraying the very foundation India was built on. Modi, howeve...
11 last year, the day India's upper house of parliament passed the law. Since then there has been no let-up in the protests. The law aims at granting citizenship to illegal immigrants belonging to six religions - Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism, Parsi and Christianity - from Bangladesh...
Protests continued unabated across India on Tuesday as tensions soar over a controversial new law that offers citizenship to non-Muslim migrants.
India's Citizenship Law Triggers Mass Protests And Violence As Modi...The mass demonstrations followed violence that erupted Sunday night,as police stormed a public university in New Delhi.印度此前通过的《公民身份法案》(修正案)引发全国范围内的抗议。持续数天的抗议已造成至少6人死亡,印度警方也多次...
2:39 India’s controversial citizenship law explained A new citizenship law in India threatens the country's sizable Muslim population, according to critics.GUWAHATI and LONDON -- Ajbahar Ali, a 56-year-old small farmer in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, vividly remembers th...