The Election Commission aligns its Special Intensive Revision with the 2003 Citizenship Act. This act requires specific ...

The forced transfer of Bengali Muslims into Bangladesh marks a sharp escalation in Assam’s decades-long campaign of ...

Amid an aggressive crackdown after Operation Sindoor, over 2000 suspected illegal immigrants have been pushed back from the ...

Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has invoked an old law and is pushing an identity-driven narrative on illegal Bangladeshis ...

Concerns surrounding citizenship faced by sections of society in India’s border States have come to the fore again ...

This Act predates several key legislations that are currently used to deal with immigration issues in India, such as the Foreigners Act, 1946; Section 6A of the Citizenship Act; the Foreigners ...

ECI allows those not on the 2003 electoral roll in Bihar to use parents' names as proof during revision, amid concerns over ...

West Bengal residents pushed to Bangladesh by BSF brought back to India; pushbacks of suspected Bangladeshis continue amid ...

During an earlier hearing on Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, SC had mentioned that it was not binding on the Assam government to always approach the judiciary in order to push back foreigners.

Hundreds taken to Bangladesh border at gunpoint in a crackdown by Assam, as some other BJP-ruled states follow suit.

Citizenship Tangle Why experts contest Assam CM’s use of 1950 law to justify forcing out people into Bangladesh Lawyers also disagreed with his claim that the Supreme Court’s Section 6A ruling ...

He said a constitutional bench of the Supreme Court, in a recent ruling on a case of the Citizenship Act, has given "sweeping power" to the state government by mentioning that the 1950 law remains ...