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Activist Sharjeel Imam, accused in the 2020 Delhi riots case, has been granted 10-day interim bail by a Delhi court to attend his brother’s wedding. The court order allows him relief from March 20 to March 30.

Activist Sharjeel Imam sought bail in the February 2020 Delhi riots case, expressing anguish before the Supreme Court over being labelled a “dangerous intellectual terrorist” without trial or conviction. His counsel, senior advocate Siddhartha Dave, argued that Imam is a citizen by birth who has not been convicted of any offence.

Census data since 1881 has shown a gradual decline of tribal population as against the gradual increase of non-tribal population in Jharkhand

The struggle of Rahim Ali’s family, branded as a foreigner, exposes the loopholes in the citizenship verification process

Statelessness is a human problem with no easy end in sight. Power rests with the nations that make policy dictating whether a refugee has a nation they can call home

Unkept promises and unhappiness on CAA and NRC make this election a formidable challenge for BJP

It has been clarified at various levels in government time and again that till now no decision has been taken to create National Register of Indian citizen," the ministry told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs headed by Congress leader Anand Sharma

The final NRC was released on August 31, 2019 by excluding names of 19,06,657 persons. A total of 3,11,21,004 names were included out of 3,30,27,661 applicants.

He has promised to work with India in confronting challenges like climate change, global health and terrorism

The NRC has become meaningless after the CAA and will remain an abandoned document in the debris of India’s political debacles