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CAA and NRC – Explained

CAA and NRC – Explained

National
The newly amended citizenship act (CAA) has aroused fear among Indian citizens that it will deny citizenship to the existing Muslim minority communities in India. However, if one to dive deep into details of this act then it is clear, that it only aims to provide Indian citizenship to religiously persecuted minorities of our neighboring countries i.e. Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, provided they entered India before December 31, 2014. Since these countries are Islamic state and roughly 95% of their population is Muslim, hence only their minorities had been named in this bill. The passing of the CAB bill raised a lot of questions like - what is CAA, how is it different from NRC, will it be discriminatory against the Muslim Community and will it lead to deportation of the min...
Security of Indian citizens matter of serious concern for government: MEA

Security of Indian citizens matter of serious concern for government: MEA

National
India raised the killing of Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla in a hate attack in Kansas with US authorities in “very strong terms”, a top official said on Thursday, adding that the security of Indians and persons of Indian origin is a matter of serious concern for the Indian government. On a day the issue featured in a major way in Parliament and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh assured the Lok Sabha that the government is taking the issue very seriously, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Gopal Baglay said in a briefing that Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar was conveyed by US officials during his talks in Washington that the attack on Kuchibhotla and another Indian in the February 22 incident was an “individual case”. Baglay said that the Indian Consulate reached out to the fa...