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Hima Das won one gold and two silver medals to cap a brilliant performance at the Asian Games

The final draft of the National Register of Citizens could have made at least a million Namasudras stateless in Assam, writes Pramode Mallik

The draft National Register of Citizens has been released. It has branded 40 lakh people as infiltrators. Is this the same India which accepted Sri Lankan Tamils and Buddhists from Tibet?

While the NRC has been projected as an exercise to keep out illegal immigrants, the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016 proposes to do the opposite: grant citizenship to illegal immigrants. The Bill, however, proposes to do so selectively, by keeping Muslims out of its purview

If the Congress has been acting blind all these years and refusing to acknowledge the presence of illegal Bangladeshi (Muslim) migrants in the state, the BJP has gone further by planning to amend the Citizenship Act 1955 and grant Indian citizenship to Bangladeshi Hindus

These Tribals of central India, who once lost their forests and lands, now stand to lose their distinct culture. They have little that they can call their own

Condemning the Assam massacre, Jharkhand Bhasha-Sahitya-Sanskriti Akhada released a memo that said that the incident had brought shame on humanity and left a question mark over the ability of the central and the state governments to provide security to the citizens