Search results for: Citizenship law

Indian citizenship protests: Modi, BJP misread the mood

Reuters 2019-12-26 12:28:34

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government did not anticipate the protests against a new citizenship law that have raged across the country and is now scrambling to control the damage, mem...

0.1m Sri Lankan refugees missing from India’s citizenship law

Thomson Reuters Foundation 2019-12-25 11:52:42

Nearly 100,000 Sri Lankan refugees living in India are not eligible for citizenship under a new law, sparking concerns they may be forced to return to the island nation they fled during a decades-long...

India police ban protests against citizenship law

-- 2019-12-19 13:14:53

Police have banned protests against a controversial new citizenship law in several parts of India. The ban has been imposed in parts of the capital Delhi, Uttar Pradesh state, and some areas of Karna...

Indian citizenship law: Modi defiant despite widespread protests

-- 2019-12-18 10:49:12

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reacted with defiance to widespread protests against a new citizenship law. The law offers citizenship to non-Muslims from three nearby countries. The governm...

India citizenship law protests spread across campuses

-- 2019-12-17 10:49:33

Protests over a new Indian citizenship law based on religion spread to student campuses on Monday as critics said the Hindu nationalist government was pushing a partisan agenda in conflict with the co...