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Will resign if one person who has not applied for NRC gets citizenship: Assam CM

Guwahati, Mar 12 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said that he will be the first to resign if one person, who has not applied for National Register of Citizens (NRC), gets citizenship. His comment comes after protests erupted across Assam with opposition parties flaying the BJP government at the Centre for implementing the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) on Monday, paving the way for granting citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. ”I am a son of Assam and if a single person who has not applied for NRC gets citizenship, I

Political realignment on cards in Haryana, BJP-JJP alliance at break point

Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], March 12 (ANI): Fast paced political developments are taking place in Haryana with trouble in the ruling coalition of the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) and JJP (Jannayak Janata Party). Sources say that the alliance is at a break point with Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala of the JJP returning his official carcade. According to the said sources the next few hours are critical in the state and there could be changes in the State cabinet with the imminent exit of the JJP. The BJP has rushed its office bearers Tarun Chugh and Union Minister Arjun Munda to

SC rebukes SBI, directs it to furnish details of electoral bonds to EC by tomorrow

New Delhi, Mar 11 (PTI): Chastising the SBI, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered it to disclose the details of the electoral bonds encashed by political parties to the Election Commission by the close of the business hours on March 12 and warned the country’s largest public sector lender that the court may proceed against it for ”wilful disobedience” if it failed to comply with its directions and deadlines. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, while dismissing the State Bank of India’s plea seeking extension of time till June 30 to disclose the details, also

Govt announces implementation of CAA four years after it was passed

New Delhi, Mar 11 (PTI): Ahead of the Lok Sabha election, the Centre on Monday announced the implementation of the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 for granting citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who came to India before December 31, 2014. With the CAA rules being issued, the Modi government will now start granting Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants — Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians — from the three countries. The CAA was passed in December 2019 and subsequently got the president’s assent but there were protests in several parts of the country

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