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CAA: Why is India’s citizenship law contentious?

NEW DELHI, March 13 (Reuters) – India this week implemented the contentious 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), sparking sporadic protests and a war of words between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and opposition groups weeks before national elections are held. Here is a look at the law, its implications and the concerns surrounding it. WHAT IS THE CAA? The CAA fast-tracks citizenship for persecuted Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who fled to India before Dec. 31, 2014 from Muslim-majority Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh due to religious persecution. The enactment of the law by Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata

IAS officer poses as patient, inspects health centre in UP’s Firozabad

Firozabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], March 13 (ANI): An IAS officer conducted an inspection at a government health centre in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad wearing a veil and posing as a patient. The officer said that she decided to conduct the inspection after receiving several complaints regarding inconveniences faced by patients in the area. “I had received a complaint in regards to Dida Mai health centre that the doctor was not present even after 10 am to administer an injection for a dog bite,” Kriti Raj posted as the Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) in the area said. Raj said that she took an

What can we expect from six more years of Vladimir Putin? An increasingly weak and dysfunctional Russia

What can we expect from six more years of Vladimir Putin An increasingly weak and dysfunctional Russia

There is very little drama in Russia’s upcoming presidential election this weekend. We all know Vladimir Putin will win. The only real question is whether he will receive more than 75% of the vote. It could be tempting to see these results as a sign of the strength of the Russian system. Recent gains by the Russian army in Ukraine seem to further support this. But my own research – soon to be published in a forthcoming book – shows the election results and Russia’s military gains in Ukraine hide a much more problematic reality for the country. The constitutional

Odisha govt’s women employees to get 25 days casual leave a year

Bhubaneswar, Mar 12 (PTI) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday announced casual leave of 25 days in a year for women employees working in different departments of the state government. The women employees would now get an additional 10 days of CL taking their total CL in a year to 25 days, an official said. An official release issued by the Chief Minister’s Office said Patnaik took this decision keeping in mind the family responsibilities and various problems of women. The state government also said that Odisha was the first in the country to take radical steps like reserving

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