First Indian Army jawan tests positive for Covid-19 An Indian Army jawan from Ladakh, whose father had travelled to Iran for pilgrimage, has become the first positive case of Covid-19 in the 1.3 million-strong force. Senior Army sources confirmed that the Indian Army Lance Naik from Ladakh Scouts tested positive for Covid-19 on MOnday. The...
Given that the updation of the National Population Register (NPR) is scheduled to begin from April 1, 2020 along with house listing for the Census of India 2021, prominent women rights activists, including Annie Raja, Farah Naqvi, Anjali Bhardwaj, Vani Subramanian, Meera Sanghmitra, Mariam Dhawle and Poonam Kaushik released a letter at Delhi’s Press Club,...
Citizens against CAA-NRC-NPR, a broad-based citizens’ group which is actively protesting and raising awareness in Telangana on the issues of CAA, NRC and NPR, has welcomed the Telangana Assembly resolution passed today against the CAA, NRC and NPR. The representatives of the group said that this is a major victory of the determined struggles and...
The Supreme Court on Monday took suo moto cognisance of overcrowding and infrastructure of prisons across the country in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and L N Rao issued a notice to the Director General, Prison, and chief secretary of all states and union territories seeking...
COVID-19 extended its footprint in India on Monday with the eastern state of Odisha reporting its first coronavirus patient and one new case each in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Kerala, taking the total count to 114, Health Ministry officials said. The Maharashtra government also reported four more patients of the infection, as concerns over...
A spike in deaths from the coronavirus in Spain has pushed the global toll past 6,000, according to an AFP tally compiled from official sources. The number of novel coronavirus cases globally stood at 163,930 with 6,420 deaths, across 141 countries at 10:30PM, Sunday. Between the tally at 10:30PM on Saturday and the latest figures...
We, the alliances and coordinations of movements and organisations named below, have been opposed to the Union Government’s attempt to introduce a new citizenship regime through Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA) and the allied National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC). We believe that these are divisive, discriminatory, against the letter...
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi interacted with the leaders of the SAARC countries through video conference to chart out a common strategy in order to combat COVID-19 in the region. He thanked the leaders for joining the conference at such short notice. Stressing on the ancient people to people ties and interconnectedness of societies of...
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind’s Vice President Muhammad Salim Engineer has said that Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s assurance on NPR in Parliament is not sufficient and urged the government to legalize and formalize these assurances by suitably amending the Citizenship Rules 2003. In a press statement, the JIH Vice President said: “Yesterday Home Minister of India, Mr...
National Conference MP Farooq Abdullah released from detention, says,” I’m grateful to people of the State&all leaders&people in the rest of the country who spoke for our freedom. This freedom will be complete when all leaders are released. I hope GoI will take action to release everyone”. The senior National Conference leader, who is a...