More India protests staged over biased citizenship law as Hindu hardliners flex muscles
Indians took to the streets again on Thursday in yet more protests against a citizenship law, a day after pro-government Hindu hardliners staged a show of force complete with horses, drums and batons. Two weeks of at times violent demonstrations have killed at least 27 ...
Students, artists and writers join protests in India over new citizenship law
More than a thousand students, artists and writers protested in India's capital and northeastern Assam state on Wednesday against a new citizenship law introduced by the Hindu nationalist-led government that excludes Muslims. In Gauhati, Assam's capital, protesters sang patriotic songs urging unity, painted on canvases ...
BJP deploys cartoon Muslims to bust 'myths' over India's new citizenship law
India's ruling party launched a video with animated Muslim characters on social media Monday in a publicity blitz aiming to bust "myths" around a new citizenship law that has sparked deadly protests. The law has stoked concerns that Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government ...
Modi seeks to soothe India's Muslims as deadly protests swell over law excluding them
Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought Sunday to reassure India's Muslims as a wave of deadly protests against a new citizenship law put his Hindu nationalist government under pressure like never before. At least 25 people have died in almost two weeks of demonstrations and violence ...
Six dead in protests over Indian citizenship law deemed biased against Muslims
Angry protesters in northeast India vowed Sunday to keep demonstrating against a contentious citizenship law as the death toll from bloody clashes sparked by the bill rose to six. Tension remained high at the epicenter of the unrest in Assam state's biggest city, Guwahati, with ...
Abe postpones talks with India's Modi due to unrest in Assam over citizenship law
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has postponed a three-day visit to India, the government said Friday, as violent protests continue over a controversial citizenship law in Gauhati, a northeastern Indian city in Assam state where Abe had planned to meet his counterpart, Narendra Modi. In the ...
Rogue 'Bin Laden' elephant caught in India after killing five people
An elephant named after the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden that killed five Indian villagers has been caught after a massive operation to hunt down the creature, officials said Monday. Wildlife officers tracked the pachyderm — dubbed "Laden" by the locals it menaced in ...
Indian minister says 'no illegal immigrants' will be allowed to stay in Assam
During a visit to northeastern Assam state on Sunday, Indian Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah said his government "will not allow a single illegal immigarant to stay." There, a recent contentious citizenship register sparked uproar from the almost 2 million people who were excluded. The register, ...
India defends Assam citizenship register after U.N. criticism of 'stateless' status of 2 million
India's foreign ministry has again defended a controversial citizenship register in Assam state after criticism from the United Nations, saying the almost 2 million people excluded from the list would not become "stateless." India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — which also runs Assam, in ...
Is the specter of ethnic cleansing coming to India?
Some 4 million people, mainly Muslims, are at risk of disenfranchisement in India.
India vows justice as Muslims fear being left off border state Assam's citizen list
India said on Sunday people whose names are missing from a list of citizens to be issued by a border state this month will not be detained, amid concerns that Muslims will be targeted under the guise of detecting illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. "We will ...
