West Bengal is setting up holding centers for suspected illegal foreigners and foreign prisoners. This move institutionalizes the state's '...

West Bengal is witnessing the fallout of the NRC-like exercise, with long-term residents and even Partition refugees being struck off voter...

Mizoram authorities have collected biometric details for 43.53% of the nearly 31,300 Myanmar refugees residing in the state. This process, ...

The Centre implemented the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 on Monday, paving the way for grant of citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim ...

There is no accurate data on the number of refugees but India has about 400,000 refugees including 238,222 recognised and documented refuge...

Among those who have approached the UNHCR are Afghan individuals who have newly arrived in 2021, those seeking reopening of previously clos...

A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde, which initially observed that there was no urgency, took note of the submissions of lawyer Prash...

The refugees are among the 243 Pakistani nationals, including those stranded in India because of Covid-19, who have been permitted to trave...

A BJP document on CAA says refugees intending to seek Indian citizenship based on CAA will only need to make a declaration they underwent r...

The Union government has not made its position clear and India does not have repatriation agreements with Bangladesh and Nepal for the same.

The Centre submitted that there was no discrimination in access to health and education facilities, and the apex court decided not to pass ...

The student, who arrived in India in 2013, said he cannot give up the status and added that his admission could be affected if he was not g...

Among other concessions, the BJP-led government is all set to offer them reduction in fees for registration as citizens of India from Rs 15...

A Parliamentary panel has strongly recommended for early finalisation of one-time financial package of Rs 30 lakh to each family of West Pa...

Members of the minority communities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh will be given five years visa instead of one-year.

The eligible applicants who were facing difficulties in submitting online applications can now submit the same manually along with their pa...

HM reviewed matters relating to grant of citizenship that takes a long time for completion of the entire process and decided to set up the ...