India is set to implement a controversial citizenship law that offers amnesty to non-Muslim illegal immigrants from neighbouring countries, three years after it sparked massive protests.

the CAA could be used as a way to persecute the country's 200 million Muslims. Some Indians, including those who live close to India's borders, are also worried that implementing the law will lead ...

Therefore, our position is the CAA must go, we must replace it by a law of asylum which is consistent with international treaties to which India is a party," the former home minister said.

Replacing the century-old criminal laws with a new set of legislations for introducing a modern and technology-driven criminal justice system, rolling out the controversial Citizenship (Amendment ...

India has implemented the CAA five years after the law was passed. This act grants religious minorities coming from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh fast-track citizenship. The move has provoked ...

The CAA, which was enacted in December 2019 for granting Indian nationality to persecuted Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi and Christian migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan who ...

Home Minister Amit Shah, who piloted the legislations, said the new criminal laws would give priority to providing justice, unlike the colonial-era laws that gave primacy to penal action. PTI Last ...

A Bangladeshi national was arrested for attacking Saif Ali Khan, sparking a political debate on illegal immigration.

was rolled out in March and the first set of 14 people were granted Indian citizenship under the law in May. After the enactment in 2019, the CAA got the president's assent a few days later but ...

Amid the protests, violence and discord over India’s newly formed Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), authorities have been shutting down access to the internet in selected areas to control the ...

The Delhi High Court examined speeches by Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and others in connection with the February 2020 ...