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Demonstrators argue with police after they were removed from the anti-CAA protest site, amid a nationwide coronavirus lockdown in Shaheen Bagh, Delhi, on March 24. YAWAR NAZIR/GETTY IMAGES/Foreign Policy

One year after mass protests, India’s Muslims still live in fear

Modi’s party is expected to further polarize state electorates along religious lines in 2021

Monowarul Haque. Illustration: TBS

Things Veena Sikri did not mention in her article

A protester holds a sign that reads “NO STATELESS PEOPLE” during a protest against the National Register of Citizens in Kolkata, India, in September 2019. Photo: Avijit Ghosh/Sopa Images/LightRocket via Getty Images via Foreign Policy

A year after rendering millions stateless, India has yet to hear a single appeal

According to the Manual on Parliamentary Work, rules for legislation should be framed within six months of the date of the President’s assent or the standing committee on subordinate legislation should be approached for extension of time/ HT

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Indian home ministry seeks additional 3 months to frame CAA rules

Work on the detention centre started in December. Besides the housing quarters, the facility, which is surrounded by 20-22 feet high boundary walls, will contain a staff quarters, hospital, school, an office complex, kitchen and dining and community space/ HT Photo

3 with Bangladesh address dies in Assam detention centres

UNHCR goes to India's Supreme Court over new citizenship law

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UNHCR goes to India's Supreme Court over new citizenship law

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Mamata terms Delhi violence 'a planned genocide'

A view of the Supreme Court of India while a hearing on the Babri Majid – Ram Janmabhoomi case was underway in New Delhi in October 2019./ Hindustan Times

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Delhi violence: Indian SC to hear plea on FIRs over hate speeches

A woman sitting with her husband and their child reacts next to damaged property after their house was burnt by a mob on Tuesday in a riot affected area after clashes erupted between people demonstrating for and against a new citizenship law in New Delhi, India, February 28, 2020/ Reuters

'Riots happen because we tend to romanticize chaos'

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Reuters Photo

Canada advises citizens not to travel India

File photo: India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah adjusts a turban presented by his supporters during BJP workers meeting in Gandhinagar, in the western state of Gujarat, India/Reuters

Amit Shah says opposition misleading, instigating people over citizenship law

Arvind Kejriwal (C), leader of the newly formed Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party (AAP), speaks with the media in New Delhi/ Reuters

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Kejriwal for sealing borders and preventive arrests to avert further clash

A demonstrator holds a placard during a protest organized by various Muslim organizations and opposition parties against India's new citizenship law in Chennai on February 19. Photo: AFP via Foreign Policy

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India’s Muslims are terrified of being deported