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MHA directs 2 Gujarat districts to grant citizenship to persecuted minorities from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh: Details

OpIndia Staff - 1 November, 2022

MHA released a directive allowing collectors in Gujarat's Mehsana and Anand districts to provide citizenship certificates to applicants under the Citizenship Act of 1955.

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US whistleblower Edward Snowden gets Russian citizenship, Putin signs decree

OpIndia Staff - 27 September, 2022

The US authorities have been trying to bring Snowden back to the United States to face a criminal trial on espionage charges. If proven guilty in the US court, Snowden may face prison for up to 30 years.

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Aakar Patel makes fearmongering video against NRC, here is how his claims are baseless and wrong

Raju Das - 21 September, 2022

Aakar Patel claimed people excluded from NRC in Assam are fighting to prove their citizenship, while the fact is final NRC has not been notified yet

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UK, which criticised India over CAA, passes a law that allows them to take people’s citizenship away without notice: Here is what the law...

Anurag - 13 September, 2022

UK's Nationality and Borders Act allows the nation to strip citizenship of anyone without information or warning

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3,117 religious minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan granted citizenship in the past four years: Home Ministry

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2021

3,117 Hindu, Sikh, Jain, and Christian minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan were granted Indian citizenship from 2018 to 2021

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Ahmedabad: District Collector grants Indian Citizenship to 11 Pakistani Hindus

OpIndia Staff - 18 October, 2021

District Collector of Ahmedabad, Sandeep Sangle, has granted Indian citizenship to 11 Pakistani Hindus.

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Muslim League moves to SC against Modi govt’s order for citizenship to persecuted minorities in 13 districts, calls it ‘back-door CAA’

OpIndia Staff - 2 June, 2021

The petition further claimed that if the applicants are granted citizenship and the Supreme Court strikes down CAA, it would be a "herculean task" and "near impossible: to take back the citizenships given.

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Claims of TN Finance Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan being a US citizen go viral, here is what we know

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2021

Saravanaprasad Balasubramanian, Editorial Member of News Portal Mediyaan, alleged in a Twitter post that on scanning American Citizenship Records, it was found Thiagarajan is a US citizen.

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Modi govt invites applications from non-Muslim refugees from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh to grant Indian citizenship: Details

OpIndia Staff - 29 May, 2021

Modi govt issued a notification asking people belonging to six persecuted communities to apply for a certificate of naturalisation

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UK top court rejects ‘ISIS bride’ Shamima Begum’s bid to return to Britain to join the court case for her British citizenship

OpIndia Staff - 26 February, 2021

Shamima Begum, 21, who joined the ISIS when she was 15, had sought to return to the United Kingdom, to contest the UK government's decision to revoke her British citizenship.

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