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Jan132020 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments
CAA and NRC – Explained

CAA and NRC – Explained

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The newly amended citizenship act (CAA) has aroused fear among Indian citizens that it will deny citizenship to the existing Muslim minority communities in India. However, if one to dive deep into details of this act then it is clear, that it only aims to provide Indian citizenship to religiously persecuted minorities of our neighboring countries i.e. Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, provided they entered India before December 31, 2014. Since these countries are Islamic state and roughly 95% of their population is Muslim, hence only their minorities had been named in this bill. The passing of the CAB bill raised a lot of questions like - what is CAA, how is it different from NRC, will it be discriminatory against the Muslim Community and will it lead to deportation of the min...
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Jan72012 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments
Constitution of India – Bhartiya Sanvidhan

Constitution of India – Bhartiya Sanvidhan

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The Constitution of India (popularly known by its Hindi Name “Bhartiya Sanvidhan”) is the supreme law of India. A constitution is a written document that contains a set of rules for a government. It defines the fundamental political principles, and establishing the structure, procedures, powers and duties, of a government. By limiting the government's own reach, most constitutions guarantee certain rights to the people. Indian Constitution is the lengthiest written constitution of any sovereign country in the world, containing 448 articles in 22 parts, 12 schedules and 95 amendments, for a total of 117,369 words in the English language version. It is also available in Hindi. The Constitution was enacted by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949, and came into effect on 26 January ...
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