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Theprint February 27,2020 ‘Battered capital’ in HT while Telegraph calls out PM’s 69-hour late response Violence-hit Delhi with a rising death toll dominates Page 1. The Supreme Court and High Court statements criticising police inaction also figure prominently across newspapers. The financial press marks the economic woes due to coronavirus concerns while lone wolf Business Standard focuses on the telecom industry’s never-ending troubles. The Times of India’s headline “Toll soars to 27…” says it all. The lead report on ‘26-Yr-Old IB official among those killed’, notes, “The latest victim was a young Intelligence Bureau official, Ankit Sharma, whose body was found floating in a drain in the Chand Bagh area.” On a more positive note, the report, ‘Their houses burnt, many Muslims find safe haven in Hindu homes’ speaks of how “40-odd Muslim residents of northeast Delhi’s Ashok Nagar have found brotherhood and hope amid the smouldering ruins.” On the top ...

The Hindu February 26, 2020   Battle against CAA, NRC, NPR to be long one: Harsh Mander It is not a battle being fought by Muslims alone, says the social activist Noted social activist Harsh Mander said the battle ahead against Citizenship Amendment Act, National Register of Citizens and National Population Register will be long, although the Hindu-Muslim unity on the street against the trinity is unprecedented. “There is no categorical assurance from the government that they would not implement NRC while they are going ahead with NPR. The previous NPR conducted was never linked to NRC. Also we did not have the experience of Assam. Following implementation of NRC in Assam, everybody became aware about danger of whole process. The trinity of CAA, NPR and NRC is causing anxiety,” said Mr. Mander while addressing an intellectual meet here on Sunday. “The CAA by itself has many problems. For the first time, a law is making distinction on basis of religious iden...

The Hindu October 11, 2019 By Abdus Samad The NRC process has an Assam-specific history. Extending it to the rest of the country is bizarre After rolling out the National Register of Citizens in Assam, the BJP-led government at the Centre has said it will conduct a similar exercise in the rest of the country. Political Studies professor Sanjib Baruah and Supreme Court senior advocate Colin Gonsalves examine the implications of such an exercise in a conversation moderated by Abdus Salam. Edited excerpts: What’s your verdict on the NRC exercise in Assam? Would you categorise it as one that met its objectives? Sanjib Baruah: Of course not. It was an unprecedented bureaucratic exercise, which has a particular history. But the fact that in a democracy 1.9 million people are excluded from it can’t be a simple matter. Even if it is a transparent and technology-driven process, as [NRC State Coordinator] Prateek Hajela puts it, the people who are excluded are mostly the poor...