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Muslims among 4,000 granted citizenship in last 6 years: Home Ministry

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Muslims among 4,000 granted citizenship in last 6 years: Home Ministry The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill has been in public domain since 2016. It was cleared by a 30-member parliamentary committee consisting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members. Current Affairs :Almost 4,000 individuals from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, many them Muslims, have been given Indian citizenship in the previous six years, a senior Home Ministry official said on Wednesday. The exposure came in the midst of fights, some of them fierce, in various pieces of the nation against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which tries to concede Indian citizenship to non-Muslim transients from these three neighboring nations. Upwards of 2,830 individuals from Pakistan, 912 from Afghanistan and 172 from Bangladesh have been given Indian citizenship in the previous six years and several them were Muslims, the authority stated, including that such vagrants will keep on getting Indian citizenship on the off...

Requested India to provide list of illegal nationals: Bangladesh Minister

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Requested India to provide list of illegal nationals: Bangladesh Minister He said India has termed the NRC process as its internal matter and assured Dhaka that it would not affect Bangladesh Current Affairs :Bangladesh Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen on Sunday said his nation has mentioned India to give a rundown of any Bangladesh nationals living illicitly in the nation and it will enable them to return. Reacting to an inquiry on India’s National Register of Citizenship (NRC), Momen, who dropped his visit to India on Thursday refering to his bustling calendar, said Bangladesh-India relations are ordinary and “extremely sweet” and they won’t be influenced. He said India has named the NRC procedure as its inward issue and guaranteed Dhaka that it would not influence Bangladesh. He dismissed hypothesis of “pushback” endeavors by India, saying some Indian nationals are wrongfully entering Bangladesh through go betweens because of monetary reasons. “Yet, in the event t...

Nepal Police cracks multi-million rupee online fraud involving Indians

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Nepal Police cracks multi-million rupee online fraud involving Indians So far, 34 Nepali citizens have been found involved in the scam while 15 victims of the fraud are in contact with police. Current Affairs   :Nepal Police have uncovered a multi-million rupees online extortion including Nepalese, Indian, Nigerian and British nationals and captured three blamed. Three Nepalese nationals were captured from focal Nepal after they were seen as utilizing different online life stages, for example, Viber, WhatsApp, Imo, Facebook to dupe individuals. An uncommon examination group from the Metropolitan Police Crime Division, Teku captured the three Nepalese Ramesh Khadka, 52, Bisheshwor Prasad Tiwari, 37 and Sandeep Kalwar, 19 from Dolakha and Nawalparasi areas, police said. As indicated by police, the three were engaged with extricating cash from individuals in the appearance of lotteries or getting packages. They were additionally part of a bigger trick of hacking mo...