COVER STORY
Outlook Magazine - 6 August 2018
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A little dose of clarity as a professor counsels class 12 students on university and careers
Freshers must have the right technical and soft skills to get placements in a tough market
There is no way the government can put lakhs of people in detention centres, pending the final resolution of their citizenship. The political fallout would be disastrous both nationally and internationally, writes GK Pillai.
The course of the NRC in Assam and how it plays out in the rest of India are issues that have begun to bother policy planners in Bangladesh.
The very community in Assam that expected the NRC to solve their problem once and for all finds itself in the crosshairs of another evil exercise like the ‘D-voter’ one of 1997 and at risk of being arbitrarily stripped of citizenship rights.
In order to finalise the NRC, there has to be a timeframe for addressing the claims and objections. More than a lakh cases are pending in the foreigners tribunal and the situation may worsen after the final NRC is published, says H.K. Bhattacharya, former DIG of the Assam border police.
The NRC was meant to end all doubt over who is a citizen and who’s not in the state. But, as the date of the final draft nears, there’s more fear than clarity.
The approaching footsteps of JioFiber broadband throws others into panicked activity
Maratha organisations repeatedly stressing they called for a “peaceful protest” amidst all the reports of violence is an astute line to take; it paints the morcha leadership in a ‘civic’ colour, while the tide of the mass of Marathas protesting can be left to take its own course—of exhibiting to the administration its nuisance value.
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A little dose of clarity as a professor counsels class 12 students on university and careers
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Freshers must have the right technical and soft skills to get placements in a tough market
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There is no way the government can put lakhs of people in detention centres, pending the final resolution of their citizenship. The political fallout would be disastrous both nationally and internationally, writes GK Pillai.
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The course of the NRC in Assam and how it plays out in the rest of India are issues that have begun to bother policy planners in Bangladesh.
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The very community in Assam that expected the NRC to solve their problem once and for all finds itself in the crosshairs of another evil exercise like the ‘D-voter’ one of 1997 and at risk of being arbitrarily stripped of citizenship rights.
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In order to finalise the NRC, there has to be a timeframe for addressing the claims and objections. More than a lakh cases are pending in the foreigners tribunal and the situation may worsen after the final NRC is published, says H.K. Bhattacharya, former DIG of the Assam border police.
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The NRC was meant to end all doubt over who is a citizen and who’s not in the state. But, as the date of the final draft nears, there’s more fear than clarity.
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The approaching footsteps of JioFiber broadband throws others into panicked activity
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Maratha organisations repeatedly stressing they called for a “peaceful protest” amidst all the reports of violence is an astute line to take; it paints the morcha leadership in a ‘civic’ colour, while the tide of the mass of Marathas protesting can be left to take its own course—of exhibiting to the administration its nuisance value.
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