Assam’s Foreigners’ Tribunals disregard constitutional safeguards: report
The quasi-judicial Foreigners’ Tribunals in Assam have become routine instruments of exclusion by disregarding due process and constitutional safeguards, a comprehensive study of these tribunals and the broader legal crisis of India’s citizenship adjudication has found. The report by the Bengaluru-based National Law School of India University and the Queen Mary University of London, to be formally released, called for an urgent, fundamental rethinking of the legal structures governing citizenship in India given the possibility of an Assam-like exercise to update the National Register of Citizens (NRC) across the country.
Thailand says open to ‘dialogue’ with Cambodia to end conflict
U.S. President Donald Trump said that the leaders of Cambodia and Thailand had agreed to meet immediately to quickly work out a ceasefire, as he sought to broker peace after three days of fighting along their border. Thailand’s acting Prime Minister, Phumtham Wechayachai, thanked Trump and said Thailand “agrees in principle to have a ceasefire in place” but “would like to see sincere intention from the Cambodian side.”
Defending need for SIR in the Supreme Court, Election Commission cites parties’ complaints about voter list errors
