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  Honorary citizenship of Aung San Suu Kyi revoked by Canada

  World | October 03, 2018 11:02 IST

  Aung San Suu Kyi is the first person to be removed from her honorary Canadian citizenship.

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  Retired Army man branded as 'Bangladeshi' by Assam police, asked to prove citizenship

  India | October 01, 2017 13:31 IST

  A retired Army officer, after giving 30 years of his life to the nation’s security, has been accused of being an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh, and a case has been registered against him by the Assam police

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  Pakistan grants nationality to 298 Indians in last five years: Ministry

  World | August 20, 2017 15:41 IST

  Pakistan has granted nationality to at least 298 Indian emigrants in the last five years, according to the interior ministry

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  Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik seeking Malaysian citizenship

  India | May 30, 2017 20:49 IST

  Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, wanted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on terror charges, has applied for Malaysian citizenship, according to agency sources

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  After scrapping visa program popular with Indians, Aus unveils tougher citizenship laws

  World | April 20, 2017 10:09 IST

  Announcing sweeping changes to Australia's citizenship laws, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull today unveiled tighter requirements for new applicants, a move that follows the scrapping of the 457 visa program for foreign workers.

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  Pakistani Hindus can now avail Indian citizenship at Rs 100

  India | December 25, 2016 0:02 IST

  People belonging to Hindu and other minority communities of three neighbouring countries, including Pakistan, as Indian citizens have been drastically reduced to as low as Rs 100 from Rs 15,000. In a gazette notification,

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  US mistakenly grants citizenship to 858 immigrants

  World | September 20, 2016 7:34 IST

  The US government has mistakenly granted citizenship to at least 858 immigrants from countries of concern to national security or with high rates of immigration fraud who had pending deportation orders

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  We will seek dual citizenship for Sri Lankan Tamils: Jayalalithaa

  Politics | April 23, 2016 23:34 IST

  Tiruchirappalli (TN): AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today asserted her party would take “continuous steps” to attain a separate homeland for Tamils in Sri Lanka and demand that the Centre grant dual

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  Taslima Nasreen fans take to Twitter, demand Indian citizenship

  India | January 01, 2016 21:10 IST

  New Delhi: On a day when Pakistani singer Adnan Sami was granted Indian citizenship by the Home Ministry, a large number of fans of Bengali writer Taslima Nasreen took to social media and requested Prime

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  Bobby Jindal joins Donald Trump in opposing birthright citizenship

  World | August 22, 2015 12:28 IST

  Washington:  Indian-American US presidential hopeful Bobby Jindal has joined fellow Republican candidate Donald Trump in calling for an end to birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants."We need to end birthright citizenship for illegal

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  Natalie Imbruglia needed tutor to pass British citizenship test

  Hollywood | August 08, 2015 10:35 IST

  London: Singer Natalie Imbruglia has revealed that she needed a tutor to pass her British citizenship test after failing it the first time around.The “Torn” hitmaker has revealed she passed the exam, but had to

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  Ordinance to amend Citizenship Act promulgated

  India | January 06, 2015 20:52 IST

  New Delhi: Ahead of the three-day meet of Indian diaspora in Gujarat, government today promulgated an ordinance that seeks to merge Person of Indian Origin (PIO) and Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) schemes, by which

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  No special provision for citizenship to Hindus from Pakistan

  India | August 13, 2014 13:16 IST

  New Delhi: Hindus who have migrated to India from Pakistan will have to go through the usual process to get Indian citizenship and no special provisions are being made for this, the government said Wednesday.Responding

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  Global citizenship catching fancy of super-rich in India, China: Report

  May 04, 2014 16:12 IST

  New Delhi: Global citizenship is becoming popular among the world's ultra wealthy and an increasing number of super-rich from Asia's two giants China and India are likely to trend this path in the coming years,

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  Aussies cricketer Fawad Ahmed citizenship questioned

  Cricket | January 30, 2014 17:01 IST

  The rushed process in giving Australian citizenship to promising cricketer Fawad Ahmed has been questioned with a media report revealing that the Immigration Department thought the Pakistani's case for asylum was "borderline".Leg-spinner Ahmed was granted

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  Most Americans back citizenship for illegal immigrants: Poll

  World | April 12, 2013 12:15 IST

  Washington, Apr 12: Most Americans support creating a pathway to citizenship for America's over 11 million immigrants, including some 260,000 Indians, with a shorter timeline than that contemplated by Congress, according to a new poll.With