Book name: The Berlin Shadow: Escaping the ghosts of the kindertransport Author: Jonathan Lichtenstein Publisher: Scribner Price: Rs 599 At the age of 12, Hans Lichtenstein had escaped from Berlin...

Gangadhar Pramanik returned to his home in Bengal on Wednesday from a detention camp in Assam, carrying with him a harrowing sneak preview of the probable fate that awaits countless people when citize...

Megha Rajagopalan, an Indian-origin journalist, along with two contributors has won the Pulitzer Prize for innovative investigative reports that exposed a vast infrastructure of prisons and mass inter...

Sipping tea at his in-laws’ place in Kaziamati, 50-year-old Joynal Abedin, a daily-wage labourer, looked relieved on the eve of New Year’s day.He has reasons to be glad as three days ago he was re...

India, especially New India, loves to lock up people. The exercise of updating the National Register of Citizens in Assam — meant to be carried out all over the country, according to the Union home ...

A rickshaw puller allegedly hanged himself here on Saturday afternoon apparently out of panic that his son could be sent to a detention camp because of his faulty identity proofs.Family members found ...

Wasseypur residents staging their indefinite dharna at Ara Mor since January 2 against the new citizenship matrix set up a model of a detention camp on Sunday evening as a visual marker of the scary t...

Sukhdev Ree, 48, a resident of Hailakandi district in Assam, was released from Silchar detention camp on bail on Thursday after 43 months. Ree, a labourer of a tea garden in Algapur, was served a noti...

Naresh Koch has become the 29th person to die in one of Assam’s detention camps.Koch’s death comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi denied the existence of the camps at a rally in the national c...

Twenty-eight people have died in Assam’s detention camps where suspected immigrants are confined, but these were not because of pressure or fear, the government told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.In ...