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In Odisha, touts have a field day as illiterate migrants scramble for documents to prove domicile status; activists condemn NRC, religion-based CAA

After the BJD lent support in the Parliament to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced that the party doesn’t support NRC. Following the President's assent to CAA, migrants went on an overdrive to procure as many documents possible to prove their domicile status

WB by-polls: TMC wins Bankura, leading in Daspur

Trinamool Congress today retained the Bankura Assembly seat and was leading in Daspur in West Midnapore district, the two places where by-elections were held on 12 June.