Violence-hit Manipur poses major hurdle to EC’s voter roll revision drive in NortheastThe Election Commission of India's special intensive revision of electoral rolls faces significant challenges in violence-hit Manipur due t...
18 May, 2026, 12.04 AM IST
Assembly Elections 2026 Results Live: When & where to watch vote counting and live telecast onlineAssembly Election Results 2026 Live Telecast: Today, May 4, 2026, marks the counting of election results for West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam...
04 May, 2026, 09.12 AM IST
"In name of women empowerment, BJP pushing dangerous delimitation exercise": TMCPolitical tensions in West Bengal are heating up ahead of the Assembly elections, as Trinamool Congress (TMC) slammed BJP over the Delimita...
17 Apr, 2026, 08.20 PM IST
Caught between NRC logjam and elections: Separate citizenship rules stall Assam’s SIRAssam's separate citizenship provisions have led to an incomplete National Register of Citizens (NRC), causing the state to be excluded fro...
29 Oct, 2025, 12.05 AM IST
Assam Chief Minister Sarma says government wants old NRC reviewed, new one to be madeTalking to media persons on Sunday, Sarma said, " We have nothing new and sticking to earlier stand that NRC list must be reviewed and new ...
28 Mar, 2022, 09.25 AM IST
BJP is engaged in doing politics over the National Register of Citizens and creating confusion: Assam CongressThe Assam government had sought 20% sample re-verification of names included in the draft NRC in the districts of Assam bordering Banglades...
23 Sep, 2020, 07.45 PM IST
Will take SC route for NRC correction: Himanta Biswa SarmaThe minister said: “We want to be part of the pan-India NRC, however, if that is not happening we already have a petition in the Supreme Co...
24 Dec, 2019, 09.08 AM IST
Accountant General has detected huge anomalies in NRC: Assam FM Himanta Biswa SarmaSarma while arguing that there is the need to correct the error in the NRC advocated that Assam must be part of the pan India NRC. “We will...
29 Nov, 2019, 09.16 AM IST
Present NRC has several confusions: Biswa SarmaBiswa Sarma said the Assam government and the state BJP have informed Shah that the NRC brought out from Assam on August 31 was unacceptabl...
21 Nov, 2019, 09.16 AM IST
NRC decision shows Modi govt against SC decision: Debabrata SaikiaDebabrata Saikia said Shah announced in the Rajya Sabha update that process will be carried out afresh in Assam concurrently with the rest ...
20 Nov, 2019, 10.38 PM IST
Prateek Hajela must account for money spent, says BJPAssam BJP unit chief Ranjeet Kumar Dass said that Hajela must not be released unless he submits a utilisation certificate of Rs 1,600 cr sp...
19 Oct, 2019, 08.45 AM IST
Prolonging the NRC process may lead to its deathThe BJP, which is in power in the state, too is opposing the NRC in its present form, pitching for 20% re-verification of the names, partic...
08 Sep, 2019, 09.13 AM IST
BJP to move Supreme Court again, reaches out to those left out of NRCLarge number of Hindu Bengalis could not make it to final NRC, several have submitted refugee certificates of 1966.
02 Sep, 2019, 07.37 AM IST
Congress alleges discrepancies in National Register of CitizensThe memorandum stated the NRC process and the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 have no connection as the NRC update process flowed out of...
08 May, 2019, 08.31 PM IST
All India United Democratic Front sees conspiracy in NRC draft to lessen Muslim populationWhile All Assam Students Union (Aasu) which led the six year long anti-foreigners stir which culminated in signing of Assam Accord in 1985 ...
30 Jul, 2018, 08.27 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee ignorant about NRC: Assam industry minister Chandra Mohan PatwaryPatwary said Banerjee’s statement is politically motivated. “The fact that there was no disturbance in Assam in the wake of publication of ...
04 Jan, 2018, 08.18 PM IST
Assam's NRC update triggers war of words between Congress and oppositionThe AGP alleged that the Congress is hatching a conspiracy to replace the names of indigenous people with names of the illegal Bangladeshi ...
14 Jul, 2015, 12.29 PM IST