ET Graphics: Bengal picture abhi bhi baaki hai; SIR’s changing playbookIndia's Election Commission is revising voter lists, removing over 5.98 crore names. The process, starting in Bihar, has changed significan...
Assam voter list revision: Special revision of electoral rolls announced amidst NRC delaysAssam will undertake a special revision of voter lists next year. This process is linked to the National Register of Citizens, with a new d...
Assam to resume intensive electoral roll revision only after NRC data security system is ready by August 2026, says CEOThe Supreme Court has disallowed sharing of NRC data unless an Aadhaar like regime is set up. The updation process of the NRC in Assam is c...
National Register of Citizens project cost escalates from Rs 288.18 cr to Rs 1602.66 cr: CAGCAG report for the year ended 2020 which tabled in state assembly on Saturday stated in NRC updation process a highly secure and reliable s...
NRC directorate in Assam submits proposal for creation of Aadhaar-like regime for NRCThe Supreme Court which is monitoring NRC process has disallowed sharing of NRC data unless an Aadhaar like regime is set up.
Biometric details locked and no Aadhaar: 27 lakh Assamese people stare at uncertain futureThe reason is that the NRC has taken biometric prints of several citizens for verification. However, because their biometric prints have be...
Biometric details locked, can’t have Aadhaar; blame it on NRCThose who already have Aadhaar are able to avail of the benefits of welfare schemes. But Aadhaar coverage is low in Assam compared with the...
Authorities in a fix over Supreme Court's order on data sharing of NRCOn 13 August 2019 the Supreme Court has stated, “in so far as the prayer of the learned state co-ordinator with regard to maintenance of se...
NRC authorities seek funds for creating Aadhaar-like data securityEarlier, the NRC authorities had preliminary talks with the Unique Identification Authority of India. The Supreme Court, which is monitorin...
Authorities in Assam talking to UIDAI for secure NRC dataThe Supreme Court, which is monitoring the NRC update process in Assam, had in August last year ordered the authorities to implement an Aad...
Ex-NRC official booked; mails allegedly deletedMeanwhile, data on the final NRC list was made offline from its official website as IT major Wipro, which was entrusted with this job, term...
Assam NRC data: Wipro says IT services contract not renewed after October 2019Wipro said the authorities did not renew the services contract for NRC project after it expired in Oct 2019.
NRC data safe: Home MinistryA day after reports emerged that the NRC data in Assam has gone "missing", the home ministry clarified that it was a technical issue of vis...
NRC data go missing; Assam Cong smells foul playAssam Congress in its letter to the Registrar General and Census Commissioner and NRC co-ordinator, alleged disappearance of data from NRC'...
Congress' Saikia to write to Supreme Court to check if placing NRC data in assembly violates court's orderIn Guwahati city encompassing Kamrup metropolitan district around 17.89 percent is non-included.
Rights body raises a stink over Assam NRC data releaseThe process unduly victimize the poor and those who have not preserved the legacy data or did not possess the data as the State had not rea...
People should not be reduced to refugees in their own country, says Mamata BanerjeeEarlier today, the names of around 2.89 crore people in Assam were released in the final draft list of the national register of citizens.