Noida protests flare up again over salary hike demandsWorkers protested for salary hikes near Sector 8 Jama Masjid, while police investigated social media accounts from Pakistan allegedly fueli...
17 Apr, 2026, 11.10 AM IST
No decision to prepare NRC at national level: Govt in Lok SabhaIn a written reply, MoS Home Rai said, "Till now, the Government has not taken any decision to prepare National Register of Indian Citizens...
15 Mar, 2022, 05.09 PM IST
NRC in present format not acceptable: Assam BJP chief Ranjit Kumar DassTalking to media persons in Guwahati, Dass said: “We have fulfilled most of the assurances made in the run-up to the 2016 assembly polls. H...
02 Jan, 2021, 07.46 AM IST
NRC must to identify non-citizens: Govt to SCPreparation of a NRC was a necessary exercise for any sovereign country for mere identification of citizens from non-citizens, it contended...
17 Mar, 2020, 11.41 PM IST
NRC is reduced to waste paper: Assam BJP President Ranjeet Kumar DassBJP will move the apex court seeking re-verification of draft NRC published last year.
04 Sep, 2019, 09.48 PM IST
Contradictory voices in Assam Cong on NRC; Tarun Gogoi slams it as 'waste paper', party MP says 'historic' documentThe final National Register of Citizens (NRC) was published on Saturday and, according to it, out of the total 3.3 crore applicants, 3.11 c...
02 Sep, 2019, 07.16 PM IST
NRC may exclude some genuine citizens: BJPThe BJP's Assam unit expressed doubts ahead of the 31 August publication of the NRC.
27 Aug, 2019, 08.38 AM IST
NRC exclusions to be published online on August 31A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice R F Nariman said that like Aadhaar data, an appropriate regime be enacted for sec...
14 Aug, 2019, 08.39 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
- Supreme Court allowing five additional documents may give momentum to NRC process
Exclusion of five documents has been a big dampener with people becoming reluctant to file claims.
01 Nov, 2018, 08.14 PM IST
Assam BJP asks government to file affidavit in Supreme Court against Prateek Hajela’s proposalBJP state president Ranjeet Kumar Dass said that state and central government should submit its affidavit before September 19, the date for...
10 Sep, 2018, 07.40 PM IST
NRC release: Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal congratulates people, calls it a historic dayThe much-anticipated second and final draft of the NRC with 2.9 crore names out of the total 3.29 crore applicants was published around 10a...
30 Jul, 2018, 11.53 AM IST
BJP using NRC to ‘polarise’ Assam on religious lines, says CongressThe NRC contains the names of Indian citizens living in Assam and the process to update it started in 2005 with an aim to weed out illegal ...
17 Jul, 2018, 07.59 AM IST
- Prateek Hajela: The man behind Assam's NRC
Hajela, who is a native of Madhya Pradesh, is an Indian administrative service officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre and B Tech in Electronics f...
30 Jun, 2018, 08.45 AM IST
With bated breath, Assam waits for first draft of NRCThe rest will be considered in the next two drafts, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal told mediapersons yesterday.
31 Dec, 2017, 04.46 PM IST
Assam Governor P B Acharya expresses concern over slow enrollment in NRCAcharya has appealed to all Indian citizens to expedite and without fail complete the application process for NRC before the last date Augu...
13 Aug, 2015, 04.45 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