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
Congress flags broken NRC portal, seeks probe into Assam website, helpline failuresCongress leader Debabrata Saikia has raised concerns about the National Register of Citizens NRC Assam website and its helpline. He reporte...
16 May, 2026, 06.29 PM IST
Murshidabad’s forgotten crisis: Beedi workers struggle amid charged political debates, SIR deletionsIn Murshidabad's beedi belt, children work alongside mothers to meet daily targets. Families earn meager wages for rolling beedis. Contract...
20 Apr, 2026, 11.07 AM IST
EC to deploy 2,407 central forces for first phase of Bengal elections on April 23Central armed police forces will secure the first phase of West Bengal assembly polls on April 23. Over 2,400 companies will be deployed. M...
15 Apr, 2026, 03.47 PM IST
NRC updation pending 2 years after publication of supplementary listThe supplementary NRC list had found more than 31.1 million people eligible to be included in the registry and left out over 1.9 million pe...
31 Aug, 2021, 07.53 AM IST
Can’t issue rejection slips without Supreme Court order: NRC officialThe Registrar General of India had recently asked the Assam government to complete updating NRC by March 31 as there was no provision for c...
31 Mar, 2021, 07.18 AM IST
Assam government asks Centre to unlock biometric detailsAssam government has written to the Centre urging it to unlock the biometric details of about 38 lakh individuals, who had appeared for the...
07 Nov, 2020, 08.29 AM IST
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...
08 Jun, 2020, 08.54 AM IST
No rejection slips as team NRC struggles to give reasonsThe final NRC had found a total of 31,121,004 persons eligible for inclusion in the registry, leaving out 1,906,657 persons. Nearly six mon...
24 Feb, 2020, 06.30 AM IST
NRC project manager hands over passwordAjupi Baruah, the former NRC project manager, has sent the password of emails which she had been withholding since resigning on November 11.
15 Feb, 2020, 08.46 AM IST
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...
14 Feb, 2020, 07.56 AM IST
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'...
12 Feb, 2020, 08.35 AM IST
Those left out of NRC will know reasons next month1.9mn people have been excluded from national register. “Individuals who were excluded from the NRC will be informed about the reason for t...
21 Oct, 2019, 09.15 AM IST
10,000 paramilitary troops deployed in Assam before NRC release withdrawnAccording to the final NRC, out of the total 3.3 crore applicants, 3.11 crore figured in the list and names of about 19 lakh residents were...
14 Sep, 2019, 12.19 PM IST
BJP leaders attack NRC coordinator for opposing sample reverificationA senior official working with NRC, who do not want to named told ET, “ In several areas owing to flood officials could not work for three ...
26 Jul, 2019, 09.40 AM IST
70% of NRC objections, claims heard: OfficialAround 36.28 lakh have claimed for inclusion and 2 lakh people have registered their objections.
04 Jun, 2019, 09.47 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