In Murshidabad district, the electoral landscape is shifting dramatically as thousands discover their names missing from voter rolls. Famil...

The poll-strategist-turned politician, whose party is an alliance partner of the BJP, asserted that the change in stance was prompted by co...

The government’s logic is that these minority groups have come escaping persecution in Muslim-majority nations. However, the logic is not c...

Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said for almost eight hours on each day Shah will hold discussion with the stakeholders on two d...

Biswa Sarma said the Assam government and the state BJP have informed Shah that the NRC brought out from Assam on August 31 was unacceptabl...

NGO Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) recently said that the proposed Citizenship Amendment Bill will not help the minority communitie...

The 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...

‘We have been saying NRC will not bear results and Assam will not be free of foreigners’

The memorandum stated the NRC process and the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 have no connection as the NRC update process flowed out of...

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal says he is ready to campaign in West Bengal to counter Mamata Banerjee.

In the 2014 elections, BJP, TMC and CPM got one seat each in the region.

It will also help BJP cleanse its anti-Bengali image that had become a perception issue for the party following the National Register for C...

The meeting stressed on the need for ensuring inclusion of all genuine Indians in the NRC, an official privy to the meeting said.

A JPC member who does not want to be named told ET, “We will hear from officials of Home and External affairs their opinion on the bill.”

The Constitution (123rd Amendment) Bill, 2017, commonly known as OBC bill, was passed in the Lok Sabha on August 2 and will now go to the R...

NRC is being monitored by Supreme Court and partial first draft of NRC was published on December 31, 2017. The remaining will be published ...

The BJP government at the Centre recently tabled the Citizenship Bill, 2016, making nationals of various countries, including Bangladesh, e...