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When the state questions your citizenshipAn MEA official's statement that Indian passports aren't proof of citizenship, made during Passport Seva Divas, has sparked concern. Amidst...
Passport row highlights India's larger citizenship documentation challengeA remark by an External Affairs Ministry official on Passport Seva Divas that a passport is "a travel document, not a document of citizensh...
Army Chief meets Indian High Commissioner-designate to Bangladesh; discusses defence ties, border securityDinesh Trivedi, High Commissioner-Designate of India to Bangladesh, called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Upendra Dwivedi and held d...
Assam yet to get SIR roadmap as NRC action plan still awaitedAssam's electoral roll revision faces delays. The National Register of Citizens (NRC) remains unresolved, impacting the Special Intensive R...
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...
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...
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma calls NRC ‘faulty’, seeks second look and upgradation amid SC noticesAssam government is exploring options to re-evaluate the National Register of Citizens. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claims the curre...
Supreme Court issues notices to Centre, Assam govt on plea for re-verification of NRC listThe Supreme Court has responded to a petition filed by the former NRC state coordinator, requesting a reverification of the draft NRC and s...
Assam government appoints Partha Pratim Mazumdar as new NRC coordinatorMazumdar was serving as Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Assam and Secretary to the Government of Assam, Women and Child Development Depar...
Thousands of names to be deleted from final NRC in AssamA senior officer in the NRC, who does not want to be named, told ET,” Officials in the district can issue speaking orders. We have taken th...
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...
Disturbed Area tag in Assam extended for another six monthEarlier security forces engaged in counter-insurgency operations in Assam favoured the AFSPA to remain applicable in the entire state as fi...
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.
Home Ministry lays down modalities for foreigner's tribunal in AssamThe Foreigners (Tribunals) Order, 1964 was issued by the central government under Section 3 of The Foreigners Act, 1946.
Six-month extension to complete update of NRC by June 30The current process of claims and objections to the draft NRC will come to an end on December 31 and after that the final list is expected ...
'Only 4.5 lakh out of 40 lakh so far apply for inclusion in NRC'Besides, less than 100 applications have been received by the authorities challenging the inclusion of the names of suspected illegal immig...
SC asks Assam NRC coordinator to submit district-wise percentage of excluded peopleIt directed the state NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela to make available the copies of draft NRC at all panchayat offices so that public can ...
We are committed to freeing Assam of illegal immigrants: Himanta Biswa SarmaNRC is important for the future of greater Assamese society and as we are right now in the draft stage, it will be too premature to say thi...
Home Minister asks oppn parties not to politicise NRC issueSingh said the NRC was being demanded in Assam for a long time and the previous state government had set up foreign tribunals following the...
- 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...