Census, updation of NPR delayed for over three yearsThe Census and National Population Register (NPR) have been postponed for more than three years, with no fresh notifications from the Regis...
Manipur government to start house-to-house survey to detect illegal immigrantsManipur chief minister N Biren Singh said that the state government has already constituted the Manipur State Population Commission (MSPC) ...
Pros and cons of National Register of Citizens in AssamNRC enumeration has brought relief to the 95% of Muslims who made it to the citizenship list. Given the highly charged political atmosphere...
At least 7,500 madarsas found to be unrecognised in Uttar Pradesh survey"I want to say in clear terms that the survey does not challenge the genuineness of any madarsa. No madarsa is illegal or fake. It is only ...
Uttar Pradesh readies for survey of private madrassas, proprietors fear repressive actionAccording to sources, the fear was expressed by them on September 6 in New Delhi at a meeting of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, one of the leadin...
Assam plans survey to identify indigenous Muslim populationAssam Welfare of Minorities Minister Ranjit Dutta has convened a meeting on Tuesday with various organisations of the four communities and ...
View: NRC-CAA move likely to stoke a statistical collapseIf a statistical fog renders data dubious, we can't identify what’s going right or wrong, or fix failures.
CAA-NRC fallout in K'taka: People decline to share detailsPeople in parts of Karnataka have declined to share personal information with officials visiting households in connection with government p...
Odisha has begun process to update NPR: Official"As per instructions of the Registrar General of India, the NPR exercise has begun. A pilot survey has been carried out in parts of the sta...
NPR will serve as database for NRC, furnish wrong names and addresses: Arundhati RoyAddressing a protest gathering at Delhi University, she also claimed that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was targeted against the ...
NRC list to be out today; 218 CAPF companies deployedThose who do not figure in list needn’t panic, says Assam CM.
NRC Assam coordinator dismisses reports of Rohingya migrant's inclusion in draft listThe court fixed the applications of both the governments for deliberation on July 23 on the issue of proposed sample survey.
NRC row: Where does India stand on refugees?The Union government has not made its position clear and India does not have repatriation agreements with Bangladesh and Nepal for the same.
Search for documents continues, people look for ways to enter NRCThe NRC is being updated to weed out illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
CWC takes nuanced stand on NRC; clears all-out attack on Rafale dealCongress has clearly aimed at widening the debate from “Hindu Vs Muslim” to “Indians of different faiths in Assam Vs Illegal Bangladeshi im...
Rajiv Gandhi didn’t pursue Assam accord as it would have impacted Congress vote bank, says Ram Pradhan, former Home SecretaryPradhan told that a survey to identify the immigrants began in November 1985, which angered the Muslims and the Bengali community living in...
Nearly 3.5 lakh internally displaced people in Assam: NGOAccording to the NRC, a record of 38 million people were internally displaced worldwide in 2014 as 30,000 people fled their homes each day ...