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
PAN column dropped from NPR ‘after 30-lakh sample tests’73 districts were covered in the test, where samples of nearly 30 lakh individuals were collected. In 80% cases, respondents provided detai...
16 Jan, 2020, 07.58 AM IST
NPR manual says exercise won’t confer citizenshipNew manual of instructions issued for enumerators says NPR data will not confer a right to citizenship
30 Dec, 2019, 11.31 AM IST
Government bites NPR bullet, says not linked to NRCThe NPR is a list of "usual residents" of the country. A "usual resident" is defined for the purposes of NPR as a person who has resided in...
25 Dec, 2019, 07.30 AM IST
Demand for NRC comes up from Meghalaya, Tripura & JharkhandIn Meghalaya, the Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) met Meghalaya chief minister and submitted a proposal for an Assam-type NRC.
04 Aug, 2018, 07.45 AM IST
Assam NRC list: All isn’t lost for 40,07,707 peopleThe draft NRC contained the name of the elusive commander-in-chief of the anti-talk faction of ULFA, Paresh Baruah. Former MLA Ataur Rahman...
31 Jul, 2018, 07.13 AM IST
No one will be sent to detention camp: Assam Minister Chandra Mohan PatwaryCentre has sanctioned first standalone detention camp which will house declared foreigners, this has fueled speculation that this is done i...
23 Jul, 2018, 11.16 PM IST
Assam deliberates on status of people left out of NRCAround 3.29 crore people had applied for inclusion of their names and around 6.6 crore documents were submitted by the applicants.
13 Jul, 2018, 07.47 PM IST
Gram Panchayat certificates no proof of citizenship: Supreme CourtAabhijeet Sharma president of NGO, Assam Public Works (APW), who is one of the petitioner said that court has reserved the judgement on pan...
22 Nov, 2017, 07.14 PM IST
Assam: NRC draft will be out on or before July 31, Registrar General tells SCUpdation of NRC 1951 is being monitored by the Supreme Court. The RGI has filed a interlocutory application in the SC. The court will hear ...
16 Nov, 2017, 08.53 PM IST
Assam will burn if 50 lakh people are left out of NRC: Syed Arshad MadaniThe updated NRC is expected to weed out illegal Bangladeshi immigrants from Assam. "Assam will face a Myanmar-like situation," Madani said.
15 Nov, 2017, 10.06 PM IST
Sarbananda Sonowal discusses progress of updation of NRC with Rajnath SinghAssam NRC coordinator, Prateek Hajela, has submitted a status report where he submitted there were 3.21 crore applications of which around ...
13 Nov, 2017, 07.56 PM IST
Assam tense ahead of National Register of Citizens dataThere are apprehensions in some quarters that the registry of 1951, which is being updated, will exclude people who crossed over illegally ...
26 Oct, 2017, 11.52 PM IST
Migrants' influx: Supreme Court asks Centre to secure Indo-Bangla borderAdditional Solicitor General (ASG) PS Patwalia, appearing for the Centre, said some tenders have been finalised and work orders issued to s...
08 Mar, 2017, 07.56 PM IST
Assam citizenship database awaits order on inclusion of Bangladeshi HindusThe BJP government at the Centre recently tabled the Citizenship Bill, 2016, making nationals of various countries, including Bangladesh, e...
02 Aug, 2016, 11.54 AM IST
Interest of genuine Indian nationals to be safeguarded in National Register of CitizensCentre assured the people of Assam that interests of all 'genuine' Indian nationals will be protected in NRC updation, going under direct s...
11 Jul, 2015, 05.47 PM IST
- Centre moots changes in citizenship rules for Assam
Govt proposes to amend Citizenship Act Rules exclusively for Assam.
20 Nov, 2008, 01.46 AM IST