Assam voter list revision: Special revision of electoral rolls announced amidst NRC delaysAssam will undertake a special revision of voter lists next year. This process is linked to the National Register of Citizens, with a new d...
19 Nov, 2025, 06.01 PM IST
Assam to resume intensive electoral roll revision only after NRC data security system is ready by August 2026, says CEOThe Supreme Court has disallowed sharing of NRC data unless an Aadhaar like regime is set up. The updation process of the NRC in Assam is c...
19 Nov, 2025, 04.30 PM IST
Assam: PVM unhappy over no reference to NRC in BJP’s Lok Sabha election manifestoConvenor of PVM Upamanyu Hazarika said that for a State, which is on its way to becoming a Bangladeshi origin majority State between 2040 t...
16 Apr, 2024, 05.55 PM IST
Biometric details locked and no Aadhaar: 27 lakh Assamese people stare at uncertain futureThe reason is that the NRC has taken biometric prints of several citizens for verification. However, because their biometric prints have be...
28 Dec, 2021, 07.47 AM IST
Biometric details locked, can’t have Aadhaar; blame it on NRCThose who already have Aadhaar are able to avail of the benefits of welfare schemes. But Aadhaar coverage is low in Assam compared with the...
17 Mar, 2021, 03.45 PM IST
NRC authorities seek funds for creating Aadhaar-like data securityEarlier, the NRC authorities had preliminary talks with the Unique Identification Authority of India. The Supreme Court, which is monitorin...
13 Dec, 2020, 10.50 PM IST
Assam NRC data: Wipro says IT services contract not renewed after October 2019Wipro said the authorities did not renew the services contract for NRC project after it expired in Oct 2019.
13 Feb, 2020, 08.20 AM IST
NRC data safe: Home MinistryA day after reports emerged that the NRC data in Assam has gone "missing", the home ministry clarified that it was a technical issue of vis...
12 Feb, 2020, 11.37 AM IST
Will take SC route for NRC correction: Himanta Biswa SarmaThe minister said: “We want to be part of the pan-India NRC, however, if that is not happening we already have a petition in the Supreme Co...
24 Dec, 2019, 09.08 AM IST
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...
29 Nov, 2019, 09.16 AM IST
Assam govt to make public number of Hindu Bengalis excluded from final NRC: Himanta Biswa Sarma"We will make public the figure of those (excluded) Hindu Bengali people applying (to get their names included in the NRC) in different dis...
28 Nov, 2019, 07.28 PM IST
Centre seeks time to transfer Hajela to Madhya PradeshThe Supreme Court had ordered the Centre to transfer Hajela to his native state Madhya Pradesh within seven days. The government is now see...
24 Oct, 2019, 12.43 PM IST
NRC mess due to CM Sonowal, MHA says Harish Rawat"The CM and MHA, the nodal ministry, must own up the responsibility for this”, Rawat said.
04 Sep, 2019, 07.05 AM IST
Assam won't get an error free NRC on August 31: Tarun GogoiSupreme Court monitored NRC will be published on August 31.
03 Aug, 2019, 08.24 PM IST
Congress' Saikia to write to Supreme Court to check if placing NRC data in assembly violates court's orderIn Guwahati city encompassing Kamrup metropolitan district around 17.89 percent is non-included.
03 Aug, 2019, 12.37 PM IST
People should not be reduced to refugees in their own country, says Mamata BanerjeeEarlier today, the names of around 2.89 crore people in Assam were released in the final draft list of the national register of citizens.
30 Jul, 2018, 03.45 PM IST
Assam police proposes to include bio metric profile for those whose name won't be there in NRCThe move is aimed to keep a tab on suspected foreigners and pre-empt the move of the foreigners to do a vanishing act. There are thousands ...
24 Jul, 2018, 07.13 PM IST