Assam's government and Chief Electoral Officer have asked the Election Commission to conduct a special revision of electoral rolls after th...

Assam's separate citizenship provisions have led to an incomplete National Register of Citizens (NRC), causing the state to be excluded fro...

Former NRC Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma has urged the Chief Election Commissioner to consider the NRC verification process for creating a m...

The Election Commission of India's (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar has sparked debate over citizenship v...

Convenor of PVM Upamanyu Hazarika said that for a State, which is on its way to becoming a Bangladeshi origin majority State between 2040 t...

NRC enumeration has brought relief to the 95% of Muslims who made it to the citizenship list. Given the highly charged political atmosphere...

The Assam government had sought 20% sample re-verification of names included in the draft NRC in the districts of Assam bordering Banglades...

Those dissatisfied believe the NRC has legitimised the existing nature of Assam’s demography, the reason why the state suffered political a...

Hajela, who hails from Madhya Pradesh, had his share of bouquets and brickbats while he led a team of 52,000 officials that sifted through ...

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

Hazarika said there is no party which represents the interests of indigenous people.

The apex court also extended the time period for submitting such claims to NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela to December 15 from November.

“Only one lakh of the 40 lakh excluded have so far submitted their claims,” Attorney General of India KK Venugopal told the court.

During the family tree verification, all legacy data submitted by the applicants were examined to check whether they are genuine to weed ou...

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

Congress has got a boost after the Supreme Court relaxed the Guwahati HC's five-year voting ban on Bengali migrants from Bangladesh.

Winter session is the only window for government to bring up this issue as the verification process is long and tedious and elections are d...