The Supreme Court upheld Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, which allows certain migrants in Assam to obtain Indian citizenship. This provi...

The Supreme Court's constitutional bench, led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, upheld Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, validating the 197...

Adityanath claimed that there is no militancy, lawlessness or infiltration in the northeastern states and Assam in particular.

"The CM and MHA, the nodal ministry, must own up the responsibility for this”, Rawat said.

According to government insiders, e-FT will be a digital platform that will connect all stakeholders including border police, foreigner’s t...

"It has gone too far. It has become a joke," the court said when informed that while some 60,000 foreigners were detected by tribunals, onl...

Speaking in Rajya Sabha, Amit Shah said: " Rajiv Gandhi signed Assam Accord in 1985, which was similar to NRC. They did not have courage to...

The court in December 2014 had referred to a five-judge bench the issues relating to the cut-off date for granting citizenship to illegal B...

Demanding implementation of the Assam Accord, AASU claimed that "the conspiracy to dump Hindu migrants from Bangladesh in Assam would not b...

Last year Modi government decided to grant citizenship to Hindu refugees who migrated from their countries of origin because of religious p...

The bench, which had earlier converted an interim plea as a full-fledged petition on the citizenship issue of illegal migrants, today asked...

It had asked a question: why even after 67 years of independence, the eastern border is left porous while border with Pakistan is properly ...

Months after the July-August unrest in Assam, the issue of illegal migration continues to dominate the debate on northeast in public space.

One hundred illegal migrants who attempted to enter Manipur through the Manipur-Assam border at Jiribam have been pushed back since Saturda...

Lamenting that the Assam Accord was still on paper, Assam Gana Parishad legislator Alka Sarma today asserted that the violence should not b...

The illegal migrants have become an invaluable vote-bank for certain political parties, which hedge the question of their identification an...

Expressing concern over the Centre’s tardy progress in flushing out illegal Bangladeshi migrants, the SC has sought a status report on thei...