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Caught between NRC logjam and elections: Separate citizenship rules stall Assam’s SIRAssam's separate citizenship provisions have led to an incomplete National Register of Citizens (NRC), causing the state to be excluded fro...
Assam not included in this round... ECI to 'issue separate order'The Election Commission of India has kicked off the second phase of a focused revision of electoral rolls, spanning 12 states and Union Ter...
Assam: Poll panel begins voter roll overhaul amid NRC shadowAmidst NRC stalemate concerns, the Election Commission of India initiates Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Assam, appointing and trainin...
Assam to drop all foreigner tribunal cases against Koch Rajbongshi community: CM Himanta Biswa SarmaAssam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma announced the withdrawal of 28,000 cases against the Koch Rajbongshi community pending in Foreigners Tribunals...
No one must do injustice to Bengali Hindus who have come to India from Bangladesh: Assam CMAssam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma assured that no injustice should be done to Bengali Hindus who migrated to India from Bangladesh a...
TMC reaches out to Rajbonshis of North BengalDuring her North Bengal tour, on Wednesday, chief minister Mamata Banerjee participated in the 511st birth anniversary celebrations of Vir ...
BJP MLA writes to Nadda, raises demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland“Separate statehood is a long-pending demand of the people of North Bengal. The people of North Bengal have been deprived of their rights a...
Amit Shah will visit my house in Chirang in Assam, says Ananta RaiAnanta Rai is the self-proclaimed king of the Cooch Behar and descendent of royal Koch Rajbongshi family. Koch Rajbongshi has a substantial...
State govt is planning to come up with a law to secure land of indigenous people: Himanta Biswa SarmaSarma while speaking at All Koch Rajbongshi Students Union's 20th Martyrs day function in Golokganj said, “Land of indigenous people in the...
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...
We expected some protests while tabling citizenship amendment bill: Himanta Biswa SarmaAssam government has asked the headmasters in school to ensure that students do not participate in protest programme during the school hour...
Amit Shah to meet CMs, political parties of Northeast on citizenship billAssam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said for almost eight hours on each day Shah will hold discussion with the stakeholders on two d...
RSS volunteers fan out in Northeast to explain Citizenship Amendment BillThe bill is aimed at making minority communities such as Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Banglades...
Citizenship amendment bill will not help those left out of NRCNGO Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) recently said that the proposed Citizenship Amendment Bill will not help the minority communitie...
NRC: Assam CM assures legal help to Bengali organisationThe Chief Minister stated that the State Government would extend legal support to those excluded from NRC so that genuine Indian citizens d...
Citizenship Amendment Bill has become necessity for those left out of NRC: Assam BJP president Ranjeet DasHe said that the bill will benefit large number of Indians who did not make it to the NRC. BJP has been alleging that not accepting refugee...
Many indigenous people, others stare at ‘helplessness’ after NRC rejectionNames of about 5,000 people of Dara Pathar, which has a population of around 12,000, not included in the final list; People belonging to Da...
Disturbed Area tag in Assam extended for another six monthEarlier security forces engaged in counter-insurgency operations in Assam favoured the AFSPA to remain applicable in the entire state as fi...
NRC is reduced to waste paper: Assam BJP President Ranjeet Kumar DassBJP will move the apex court seeking re-verification of draft NRC published last year.
Minister's convoy blocked on second day of bandhThe convoy of a Union Minister and a state minister were blocked as sporadic incidents of violence were reported during the second day of t...