Non inclusion in NRC will not make one foreigner: Assam CM Sarbananda SonowalAssam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Friday reiterated the home ministry’s stand that non-inclusion in the final list of National Reg...
24 Aug, 2019, 10.48 AM IST
Government may consider legislative option to deal with wrongful NRC inclusionWill ensure peaceful publication of the NRC later this month: Sarbananda Sonowal
20 Aug, 2019, 07.52 AM IST
Assam CM meets home minister Amit shah, discusses law and order post final NRC publicationThe Union Home Minister also assured Sonowal of all kinds of help and support in the State government's bid to rehabilitation and reconstru...
13 Aug, 2019, 10.00 PM IST
NRC is a tool for making the distinction between a bonafide Indian citizen and a foreigner: Sarbananda SonowalSarbananda Sonowal said that large-scale migration into the state has threatened to alter the very identity of the Assamese community which...
10 Sep, 2018, 10.03 PM IST
Assam urges other NE states to ensure commuters’ safetyInterstate commuters in the Northeast are facing harassment at check points in some places following the publication of the NRC. They are a...
06 Aug, 2018, 08.26 AM IST
Mamata's 'bloodbath', 'civil war' comment on NRC does not behove of a CM: SonowalSonowal, 55, was responding to a question on Banerjee's comment that the NRC exercise in Assam was done with a "political motive" to divide...
05 Aug, 2018, 01.07 PM IST
NRC release: Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal congratulates people, calls it a historic dayThe much-anticipated second and final draft of the NRC with 2.9 crore names out of the total 3.29 crore applicants was published around 10a...
30 Jul, 2018, 11.53 AM IST
No one to be treated as foreigner if name not in final NRC draft: Assam CMChairing a high-level security review meeting here, he asked officials to guide people, whose names do not figure in the final draft of Nat...
26 Jul, 2018, 09.39 PM IST
Assam seeks 150 companies of central forces ahead of next NRC publicationSupreme Court monitored partial first draft of NRC was published on December 31, 2017. The remaining will be published on June 30, 2018.
31 May, 2018, 08.22 AM IST
Assam seeks 150 companies of CPMF ahead of next NRC draft publicationSupreme Court monitored partial first draft of NRC was published on December 31, 2017. The remaining will be published on June 30, 2018.
30 May, 2018, 07.09 PM IST
No need to worry if name not in first National Register of Citizens draft: Assam CM Sarbananda SonowalSonowal also said that a mechanism has to be devised "humanely" by the central government on what to do with those who are found to be ille...
03 Jan, 2018, 04.05 PM IST
Assam publishes first draft of National Register of Citizens with 1.9 crore namesRegistrar General of India Sailesh said that the first draft of NRC contains names of 1.9 crore applicants which are verified out of 3.29 c...
01 Jan, 2018, 12.12 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
Register of citizens will be published next month, says Assam CM SonowalWhile security agencies are concerned about possible law and order issues, the chief minister said genuine Indian citizens had nothing to w...
30 Oct, 2017, 06.58 PM IST
Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal meets Rajnath Singh; discusses jehadi threatSonowal drew Rajnath's attention on a wide spectrum of areas including National Registrar of Citizens, on-going peace talks, counter-insurg...
08 Jul, 2016, 10.01 PM IST
Assam government to award DCs and SPs showing excellence in National Register of Citizens exerciseThe Chief Minister also asked the DCs and SPs to adopt all modalities set by the Supreme Court for a ‘correct’ and ‘flawless’ NRC.
08 Jun, 2016, 08.52 PM IST
Sarbananda Sonowal tells DCs to update National Citizen registerThe Chief Minister directed the DCs to devote at least two hours every day in the NRC updating exercise apart from other duties.
29 May, 2016, 11.31 PM IST