Assam Citizens List

A name mismatch in multiple voters' list had led to the declaration of a woman in Assam as an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh in 2017, only to be acknowledged as an Indian citizen based on circumstantial evidence six years later, officials said.

Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of BJP's ideological mentor RSS, has said that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) will not harm the Muslims of the country.

"Major irregularities" have been detected in the lists of the National Registry of Citizens in Assam and a comprehensive re-verification should be conducted, the state's NRC coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma has sought in a petition filed in the Supreme C

Though the final list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) has been completed, Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said the state government has approached the Supreme Court for a re-verification of the Assam NRC published online in August 2019, claiming that the figures have not reached its 'finality', once again pricking...

The timing of the move by the National Registry of Citizens (NRC) authorities in Assam to delete thousands of names from the list published last year is being viewed with suspicion by many.

India on Monday assured Bangladesh that the updation of the National Register of Citizens will have no implications for its people, asserting that it is a process that is entirely internal to the country.

After six months of publication of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, the authorities are trying to reopen the process for internal checks to weed out foreigners from the list. The authorities are running the filter before the list is sent for formal notification by the Registrar General of India.

Assam NRC Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma has written a letter to Registrars of Citizen Registration of all districts seeking details of "ineligible persons" found in final NRC list.

It has been nearly six months since 41-year-old Muhammad Fakaruddin Khan was excluded from Assam's National Register of Citizens or NRC with around 19 lakh others. However, Mr Khan and lakhs of others like him have been waiting anxiously for the final list to be notified so that they can then appeal their exclusion to the foreigners' tribunals with...

The officials of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam are likely to ask the centre to launch an independent probe into suspected cases of "wilful deletion" of data and important emails, people with direct knowledge of the matter have told NDTV.

The data of the final citizens' list in Assam, published last August, has vanished from the website of the state National Register of Citizens (NRC) where the data was published as mandated by the Supreme Court. The Union Home Ministry said the NRC data is safe and cited "some technical issue in visibility on cloud". The ministry said the problem i...

Manju Debnath, a migrant and a Bengali Hindu from Nagaon is among the 19 lakh people excluded from the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam. Close to six months after the list was published, the 60-year-old is still anxiously waiting for the notification of the final list.

Congress leader and former home minister P Chidambaram said on Saturday that after the "Assam NRC (National Register of Citizens) fiasco", the Narendra Modi government has quickly "changed gears" and is now talking of NPR.

There is no connection between detention centres and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in an interview with news agency ANI, rubbishing reports that purpose-built jails to lock up those who don't make it to the citizens' list are coming up in some parts of the country...

Home Minister Amit Shah, in an interview, talks about the massive protests against the newly amended citizenship law, the government's plans for a nationwide National Register of Citizens or NRC exercise and reports of detention centres in Assam.

A name mismatch in multiple voters' list had led to the declaration of a woman in Assam as an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh in 2017, only to be acknowledged as an Indian citizen based on circumstantial evidence six years later, officials said.

Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of BJP's ideological mentor RSS, has said that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) will not harm the Muslims of the country.

"Major irregularities" have been detected in the lists of the National Registry of Citizens in Assam and a comprehensive re-verification should be conducted, the state's NRC coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma has sought in a petition filed in the Supreme C

Though the final list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) has been completed, Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said the state government has approached the Supreme Court for a re-verification of the Assam NRC published online in August 2019, claiming that the figures have not reached its 'finality', once again pricking...

The timing of the move by the National Registry of Citizens (NRC) authorities in Assam to delete thousands of names from the list published last year is being viewed with suspicion by many.

India on Monday assured Bangladesh that the updation of the National Register of Citizens will have no implications for its people, asserting that it is a process that is entirely internal to the country.

After six months of publication of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, the authorities are trying to reopen the process for internal checks to weed out foreigners from the list. The authorities are running the filter before the list is sent for formal notification by the Registrar General of India.

Assam NRC Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma has written a letter to Registrars of Citizen Registration of all districts seeking details of "ineligible persons" found in final NRC list.

It has been nearly six months since 41-year-old Muhammad Fakaruddin Khan was excluded from Assam's National Register of Citizens or NRC with around 19 lakh others. However, Mr Khan and lakhs of others like him have been waiting anxiously for the final list to be notified so that they can then appeal their exclusion to the foreigners' tribunals with...

The officials of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam are likely to ask the centre to launch an independent probe into suspected cases of "wilful deletion" of data and important emails, people with direct knowledge of the matter have told NDTV.

The data of the final citizens' list in Assam, published last August, has vanished from the website of the state National Register of Citizens (NRC) where the data was published as mandated by the Supreme Court. The Union Home Ministry said the NRC data is safe and cited "some technical issue in visibility on cloud". The ministry said the problem i...

Manju Debnath, a migrant and a Bengali Hindu from Nagaon is among the 19 lakh people excluded from the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam. Close to six months after the list was published, the 60-year-old is still anxiously waiting for the notification of the final list.

Congress leader and former home minister P Chidambaram said on Saturday that after the "Assam NRC (National Register of Citizens) fiasco", the Narendra Modi government has quickly "changed gears" and is now talking of NPR.

There is no connection between detention centres and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in an interview with news agency ANI, rubbishing reports that purpose-built jails to lock up those who don't make it to the citizens' list are coming up in some parts of the country...

Home Minister Amit Shah, in an interview, talks about the massive protests against the newly amended citizenship law, the government's plans for a nationwide National Register of Citizens or NRC exercise and reports of detention centres in Assam.