Assam Final Citizens List

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...

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 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.

The Winter session of the Assam Assembly began on a stormy note today with MLAs of the opposition Congress, protesting the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and the state government's bid to reject the final National Register of Citizens (NRC), lying down outside the House after being prevented from raising an adjournment motion.

Home Minister Amit Shah's plan to redo the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise in Assam along with the rest of India today found support from BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma, who has long termed the final list prepared exclusively for the northeastern state earlier this year as "faulty".

The updated final NRC, which validates bonafide Indian citizens of Assam, has left out over 19 lakh applicants.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Friday assured that the state government will provide legal support to those excluded from the final list of the National Register of Citizens of India (NRC).

Assam government has notified setting up of 200 more appellate Foreigners' Tribunals for hearing of appeals of people excluded from the final National Register of Citizens (NRC).

The Trinamool Congress has asked the BJP to clarify the exclusion of a large number of Hindus in the final National Register of Citizen (NRC) list in Assam, ahead of party chief Amit Shah's scheduled visit to West Bengal.

Senior BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain has reinforced Home Minister Amit Shah's resolve to remove illegal immigrants from "every inch" of India, over a week after the final list of people who have made it and who didn't in the Assam citizens' list was published.

The window period of 120 days for the 19 lakh people excluded from the final National Register of Citizens or NRC to appeal in the foreigners tribunals might only start in November since authorities would need that much time to get speaking orders ready detailing the cause of every person's exclusion, sources in the NRC have said.

Congress leader Debabrata Saikia, who is also the leader of the opposition in state assembly, has claimed in a letter to Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal that people from Assam are being harassed in other states after the release of final citizens' list last month.

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...

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 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.

The Winter session of the Assam Assembly began on a stormy note today with MLAs of the opposition Congress, protesting the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and the state government's bid to reject the final National Register of Citizens (NRC), lying down outside the House after being prevented from raising an adjournment motion.

Home Minister Amit Shah's plan to redo the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise in Assam along with the rest of India today found support from BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma, who has long termed the final list prepared exclusively for the northeastern state earlier this year as "faulty".

The updated final NRC, which validates bonafide Indian citizens of Assam, has left out over 19 lakh applicants.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Friday assured that the state government will provide legal support to those excluded from the final list of the National Register of Citizens of India (NRC).

Assam government has notified setting up of 200 more appellate Foreigners' Tribunals for hearing of appeals of people excluded from the final National Register of Citizens (NRC).

The Trinamool Congress has asked the BJP to clarify the exclusion of a large number of Hindus in the final National Register of Citizen (NRC) list in Assam, ahead of party chief Amit Shah's scheduled visit to West Bengal.

Senior BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain has reinforced Home Minister Amit Shah's resolve to remove illegal immigrants from "every inch" of India, over a week after the final list of people who have made it and who didn't in the Assam citizens' list was published.

The window period of 120 days for the 19 lakh people excluded from the final National Register of Citizens or NRC to appeal in the foreigners tribunals might only start in November since authorities would need that much time to get speaking orders ready detailing the cause of every person's exclusion, sources in the NRC have said.

Congress leader Debabrata Saikia, who is also the leader of the opposition in state assembly, has claimed in a letter to Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal that people from Assam are being harassed in other states after the release of final citizens' list last month.