Illegal Migrants In Assam

A 50-year-old Assam woman, who was declared an illegal migrant from Bangladesh due to her mismatch names in voters' lists, has now regained her Indian citizenship after a six-year long legal battle.

Security forces in Manipur claim no arms or ammunition have been found on the 718 Myanmar nationals who have illegally entered the state. The Manipur government has sought an explanation from the Assam Rifles about the migrants.

People "forcefully" evicted from Assam's Dhalpur were not illegal migrants and had legacy documents dated before 1971, an independent fact-finding team said almost three months after the eviction drive in Assam in which two villagers were killed.

Rescue operations were underway on Tuesday to trace at least five migrant workers from Assam and Tripura who were trapped inside a rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia district, officials said.

Six migrant workers from Assam died after they fell into a 150-feet pit in a forest in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills, the same district where 15 men disappeared inside an illegal rat-hole mine after it collapsed in December 2018.

Migrants from neighbouring countries will not "automatically" gain citizenship even if they belong to the six communities listed in the amended Citizenship Act, central sources said today, adding that all interested candidates will have to submit online applications for the authorities to verify and process.

After Assam, Karnataka is gearing up to prepare a National Register of Citizens (NRC) list to identify the illegal immigrants living there. "Karnataka is one of the states where people from across the border come and settle down. As there are lots of issues here, we are collecting all information possible. We will take up the matter with the Union ...

Home Minister Amit Shah said the centre would ensure "every single illegal immigrant is thrown out" of the country, breaking his silence over the NRC list that was released on August 31 and declared more than 19 lakh people as foreigners

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee attacked the centre today over the final version of the citizens' list in Assam, which has left out 19 lakh people who now have to prove they are Indian citizens. The months-long project, meant to move out illegal migrants from Bangladesh, has not only been criticised by the opposition but also leaders of ...

AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday said that the "myth" of 40 lakh illegal migrants in Assam claimed by Home Minister Amit Shah had been busted, with the updated final National Register For Citizens list excluding only 19 lakh.

Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday termed the National Register of Citizens list released this morning as "faulty", and said that the ruling BJP will approach the Supreme Court again to seek reverification in certain parts of the state.

The BJP has said it will update the National Register of Citizens across the country after the exercise is complete in Assam to weed out illegal migrants from Bangladesh.

The three men who allegedly signed the case report on Mohammad Sanaulla - the former soldier from Assam who has been declared a foreigner -- now claim no investigation has been done in the case. The men have filed a complaint with the police, accusing Chandramal Das, the officer in the case, of fabricating the investigation report.

The border police in Assam today deported 21 Bangladesh nationals who had been detained for illegally entering India. They were arrested for violating the Passport Act.

The coordinator for the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, Prateek Hajela, has alleged that there are attempts to include illegal migrants in the list. The NRC authorities had decided to drop five key papers from the list of 15 documents through which a person could file their claims for inclusion in the citizens' register.