Nrc Verification

Enumerators who come to collect data for the National Population Register or NPR will not ask for documents to verify the details anyone provides, government sources have said amid growing concern that the list could be used as a foundation for a National Register of Citizens (NRC) meant to identify illegal immigrants.

The tension in Goraimari, a bustling rural town about 70 km from Guwahati, is palpable. Thousands of people in the area have received fresh re-verification notices for their National Register of Citizens (NRC) credentials, so the authorities can re-check the "legacy data" used to establish their relationship with their ancestors to prove that they ...

An 88-year-old man allegedly killed himself in Sontoli in Assam's Kamrup district, about 70 km away from state capital Guwahati, because he feared being sent to detention centre after he was called for verification for the National Register of Citizens of India last week. The locals found his body today.

The Supreme Court today asked the Centre and the Assam government to file their objections to a report of NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela on use of five documents for verification of citizenship claims of around 40 lakh people who have been left out in the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC). A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice R...

About 73,000 people from Bihar, currently living in Assam, have sent their documents for verification to get included in the NRC being prepared in the north-eastern state, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said in Patna on Monday.

The verification of identities of the people, who have migrated from West Bengal to Assam, for the National Register of Citizens (NRC) may take another couple of months to be completed, a senior state government official said here.

A police case has been filed against Mamata Banerjee in Assam after multiple complaints alleged the West Bengal Chief Minister made an inflammatory speech over the National Register of Citizens or NRC exercise currently going on in Assam. Speaking at a public meeting at Birbhum district in Bengal on Wednesday, Ms Banerjee had criticised the citizen...

Enumerators who come to collect data for the National Population Register or NPR will not ask for documents to verify the details anyone provides, government sources have said amid growing concern that the list could be used as a foundation for a National Register of Citizens (NRC) meant to identify illegal immigrants.

The tension in Goraimari, a bustling rural town about 70 km from Guwahati, is palpable. Thousands of people in the area have received fresh re-verification notices for their National Register of Citizens (NRC) credentials, so the authorities can re-check the "legacy data" used to establish their relationship with their ancestors to prove that they ...

An 88-year-old man allegedly killed himself in Sontoli in Assam's Kamrup district, about 70 km away from state capital Guwahati, because he feared being sent to detention centre after he was called for verification for the National Register of Citizens of India last week. The locals found his body today.

The Supreme Court today asked the Centre and the Assam government to file their objections to a report of NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela on use of five documents for verification of citizenship claims of around 40 lakh people who have been left out in the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC). A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice R...

About 73,000 people from Bihar, currently living in Assam, have sent their documents for verification to get included in the NRC being prepared in the north-eastern state, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said in Patna on Monday.

The verification of identities of the people, who have migrated from West Bengal to Assam, for the National Register of Citizens (NRC) may take another couple of months to be completed, a senior state government official said here.

A police case has been filed against Mamata Banerjee in Assam after multiple complaints alleged the West Bengal Chief Minister made an inflammatory speech over the National Register of Citizens or NRC exercise currently going on in Assam. Speaking at a public meeting at Birbhum district in Bengal on Wednesday, Ms Banerjee had criticised the citizen...