5 Cooch Behar residents who were served Assam NRC notices make it to draft SIR list

Jalpaiguri: Cooch Behar resident Uttam Kumar Brajabashi, who received an NRC notice from the Assam govt asking him to prove ...
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Is Assam’s final NRC really final?

People stand in a queue to check their names on the final list of the National Register of Citizens in Assam. | AFP Assam’s “final” National Register of Citizens was published with much fanfare in ...
Outlookindia

NRC In Assam: A Neighbour Watches The Rolls

India’s ‘illegal immigration’ bogey, and the debate it inspires, have, as their inevitable target, neighbouring Bangladesh—the supposed origin of all such immigrants. The nation is anxiously watching ...
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Can the Assam chief minister make NRC a condition for Aadhaar?

From October, residents of Assam who had not applied to be included in the National Register of Citizens might not be eligible to get Aadhaar. The NRC, a mammoth exercise to identify illegal ...
Hindustan Times

Two years later, Assam’s NRC remains incomplete and controversial

The NRC was updated on the basis of the Assam Accord of 1985, which, in turn, was signed after a six-year-long agitation against illegal immigrants. The entire process, which took four years to ...
Mint

No Aadhaar for those who didn't apply for NRC in Assam, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma confirms

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma-led Assam government would enforce a rule rejecting Aadhaar card applications if the applicant or the family had not applied to be part of the National Register of ...
Outlookindia

NRC Update: Assam Grapples With Fear, Confusion and Hope

The NRC, a document unique to Assam, was first prepared in 1951 after the first census in independent India. Assamese leaders were afraid that Pakistan was planning a demographic change in the ...
The Hindu

Will accept Assam NRC and issue I-card to every citizen, says Congress

Assam Congress president Ripun Bora on Wednesday announced that the Congress, if voted to power, will accept and notify the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and issue identity card to every citizen ...
Indiatimes

NRC body lodges FIR against Assam ex-coordinator Hajela

GUWAHATI: The National Register of Citizens (NRC) updating authority in Assam has lodged an FIR with Assam Police CID charging former state coordinator of NRC and IAS officer Prateek Hajela, who had ...
India TV

Assam NRC authority files FIR against former state coordinator Hajela

The Assam National Registrar of Citizens (NRC) authority has filed an FIR against former NRC coordinator in the state Prateek Hajela, an official said on Friday. The FIR also names some other ...
The New Indian Express

Two years of Assam NRC: Uncertainty looms over re-verification process

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) -- prepared in accordance with Assam Accord provisions -- catalogues names of the "genuine citizens" of the country. GUWAHATI: Two years have gone by since the ...
The Hindu

Assam NRC authority seeks re-verification of citizens’ list

The Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) authority has approached the Supreme Court seeking a comprehensive and time-bound re-verification of the citizens’ list, highlighting “major ...