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 ...

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 ...

On July 28, Assam government appointed Partha Pratim Mazumdar, an Indian Administrative Services officer, as the new coordinator of the National Register of Citizens. He replaces Hitesh Dev Sarma, who ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday that new applicants applying for an Aadhar card in the state need to submit a National Register of Citizens (NRC) application receipt number ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aadhaar is a unique identifier linked to individual biometrics, preventing duplication and fraudulent identities Himanta Biswa Sarma, the chief minister of Assam, announced on Saturday that those who ...

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 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 ...