Prateek Hajela, the officer tasked with supervising the gigantic National Register of Citizens updation in Assam, must be a relaxed man after the final list was published on Saturday. The 1995 batch ...

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has stated that the exercise to update the National Register of Citizens (NRC) must be finalised before the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voters’ ...

NAGAON/GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Nearly 2 million people have been left off a list of citizens released on Saturday in India's northeastern state of Assam, after a mammoth years-long exercise to ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday claimed that alleged “illegal immigrants” can be “pushed back” to Bangladesh even if their names are in the National Register of Citizens. “If we ...

Even before the family introduce themselves by name, they produce a thick file with documents that go back 80 years. “Evidence before conversation,” the youngest son says as he arranges chairs outside ...

As many as 4 million people — many of them Muslims — may lose their Indian citizenship on Saturday, accused of being “infiltrators” by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi’s ruling ...

Silchar: The Citizens Rights Preservation Committee (CRPC), an Assam-based social organization, appealed to Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday to intervene in the long-pending NRC issue in the ...

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The controversial National Register of Citizens (NRC) which was implemented in India’s border state of Assam continues to remain in limbo more than a year after it was completed. The behemoth exercise ...

In May, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party won a landslide reelection victory after a campaign rife with anti-Muslim rhetoric, echoing the nativist appeals of other ...

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in India has expressed serious concern over the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam just days before the exercise draws to a close on August 31, five years ...