Former NRC Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma has urged the Chief Election Commissioner to consider the NRC verification process ...

A heated exchange erupted between Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee over identity politics and infiltration issues. Banerjee accused Assam's BJP government of targeting ...

Sarma said that the NRC exercise failed in Assam because of a lack of mechanism to effectively carry it out in the border ...

Assam Legislative Assembly Deputy Speaker and BJP leader Numal Momin has lashed out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata ...

In 2013, India’s Supreme Court ordered that an updated NRC be published in Assam, and in a judgement the following year, it observed: “The culture of an entire people is being eroded in such a ...

Assam officials have told the Election Commission they want the National Register of Citizens (NRC) considered in the voter ...

Assam failed to do so, but by 2005, the Congress Party—the BJP’s main rivals—spoke of using a type of census known as the National Register of Citizens (NRC) to better understand who was ...

The final list of NRC was released by the Centre on August 31 at all NRC Seva Kendra (NSK) across Assam and on www.nrcassam.nic.in or www.assam.mygov.in online.

Assam's finance minister, Himanta Biswas Sarma, a vocal supporter of NRC has spewed anti-immigrant venom, and claimed in August 2018 that legacy papers—those which prove longstanding residency ...

Two parallel mechanisms. The tribunals and the NRC are parallel mechanisms of detecting foreigners in Assam. The tribunals, set up under an 1964 executive order, decide on matters of nationality.

Why Assam’s NRC failed to address the social and economic anxieties it was to resolve for good Embedded in the citizens’ register is a history of traumas that cannot find redress in a narrow ...