A war of words between the two chief ministers broke out last week after Banerjee called the Assam government's actions 'a ...

Bengal CM maintained that the BJP government at the Centre was pursuing a discriminatory policy against the Bengali language and the people of the state ...

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

Seventy-four Muslim migrant workers “from West Bengal and Assam” have been detained for the past four days at a municipal ...

West Bengal's Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, criticized her Assam counterpart, Himanta Biswa Sarma, for sending NRC notices to legitimate citizens of Bengal. At a rally, Banerjee highlighted the ...

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

The Assam government has urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) to integrate the state's unique National Register of ...

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

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 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 ...

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.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday hit out at the BJP-led government in Assam for “sending NRC notices” to bona fide citizens of Bengal, accusing the saffron party of launching an ...