Centre will extend NRC to rest of India, deport ‘illegal immigrants’, Amit Shah tells Rajya Sabha

Union minister Nityanand Rai said the government was thinking about postponing the July 31 deadline to publish the citizens’ database in Assam.

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· 4 hours ago

NRC row: SC refuses urgent hearing of pleas by Centre and Assam to extend July 31 deadline

The Ministry of Home Affairs and the state government sought more time to conduct ‘sample re-verification’ of the names included in the draft list.

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· 11 hours ago

SC issues notice to Centre, Assam government on plea filed by paralysed man declared a foreigner

Azizul Hoque was declared a foreigner on the grounds that neither he nor his representative appeared before a tribunal.

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· Jul 03, 2019 · 09:13 pm

Nagaland to start preparing database of indigenous inhabitants, its own version of NRC, from July 10

The exercise will be completed within 60 days and provisional lists will be published on September 11. A final list will be prepared by December 10.

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· Jul 01, 2019 · 01:24 pm

The story of a suicide: Did fear of losing citizenship drive a teenager in Assam to end her life?

Friends and family say 17-year-old Noor Nehar Begum worried about being left out of the National Register of Citizens.

Arunabh Saikia

· Jun 29, 2019 · 09:00 am

Assam NRC: Over 1 lakh people excluded from additional list

Those excluded from the additional list can file their claims at designated NRC Seva Kendras before July 11, 2019.

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· Jun 26, 2019 · 11:53 am

‘The highest wicket-taker’: Assam’s tribunals are competing to declare people foreigners

The state government evaluates the performance of tribunal members based on the number of people they have declared as foreigners.

Arunabh Saikia

· Jun 19, 2019 · 09:00 am

‘NRC is a waste paper’: Former Assam CM Tarun Gogoi lashes out at state government

The Congress leader said the Supreme Court should not have given state NRC Coordinator Prateek Hajela the responsibility to update the database of citizens.

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· Jun 09, 2019 · 09:08 pm

Assam: Retired army soldier, who was declared foreigner, released from detention centre

Sanaullah was let go a day after the Gauhati High Court granted him bail.

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· Jun 08, 2019 · 08:11 pm

Assam: Retired soldier held in detention centre for foreigners granted bail by Gauhati High Court

Mohammed Sanaullah has been asked to furnish bail bond of Rs 20,000 and directed not to move out of Kamrup district without the police’s approval.

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· Jun 07, 2019 · 06:14 pm

Indian Army must do more than have ‘big heart’ for ex-soldier declared foreigner in Assam

Soldiers are among the most fetishised citizens in India. But who will fight for their rights as citizens?

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Jun 04, 2019 · 06:30 am

Special report: Ex soldier was among 100-plus ‘foreigners’ held in Assam in post-poll drive

The acceleration in arrests coincided with Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi’s statement that many who had been declared foreigners were still free.

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Jun 03, 2019 · 09:00 am