Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal chaired a high-level law and order review meeting at Guwahati on Thursday, to discuss security measures ahead of the publication of the National Register of ...

GUWAHATI Sixteen years after a petition in the Supreme Court led to the exercise to update Assam’s list of citizens, the National Register of Citizens (NRC) is back in the form of entertainment. The ...

From October, residents of Assam who had not applied to be included in the National Register of Citizens might not be eligible to get Aadhaar. The NRC, a mammoth exercise to identify illegal ...

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 ...

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 ...

After years of allegations over the National Register of Citizens (NRC) updation process in Assam, the court proceedings begin against the former State coordinator Prateek Hajela (for his involvement ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Assam has initiated a process to purge forged entries from the updated National Register of Citizens (NRC). Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday declared that the government never considered ...