Those voters excluded from NRC can vote in Assam: CEC Sunil Arora
India | January 20, 2021 22:00 ISTThe updated NRC under the direct supervision of the Supreme Court was released on August 31, 2019, excluding the names of 19,06,657 persons.
The updated NRC under the direct supervision of the Supreme Court was released on August 31, 2019, excluding the names of 19,06,657 persons.
The Guwahati Police on February 14 has filed an FIR against a former official of National Register of Citizens (NRC). "A complaint has been launched by executive director of NRC. Allegation is that the employee has not shared the password of some email- IDs before leaving the organisation, in that connection a case has been registered; investigation is under process," said Guwahati's Police Commissioner, MP Gupta.
In its 2019 Annual Report, the USCIRF classified India as a “Tier 2” country for engaging in or tolerating religious freedom violations that meet at least one of the elements of the “systematic, ongoing, egregious” standard for designation as a “country of particular concern,” or CPC, under the International Religious Freedom Act.
Mr Hajela, 48, is a 1995 batch IAS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
The Centre has withdrawn 10,000 paramilitary personnel deployed in Assam before the publication of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC), officials said on Saturday.
The government on Wednesday rebuffed reports claiming that foreign journalists in Assam have been asked to leave the state. In a statement, the Ministry of Home Affairs termed the reports "misleading and incorrect."
The draft NRC gave BJP a surprise when many from the border districts, where the population is dense, made it to the list. It was presumed that majority of them were illegal Bangladeshis.
Sayed Muminul Aowal, president of the apex body of indigenous Muslim organisations, also asked Hyderabad MP and president of AIMIM Asaduddin Owaisi not to try to incite the people of Assam with wrong information on the issue of National Register of Citizens (NRC), which was published on Saturday.
As the final NRC was published on Saturday, political and non-political organisations in unison condemned the document that excluded 1.9 million people.
Assam NRC final list: Over 19 lakh people out of the 3.30 crore applicants were excluded from the final list of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam published at nrcassam.nic.in on Saturday. 3.11 crore were included in the Assam's final NRC list.
The National Register of Citizen or NRC final citizens' list in Assam will be published online at http://www.nrcassam.nic.in. and assam.mygov.in on Saturday. How and where to check the name on National Register of Citizens
It was six years ago that a mammoth exercise was started to update the National Register of Citizens (NRC) of 1951 by identifying illegal foreigners living in Assam and since then lakhs of people have been living an anxiety.
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. Stay tuned to this space as we bring to you live and latest updates on the publication of the final NRC list
The NRC list, first published in Assam in 1951, has been updated to segregate Indian citizens living in Assam from those who have illegally entered the state from Bangladesh after March 1971.
Expressing concern over the potential abuse of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, a US bipartisan body said on Tuesday that the verification process must not become a means to target the members of the Muslim community in northeastern India.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that the list of exclusion in the Assam NRC case be published online only on August 31.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice R F Nariman referred to the report of Assam NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela in which he mentioned about leakage of information on it in Assam Assembly and certain statements made by leader of opposition there and Santanu Bharali, legal advisor to Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the deadline for publication of final National Register of Citizens(NRC) for Assam from July 31 to August 31. The bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justice R F Nariman, however, declined the plea of the Centre and Assam government to conduct sample re-verification.
Relatives of Noor Nahar Begum, 14, of Roumari chapori village said that she hanged herself with the dupatta she was wearing.
Over one lakh people have been named in the National Register of Citizens's (NRC) exclusion list of the additional draft published on Wednesday
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