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  New applicants for Aadhaar in Assam need to submit NRC application receipt number: Himanta

  Assam | September 07, 2024 18:23 IST

  Submission of the NRC application receipt number will not be applicable for the 9.55 lakh people whose biometrics were locked during the National Register of Citizens (NRC) process, and they will get their cards.

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  '3 to 5 lakh people will apply for Indian citizenship under CAA in Assam': CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

  India | March 19, 2024 7:01 IST

  Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the applicants for Indian citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will primarily consist of those who were excluded from the updated National Register of Citizens (NRC).

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  'Will resign even if...': CM Himanta on NRC in Assam amid protests over implementation of CAA

  India | March 12, 2024 20:22 IST

  The Supreme Court-monitored National Register Citizens published on August 31 2019, which excluded 19 lakh of the 3.4 crore applicants, was a fallout of the Assam Accord.

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  Assam to approach SC for Aadhaar to NRC applicants

  India | April 21, 2022 17:10 IST

  The apex court is overseeing the NRC updating process. The state government had said in the Assembly last month that it has written at least twice to the Centre in the last two years requesting them to allow the Aadhaar card issuing authority to access the biometrics of at least those people whose names had figured in the NRC final draft.

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  AASU, APW urge Supreme Court to re-examine final draft of NRC

  India | September 01, 2020 7:52 IST

  AASU had not rejected the final NRC, but "we were not satisfied with the results and there were flaws in the final document as it was not prepared according to the directives given by the Supreme Court", its leaders said.

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  19 lakh people from March 20 to start receiving NRC rejection slips in Assam

  India | March 03, 2020 12:11 IST

  Over 19 lakh people from March 20 may start receiving 'Rejection Slip' issued by the National Register of Citizens (NRC) authority, the Assam government has informed. The rejection slip will mention the reasons for excluding a person's name from the final NRC.

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  High-powered committee on Assam Accord’s Clause 6 submits report to Sarbananda Sonowal

  India | February 25, 2020 16:14 IST

  Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Tuesday along with his entire cabinet received the report of the high-level committee formed to review and suggest measures for implementation of Clause six of 1985 Assam accord. 

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  Assam NRC data disappears from official website, Home Ministry says technical issue

  India | February 12, 2020 11:14 IST

  All data of the final list of the NRC has been made offline from its official website due to non-renewal of contract with the IT firm Wipro, prompting the Opposition Congress to doubt it as a "malafide act". The complete detail of exclusion and inclusion of bonafide Indian citizens in the NRC was uploaded on its official website 'www.nrcassam.nic.in' after the final list was published on August 31, 2019.

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  Bharat Bandh today: Bahujan Kranti Morcha calls shutdown against CAA, NRC; 'rail roko' in Mumbai

  India | January 29, 2020 10:28 IST

  The Bahujan Kranti Morcha in association with the Kurnool JAC for Protection of Constitution has called for Bharat Bandh on Wednesday to protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, National Register of Citizens (NRC) and EVMs.

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  Assam NRC: Children of Indian citizens not to go to detention centres, govt tells SC

  India | January 06, 2020 17:58 IST

  The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that children, whose parents have been given citizenship through NRC, will not be separated from their families and sent to the detention centres in Assam.

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  Common documents, no pre-1971 or parents' papers needed for proposed NRC

  India | December 19, 2019 20:04 IST

  Seeking to allay citizenship concerns of a large number of people, government sources said on Thursday that one can prove Indian nationality by submitting any document related to his date of birth and its place, and there will be "absolutely no compulsion" to submit any document by his parents during any such exercise.

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  FIR filed against Prateek Hajela, ex-NRC coordinator of Assam

  India | November 29, 2019 9:17 IST

  A civil society organisation in Assam has filed an FIR with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against former state coordinator of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), Prateek Hajela, for alleged misappropriation of funds meant for the NRC project. One Rajib Deka of the Assam Public Works (APW) has filed the FIR at the Guwahati office of the CBI on Thursday.

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  Religious polarisation, NRC key factors in upcoming West Bengal bypolls

  Elections | November 24, 2019 22:04 IST

  Religious polarisation, National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the vote-catching capacity of a renewed Congress-Left Front alliance could be the game changers as principal rivals Trinamool Congress and the BJP battle it out in the bypolls to three Assembly seats in West Bengal to be held on Monday.

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  Hitesh Dev Sarma new NRC Coordinator

  India | November 09, 2019 19:58 IST

  The Supreme Court had transferred NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela, asking the Assam government to suggest names of officers who could succeed Hajela.  Sarma was involved in the NRC works till 2016, when he moved out of the NRC directorate

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  Assam NRC leftouts to continue to vote till legal remedies end: EC

  India | September 27, 2019 15:42 IST

  A senior functionary of the poll panel on Friday said until those left out of the NRC are eventually declared foreigners after they exhaust all their legal remedies, they would not be disenfranchised.

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  Will ensure that no one is harassed because of religion: Shah on NRC

  India | September 21, 2019 23:28 IST

  A joint delegation of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind Jamiat Ahle Hadees Hind called on Shah at his residence and issued a statement later.  

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  People excluded from NRC to get certified copies soon

  India | September 10, 2019 19:32 IST

  The dates regarding distribution of exclusion certificates will be announced soon, NRC State Coordinator's office tweeted.

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  No Indian will be left out: Smriti Irani hits out at Mamata Banerjee over NRC

  India | September 10, 2019 15:02 IST

  The illegal infiltrators will be dealt with as per law, she asserted. "No Indian will be left out... we are dedicated towards protecting the rights of the citizens of the country," the union minister said on NRC.

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  People excluded from NRC will enjoy all rights till they exhaust legal remedies: MEA

  India | September 01, 2019 22:15 IST

  It said exclusion from the NRC has no implication on the rights of an individual resident in Assam and that they will not be deprived of any rights or entitlements which they have enjoyed before.

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  NRC: People now want government action on the 'excluded'

  India | September 01, 2019 13:52 IST

  "We are not happy over the figure of illegal foreigners in Assam. There are more who have made it to the NRC. However, now since we have the statistics through a legal process, the government must soon end the formalities to confirm their identity and take steps to deport them," said Rajen Baruah, a senior citizen.