NRC: TMC leaders lodge police complaints against Assam CM for 'harassment' at Silchar airport
Kolkata, Aug 3 (IBNS): Two parliamentarians of Trinamool Congress (TMC) and a MLA of the party, who were the members of a delegation that was stopped by Assam Police at Silchar airport before entering the state on Thursday, lodged complaints against Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal at two police stations in Kolkata on Friday, reports said.
BJP accuses Opposition of playing politics on Assam NRC issue
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IBNS): In a fresh attack on the rival parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has virtually accused the Opposition of playing politics over Assam's National Register of Citizens (NRC) that excluded over four million people.
Members of 39 families of suspected foreigners figure in draft NRC
Guwahati, Aug 3 (IBNS) : At a time when the process for updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC) goes on in Assam to detect illegal migrants and the country witnesses a political row over the deletion of more than four million names, whose bona fide as Indian citizens has been put into a question, a report has come that members of 39 families of suspected foreigners have been included in the complete NRC draft alone from Morigaon district.
Assam police register case against Mamata Banerjee over her NRC remarks
Guwahati, Aug 1 (IBNS): Assam police registered a case against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for making provocative remarks regarding the Assam NRC issue.
Rajya Sabha adjourned for the day over NRC issue, ruckus denies Rajnath Singh to make statement
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IBNS): The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day on Wednesday amid repeated disruptions as Opposition members, particularly the Trinamool Congress continued ruckus over the Assam NRC issue denying Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to make a statement on the subject.
No automatic scrapping of citizenship, those left out of Assam NRC need not worry: CEC
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IBNS) : After the Supreme Court's observation that those left out of the complete NRC draft in Assam must get a fair chance to prove their nationality, Chief Election Commissioner O P Rawat has assured that these people "need not worry now" as "no automatic removal" is in the offing.
Ruckus over Assam NRC issue: RS adjourned for the day, walkout from LS
New Delhi, July 31 (IBNS) : The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day while the opposition staged a walkout from the Lok Sabha as the NRC issue in Assam rocked Parliament on Tuesday triggering a huge ruckus.
NRC: Shock overwhelms many who miss the Assam citizenship berth
Guwahati, July 31 (IBNS): As the complete draft of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam was announced on Monday triggering a political firestorm in India, Md. Javed Ali, a resident of minority-dominated lower Assam district in South Salmara Mankachar, was in a state of shock.
Rahul Gandhi urges Congress men to help people whose names not included in Assam's NRC draft
New Delhi, July 30 (IBNS): Congress president Rahul Gandhi has urged all his party workers to help people whose names were not included in the second and final draft of Assam's National Register of Citizens (NRC), which was released on Monday.
Four million excluded from citizenship in India's Assam, move sparks tension, protest
New Delhi, July 30 (IBNS): Sparking fears of deportation and a law and order crisis, India on Monday announced exclusion of about four million people from citizenship in the northeastern state of Assam, bordering Bangladesh, after a draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) was published.
Bengalis, Bihari's being made refugees, Mamata on Assam NRC
Kolkata, July 30 (IBNS) : Going ballistic against the Centre for the exclusion of over four million names from Assam's draft National Register of Citizens (NRC), West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged that it is a "game plan" to throw out Bengalis and Biharis and render them as refugees in their own country.
Assam NRC : Family tree verification process of 47 lakh people to start from Feb 15
Guwahati, Feb 10 (IBNS) : After publishing the draft of the first part of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), that includes names of 1.90 crore people out of the total 3.29 crore applicants of Assam recognising them as legal citizens of India, the NRC state coordinator office is preparing to publish the next phase draft NRC.