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Assam NRC a tool to render Muslims stateless: US panel on religious freedom

Assam has seen a huge influx from other places, particularly Bangladesh, since the early 20th century

Civil Service officer Hitesh Dev Sharma replaces Hajela as NRC Coordinator

Dev Sharma, who was serving as the Secretary to the Urban Development and Finance Departments, has been transferred as Secretary to the Home and Political Department and State Coordinator, NRC

CJI Gogoi says NRC a 'base document' for future and was urgently needed

The CJI praised the citizens of Assam for displaying great magnanimity and large heartedness in accepting various cut off dates for the purpose of preparation of NRC.

Enquiry against Anurag Thakur for amassing excess assets finally closes

The enquiry was instituted by the Virbhadra Singh-led Congress govt not just against Thakur but also his father, former chief minister PK Dhumal

Assam NRC being wrongly linked with minority rights issue: India at UN

India said updating the National Registrar of Citizens (NRC) is a statutory, transparent and legal process mandated and monitored by the Supreme Court of India

SC orders transfer of Assam NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela to MP

The direction comes apparently on account of threat perceptions to Hajela

A new book seeks to make sense of the citizenship controversy in Assam

A journalist addresses the problematic question of Assam's citizenship controversy from the vantage point of an Assamese but without losing sight of the experiences of other communities

Assam govt to set up 200 foreigners' tribunals for people excluded from NRC

The final NRC was released on August 31 with 19,06,657 of the total 3,30,27,661 applicants excluded and 3,11,22,004 included

10,000 paramilitary troops deployed in Assam before NRC release withdrawn

Among the 100 companies of the paramilitary forces, 50 belong to the BSF, 10 CRPF, 16 ITBP and 24 SSB

The stories of 'non'-citizens

'What grabbed my attention were the testimonies of people excluded from the NRC', says the author

Pride and prejudices have worsened affairs in the troubled state of Assam

The mammoth exercise that resulted in the recent update of the NRC in Assam has left no one happy. Ritwik Sharma explains why it's important to acknowledge a long-festering identity crisis

Needless crisis? An NRC no one's happy with has left 2 million in a lurch

What will India do with the two million people left off the register? Some can apply now to citizenship tribunals, but these are notoriously unfair, particularly to Muslims

Those not on NRC will enjoy all rights until they exhaust legal options

Out of 3.3 crore applicants, over 19 lakh people were excluded from the final NRC

UN refugee chief urges India to ensure no one is left 'stateless'

About 31.1 million people were included on the list

Gorkha exclusion from NRC is shocking: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

TMC supremo insisted that "justice should be meted out to all Indian brothers and sisters"

Over 1.9 mn applicants left out of NRC, parties call the list 'faulty'

The Assam government has ruled out detention of people who do not figure in the list "in any circumstances", until the tribunals declare them foreigners

Will provide legal support to Indian citizens left out of NRC: Assam govt

The state and the central governments had appealed the top court twice for sample re-verification to find out wrongful inclusions

After NRC, what next?

Children born in India should be citizens

Assam on alert ahead of publication of NRC; CM asks people not to panic

The NRC, unique to Assam, was first published in 1951, and the exercise is being monitored by the Supreme Court

Put list of those excluded from final Assam NRC only online on Aug 31: SC

The apex court also said that the ongoing NRC exercise cannot be ordered to be reopened on the basis of certain legal challenges raised before it