Assam Nrc Final Draft

Foreign journalists can visit Assam after taking permission, clarifies home ministry amid rumours of restrictions

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has issued a statement on Twitter stating that foreign journalists, whether already based in India or not, can visit Assam after taking its permission

Imran Khan hits out at Narendra Modi govt over Assam NRC, claims exercise a wider policy to 'target Muslims'

Soon after the final list of the updated NRC was out on Saturday, Imran Khan attacked the Modi-led central government of linking the NRC as part of a wider policy to 'target Muslims'

TMC to hold mass protests against NRC and 'divisive politics of BJP' in West Bengal on 7 and 8 September

Trinamool Congress leadership decided to hold mass protests across West Bengal on September 7 and 8 opposing NRC in neighbouring Assam, party sources said.

Assam govt to move to Supreme Court again for sample re-verification in NRC in certain districts, say reports

Assam government is to move to the Supreme Court, once again, for 20 percent sample verification of the draft NRC in border districts along Bangladesh and 10 percent in other districts

AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal urges intellectuals to ensure final NRC accepted as document for resolving foreigners' issue in Assam

Rumours of one lakh Gorkhas being left out of NRC roll untrue, says Darjeeling BJP MP Raju Bista

BJP MP from Darjeeling, Raju Bista, termed the rumours surrounding exclusion of one lakh members of the Gorkha community from the National Register of Citizens (NRC) final list in Assam as untrue

Over 19 lakh names missing from final Assam NRC; legal options, including right to appeal in SC, open to those excluded

According to the Assam government, 19,06,657 people have been excluded from the final NRC list. Legal provisions, including the right to appeal in the Supreme Court, is open to people who have been left out.

Assam NRC final list: BJP wanted to weaponise citizenship exercise, but is now struggling with a political hot potato

The BJP — which had once championed the NRC — finds itself in such a tricky spot that it is desperate to distance itself from the Supreme Court-monitored exercise.

Assam NRC final list: Original petitioner in SC says document is 'flawed' as apex court rejected reverification plea

In 2009, the APW filed a petition in the Supreme Court praying that names of 41 lakh foreigners be deleted from the electoral rolls of Assam and the NRC updated.

Himanta Biswa Sarma, AASU seek re-verification of final Assam NRC list; Owaisi slams BJP, says 'myth' of illegal immigrants busted

The president of All Assam Students' Union Dipankar Kumar Nath indicated a similar disappointment over the release of the final NRC document and avowed to approach the apex court to file appeal for "rectification of these mistakes".