Foreign journalists can visit Assam after taking permission, clarifies home ministry amid rumours of restrictions
Fp Staff • 6 years agoThe 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'
Fp Staff • 6 years agoSoon 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
• 6 years agoTrinamool 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
Fp Staff • 6 years agoAssam 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
• 6 years agoRumours of one lakh Gorkhas being left out of NRC roll untrue, says Darjeeling BJP MP Raju Bista
• 6 years agoBJP 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
'Botched up': JD(U) leader Prashant Kishor slams Assam's NRC, claims it has left 'lakhs of people as foreigners in their own country'
• 6 years agoPrashant Kishor on Sunday termed Assam's National Register of Citizens as 'botched up' which has left 'lakhs of people as foreigners in their own country.'
Final NRC list published in Assam: As Sarbananda Sonowal tries to quell panic, document draws criticism across political lines
Rishirajbhagawati • 6 years agoThe final and conclusive draft of the long-awaited and contentious Assam NRC, which set out to identify bonafide Indian citizens in the state through a Supreme Court-monitored process, was published on Saturday
Over 19 lakh names missing from final Assam NRC; legal options, including right to appeal in SC, open to those excluded
Fp Staff • 6 years agoAccording 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
Sreemoy Talukdar • 6 years agoThe 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.