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Assam NRC Final List: Names of all 3.30 crore applicants published online; check status at www.nrcassam.nic.in
Fp Staff •After the publication of the final NRC list, construction work for the state's first detention centre for those who do not qualify as Indian citizens has begun.

Assam NRC: Centre to withdraw 10,000 paramilitary forces deployed before publication of final document
•Those who failed to make it to the final NRC list have been given 120 days to appeal against their exclusion at the Foreigners Tribunals. If not satisfied with the verdict of the tribunals, they will have the option to move the High Court and the Supreme Court for redress.

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

Assam govt to move to Supreme Court again for sample re-verification in NRC in certain districts, say reports
Fp Staff •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
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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
Fp Staff •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
Sreemoy Talukdar •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
Fp Staff •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".



