Nrc Final Draft

Of no fixed abode: Social worker Masuma Begum, left out of NRC, says wait to become an Indian 'citizen' will be agonising

Masuma Begum, a 25-year-old social worker, has lost count of the number of camps she and her friends have held in remote areas of western Assam in the past three years, telling people that they should welcome the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and helping them gather documents to establish their identity as Indians.

NRC in Assam: Call for Inner Line Permit grows in North East as local groups launch drives to keep 'migrants' out

A day after the publication of NRC final draft, NGOs in states neighbouring Assam launched drives to check illegal migration to their state. In Meghalaya, non-tribal travellers were harassed at infiltration check posts, in Manipur groups attacked non-local vendors

Of no fixed abode: Silchar woman now 'officially' a citizen, but earlier detention over misspelt name continues to haunt her

Though elated to have been named in the final draft of NRC, Suchandra Goswami shudders to remember the days she spent in a detention centre in Silchar. "Three days seemed like three years in the cell," she says.

Assam NRC Row updates: Police prohibits TMC delegation, leaders from entering Guwahati until further notice

The Guwahati Police Commissioner has issued an order prohibiting TMC delegation, party leaders and any other person who can make an inflammatory speech against NRC from entering Guwahati.

Claim that updating NRC mandated by Assam Accord false: In this circus, poor and marginalised are being fed to lions

The Accord document, available online, does not even have the phrase “National Register of Citizens” (NRC) or any oblique reference to it. It mentions deletion of foreigners’ name from the electoral rolls

NRC draft key updates: TMC team heads to Silchar to take 'stock of situation'; Assam displeased with Mamata's intrusion

Trinamool Congress would send a six-member TMC team of party MPs to Bengali-dominated Silchar in south Assam's Barak Valley to take stock of situation since NRC's final draft was released on Monday.

Assam NRC: Tripura Congress claims Centre and Assam govt involved in 'pre-planned conspiracy' to exclude 40 lakh people

"Genuine citizens with valid documents have been excluded only to drive them out of Assam. It's a pre-planned conspiracy of the Centre and Assam government. Those whose names do not figure in the draft NRC are mostly Bengali Muslims, Bengali Hindus and Manipuris," Tripura Pradesh Congress chief Birajit Sinha said

Assam NRC: Amnesty International asks authorities to ensure transparent process of documenting, updating names

The potential exclusion of over 4 million people in Assam, many of them Muslims, from the draft NRC raised concerns over arbitrary detention and possible statelessness without due process, the global human rights body said.

EXCLUSIVE: While Assam counts its citizens, 52 Bangladeshis with 'travel permits' deported from state

A total of 52 Bangladeshi nationals have been deported from Assam with "travel permits" issued for the first time by the neighbouring country.

Assam NRC process might render people stateless, deprive Indian residents of their nationality, says Amnesty International

The National Register of Citizens (NRC), a list of Assam citizens, was published on Monday with the names of about 40 lakh people not being included in it.