The final list of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam was published on Saturday excluding over 19 lakh people. Over 3 crore people have been found eligible for the inclusion in the final NRC, Prateek Hajela, the State Coordinator of the NRC, said in an official statement. “A total of 3,11,21,004 persons are found […]

The NRC authorities and the Assam Police have issued a joint statement urging the people to be careful and not fall prey to any rumours. The statement reiterated Centre’s recent statement that non-inclusion of a person in the final NRC would not amount to a person being declared a foreigner and that there is scope […]

The Supreme Court monitored mega citizens list updation exercise, that began in 2013, is set to include names of all Indian Citizens and thus help in the identification of illegal immigrants in Assam. Although, the entire exercise is a Supreme Court monitored one, many have been complaining that the exercise carried out by a set […]

The Naga Rising, a group formed recently to take up the Naga issue has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to appoint a group of Naga interlocutors for early resolution of the decades-long Naga peace talks and help avoid the risk of negotiations breaking down. The group, in its letter to the Prime […]

The Joint Action Committee formed to protest against alleged inaction over the death of a school girl in Manipur has threatened to call a 48-hour general strike if its demands are not met. The Committee has said that it will call the strike from 6 in the morning on 2nd September till 6 am of […]

A recently published report by the Assam Police has shed light on the fact that Assam tops the northeastern region in the number of road accidents that had occurred in the state last year. The report titled ‘An analytical glimpse on road accidents in Assam’ cited that a total of 2,966 people were killed and […]

A delegation of the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura, an ally of the ruling BJP in Tripura met Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda on Wednesday and placed a five point charter of demands, including their separate statehood demand of Tipraland. The IPFT team comprising of its top leaders met Arjun Munda and submitted a […]

The NRC authorities have issued a fresh public notice saying all those people whose names figure in the complete draft, or those whose names have not appeared in the additional exclusion list, besides those who have not been called for hearings from July 5, 2019 onwards have nothing to worry as their names will certainly […]

With an objective of providing an ecosystem for start-ups to offer guidance, mentoring, physical space and network for funding and value-based collaboration for incubation of novel ideas, an Incubation Centre was inaugurated on Wednesday at North Eastern Hill University in Shillong. The incubation centre was inaugurated by Union Minister of State for Social Justice and […]

The final NRC will be published before noon on August 31 with an estimated 70 thousand personnel engaged in the 15 hundred crore mega exercise giving finishing touches to the citizens list. The Assam Government on its part has gone out of its way to remove apprehensions among people by stating clearly in a notification […]