Assam is a state in northeastern India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of 78,438 km2 (30,285 sq mi). The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur to the east; Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and Bangladesh to the south; and West Bengal to the west via the Siliguri Corridor, a 22 kilometres (14 mi) strip of land that connects the state to the rest of India.
Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar said that like Assam, the National Register of Citizens (NRC) would also be implemented in the state. He said that the Haryana government is working at a fast pace on its.. IndiaTimes - Published
Millions of Bangladeshi refugees, both Muslim and Hindu, arrived in India following the country's 1971 war for independence. The mass influx of refugees into Assam has sparked violent anti-immigrant..
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Speaking to media persons on Saturday, Deputy Commissioner of Police of Ahmedabad Zone-5, Akshayraj Makwana stated, "The labourers were brought from Nagaland and Assam. They were neither being paid nor.. DNA - Published
The abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370, publication of NRC in Assam and declaration of India's four most-wanted individuals as terrorists were cited as the Ministry of.. IndiaTimes - Published
"We will never allow NRC in Bengal. We will not allow them to divide the people on religious and caste lines. We will not accept NRC in Assam. They have silenced the people of Assam by using police.. IndiaTimes - Published
Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh on Monday said the state government is in favour of implementation of NRC and will approach the Centre for it in line with the one in Assam. The state has already.. IndiaTimes - Published
Assam: A woman gave birth on her way to a state Dispensary on a make-shift stretcher made using cot, plastic sheet and cloth, in Udalguri village of Chirang. Two people had to carry the woman on the.. DNA - Published
Terming the just-completed exercise of updating Assam's NRC "a phase" in a larger process, home minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the Centre wouldn't allow a single "ghuspetiya" (infiltrator) to live.. IndiaTimes - Published Also reported by •DNA
Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday said no "illegal migrant" will be allowed to stay in the country and that the NRC exercise in Assam was completed in "time-bound manner". I want to clearly say.. IndiaTimes - Published
The country's biggest detention centre to house foreign convicts and people declared "foreigners" by tribunals, coming up in Assam's Goalpara district, will be operational early next year. Sanctioned.. IndiaTimes - Published
The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act has been extended for six months in Assam effective from August 28 after reviewing the law and order situation in the state, a government release said here on.. IndiaTimes - Published
Those left out of the final National Register of Citizens may get an extended period of time to approach a tribunal to prove their Indian citizenship, officials said. According to Centre's new.. IndiaTimes - Published
The letter comes in the backdrop of protests by the medical fraternity in Assam against the deadly assault on a doctor at a tea garden. Stating that it was not possible to provide quality treatment to.. IndiaTimes - Published
Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma suggested a three-pronged strategy, including a fresh round of enumeration of citizens in the state when the national register is prepared, to rectify "anomalies" in.. IndiaTimes - Published
The Assam government will provide legal aid to the needy people from amongst those who have been excluded from the final list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), according to the ministry of.. IndiaTimes - Published Also reported by •DNA
"If 100% reverification of the NRC is not done, ABVP will soon launch massive agitations across the state," ABVP state secretary Rakesh Das said. IndiaTimes - Published
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Assam on September 8 to hold a meeting with the governor and chief minister and discuss the issue in detail. DNA - Published
India is bracing itself for an imminent attack by Islamabad over Assam's National Register of Citizens. India expects Pakistan to use the exclusion of 19 lakh Assam residents from the NRC as fodder for.. IndiaTimes - Published
Union home minister Amit Shah will visit Assam next week to attend a meeting of the North Eastern Council and is likely to review the situation in the state in the wake of publication of the final NRC,.. IndiaTimes - Published
Differences seem to have cropped up in the Congress' Assam unit over the NRC, with former chief minister Tarun Gogoi describing it a "waste paper" and a Lok Sabha MP terming it a "historic scientific.. IndiaTimes - Published
Trinamool Congress leadership has decided to hold mass protests across West Bengal from this week opposing NRC in neighbouring Assam, party sources said. On September 12 a protest rally will be.. IndiaTimes - Published
Dr Dutta was allegedly beaten to death by a tea garden worker's family along with some others after the worker died during treatment at a hospital in Teok Tea Garden. DNA - Published
"Exclusion from the NRC has no implication on the rights of an individual resident in Assam. For those who are not in the final list will not be detained and will continue to enjoy all the rights as.. DNA - Published
Publication of the final NRC has left BJP a prisoner of its own rhetoric.The party pushed for an NRC-like exercise across the country, but increasingly distanced itself from the process in Assam. IndiaTimes - Published
The publication of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam on Saturday has led to renewed demand for a similar exercise in at least three northeastern states — Christian-majority Meghalaya.. IndiaTimes - Published
Assam’s NRC updation process rejected the citizenship claims of a little over 19 lakh people out of the total 40.7 lakh who had not found a place in last year’s draft NRC. The low percentage of.. IndiaTimes - Published
"National Register of Citizens NRC finally published. Compliments to the official team. Details like the list of the 19 lac names excluded etc are still awaited. Sonowal Govt in Assam is taking all.. DNA - Published
Undeterred by his name missing from the final list of the NRC, Sanaullah said, "I was not expecting my name to be in the list as my case is still pending in the high court, I have full faith in the.. IndiaTimes - Published
Assam parliamentary affairs minister Chandra Mohan Patowary, has said that the government will provide legal support to the Indian citizens not finding a place in the NRC list. He added that people who.. IndiaTimes - Published
Soon after the list came out, people of Barpeta, completely uncertain about their citizenship, started gathering at NRC Sewa Kendra (NSK). DNA - Published
Nearly 2 million people have been left off a list of citizens released on Saturday in India's northeastern state of Assam, after a mammoth years-long exercise to check illegal immigration that critics.. Reuters - Published
Sources indicated that the EC would wait and watch as to how they are dealt with as far as access to other government services or benefits are concerned. As per the current procedure, any voter whose.. IndiaTimes - Published
As Assam waited with bated breath for the publication of its "final" NRC on Saturday, the state govt on Friday portrayed the exercise of updating the citizenship rolls as a job half done and said it.. IndiaTimes - Published
Ahead of the publication of the final list of the government's National Register of Citizens (NRC) on Saturday, several districts of Assam have been declared 'sensitive' and security has been beefed up.. IndiaTimes - Published
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