NRC Assam

A Supreme Court bench asked the Assam Legal Services Authority to visit the detention centre to establish sub-par facilities and assess the quantity and quality of food and kitchen hygiene

The Assam NRC is meant to identify illegal immigrants in the State who migrated from Bangladesh after March 25, 1971

Former NRC State Coordinator of Assam Hitesh Dev Sarma claimed that a large number of illegal foreign citizens' names were included in the last list of NRC which was published on August 31, 2019

The hearing of these cases will start from August 29, two days after Justice UU Lalit will take over as the Chief Justice of India

The National Register of Citizens published on August 31, 2019 is the "Final NRC", ruled a Foreigners' Tribunal (FT) in Assam, even as the Registrar General of India is yet to notify it.

The ruling BJP on Thursday said status quo about their voting rights has to be maintained while the Congress and the AIUDF welcomed the decision

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The complaint against Hajela was lodged by an NGO, Assam Public Works, the original petitioner to the Supreme Court about the NRC updation

"The NRC data is safe. Some technical issues are in visibility on cloud. These are being resolved soon," a home ministry spokesperson said

Speaking to reporters in Kolkata, Chidambaram said that NPR is "nothing but NRC in disguise".

The minister was speaking during the debate on the governor's address in the one-day special session of Assam Assembly

Replying to the debate on Governor's Speech during the one-day special session of the Assam Assembly on Monday, Sonowal also said people need not fear the Citizenship (Amendment) Act

The illegal infiltrators will be dealt with as per law, she asserted

The Congress leader said he had warned the people of Assam before the Assembly elections in 2016 that hard earned peace would be hampered if the BJP came to power

More than 1.9 million people, a sizeable number of them Hindus, were excluded from the final NRC list that was published on August 31

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Congress has kickstarted an 800-km 'padyatra' from Sadiya in eastern Assam to Dhubri in the western end of the state, reached Demow in Sivasagar district with thousands of participants

However, the mood was sombre in Assam where intense anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests were witnessed in run-up to the festival during which at least five people were killed

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