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Dec 10, 2020
Assam NRC list of August 2019 not final, state coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma tells Gauhati High Court
In an affidavit, Sarma said that over 10,000 names were either wrongly included or excluded in the list, adding that necessary orders have been issued to delete nearly 4,800 'ineligible persons' from the document -
Oct 14, 2020
Around 10,000 'ineligible names' to be deleted from final NRC in Assam, say reports
NRC coordinator Sarma said he cannot comment on the total number of “erroneous inclusions", however, sources told PTI that around 10,000 people have been identified whose names were "wrongly included" -
Sep 10, 2020
Bengal politicians slam Rhea Chakraborty's arrest, accuse BJP of using her to score brownie points in Bihar polls
The TMC claimed the Rhea Chakraborty episode has once again brought into the open the BJP's 'inherent dislike' for Bengalis -
Mar 18, 2020
Ranjan Gogoi’s nomination to Rajya Sabha will fuel debate around CAA, NRC; ex-CJI likely to counter Opposition Assamese candidate AJit Kumar Bhuyan
The nomination of former CJI Ranjan Gogoi to Rajya Sabha is likely to fuel the political narrative the BJP is trying to weave around citizenship and NRC in India -
Mar 17, 2020
Six detention centres in Assam with capacity of 3,331 persons, 10 inmates died since March 2019, MHA informs Lok Sabha
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha about six detention centres in Assam with a capacity of 3,331 persons -
Mar 02, 2020
Rejection slip for 19 lakh excluded from final NRC list likely from 20 March, says Assam govt
The Rejection Slip will mention the reasons for excluding a person's name from the final NRC. -
Feb 13, 2020
FIR filed against ex-NRC official for not divulging key passwords after quitting; move comes after disappearance of data from official website spurs panic
A day after Assam National Register of Citizen's data vanished from its official website, the state NRC coordinator's office has registered an FIR against a former employee -
Feb 12, 2020
Assam NRC data safe despite technical issues on cloud, says home ministry; clarifies glitches will be resolved soon
The Centre on Wednesday said the NRC data in Assam is safe even though some technical issues were visible and that will be resolved soon -
Feb 10, 2020
Assam likely to conduct survey to segregate state’s indigenous Muslims from those of Bangladeshi origin, aims to begin exercise next fiscal
Assam is likely to conduct an exercise to identify the state's indigenous Muslim population and segregate them from illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, even as doubts over the accuracy of the NRC are yet to be addressed -
Jan 16, 2020
What it means to be queer under a regime bent on remaking India on its own ideological terms
Recently one of my pictures was trolled by right-wing people on social media. These responses display that their frameworks to look at the world is disrupted by a visibly queer body. An important lens to look at the world for them is through marriage, which becomes the foundational principle of assigning gendered personhood. The comments were brutally transphobic and queerphobic. Throughout, one thread of reference remained the same, 'Who will marry this and how?'
