Tag: NRC

The Union government’s decision to advance the Population Enumeration phase of Census 2027 in four poll-bound States, coupled with the introduction of several new questions in the Census schedule, has prompted some former Census officials to raise concerns regarding the quality of data that is to be collected and ...

One common trait in lawless nations is the high levels of anxiety against arbitrariness. Medieval texts tell us this has always been the case in our parts. Cruelty is couched as process and millions put through torture. Special Intensive Revision forms are being handed out across India. It is ...

It had been a long day at work for Sumana, but she still decided to visit her booth-level officer’s home in a South Kolkata neighbourhood that December evening. The officer had not been answering her phone calls, making the 45-year-old restless.She was worried because the Election Commission had categorised ...

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha on Sunday passed a 50-point resolution, which included a demand that the Citizenship Amendment Act, Uniform Civil Code and National Register of Citizens be rejected in the state, PTI reported.“The Citizenship Amendment Act, Uniform Civil Code and National Register of Citizens should be completely rejected ...

The validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act will collide with Section 6B of the controversial CAA Published Date - 4 November 2024, 11:59 PM By Geetartha Pathak The Supreme Court on October 17 in its landmark judgement upheld the constitutionality of Section 6A ...

The Assam government on Saturday directed its border police to “launch sustained efforts to locate and apprehend persons who have absconded after being declared foreigners by the foreigners tribunals”.Earlier this week, 28 persons, including nine women, from Barpeta district were shifted to a transit camp in Goalpara after they ...

Fleeing religious persecution and violence, Niranjan Baishnab’s family crossed over from East Pakistan to India in the 1960s. They made their home in Malinibeel, a wetland near Silchar, a city in southern Assam’s Barak Valley.Once a natural reservoir, Malinibeel is now home to large numbers of Hindu migrants who ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with BJP president J P Nadda during the BJP’s Sankalp Patra Launch event at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on April 14, 2024. | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy The BJP has dropped compilation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) from its manifesto that ...

The indigenous people of Assam can “never accept” the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which will be a critical issue in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, asserted Dibrugarh Parliamentary constituency's Opposition candidate Lurinjyoti Gogoi, also the president of Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP).“The illegal influx of foreigners has been a long-standing ...

Union Minister and Matua leader Shantanu Thakur believes that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will safeguard those belonging to the community by granting them "legal citizenship", thus preventing them from being labelled as foreigners in the event of "a potential National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise in the next ...