The flood situation in Assam and Meghalaya has worsened on Tuesday. Apart from huge loss to life and property, many wild animals, including the Indian rhino, perished in the deluge.
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President Ram Nath Kovind, on Friday, signed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 into law after both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha passed the bill, earlier this week, amending the existing Citizenship Act of India.
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The Assam government has decided to offer window of 10 months for those who excluded from the final NCR to prove their Indian identity before they are sent to the detention centres. The Supreme Court has set August 31 as the deadline for Assam to release the final list of the NRC.
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Assam’s chief minister, Sarbananda Sonowal, has confirmed that the final National Register of Citizens will be published on August 31, and also indicated that the government could later enact legislation on the enumeration process.
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The number of casualtie in flood affected Assam and Bihar regions have risen to 166, on Sunday. Sixty-four deaths in Assam and 102 in Bihar have been reported since Saturday. Many wild animals have also perished in Assam, including 12 Indian rhinos.
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The Centre, while emphasizing the need for a large-scale re-verification exercise before the final National Citizens Register, asked the Supreme Court to extend the July 31 deadline for the Assam list. It said that it needed to tweak the process for inclusion of names in the list.
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A witchdoctor, accused of raping two village women, was beaten to death by a mob in Sitoi Adong village in Assam’s West Karbi Anglong district. A woman has claimed that the victim, Hussain Ali, 45, raped her and her minor relative on the pretext of conducting a puja.
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The National Health Mission said 45 people have died until July 3 since the outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in Assam. The affected areas include the upper Assam districts of Jorhat, Golaghat, Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur and lower Assam district of Kamrup.
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The ministry of home affairs laid out specific guidelines to detect, detain and deport foreign nationals staying illegally across India, with Assam’s National Register of Citizens as the backdrop.
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A day after Subedar Mohammad Sanaullah (retired) was declared a “foreigner” by an Assam foreigners’ tribunal, the Supreme Court ordered the National Register of Citizens coordinator to ensure a fair hearing of those who were left out without any shortcuts.
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