The apex court also said that the ongoing NRC exercise cannot be ordered to be reopened on the basis of certain legal challenges raised before itRead more at
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The Centre and the Assam government sought permission for sample re-verification to find out wrongful inclusions and exclusions of persons in NRCRead more at
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When the draft NRC was published on July 30 last year, there was a huge controversy over the exclusion of 4 million people from itRead more at < ...
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The exercise will be completed within 60 days and provisional lists will be published on September 11. A final list will be prepared by December 10. ...
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The Assam police has arrested two National Register of Citizens (NRC) officials on charges of accepting bribe to include names in the NRC draft. ...
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Former Indian Army officer and Kargil war veteran Mohammad Sanaullah, who was arrested after a foreigners’ tribunal of Assam declared him foreigner, has been released from a detention centre in Guwahati. After release, he said it was like Eid for him.
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Congress MP from Assam’s Koliabor Gaurav Gogoi said the Bharatiya Janata Party is using the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill as a political weapon. Gogoi, who is the son of former chief minister Tarun Gogoi, said his party will continue to oppose it.
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The Supreme Court said that foreigners who cannot be deported to their parent country should not be held in detention centres in Assam forever. The court also questioned the Assam government proposal to immediately start 1,000 foreigners’ tribunals all over the state.
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