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The final draft of Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) was published on July 30, 2018. The final list excluded the names of around 40 lakh people. Of the 3.29 crore people who had filled in their applications, only 2.89 crore found their names in the draft list. The issue was raised in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha during the monsoon session, with Opposition leaders protesting against the move. Those who figured in electoral rolls up to March 24, 1971, or who are descendants of such citizens, are eligible for inclusion in the updated NRC.
NRC NEWS
Happening today in Bengal: EC team arrives to review SIR roll out, ‘panic suicides’ to give fresh ammo to TMC
November 05, 2025 5:10 am
Till 5 pm on Tuesday, the state CEO said that 18 lakh SIR emuneration forms were distributed to voters by Booth-Level Officers (BLOs) in the state
Why Assam has been excluded from next round of SIR by Election Commission
October 27, 2025 9:29 pm
CEC Gyanesh Kumar says the state, which goes to the polls next year, has “separate citizenship provisions” and an SC-monitored citizenship identification process has not yet concluded; Congress alleges move "politically motivated."
Preparations for nationwide SIR in final stage: EC to decide rollout dates after key meet with state CEOs today
October 22, 2025 5:25 am
Commission holds second meeting with state CEOs in a month to review lessons from Bihar and plan nationwide intensive revision of electoral rolls
Repeated invocation of ‘ghuspaithiya’ is nothing but dog-whistling
September 18, 2025 4:16 pm
If infiltration has truly become a serious threat, then it is a clear admission that the BJP, after more than a decade at the helm, has failed to deliver on the national security it so loudly claims to champion
‘BJP crossing all limits, its states Haryana and Assam detaining, sending NRC notices to Bengal residents’: Mamata
July 23, 2025 2:12 am
Stating that over 30 crore people speak Bengali in the world, the CM said: “This illegal detention is an insult to our mother tongue"
Amid Bihar row, Assam wants NRC considered in EC’s voter roll revision
July 15, 2025 11:11 am
This comes even as Opposition parties have alleged that the Bihar SIR has become a de facto citizenship-verifying exercise – “NRC through the backdoor” – and that’s not within the purview of the poll panel.
M A Baby writes: CAA, NRC and now SIR — Government is following a path that leads to disenfranchisement, exclusion
July 10, 2025 5:42 pm
Those who lament that progressive values of secularism and socialism are foreign concepts are in fact using regressive foreign ideas and methods to carry forward their divisive communal agenda
Census opens the door for National Population Register update
June 08, 2025 7:12 am
While the NPR is likely to be updated during the house listing phase of the Census next year, government yet to take a call on NRC
‘Protecting Hindus abroad’, centenary plans on agenda of RSS annual meeting
March 15, 2025 10:39 pm
Sangh will not only condemn the “attacks on Hindus across the world” but is also likely to push for a mechanism to protect them, say insiders.
‘We can’t be from nowhere’: The 63 in Assam with ‘no addresses’
March 08, 2025 9:58 am
With the state telling the Supreme Court that the 63 inmates at the camp are Bangladeshis without an address, Bilal, who was declared an "illegal foreigner" says: "What address can I tell them… when I was born here, my grandparents were here?"
NRC PHOTOS
A week on, anti-CAA protests at Kolkata's 'Shaheen Bagh' continues to gather steam
January 15, 2020 5:26 pm
While at each of these places there were about 500 protesters,at Park Circus seven point crossing the protesters numbered around 2,000 at 3 pm,their strength only increased with time,said a senior traffic official,adding that traffic had to be rerouted at different places.
Protests rage across India against Citizenship Act; Yechury, Ramachandra Guha among scores detained
December 19, 2019 7:25 pm
As protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act continue, thousands defied the lockdown declared across Uttar Pradesh, parts of Karnataka as people hit streets across at least 10 states.
Assam witnesses violent anti-CAB protests, hundreds detained
December 13, 2019 7:04 am
Protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill intensified Wednesday in the northeastern states with the administration imposing a curfew in Guwahati till indefinite period.
Assam NRC final list out: Assam NRC website crashes, people queue up at Seva Kendras
August 31, 2019 12:46 pm
Assam’s final National Register of Citizens (NRC) was published Saturday. Of the 3.3 crore applicants, over 19 lakh were excluded from the final list.
NRC VIDEOS
What is the Assam NRC and what it means to be left out of it
June 22, 2020 6:20 pm
With 40 lakh people being left out of the Assam NRC, there is a huge debate on what their future is. Here's a look at what the Assam NRC is and how the government is addressing the controversies.
40 lakh people left out of Assam NRC: News in Numbers
June 22, 2020 6:20 pm
What does it mean for 40 lakh people to be left out of the Assam NRC? Let's put the number in perspective. Take a look in today's News in Numbers.
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