After a year and a half in a detention center as ‘illegal aliens’, the New Year has brought freedom and citizenship to Mohammad Nur Hussain, 34, his wife Sahera Begum, 26, and their two minor children, who Indigenous people have been declared in a new trial by an Alien Court …
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Written by Tora Agarwala | Guwahati | Updated: December 15, 2020 7:32:12 am Das and his wife last week. Biswa Kalyan Purkayastha About six months ago, Nyuti Das remembers his father Chandrahar Das bent over his brother’s phone, his one good eye, and the rest of him completely engrossed in …
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Written by Abhishek Saha | Guwahati | Updated: November 6, 2020 10:47:02 am Assam’s Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma. Ahead of the elections in Assam early next year, Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told the media on Thursday that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) released in August last year is “fundamentally …
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The final NRC, released on August 31 last year, excluded 19 lakh people (file) Guwahati: Assam NRC authorities have ordered district officials to remove the names of “ineligible” individuals from the “final” list that was released in August last year. The names to be removed are in the thousands, said …
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