The New Indian Express 29 August 2019 The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam is being updated based on March 24, 1971 as the cut-off date. GUWAHATI: Assam had the lowest average decadal population growth rate of 20.90 per cent in the Northeast from 1971 to 2011, said a Rights body and Risks Analysis […]
1. Summary: BJP faces 100 “Silent Mutinies” As the final phase of the Lok Sabha elections set to take place tomorrow, 19 July 2019, intra-party conflict that can adversely affect the prospects of any party has seldom been discussed in any media. The focus of the coverage has been on the ruling Bharatiya Janata […]
The HinduGuwahati, August 31, 2019 A New Delhi-based rights group has termed the exclusion of 19,06,657 people from the Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) as the largest incident of making people “stateless” in decades. Sri Lanka’s 1948 declaration of about 9,75,000 descendants of Indian-origin Tamils as ‘non-nationals is the next largest purging move’, the Rights and Risk […]