TMC MP Derek O’Brien, with party leader Sagarika Ghos,e addresses a press conference, in New Delhi, on June 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’Brien on Saturday (June 28, 2025) said that the special intensive revision of the electoral roll announced by the Election Commission is a “sinister move to bring … Read more
Lawyer Aman Wadud wants to be the voice of his people and change the narrative. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement When the first list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was released in Assam in 2018, it excluded 4 million residents. They had to reapply to be included and submit their biometrics. That day, … Read more
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. | Photo Credit: PTI Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on March 12 said that he will be the first to resign if one person, who has not applied for National Register of Citizens (NRC), gets citizenship. His comment comes after protests erupted across Assam with Opposition parties flaying … Read more
“The way I see it is that growth has been steady. Some segments you are beginning to see some small slowdown in the home loan segment and this is more geographical than as a secular trend,” says Shanti Ekambaram, Kotak Mahindra Bank.We have seen that in the banking space as well there has been a … Read more
Assam’s Panchayat, Rural Development Departments Minister Ranjeet Kumar Dass said that a cabinet subcommittee has been formed to look into the problem of 19 lakh people, whose names were not included in the supplementary list National Register of Citizens (NRC), published in August, 2019. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma himself recently raised the issue in … Read more
The Registrar General of India (RGI) has turned down a request of the Assam government to continue financial support for completing pending work of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) beyond March 31 this year. Taking strong exception to the “inordinate delay” in completion of the entire exercise, the office of the RGI in a … Read more
Guwahati: As Assam gears up for the assembly polls, the ruling BJP is harping on a three-pronged strategy to retain its Eastern bastion –– creating a distinction among the Muslim population by asking only those from Assam to vote for them while disowning Muslims from Bangladesh; leveraging the political dividends from PM Modi, Shah and … Read more
New Delhi: Bilkis Bano, the 82-year-old who earned the moniker “Dadi of Shaheen Bagh” during the long protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the national capital has now been named among the 100-most influential global personalities by Time magazine. “I am very happy that I was honoured in this manner. Although I did … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said that it would lay down the law to balance a citizen’s right to protest with another’s right to free movement. Dealing with a petition filed against the Shaheen Bagh protests, the bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Aniruddha Bose and Krishna Murari said that the right to protest … Read more