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Bengal politicians slam Rhea Chakraborty's arrest, accuse BJP of using her to score brownie points in Bihar polls
•The TMC claimed the Rhea Chakraborty episode has once again brought into the open the BJP's 'inherent dislike' for Bengalis
Ranjan Gogoi’s nomination to Rajya Sabha will fuel debate around CAA, NRC; ex-CJI likely to counter Opposition Assamese candidate AJit Kumar Bhuyan
Kangkan Acharyya •The nomination of former CJI Ranjan Gogoi to Rajya Sabha is likely to fuel the political narrative the BJP is trying to weave around citizenship and NRC in India
Six detention centres in Assam with capacity of 3,331 persons, 10 inmates died since March 2019, MHA informs Lok Sabha
•The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha about six detention centres in Assam with a capacity of 3,331 persons
Rejection slip for 19 lakh excluded from final NRC list likely from 20 March, says Assam govt
•The Rejection Slip will mention the reasons for excluding a person's name from the final NRC.
FIR filed against ex-NRC official for not divulging key passwords after quitting; move comes after disappearance of data from official website spurs panic
Fp Staff •A day after Assam National Register of Citizen's data vanished from its official website, the state NRC coordinator's office has registered an FIR against a former employee
Assam NRC data safe despite technical issues on cloud, says home ministry; clarifies glitches will be resolved soon
•The Centre on Wednesday said the NRC data in Assam is safe even though some technical issues were visible and that will be resolved soon
Assam likely to conduct survey to segregate state’s indigenous Muslims from those of Bangladeshi origin, aims to begin exercise next fiscal
•Assam is likely to conduct an exercise to identify the state's indigenous Muslim population and segregate them from illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, even as doubts over the accuracy of the NRC are yet to be addressed
What it means to be queer under a regime bent on remaking India on its own ideological terms
Kaushal Bodwal •Recently one of my pictures was trolled by right-wing people on social media. These responses display that their frameworks to look at the world is disrupted by a visibly queer body. An important lens to look at the world for them is through marriage, which becomes the foundational principle of assigning gendered personhood. The comments were brutally transphobic and queerphobic. Throughout, one thread of reference remained the same, 'Who will marry this and how?'
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram calls National Register of Citizens a 'mischievous plan' to divide India
•Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday dubbed the National Register of Citizens a sinister and mischievous plan to divide the country
No need of fresh NRC in Assam if Supreme Court allows 20% re-verification in border districts, says Himanta Biswa Sarma
•The state government does not accept the existing National Register of Citizens (NRC), the final version of which was published on 31 August with over 19 lakh exclusions, Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told a press conference.