The Election Commission aligns its Special Intensive Revision with the 2003 Citizenship Act. This act requires specific ...

Ahead of the 2026 assembly election, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma invokes an old law and pushes an ...

Guwahati, October 17: Opposition parties in Assam, ... (AJP), have welcomed the Supreme Court's verdict on Thursday, which upheld the validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act.

The recent ruling by the Supreme Court concerning Section 6A of the Citizenship Act has sent ripples through both Assam and the broader context of citizenship in India. Delivered in 17th October ...

The forced transfer of Bengali Muslims into Bangladesh marks a sharp escalation in Assam’s decades-long campaign of ...

Section 6A of the Citizenship Act was introduced in 1985 to allow Bangladeshi refugees who entered India between 1966-1971 to register as Indian citizens, the Supreme Court said ...

Assam Accord hearing Highlights: A Constitution Bench headed by CJI D.Y. Chandrachud is scheduled to pronounce judgment today on the constitutionality of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955.

Congress MP Rakibul Hussain on Wednesday alleged that Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is "deliberately ...

Of the 39 applicants under the Citizenship Amendment Act in Assam, two have been granted Indian citizenship so far, the state’s Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary told the ...

As per Assam Accord, those who had come after March 25, 1971, are bound to be deported from India. As a result, the Section 6A fixes March 25, 1971, as the cut-off date for granting citizenship to ...

The final NRC, a list of Indian citizens residing in Assam, was released in 2019 by excluding 19,06,657 people. However, it has not been notified by the Registrar General of India, leaving the ...

The Assam Anuchuchita Jati Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP), a prominent student organization, also welcomed the Supreme Court's verdict upholding Section 6A of the Citizenship Act.