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The process of NRC Update was started in the state of Assam as per order of the Supreme Court of India in 2013. Since then, the Apex Court has been closely monitoring the entire process. The process of NRC update in Assam differs from the rest of the country and is governed by Rule 4A and the corresponding Schedule of the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003. These rules have been framed as per the cut-off date of 24 th March (Midnight), 1971 decided as per Assam Accord. The process of receipt of NRC Application Forms started during the end of May 2015 and ended on 31 st August 2015. A total of 3,30,27,661 members applied through 68,37,...

This is an invitation for papers. Concept Note of the Seminar Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Processes in Northeast India Organiser: North Eastern Social Research centre, Guwahati 15th – 16th November 2019 Venue: Seminar Hall, Jagriti 3rd floor Religion occupies an important place in the life of human communities as a powerful constituent of cultural norms and values. Because it addresses profound existential issues of human life, it is deeply implicated in individual and social conceptions of peace. However, during the last few decades in India as a whole the main religions, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and Islam have been playing an even more important role than in...

‘Dignified way for return of Kashmiri Pandits obligatory’ Guwahati: The return of Kashmiri Pandits to Kashmir valley must be addressed in terms of historical aspect than a cosmetic contemporary understanding. This community has suffered a genocide for last 700 years and has been eventually reduced from cent percent presence in the valley to hardly three percent now, commented a senior journalist of Jammu & Kashmir. Tito Ganju, editor-in-chief of Epilogue, an English newsmagazine published from Jammu, while interacting with Guwahati Press Club member-scribes through the video-conference facility on 23 August 2019, also added that safety, dignity and opportunity should for the cardinal...

JFA demands stringent punishment Guwahati : Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expressed shock at the murder of journalist Ashish Dhiman along with his brother at Madhonagar locality of Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh on morning hours of Sunday (18 August 2019). Local media reports suggest that both Ashish (26) and his younger brother Ashutosh were shot dead by assailants in their residence. Neighbours took the injured brothers to a nearby hospital, but attending doctors declared them brought dead. Ashish used to work as a photo-journalist for Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagaran and left behind his pregnant wife and ailing mother. “We urge UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath to investigate the...