The Centre will allow residents to fill columns in the National Population Register (NPR) forms on their own through online mode, a month before door-to-door enumeration by Census officials starts. After filling the form online, residents will get a reference code that they could mention to the field enumerator at the time of her/his visit, according to a senior government official.
The group of 23 letter writers (G-23), who had written to party chief Sonia Gandhi last August asking for reforms, were not dissenters but protectors of the Congress legacy, senior Congress leader and a key member of G-23, Kapil Sibal, said on Sunday.
Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla. File
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The meeting came almost a month after a large number of people protested outside the Indian High Commission in London in support of farmers in India who are opposing the three farm laws
The Union Home Secretary held a meeting in January with his U.K. counterpart to “discuss anti-India activities of U.K-based pro-Khalistani extremist organisations” and the safety of the Indian High Commission in London, a senior government official said.
Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla held a video conference on January 15 with Matthew John Rycroft, Permanent Secretary, Home Office of the U.K., where issues of mutual interest were discussed.