Death is a great leveller and so is coronavirus, it appears, dissolving stringent social barriers. In Dhubri district of Assam, about 25 members of the Muslim community, led by the local unit of the All Assam Minority Students Union (AAMSU), […]
‘They are defined as illegal immigrants, shall remain liable for deportation’ A New Delhi-based rights group has said that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 has made about 6,00,000 refugees in India forever stateless and vulnerable to refoulement. The CAA prescribes […]
The Global Gender Gap Report estimates that raising women’s participation in the labour force can increase India’s GDP significantly. Guwahati: Women workforce in the country fell to 18 per cent in 2019 from 37 per cent in 2006, non-government organisation […]
GUWAHATI: Unidentified arsonists entered a mosque in Assam’s Baksa district late on Sunday and allegedly set fire to religious books, triggering an agitation in the area amid appeals for restraint from the administration. The incident at Kalpani Jame Masjid in […]
More often than not, political developments in Assam have an instant ripple effect on neighbouring West Bengal. With the unsettling effect of the Assam NRC updating exercise on Bengal and other states still continuing, another administrative decision announced in Guwahati […]
As doubts loom over the accuracy of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), the Assam government is planning to conduct a survey to identify the indigenous Muslim population of the state in order to segregate them from illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. […]
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 National Register of Citizens (NRC) are yet to be addressed. Guwahati: […]
While referring to the new Land Policy 2019, Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in a press conference in December last year declared, ‘After we bring the law, an indigenous person can sell his/her land to an indigenous person only, […]
Activists of the All Assam Students Union (AASU) along with members of various organizations take out a torchl. GUWAHATI: The Centre’s decision to notify CAA on Friday night has added fuel to fire with anti-CAA protesters intensifying their movement against […]
The All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) too has warned Modi of facing massive protests if he visits Assam; reportedly his trip has been cancelled; Anti-CAA slogans were also raised during the India-Sri Lanka T20 match in Guwahati on Sunday Amid […]
