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Assam denies Aadhaar to those over 18 to stop illegal immigrants
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday, June 13, said his cabinet has decided that Aadhaar cards would not be issued to those aged over 18 years to ensure illegal…
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IAF aircraft bursts into flames at air base in Assam, five killed
Guwahati: At least five IAF personnel were killed after an AN-32 transport aircraft met with an accident while landing at the Jorhat airbase in Assam and burst into flames on Saturday, June…
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Assam: Student detained for bringing beef in tiffin, mother held
Goalpara: A Muslim minor who allegedly brought beef in his lunch box was detained, and his mother was arrested on charges of acts intended to outrage religious beliefs in Assam’s Goalpara district.…
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New yellow-throated marten found in Assam’s Kaziranga
Guwahati: A new species of marten has been found in Kaziranga National Park in Assam, the government said on Tuesday, June 2. In a social media post, the Chief Minister’s Office said…
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India’s vultures are coming back, one tiger reserve at a time
Mumbai: Two decades after toxic veterinary drugs cleared India’s skies of its ultimate scavengers, vultures are making a comeback with more than 700 birds bred in captivity and phased wild-release programmes turning…
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61 hate crimes in April: A month of bulldozers, boycotts and deleted voters
Hyderabad: Siasat.com recorded 61 hate crimes across India in April – 49 targeting Muslims, 10 against Dalits and two against Christians. The numbers are consistent with the steady religious and caste-motivated violence that has…
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Video: Mysuru woman calls Assam migrant workers ‘illegal Bangladeshis’
Mysuru: A video from Mysuru, Karnataka, has surfaced on social media platforms where a woman is allegedly branding migrant workers from Assam as ‘illegal Bangladeshis,’ much to their anger. The woman, identified…
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Delhi court seeks Assam CM’s response on plea claiming anti-Muslim hate speech
New Delhi: A Delhi court sought responses from Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and the Delhi Police over activist Harsh Mander’s revision petition that sought a first information report (FIR) against…
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Assam becomes first northeastern state, 3rd in country, to pass Uniform Civil Code
Assam: The Assam Assembly, on Wednesday, May 27, passed the contentious Uniform Civil Code (UCC), making it the first northeastern state and the third Indian state, after Uttarakhand and Gujarat, to implement…
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Let there be clarity: When a Muslim member backed cow slaughter ban in 1948
New Delhi: Amid calls from sections of the Muslim community that cow should be declared a national animal, a look at the Constituent Assembly debates shows that two Muslim members had sought…
- India
Congress first sought UCC, it represents only one community now: Assam CM
Guwahati: Claiming that the Congress was the first to advocate a Uniform Civil Code way back in 1925, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, on Wednesday, May 27, alleged that the opposition…
- Hyderabad
Asaduddin Owaisi calls Assam UCC Bill ‘backdoor imposition of Hindu law on Muslims’
Hyderabad: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Chief Asaduddin Owaisi made strong comments on the tabling of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill in the Assam Assembly, calling it “a backdoor imposition of Hindu…
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Assam: UCC bill introduced in Assembly to ban polygamy, register live-in relationships
The Assam government on Monday tabled a Bill on the Uniform Civil Code, seeking to ban polygamy and make registration of live-in relationships compulsory. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Atul Bora tabled ‘The Uniform…
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Two Muslim men lynched over cow theft suspicion in Assam’s Sonitpur
Assam: Two Muslim men were allegedly lynched, while a third person received grievous injuries after they were attacked by a mob on suspicion of cow theft in Assam’s Sonitpur district. The attack…
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Muslim woman frisked, called Bangladeshi on Assam train
A Muslim woman was publicly harassed, frisked, and subjected to verbal abuse aboard a train travelling from Silchar in Assam, a video of which has gone viral on social media, drawing widespread…