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Giriraj Singh vows deportation of illegal Bangladeshi migrants from Bihar
New Delhi: Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Monday made strong remarks on illegal immigration, asserting that if the NDA forms the next government in Bihar, all Bangladeshi infiltrators who arrived after 1971…
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SC halts Assam’s Golaghat eviction drive; relief for 2,000 families after HC refusal
The Supreme Court, on Friday, August 22, ordered status quo on the large-scale demolition and eviction drive in Assam’s Golaghat district. A bench Justices PS Narasimha and Atul S Chandurkar passed the…
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Nepali caught red handed raping cow in Assam; arrested
In an act of beastiality, a man was caught red-handed for allegedly raping a cow in a shed in in Chhaygaon village of Assam. Rameshwar Yadav from Nepal was employed as a…
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Adani says ‘No Connection’, amid HC frustration over 3,000 bigha allotment
Guwahati: The Gauhati High Court has slammed the Assam government for allotting 3,000 bighas of land to a private cement factory in the state’s tribal-majority Dima Hasao district, and observed whether this…
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Assam: Second phase of eviction at Rengma forest begins
Golaghat: The Assam government on Monday started the second phase of eviction inside Rangma reserve forest in Golaghat district to remove encroachments from around 26 hectares of land, displacing 41 families, an…
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SC shields The Wire from arrest in Assam FIR under new BNS law
In a relief to the online news organisation, The Wire, the Supreme Court granted interim protection to its editor-in-chief and veteran journalist Siddharth Varadarajan against “any coercive action” in connection with an…
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Eviction drive clears 133 hectares of forest land from encroachment in Assam
Golaghat: The Assam government on Sunday carried out an eviction drive to clear alleged encroachment from nearly 1,000 bighas (over 133 hectares) of forest land, displacing more than 350 families, in Golaghat…
- India
Concerning rise of hate, large-scale evictions against minorities in Assam
India Hate Lab recently released a report under its Early Warning, Early Response (EWER) initiative, highlighting a worrying rise in hate speech, harassment, violence and forced evictions targeting Bengali-origin Muslims who are being…
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Two killed during Assam’s biggest eviction drive in Goalpara
Two Muslims were killed and several were injured in Assam’s Goalpara district after police opened fire during clashes with locals at the Paikan Reserve Forest on Wednesday, July 17. The deceased have…
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Assam man celebrates divorce by bathing in 40 litres of milk
Different people have different ways of celebrating after cutting off a toxic former partners from their lives. This man in Assam did it with a 40-litre milk bath. Manik Ali is going…
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Pork wrapped in polythene thrown inside mosque in Assam
Communal tensions were witnessed in Assam’s Guwahati when a man threw a piece of pork at the premises of the Eidgah mosque late Sunday night. The act was caught on CCTV showing…
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Assam will deport ‘foreigners’ even if their names feature in NRC: Himanta
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said that the state government’s current policy is to push back foreigners even if their names are found in the National Register of Citizens…
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Assam to speed up deportation of illegal immigrants by using 1950 law: CM Sarma
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday asserted that the government would speed up the process of deporting illegal immigrants from the state to safeguard the indigenous community. While speaking…
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Photos: Assam flood remains critical with 2.6 lakh still affected
Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam remained critical with around 2.6 lakh people in six districts still suffering from the deluge on Monday, even as the water levels continued to recede in…
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Photos: Flood situation improves in Manipur
Imphal: The flood situation in Manipur improved significantly on Thursday with water receding from major rivers as the intensity of the rain decreased, officials said. The Assam Rifles and Army continued rescue…
