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Elephant electrocuted in Assam, third death in 30 days
Guwahati: A wild elephant was electrocuted in Assam’s Hojai district on Tuesday, taking the toll of electrocution deaths of jumbos in the state to three in a month, forest officials said. According…
- India
Journalists arrested for covering Tripura violence granted bail
Agartala: Two women journalists, who were arrested over their social media posts on the recent communal incidents in Tripura, were Monday ordered to be released on bail by a magistrate’s court. Samriddhi…
- Telangana
Bus driver decamps with Assam-bound passengers’ luggage in Telangana
Hyderabad: The driver and cleaner of a private bus made off with the luggage of 64 passengers who were on their way from Kerala to Assam and other places, police said on Saturday.…
- India
Assam: As Hindutva strengthens its grip, Muslims lose dignity
Hyderabad: More than a month ago, images of an inhumane eviction drive in Assam’s Darrang district shocked the world, and has received international criticism. However, nothing could deter the right-wing mobs in…
- India
Tripura HC seeks report on communal incidents, Assam alerts authorities
Agartala/Guwahati: The Tripura High Court on Friday directed the state government to file a detailed report by November 10 on the incidents, if any, involving the religious minorities while the Assam government has…
- India
Team India takes the knee in solidarity with ‘Black lives matter’
Hyderabad: Before the start of the 2021 T20 World Cup match against Pakistan in Dubai on Sunday night, the Indian cricket team showed their support for the Black Lives Matter movement by…
- Andhra Pradesh
Assam govt team touring Andhra to study education reforms
Amaravati: A team of Assam government officials are currently touring Andhra Pradesh to study the reforms introduced in the state’s education sector, which range from providing books and uniforms, mid-day meals, and…
- India
Assam: Woman trampled to death by wild elephant
Guwahati: A woman in Assam’s Golaghat district has been trampled to death by a wild elephant, officials said on Sunday. Forest department officials said that a wild elephant on Saturday attacked Jyoti Tanti,…
- India
Assam: Estranged wife of priest thwarts BJP campaign, admits ‘free conversion’ to Islam
By Zamser Ali Guwahati: Bharatiya Janata Party’s ‘anti-Muslim’ campaign was sullied in Assam after resident Prabati Das, the now converted, and estranged wife of Ganesh temple priest Karna Das confirmed that she…
- India
Assam: Heroin worth over Rs 2 crore recovered, one held
Diphu: One person has been arrested and heroin weighing around 339.2 gm worth Rs 2.5 crore seized from his possession in Khatkhati area of Assam’s Karbi Anglong district, police said on Saturday. On…
- India
80-year-old Assam woman declared ‘foreigner’ in spite of NRC inclusion
Dispur: 80-year-old Bhandari Das had fled from Bangladesh to India in 1967 along with her husband and two children. She had been living in a nearby district of Assam for the past…
- India
Designate India as CPC: Panellists at congressional briefing on Assam urge US govt
Hyderabad: In a congressional briefing, leading Indian American human rights defenders have condemned the Indian government drive to forcibly remove hundreds of thousands of Muslims from their homes in the state of…
- India
‘Even Mosques and Qurans were not spared’: Father of Moinul Haque recounts horrors
Hyderabad: About a week ago, during an eviction drive violating court orders in Sipajhar of Assam’s Darrang district, the police shot dead two people, including a boy, as they were protesting illegal evictions. Days…
- Middle East
Kuwait Assembly condemns violence against Muslims in India; people in Gulf call for boycott of products
People across Middle Eastern countries have started a campaign on social media to boycott Indian products to protest against the Assam police’s brutality against Muslims during an eviction drive. The incident drew…
- India
‘Muslims are prisoners of war in Assam’: CPM member Brinda Karat
Hyderabad: On behalf of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat addressed a letter to Himanta Biswa Sarma, the chief minister of Assam criticising the government’s handling of…
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‘Inhuman and barbaric’: CPM’s Brinda Karat on Assam evictions
A delegation led by Communist Party of India (Marxist) politburo member Brinda Karat, Manoranjan Talukdar MLA, central committee member Suprakash Talukdar today met the families of Moinul Haq and SK Farid (a…
- India
Assam police brutality: Activist meets kin of 12-year-old victim, says no FIR yet
Hyderabad: About a week ago, during an eviction drive violating court orders in Sipajhar of Assam’s Darrang district, the police shot dead two protestors as they were protesting illegal evictions. Six days…
- India
Indian American Muslims condemns forced evictions and police brutality in Assam
WASHINGTON DC: The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) condemned the violent eviction drive that began on September 20 in Assam, which was aimed at driving mainly Bengali-speaking Muslims out of their homes.…
- India
SIO to sponsor education of Assam police violence victim’s children
Hyderabad: A delegation from the Student’s Islamic Organization (SIO) led by national president Salman Ahmed met with the families of Moinul Haque and Shaikh Farid, who were killed by Assam Police while…
- India
Leaders react sharply to police brutality in Assam
New Delhi: Leaders have reacted sharply to police brutality during a demolition operation in a minority settlement inhabited for decades in the Sipajhar area of Assam’s Darang district in the name of…
- India
Assam CM claims PFI hand in eviction violence, demands ban on outfit
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday claimed that the Popular Front of India (PFI) was involved in the violence in Darrang district during an eviction drive, stating that some people…
- India
SIO announces nationwide protests against ‘state-sponsored’ killings in Assam
Hyderabad: Students Islamic Organization (SIO), along with other groups has announced on Saturday that it will start nationwide protests against the gruesome killings of people protesting against the eviction in Assam. In…
- India
Carrying new Aadhaar in pocket, 12-yr-old Farid fell to bullets in Assam’s eviction drive
Hyderabad: 12-year-old Farid was shot dead by the police in the eviction drive that took place in Assam’s Darrang district. Farid was one among the many individuals accused of being an illegal…
- India
Assam: Photographer Bijoy Bania arrested for assaulting protestor
Guwahati: The photographer seen attacking a protestor in Assam’s Sipanjhar area was arrested on Thursday night by the state police. The arrest came about as social media was ablaze with people calling for…
- India
Assam is on state-sponsored fire: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday claimed that Assam is on “state-sponsored fire” after two persons were killed in police firing and nearly 20 injured during an eviction drive and a…
- India
Assam: Cops fire at protestors during eviction drive, at least 3 feared dead
At least three people were feared dead, and many injured after Assam police fired upon protestors, who were opposing a land eviction drive, in Assam’s Darrang district on Thursday. Police has not…
- India
40 people rescued, several feared drowned in Assam boat accident
Jorhat: Forty people have been rescued after a passenger boat sank in the Brahmaputra river after colliding with another boat near Nimati Ghat in Assam’s Jorhat, district officials said. The two boats…
- Politics
Will Congress break up with Badruddin Ajmal?
New Delhi: The Congress leadership will take the final decision on the state committee’s decision to break the alliance with Badruddin Ajmal’s All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) in Assam. On this…
- India
2.5 kg heroin worth Rs 17.5cr seized in Guwahati
Guwahati: Four days after the Guwahati Police seized 1.824 kilograms of heroin from two places here, they made another seizure of 2.5 kg of heroin from a vehicle on Thursday and claimed…
- Politics
AIUDF MLA Phanidhar resigns from Assam assembly, joins BJP
Guwahati: Opposition All India United Democratic Front MLA Phanidhar Talukdar on Wednesday resigned from the Assam assembly and joined the ruling BJP. Talukdar, who quit the AIUDF on Tuesday, became the third legislator…
