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Till three years ago, Rahima Begum, 24, from Dhubri spent her days by looking after her three children and making them learn the alphabets, while her husband was away for construction work.
The BJP-led state government on Tuesday announced a corpus fund of Rs 75 crore for 22 indigenous apex literary bodies, which will generate a yearly interest, and financial grants to new writers in indigenous languages.
The All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) on Monday fired a fresh salvo at finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma after he claimed that his party will win at least 100 seats in the 2021 Assam assembly elections.
A case against been registered against a person employed as a lower divisional assistant in the at planning and development branch of the Jorhat deputy commissioner’s office,
The northeast is in the grip of a cold wave with the Mercury dipping below 10 degrees Celsius in many parts of the region. Imphal has recorded a minimum temperature of 1.6 degrees Celsius.
The northeast region is the country’s biggest carbon sink accounting for 28% of India’s total estimated carbon stock of 7,124 million tonnes, revealed the India State of Forest Report 2019 released on Monday.
Chief ministerSarbananda Sonowal on Sunday asked anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) agitators why they have developed a dislike for his government, which has “done so much” for the development of the state.
Suspected rebels triggered an IED explosion at the Ngari Gali (dry fish market) area of Khwairamband Market in Imphal city on Saturday morning. No one was injured in the blast.
Former chief minister of Tripura and CPI(M) politburo member Manik Sarkar on Saturday wrote to director general of police (DGP) AK Shukla, charging police of being “partisan” in maintaining the law and order situation, and working directly for the BJP.
At 3.4 degree Celsius, Nagaland capital Kohima registered the lowest temperature in the region on Saturday, followed by tourist hotspot Sohra (Cherrapunji) in Meghalaya, where the minimum temperature was 5 degree Celsius.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said Assam might return to the path of violence due to policies of the BJP governments at the Centre and the state. "The Assam Accord was the foundation of peace in Assam. Today I am sad, I fear that the state might return to its old path of violence due to BJP,” Gandhi said.
In yet another case which raises concerns about the safety of women, an Assam man reportedly sold off his 13-year-old sister to a human trafficking racket on Wednesday.
The banners made way for props, slogans were replaced by hymns, angry faces disappeared for the day, and protests made way for celebrations as the whole of northeast, like in other parts of the world, welcomed Christmas.
The state government may take discliplinary action against teachers of government-run schools who are posting “political posts” on the social media to express their discontentment over the CAA.
Anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) banners greeted revellers visiting churches in Dibrugarh on Wednesday. Expressing solidarity with anti-CAA movements across the country, a banner outside the Dibrugarh Catholic Church — one of the oldest churches in the northeast
Over a hundred artistes, including writers, poets, painters, and sculptors, from across the state staged protests in Guwahati against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) on Wednesday.
Leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday pitched for citizenship to one lakh Hindus who are refugees from Sri Lanka in Tamil Nadu, and the Christians of Bhutan facing religious discrimination.
Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Tuesday met delegates of All Adivasi Students’ Association of Assam (Aasaa) at the Janata Bhavan here to discuss the long-pending demand of ST status for the tea tribes.
With Christmas round the corner, churches across the town are ready for celebrations.
"The PM was very much correct because the central government has not set up any detention centre.The detention centres in Assam were set up exclusively on the basis of the high court's orders.
Responding to a call by the All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) and 30 other indigenous organisations, men and women from all walks of life staged a sit-in demonstration across the state against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) on Monday.
The chorus is growing for the unconditional release of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) adviser Akhil Gogoi, who was sent to 10-day NIA custody by a special court in Guwahati on Tuesday.
The Bureau of Investigation of Economic Offences (BIEO) has arrested the chief managing director and the director of a company for pocketing money worth crores by cheating people with false promises of providing distribution of ATM swipe machines.
All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) and Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) almost came to blows with BJP workers at Bajali town in lower Assam on Sunday, when members of the saffron party brought out a rally to rejoice the state government’s decision to carve out Bajali as the newest district in the state.
The All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) on Sunday cautioned the Assam government not to “subdue anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) movement” by hurriedly announcing government schemes.
Protest against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act continued on Sunday with the opposition Congress kicking off an 800-km long 'Padyatra' from Sadiya to Dhubri.
The Assam cabinet on Saturday adopted several resolutions to protect the language, identity and land of the indigenous people of the state to allay their fears that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act will put their existence at stake.
Responding to a call given by the All Assam Students' Union (Aasu) and 30 other indigenous organisations, thousands of women took to the streets of Guwahati on Saturday to protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). This was a part of a series of protest demonstrations held by women across several districts of Assam on Saturday, with various women's organizations as well as women leaders, educationists and college girls taking part.
Major Gorkha civil society organisations of the state - the Assam Gorkha Sammelan (AGS), the state unit of national federation of Gorkhas in India - the Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangha (BGP) and the Assam unit of the Bharatiya Gorkha Mahila Parisangha (BhaGoMaP) has demanded that the Centre exempt Assam from the ambit of Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) 2019.
The ministry of home affairs (MHA) on Saturday downgraded former Assam chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta's security from Z-plus cover with NSG to Z-plus with CRPF.
In the emotioncharged amphitheatre of the anti-citizenship law agitation now raging in Assam, the most visible “face” of protest is a red-and-white piece of cloth that captures in its rectangular sweep the shared identity of the ethnically and culturally diverse Assamese community.
The decision to suspend mobile internet services during the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act had thrown life out of gear for the people of Assam.
A day after 12 BJP legislators urged Sarbananda Sonowal to come forward to allay fears among people regarding the Act, the chief minister lead a silent peace march in Nalbari which is the state’s citadel of RSS karyakartas.
A day after 12 BJP legislators urged Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal to allay the fears of the people regarding the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the CM led a silent peace march on Friday in Nalbari, a BJP and RSS stronghold, and told people that no person would be able to come from Bangladesh using the CAA.
After the arrest of two top PFI leaders of Assam in connection with the arson in the city during the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, there is now a demand for banning the organization in the state. In January this year, the Jharkhand government had banned PFI in its state under Section 16 of The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1908 for its alleged links with the Islamic State (IS).
Vice-chancellors (VCs) of leading state and central universities of Assam appealed to their students, who in large numbers are protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, to help bring back normalcy to the campuses. The statement drew sharp criticism from the All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) which slammed the VCs for supporting the government and “toeing its line” on the contentious legislation.
In the aftermath of the violence that rocked Dibrugarh district during the recent anti-CAA protests, police have arrested 47 persons for indulging in acts of vandalism. Dibrugarh SP Sreejith T said the persons were arrested from various parts of the district on the basis of incriminating video evidence collected from CCTV cameras and mobile video clips. Meanwhile curfew, which is still in force in Dibrugarh district, was relaxed from 6am to 8pm on Thursday. There were anti-CAA protests in Dibrugarh, Lahowal and Tinsukia during the day.
Mobile internet services resumed in Assam on Friday, ten days after it was snapped in the wake of violent protests over the new citizenship law.
The Gauhati high court directed the Assam government to restore mobile internet services at 5 pm on Thursday. Mobile and broadband internet services were suspended on the evening of December 11, following incidents of violence during protests against the amended Citizenship Act. Broadband services have already resumed in Assam.
The Book Fair was scheduled to begin from December 28.
Dibrugarh Police on Tuesday arrested 27 persons for indulging in vandalism and violence during the recent anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protests in chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal’s home district.
After six days, curfew was lifted in Kamrup (Metro) and Jorhat districts on Tuesday, while restrictions were relaxed in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts. The ban on mobile internet, however, will continue for at least another 24 hours.
Flight operations and railway services resumed in Guwahati on Tuesday, in a major relief to hundreds of stranded passengers, as the city limps back to normalcy after days of violent protests over the citizenship law.
The Gauhati High Court passed an order directing the Assam government to consider restoration of Internet services, both mobile Internet services and broadband, from 3.00 pm on Tuesday.
The curfew imposed in Guwahati on December 11 in the wake of protests against the citizenship law was lifted on Tuesday, officials said.
