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An elderly doctor of a tea estate in Assam's Jorhat district has succumbed to his injuries allegedly inflicted by garden workers following the death of one of their colleagues who was undergoing treatment at a hospital in the plantation, officials said.
The woman - identified as Shayera Begum - allegedly killed herself by jumping into a well in her house in Dolabari village.Sonitpur Police however said she was mentally unstable.
Four forest officials were killed and two others were injured in a road mishap on the NH-37 near Jaysagar in Sivasagar district on Friday morning.
The excitement, anxiety and fear is palpable across Assam on the eve of the publication of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC), a document unique to the state, which was first published in 1951 and is being updated for over six years now under the watch of the Supreme Court. The NRC aims to list legal citizens and non-nationals illegally settled in the state.The excitement, anxiety and fear is palpable across Assam on the eve of the publication of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC), adocument unique to the state, which was first published in 1951 and is being updated for over six years now under the watch of the Supreme Court. The NRC aims to list legal citizens and non-nationals illegally settled in the state.
As Assam braces for release of National Register of Citizens, the Election Commission is yet to decide on how to deal with people who are excluded from the NRC but are in the voters’ list.
The Coordination Committee of the Tribal Organizations of Assam (CCOTOA) here on Thursday warned that it would not accept any 'erroneous' NRC and asked the government to ensure protection of genuine Indians while 'filtering out' illegal immigrants. CCOTOA is an umbrella organisation of tribals in the state.
"The NRC is being updated to prepare a list of bona fide citizens and solve the problem of illegal migrants once and for all.
Two days before the publication of the NRC, the Union home ministry on Thursday stepped in to counter rumours regarding the updation exercise. In a tweet, the spokesperson for the ministry of home affairs said, "Do not believe rumours about NRC.
Assam Police on Thursday declared 14 districts as sensitive ahead of the publication of the final NRC. The names of these districts however have not been publicly revealed.
Only 48 hours are left for the publication of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) but families across the state are still making rounds of government offices to claim inclusion in the all-important list.
The Prabajan Virodhi Manch (PVM), an anti-influx body led by Supreme Court lawyer Upamannyu Hazarika, on Wednesday accused the BJP-led governments in the state and Centre of shedding crocodile tears on the issue of re-verification.
A special NIA court in Kolkata on Wednesday convicted 19 accused, including three from Assam, in connection with the Burdwan blast case.
People excluded from the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) spent Rs 7,836 crore for the hearings, which has left them with little economic resources now to challenge their exclusion, if that happens, before foreigners' tribunals, New Delhi-based Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) said on Tuesday.
In a joint operation, Assam Police with its counterpart in Tamil Nadu rescued at least 13 people from Krishnagiri area in Tamil Nadu.Out of the 13, 11 are from Dibrugarh and two from Charaideo.
Emerging as a top 10 engineering institute in the country, IIT Guwahati (IIT-G) stands out for its state of the art infrastructure, over 6,000 students and a sprawling green campus.
The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) on Monday demanded the arrest of BJP MLA Shiladitya Dev for his repeated ‘provocative’ remarks concerning the National Register of Citizens (NRC)
For the villagers of No. 1 Malibari Pathar village in lower Assam's Kamrup district, inclusion in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) is starting to resemble an obstacle race.
The BJP's Assam unit on Monday said many genuine Indian citizens are likely to be left out of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC), set to be published on August 31, owing to lack of proper documents.
A minor girl from Assam, who was trafficked and forced into prostitution nine months ago, has been rescued in Delhi. After her parents’ death, the 16-year-old girl and her three sisters were brought to the capital by a person who promised them a well-paying
Assam Rifles sources said that during a search operation two suspicious looking individuals were seen coming from Lungka village toward the NH-315 junction.
In one of the biggest drug hauls in upper Assam, police seized 1.14 kg of heroin from Kalibari area of Dibrugarh town on Sunday. The estimated value of the seized contraband drugs is said to be around Rs 70 lakh. Cash amounting to Rs 19.55 lakh was also seized during the raid, police said.
While people of Assam wait anxiously for the National Register of Citizens (NRC) on August 31, schools in Dhubri have their own tale of suffering to tell.
As the clock winds down to the largest exercise to segregate Indians from illegal settlers in Assam, a group of city-based indigenous Muslim lawyers have come together to help those who fail to make the cut in the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) list to be published on August 31. The lawyers, all practising in different courts within the city limits, will work pro bono to help those left out prepare for the lengthy legal battle ahead - starting with the Foreigners' Tribunal - as they try to establish their citizenship.
A Bangladeshi cattle smuggler was shot dead by Border Security Force (BSF) personnel at Fulkandi village in Assam's Karimganj district, situated along the India-Bangladesh border, early on Saturday morning.
A day after the Assam government signed an MoU with the NHPC to resume construction of the 2,000-MW Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project, stalled since 2012, the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) on Saturday said the MoU was "illegal and a betrayal of the people of Assam".
"Once growers have the QR code cards, they can have mobile app-based services from the board, like weather forecast, handling of green leaf and prevailing green leaf prices," a tea board official said.
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati researchers have developed two distinct and special membranes that can separate oil and water, even under harsh conditions.
Soon after news of former Union finance minister Arun Jaitley's death came in on Saturday, tributes began to pour in from across Assam. Governor Jagdish Mukhi and chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal joined others in mourning the BJP leader's death.
The discourse surrounding the National Register of Citizens (NRC) is turning increasingly religion-centric as Assam draws closer to the August 31 publication date.
The All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu), a stakeholder in the NRC case in the Supreme Court, has criticized the government’s proposal to extend legal assistance to those excluded from the final NRC as an “anti-Assamese” move.
With many of its employees engaged in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) updating process, election authorities may have to postpone the civic polls for the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) again. The polls, due for over a year, was last held in 2013.
An unattended bag found near platform number 7 of the Guwahati railway station triggered panic for an hour on Thursday.
The flood situation in Jorhat district still remains grim with the Brahmaputra and its tributaries still flowing above the danger level for the third consecutive day on Thursday.
Since 2015, the number of women students in Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati (IIT-G) have been constantly on the rise.
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested a 20-year-old college student for sending a terror email to the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) official account on August 16, stating that the Indian cricket team — which is currently in the middle of the tour of West Indies — is under threat of imminent attack.
Dropped from last year's draft NRC, Sunirmal Bagchi, a well-known cultural activist from Bengali-majority Barak Valley, found himself on the Independence Day roll of honour prepared by the Assam government.
BJP in Assam will not bring new members from other parties on board, at least until it wraps up its organizational elections.
While the state debates who is a genuine citizen, six ‘outsiders’ from Rajasthan have kept Assam Police on their toes for the past two weeks.
As Hindutva outfits step up their protests against publication of the NRC in its present form, the All Assam Students' Union (Aasu) and All Assam Minorities Students' Union (Aamsu) - stakeholders in the Supreme Court case on NRC update - said the clamour is a result of the "frustrated" design to legitimize illegal Hindu migrants from Bangladesh.
The Gauhati high court on Tuesday announced the selection of 221 retired officials who will adjudicate citizenship cases in the additional 200 foreigners' tribunals coming up to deal with the rush of cases expected right after the final updated National Register of Citizens (NRC) is published on August 31.
Police have identified the duo as one Pratik from Nigeria and Ibrahim Ruman from Mali.Police have seized 30 paper bundles, allegedly being used for printing fake currency notes.
Fearing a possible exclusion of Hindus in the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) to be announced on August 31, many organisations close to the Sangh Parivar have stepped up their campaign against the publication of the citizenship rolls until they are properly verified and made error-free
A family at a village near Silchar called off their daughter's wedding after the prospective groom could not provide his citizenship credentials.
"There is a huge problem of water shortage in India and across various parts of the world.
Eight months ago, Bhubaneswar Kalita had walked out of a Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting after it adopted the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. On Sunday, the former Congress chief whip in the Rajya Sabha who recently switched to BJP said the bill is no longer a contentious issue in Assam.
Fourteen police officers in Jorhat face criminal charges of conspiracy, forgery and theft for not submitting chargesheets despite records showing that they did.
Taking a step towards making Assam pollution-free, chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday inaugurated the state's first CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) fuel station in Dibrugarh.
