Soldier, bureaucrats awarded for advancing communities in tough timesThe Capacity Building Commission recognized innovative bureaucrats who contributed to social change, including Major General Hariharan Dhar...
20 Feb, 2024, 12.26 AM IST
More PFI-related raids, detentions in IndiaSeveral PFI activists and leaders were arrested or detained in similar raids carried out in Assam, Maharashtra, and Karnataka on Tuesday. L...
27 Sep, 2022, 11.39 PM IST
Uneasy calm in northeast, anti-citizenship law protests singe BengalCurfew was relaxed in Assam's Dibrugarh and Meghalaya capital Shillong, but the ripple effect of anger over the hugely divisive law was fel...
13 Dec, 2019, 10.53 PM IST
View: Bypoll results show BJP can’t bank on Modi-Shah magic to win West BengalThe BJP may be well entrenched in large parts of the country but — as an effective mass party — it is relatively new in Bengal. Prior to 20...
01 Dec, 2019, 10.30 AM IST
It’s playing risky games: BJP’s calculated citizenship tweak will split Assamese society into ST and non-ST segmentsThe ruling BJP, whose Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has justified the bill as the only way to save 18 assembly seats from “going into ...
14 Jan, 2019, 11.08 AM IST
ET View: The Court helped create the NRC mess, now should prevent a crisisIf these people are labelled Bangladeshi infiltrators and disenfranchised, the potential for violence this would create is immense.
01 Aug, 2018, 02.27 PM IST
Manipur convoy attack: Myanmar support gives NE rebels a shot in the armEscalating violence in the NE in recent times leading up to Thursday's deadly ambush on army soldiers raises serious questions over the gov...
14 Jul, 2018, 09.41 AM IST
Opposition backs Centre's stand on Doklam border disputeOpposition leaders appreciated home minister Rajnath Singh's Kashmiriyat comment on the Amarnath incident.
11 Jul, 2018, 12.03 PM IST
Nitish Kumar invites AIUDF leader Badruddin Ajmal for swearing-in; may seek support for Assam pollsWhile Kumar has been sending his party colleagues to invite many Opposition leaders and NDA for the Patna function, he has made it a point ...
19 Nov, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
- Centre's vote bank politics responsible for northeast strife: BJP
BJP today said that Congress' "vote bank" politics was "weakening" the country.
19 Aug, 2012, 09.33 PM IST
Assam violence fallout: Exodus of Northasterners from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra abatesThe exodus of fear-stricken North Easterners in the wake of rumours of retaliatory attacks on them after the Assam violence abated in Karna...
19 Aug, 2012, 08.04 PM IST
- Assam violence fallout: Bangalore normal, claims Karnataka Chief Minister
The Karnataka Chief Minister also said ministers from NE states had inspected the steps taken by his govt and had expressed satisfaction.
18 Aug, 2012, 10.48 PM IST
- Assam violence fallout: BJP seeks action against Bangladeshi infiltration
Mumbai BJP today took out a protest march to denounce last week's violence at Azad Maidan in south Mumbai, and demanded crack-down on infil...
18 Aug, 2012, 09.23 PM IST
- Assam violence fallout: Meghalaya CM demands probe into rumours leading to exodus of NE youths
Meghalaya is sending an official delegation to the southern states and Maharashtra to "verify" the rumoured discrimination.
17 Aug, 2012, 02.29 PM IST
Muslim youth in pune share Assam video; Over 2,000 North East students leave city after last week's stray incidentsStudents from northeast began fleeing Pune too. Over 2,000 of them gathered at the Pune Railway station to grab seats in northeast-bound tr...
17 Aug, 2012, 06.58 AM IST
- Assam ethnic strife: Fresh violence in Baksa, death toll 41
One more person was killed in police firing during clashes between minority immigrants and Bodos in lower Assam's Dhubri district.
26 Jul, 2012, 12.36 PM IST
- Cabinet divided on Orissa, Bajrang Dal
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday night refrained from taking any extreme step against the Orissa government after the DMK, PMK and the NCP re...
09 Oct, 2008, 02.24 AM IST