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Tarun Gogoi: Congress stalwart who led Assam from the frontOn assuming the reins of Assam for the first time in 2001, the Congress leader had said he was confident of holding office for five years b...- Ethnicity-based politics: Why Assam’s adivasis are soft targetsAdivasis, say observers, suffer because they are caught in the vortex of Assam's ethnicity-based politics. The BTAD has tried to use the ad...
- 2014: A politically eventful year for IndiaThe states of Jharkahand, Maharashtra and Haryana witnessed a regime change and Jammu and Kashmir saw a hung Parliament in the recent elect...
- ISIS, Naxals kept Home Ministry busy in 2014IB chief Asif Ibrahim recently said there was an imminent danger of Indian youths moving to the conflict zone (Iraq-Syria).
- Lok Sabha polls 2014: Fear is the byword in Assam's KokrajharKokrajhar the corridor to Northeast India had a history of riots each leaving its imprints on the mind of people residing in area.
- Kokrajhar: Ex-ULFA militant, former governor in poll fraySeventy-seven people lost their lives in the violence in 2012 between Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslims which also left more than four lak...
- Losing home in Muzaffarnagar, Mizoram or Assam shouldn’t mean losing the right to vote this electionOver the years, thousands, if not millions, of Indians have been forced to flee their homes and live in refugee camps for years at a time, ...
- Assam ethnic violence: This is one of my worst crises, says CM Tarun GogoiThe over a month-long ethnic strife between Bodos & Bengali-speaking Muslims has been politicised & has led to communal rift in the state.
- Northeast burning: ‘Illegal’ immigrants with valid papersIf they are illegal immigrants, who gave them valid papers, where did they get them from and who are the signatories of what is clearly ori...
- Assam conflict: 20% of banned hate sites put up by Hindu groupsAround 20% of the web pages — blocked by government agencies — were uploaded by right-wing Hindu fundamentalists seeking to polarize the co...
- Railways to run special trains to send back northeastern migrants soonRailways will run special trains from Guwahati to Bangalore, Chennai and Mumbai, which have witnessed exodus of migrants from the northeast...
- Assam violence and exodus: S K Modi blames CongressThe explosive situation in Assam at present has been caused by the failure to contain illegal migration from across the border, he told.
- Assam Accord still on paper, regrets AGP Alka SarmaLamenting that the Assam Accord was still on paper, Assam Gana Parishad legislator Alka Sarma today asserted that the violence should not b...
- 5L refugees in Assam India’s biggest internal exodus?There are just three people in Salam Choudhury's house. He, his wife of eight years and a little daughter who he says drives him to despair...
- Assam: Control over land key reason for clash between Bodos, MuslimsA primer on the continuing ethnic conflict between the indigenous Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslim settlers in western Assam.
- A distraught tribal: The genesis of Assam ethnic violenceEthnic conflict in Assam , like in some other parts of the north-east is decades old, but has increased in frequency since the late 1970s.
- Assam is like a volcano: Tarun GogoiAn irate mob blocked NH 31, at Beltoli, on the Kokrajhar-Dhubri border, following the death of three people on Monday night.
- Assam flares again; government must act firmly but the state needs broader dialogueState government in Assam failed to react preventively first when some members of the minority community were killed earlier this month.
- Assam riots spread to new areas, toll rises to 40Even with the state machinery out in full gear and soldiers maintaining vigil in four districts, violence in lower Assam continued unabated.
- 'Addressing micro-eco issues can contain communal discords'"When there are conflicts anywhere, if we attend to the social, economic, political, cultural and situation dimension first, the religious ...
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