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Himanta Biswa Sarma asks Assam citizens not to shelter evicted families; says govt wants to send them to their 'original place'Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has urged people against sheltering those evicted. The government wants them to return to their or...
Assam government starts eviction drive in Goalpara districtAssam government's eviction drive in Goalpara district aims to reclaim 1,040 bighas of encroached land in Paikan Reserve Forest, following ...
Assam CM says 25,000 acres cleared of illegal encroachment amid controversy over targeting minoritiesAssam's government, led by Chief Minister Sarma, has cleared 25,000 acres of illegally encroached land in the last four years, initiating e...
Assam govt plans permanent Indian Army base to enhance security in Dhubri districtAssam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is considering establishing a permanent Indian Army base in Dhubri to enhance security following i...
Police detain Jagjit Singh Dallewal, others as they remove protesting farmers from Shambhu BorderPunjab Police removed farmers from the Shambhu and Khanauri borders who were protesting against the central government’s policies. Key farm...
Up to Centre to decide if it wants to forcibly evict Dallewal from protest site: Farmer leadersFarmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal's indefinite hunger strike reaches 34 days, with protests at Punjab-Haryana border urging for a legal M...
Hundreds go homeless during second day of eviction drive in Assam's LakhimpurThe drive to evict encroachers from a forest land in Assam's Lakhimpur district continued for the second day on Wednesday, with 299 familie...
Assam: AICC criticises Badruddin Ajmal for his remarks against state Congress leadershipAjmal had remarked that unlike him, Assam Pradesh Congress Committee president Bhupen Kumar Bora and AICC general secretary (in-charge of A...
Many 'illegal settlers' vacate forest land on eviction drive eve in AssamAn eviction drive to clear 501 hectares of Pava reserve forest in first phase in Adhasona and Mohaghuli villages will be carried out on Tue...
Eviction drive to clear 500 hectares of forest land in Assam's Lakhimpur: OfficialsOut of 2,560.25 hectares of Pava reserved forest, only 29 hectares are currently free of any encroachment. In the first phase, 500 hectares...
View: Why India doesn’t produce great contemporary crime fictionA few weeks ago, in Assam, two members of another group of protesters were killed. Unlike in Lakhimpur Kheri this week, what happened in Si...
View: Why India doesn’t produce great contemporary crime fictionIn the case of the murders at Lakhimpur Kheri, the ‘solution’ of the crime(s) being sought seems very different. ‘Solving the crime’ here s...
- SC gives Raja Rs 5,000-cr smile
After a long legal battle, the Raja of Mehmoodabad gets back his property valued at around Rs 5,000-6,000 cr.
- A Rs 5,000-cr story
Mohammad Amir Mohammad Khan, the son of the erstwhile raja of Mehmoodabad, gets back his assets lost as as ‘enemy property’.