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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...
Expedite illegal migrants deportation from Assam: Supreme CourtWhile people who have settled before 1966 are already considered as Indian citizens under the Assam Accord, those who came after March 25, ...
Bodos, Muslims flee violence-hit areas in AssamOfficials said the eight villagers, whose bodies were found, were shot dead by Bodo militants on Friday in Baksa district.
Assam violence: 7 more bodies recovered, toll rises to 30Indefinite curfew has been imposed in Kokrajhar, Baksa and Chirang districts of Assam after Bodo militants killed 30 people.
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...
Assam violence: Tarun Gogoi must ensure that the north-east remains India’s greatest celebration of diversityThe north-east is India’s greatest celebration of diversity. Tarun Gogoi must ensure it remains that way.
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...
- Railways to run special trains to send back northeastern migrants soon
Railways will run special trains from Guwahati to Bangalore, Chennai and Mumbai, which have witnessed exodus of migrants from the northeast...
Sunday ET: Does the recent mishap shows failure of Indian nationhood to embrace NE community?The entire Northeast community saw themselves as one in their shared sense of persecution and fled many Indian cities this week.
- Mumbai violence: Police probing outsider mob theory
Investigators probing the Azad Maidan violence in Mumbai are looking at links between its perpetrators and possible masterminds in Assam.
Why Assam is sitting on a volcanoConsidering the magnitude of the explosion and compelling evidence of administrative lethargy, even the by-now mandatory demand for the CM'...
- PM's resolution for peace in Assam hits BJP wall
BJP insisted that any such statement would have to include a reference to the "historical" situation in the state - the code for illegal im...
- Assam violence brings illegal migration back in focus
Several Bodo organisations as well as some political parties maintain that the violence was the result of unabated influx of immigrants fro...
- Assam flares again; government must act firmly but the state needs broader dialogue
State government in Assam failed to react preventively first when some members of the minority community were killed earlier this month.
- Assam riots: Centre warns warring groups as clashes continue
Government today warned that the leaders of both Bodo and Muslim communities will be held responsible if any side is found to be instigatin...
- Assam toll at 40, 1 lakh refugees
Communal violence has resulted in 1 lakh people shifting to relief camps.
- Paramilitary troops sent to quell tribal clashes in India's Assam
Assam deployed troops to quell clashes that killed 30 people.