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VIGILANTISM IN ASSAM
A town divided: Inside Perumbavoor’s migrant flashpoint, where drugs, fear and politics collideA signboard in Perumbavoor, Kerala, warns against drug peddling and prostitution, highlighting tensions between local residents and migrant...- Rebels and alliances shaping lower Assam election battleAssembly polls in Lower and Southern Assam feature multi-cornered contests. Key issues include religious divides, recent eviction drives an...
- Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma says govt has not issued any 'special' directive to drop cases of non-Muslim illegal foreignersAssam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has denied issuing any special state directive to drop Foreigners’ Tribunal (FT) cases against non...
- Assam: Amid eviction drives, vigilante groups spread in search of suspected illegal Bangladeshi immigrantsIn Assam, a wave of vigilance is sweeping through as community groups mobilise to identify suspected illegal immigrants following governmen...
- Assam's hair-trigger plan to be 'America'Assam's cabinet has approved a scheme to provide arms licenses to indigenous people in vulnerable areas, raising concerns about potential s...
- Manipur Lok Sabha election: Security personnel demonstrate against posting in troubled areasThose protesting 197 police personnel belonging to the Meitei community felt that it was risky to do duty in the area.They urged the author...
- There was intelligence that People's Defence Force (PDF) insurgents operating in Moreh: Kuldeep SinghIn protests against the incidents of violence during the past 24 hours in different districts of Manipur, various organisations including M...
- Hate Speech: 28 States, UT appointed nodal officers, Centre to SCThe central government has informed the Supreme Court that 28 States and Union Territories have appointed nodal officers in compliance with...
- Assam govt will take every step under the constitution to protect cows: Himanta Biswa SarmaAssam chief minister Sarma while speaking in the state assembly said, “Cow is our mother. We will not allow the coming of cows from West Be...
- Mob attack case: Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal directs stern actionThe incident took place last Sunday in Biswanath. The police has already arrested six persons in this connection.
- View: Stop knocking NRC, 40 lakh may be an underestimateIn 2016, Donald Trump swayed many poor voters with his promise to weed out illegal immigrants to the US from Mexico and even build a wall a...
- Will return in 2019 with bigger numbers, says PM Narendra ModiPrime Minister Narendra Modi expressed confidence that BJP would win the Lok Sabha election next year by a bigger margin than in 2014, and ...
- Ensure no visitors or settlers from Assam are harassed: Congress' Debabrata SaikiaSaikia said that Supreme Court has already clarified that those excluded from the final draft of the NRC are not to be treated as foreigner...
- Firecrackers, beef, child abduction rumours: India's lynching spectrum widensAccording to reports, at least 20 people were killed in 14 separate incidents between May and July 2018 in various parts of India.
- Cow vigilantes stop vehicles ferrying cattle near GuwahatiWhile local TV channels aired visuals of the drivers and helpers being thrashed by the vigilantes, the police official did not confirm it.
- It is dangerous to impose uniformity in India: Anand SharmaThe senior congress leader said it would be dangerous to diktat uniformity. “There is growing incidents of cow vigilantism and said that mo...
- Two detained for 'lynching' cattle thieves in AssamA senior police official said, “We have picked up two person. Investigation is on.” The bodies of victim were handed over to the family.
- Only graduates, those with up to 2 kids may get to fight Assam pollsHimanta Biswa Sarma had earlier announced that those having more than two children should not be given government jobs or allowed to become...
- Cost of saving cow: Industry bleeds, farmers sufferBetween April and August 2015, the industry exported $2,654 million worth of goods, 8% lower than exports for the same period in 2014.
- 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.
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