Guwahati: Barely two weeks after a youth was arrested for forcing some Muslim youths to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’, four miscreants in Assam’s Barpeta district thrashed three Muslim youths and forced them to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. According to the police, the incident took place at the Jyoti Gaon area located near the Fakhruddin Ali […]
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IAF retrieves stranded rescue team from AN-32 crash site
Guwahati: The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Saturday evening retrieved all the 15 members of the search and rescue team engaged in the search of the AN-32 aircraft who got stranded in the crash site along the Indo-China border, said defence spokesperson Wing Commander Ratnakar Singh. Singh said the 15-member search and rescue team was […]
Worried over name not in NRC, minor girl in Assam’s Darrang district hangs herself
Guwahati: A minor girl in Assam’s Darrang district committed suicide on Wednesday, with her relatives and members of a students’ organization linking the incident to the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which is being updated across the state. Relatives of Noor Nahar Begum, 14, of Roumari chapori village said that she hanged herself with the dupatta […]
Assam publishes additional draft NRC, excludes 102,462 names
Guwahati: The Assam government has found an additional 102,462 people ineligible to be included in the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which is being updated in the state under the Supreme Court’s monitoring. The Assam government on Wednesday published an additional draft exclusion list of the NRC comprising the names of 102,462 persons, who were […]
India, Chinese Army participate in yoga sessions along LAC
Guwahati: Around seventy personnel belonging to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army and thirty civilians participated in joint Yoga sessions with the Indian Army troops at Nathu La (Sikkim) and at Bumla and Wacha-Damai in Arunachal Pradesh on Friday as part of the International Yoga Day celebrations. Tezpur-based defence PRO, Lt. Col. Harsh Wardhan Pande, said […]
4 arrested in Assam for forcing dancers to strip during performance
Guwahati: Police in Assam have arrested four persons for their alleged involvement in forcing some dancers to strip during a cultural programme at a village in Assam’s Kamrup district. The police said four persons have been arrested on Sunday after the artists of the cultural troupe lodged an FIR with the police on Saturday. The […]
Kargil war veteran freed from detention camp in Assam
Guwahati: A day after the Gauhati High Court granted him bail, retired Kargil war veteran Mohammed Sanaullah on Saturday walked free from a detention camp in Goalpara district in the state. The veteran Army Captain was detained by the border wing of the Assam Police last month after a Foreigners’ Tribunal in Assam declared him […]
AN-32 plane with 13 people goes missing after take off from Assam
Guwahati: An AN-32 aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) with 13 people on board went missing on Monday 35 minutes after it became airborne from an airport in Assam on way to Arunachal Pradesh. The aircraft was flying to the Advance Landing Ground in Mechuka in Arunachal Pradesh, which borders China. The AN-32 took […]
Kiren Rijiju: Most prominent BJP face in northeast (Profile)
Guwahati: Kiren Rijiju has been the face of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the northeastern states. Rijiju on Thursday took oath as a Union Minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new ministry. The Lok Sabha member from Arunachal West constituency was bound to get a cabinet berth not only because of his political manoeuvre […]
Retired Army officer declared foreigner in Assam
Guwahati: A retired Army officer in Assam has been detained and sent to a detention camp after a Foreigners’ Tribunal declared him a foreign national. Md. Sana Ullah, a resident of Guwahati, was detained from his house in Satgaon by the police on Tuesday after the Tribunal at Boko passed the order declaring him as […]