Guwahati: The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), which operates in the entire northeastern region and in some parts of Bihar and West Bengal, has cancelled all 16 Bengal bound trains on Monday due to agitations in various stations in the state against the new Citizenship Amendment Act, officials said. Chief Public Relations Officer Subhanan Chanda said that […]
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Assam protest toll reaches 5, partial relief in curfew
Guwahati: The toll in the ongoing protests against the new citizenship law (CAA) rose to five in Assam with two more persons injured in police firing earlier this week succumbing to their wounds, even as the authorities on Sunday decided to further relax the curfew in this capital city amid gradual improvement in the law and […]
Assam govt employees to cease work against Citizen Amendment Act on Dec 18
Guwahati: Lending their weight to the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), Assam government employees would go on a cease work on Wednesday. Sadou Asam Karmachari Parishad (SAKP) President Basab Kalita said that the employees would participate in cease work across the state. Recalling that the employees had intimated the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) in […]
All Assam Students Union calls three-day mass satyagraha against CAA
Guwahati: The All Assam Students Union (AASU), which is spearheading the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests, on Friday called a three-day mass satyagraha in all district headquarters of the state from December 16. Announcing the fresh agitation programme, AASU Chief Adviser Samujjal Bhattacharya coined the slogan “Repeal Citizenship Amendment Act or arrest me”. Bhattacharya said padyatra and […]
Curfew in Guwahati after violent protest against Citizenship Bill
Guwahati: Curfew was imposed in Assam’s main city of Guwahati on Wednesday evening following the unprecedented protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB), officials said here. A senior police officer said the Curfew was imposed in Guwahati by the Kamrup district administration after the protest against the CAB turned violent and as the agitators set ablaze […]
Fire kills four including two infants in Assam
Guwahati: Four persons, including two infants and a maid servant, died after a fire broke out and engulfed a house in Assam’s Dibrugarh town on the wee hours of Saturday. The police said the incident took place at Niz Kadamoni in Assam’s Dibrugarh town at around 1.30 a.m. on Saturday. The fire broke out at […]
Serving BSF personnel, wife declared as illegal foreigners in Assam
Guwahati: After retired Indian Army Captain Md. Sona Ullah, a Foreigners’ Tribunal in Assam has recently declared a serving officer of the Border Security Force (BSF) and his wife as illegal foreigners. Muzibur Rahman, a Border Security Force Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) currently posted in Punjab, and his wife were declared as foreigners by the Foreigners’ […]
Assam floods death toll rises to 75, over 3.4 million still affected
Guwahati: At least six persons died in flood-related incidents in Assam in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 75 even as 34,82,170 people continued to be affected by the deluge in 20 districts of the state till Wednesday evening. Officials of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said that 2,933 villages […]
Three Muslim youths thrashed, forced to chant Jai Shri Ram in Assam
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 […]
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 […]