Tag: Assam
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“Blood-Curdling Cruelty”: Public Tribunal Exposes Assam’s Inhuman Drive Against Bengali Muslims
Delhi: An urgent public tribunal convened by the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) has sounded the alarm on what it described as systematic state-backed human rights violations against the Bengali Muslim community in Assam, warning that the region is sliding into a constitutional crisis. The tribunal, comprising former judges, senior bureaucrats, prominent activists,…
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Unsolved Mystery: The Tragic Murder of IIT KGP’s Faizan Ahmed
Kolkata: Securing the 11th rank in the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) remains a dream for many aspirants. And then becoming a member of two national level Robotics research teams in Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. A guy who was getting a scholarship from the Assam government because he had excellent study records. During his IIT…
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Mystery shrouds death of IIT Kharagpur’s Aerial Robotics researcher, mother seeks justice
Kolkata: The mother of Faizan Ahmed, 23, a student of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, West Bengal, whose decomposed body was found in the hostel, has fervently appealed to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to urgently and immediately intervene, while seeking justice from her. Even 12 days after the shocking incident, which led…
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CPIML: Moinul’s children are traumatised, daughter sobbing inconsolably, had not had anything to eat or drink since incident
Kolkata: “We met his (Moinul Haque) small daughter and son. The daughter was sobbing inconsolably and had not had anything since the incident took place. The family and community are traumatised, children in particular. The entire family is living under a makeshift house made of tin,” mentioned , press release shared by the CPIML team,…
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Assam’s climate change victims and low paid tea garden workers are being forced into trafficking
Guwahati, Kamrup and Rangapara (Sonitpur district), Assam – Sehar, Marget and Prathibha were teenagers, growing up in somewhat similar conditions a few hundred miles apart in the north-east state of Assam, which is visited by floods every year leaving in its wake destruction, devastation and consequent displacement. Sehar and Marget were in Assam’s flood-affected Sonitpur…
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Why are medical students from Bengal left out of Operation Vande Bharat?
Kolkata/Dhaka: Even as the first batch of 167 medical students from Jammu & Kashmir stranded in Bangladesh were airlifted from Dhaka, under Operation Vande Bharat, a massive repatriation programme to bring back Indians stranded in international shores, another batch of students mainly from eastern India began sending frantic emails and tweets urging the state and…
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Northeast dilemma: Is fresh NRC a solution to citizenship imbroglio?
Shillong: As the political game over NRC (National Register for Citizens) and CAB (Citizenship Amendment Bill) hots up, apprehensions about the exercises are growing among people. While the indigenous groups in the Northeast are crying for NRC in their respective states, most of the other communities are asking for a “genuine” and “transparent” process. Some…
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NRC ‘need of the hour’ in North East, say social groups
Shilong: The BJP government at the Centre may have been pilloried by a section of the opposition for implementing the National Register of Citizens (NRC) but in the North East, which shares about 4,000 km of border with Bangladesh, the new method of identifying “foreigners” and eliminating them from the voters’ list has been appreciated.…
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India’s migration politics will topple Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina
ndia’s migration politics — an assertion that there are 40 million Bangladeshi migrants illegally living in India and that they must be pushed back — will morph into an explosive crisis in South Asia and destabilize the region. This is how things will unravel: India’s plan to round up suspected millions of illegal migrants and…
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From labours constructing detention centers to Army man serving at border all face the wrath of NRC Assam process
Delhi: Forty-nine-year-old Pradip Kumar Saha, from Assam’s Ranopatti, cast his vote in the 1989 General Elections, but in 2002 he got listed as a D Voter. Despite having approached the Foreign Tribunal (FT) and providing all the necessary documents, his name has not made it to the National Register of Citizens (NRC) released recently in…