By Shajid Khan Guwahati, April 10, 2019: A mob has thrashed a man for allegedly selling cooked beef at his eatery in Assam, northeastern India. The attackers also stopped Shaukat Ali, who is in his 70s, from going for namaz (Muslim prayers) and forced him to consume pork, a foodContinue Reading
Dibrugarh, Dec 16, 2018: Unidentified miscreants have vandalized St Thomas Catholic Church and its grotto in Chapatoli village near Duliajan in Assam. The incident came to light on the morning of December 15 when villagers were going for their works through the church area. They noticed the church door openContinue Reading
Purgatory is a place where souls go to atone for their sins before being admitted into heaven. Assam’s Detention Camps are the dark, dank and dreary modern day purgatory like limbo lands, where those who are Declared Foreigner (DF) by Foreigners’ Tribunals (FT) are condemned to spend their time tillContinue Reading
Army and police personnel have rescued three sadhus (saints) from getting lynched by a mob, which suspected them to be child-lifters, at Mahur Railway Station in Dima Hasao district of Assam, officials said on July 6. District officials said army men posted at an adjacent camp and police officers cameContinue Reading
Police saved the situation nabbing the real culpritContinue Reading
Guwahati: Thousands of people participated in a mass hunger strike in Guwahati on Tuesday to protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016. The protest at the Assam Engineering College ground in Chandmari area was led by the All Assam Students Union and supported by at least 28 other organisations, includingContinue Reading
New Delhi: The percentage of Muslim population in Assam is 34 pc; the majority of them are Bengali Muslims who have settled here from the past 100 years. Most of them are poor, illiterate and agricultural labours, but RSS, ruling BJP and their like-minded local parties say that lakhs ofContinue Reading
Guwahati: Assam has 3,62,450 landless families in 31 of its 33 districts with Tinsukia in Upper Assam topping the list, forest minister Pramila Rani Brahma said on Monday. According to statistics tabled in the Assembly, Tinsukia, Margherita and Sadiya subdivisions in Tinsukia have the maximum of 59,632 landless families, followedContinue Reading
Guwahati: The Assam government on Monday said 29,223 incidents of violence against women were reported from various parts of the state in the past two years. In a written reply to a query by Congress MLA Nandita Das, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary told the Assembly that 8,771 casesContinue Reading
GUWAHATI, February 17, 2018: Assam is at the bottom of the list with regard to maternal mortality rate(MMR) with a figure of 300 against the national average of 167, while the fund spending under National Health Mission (NHM) is just 13.58 per cent for 2017-18. Union Minister of State forContinue Reading