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Tripura: Seven Opp parties hold massive rally against poll violence by BJP
Under the banner of “Secular Democratic Forces”, seven Opposition parties held a huge rally in Agartala against poll violence unleashed by BJP on Saturday.
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Assam Muslim declared ‘foreigner’ by tribunal: Gauhati High Court quashes 2018 decision
The Gauhati High Court on Tuesday set aside an order declaring a Muslim man, Assam resident, as a foreigner, observing that the Foreigners Tribunal did not take note of the material on record while passing the decision.
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Assam eviction: 500 families, mostly Bengali speaking Muslims, go homeless
In Assam's Lakhimpur district, the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led government has evicted around 500 families, alleging that they have encroached on forest land. Most of those who were forcibly evicted are Bengali-speaking Muslims who live on the 10,000 acres that are part of the Pabha Reserve Forest.
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Assam: Christians boycott police survey on activities of Church
Christians in Assam have decided not to cooperate with the state police, who began a survey aiming to gather details of Christians, their churches, institutions, and religious conversions.
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Madrasa teachers outside Assam should appear in police station, says Assam CM; “It’s not a foreign country,” replies Owaisi
“Assam is not a foreign country where Indians have to ask for your permission,” said AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi MP responding to Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma who has said that all teachers who came from outside Assam to teach in Madrasas in the state may be asked to appear "from time to time" in the nearest police station.
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Large scale anomalies in Assam NRC updation, says CAG report
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has detected anomalies in the updating of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam while the audit body is recommending action against a former State Coordinator and system integrator Wipro.
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India mourn death of Army personnel in Sikkim road mishap
Sixteen soldiers of the Indian Army lost their lives in a road accident in the northern part of Sikkim on Friday.
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Largest eviction drive began in 4 Assam villages, 1000 families ‘to be cleared’
The Assam government on Monday started an eviction drive to clear settlements from nearly 1,000 bigha of land (1.35 sqkm) around Batadraba Than.
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CPI(M) worker killed in BJP violence in Tripura, 12 including left MLA seriously injured
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Tripura said that one of its activists was killed and 12 others, including former finance minister Bhanu Lal Saha, were injured in an attack by supporters of the ruling BJP in Sepahijala district on Wednesday.
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Police arrest Hindu youth pretended to be Muslim, justified Shraddha Walkar murder
The Uttar Pradesh police Thursday arrested a man named Vikas Kumar who pretended to be a Muslim and supported Aaftab Amin Poolawala, who brutally murdered his live-in girlfriend Shraddha Walkar (27) and chopped her body into several pieces.
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Assam-Meghalaya border violence: Former CM terms incident as ‘genocide’
Hours after Six people including five Meghalaya villagers were killed and several others injured in Assam Police’s open firing on the Assam-Meghalaya boundary early on November 22, senior Trinamool Congress leader and former Meghalaya chief minister Mukul Sangma terms the incident as “genocide.”
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Six dead as Assam Police open fire at Meghalaya villagers, CM Sangma says ”inhuman act”
Six persons died on Tuesday in Mukroh village of Meghalaya’s West Jaintia Hills district after the Assam Police opened fire at them. Five of those killed are residents of Meghalaya, while one is an official of the Assam Forest Guard.
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