Friday, March 29, 2024

North East India

Manipur government says no holiday on Easter

The Manipur government has declared the Easter holiday as a working day, causing an outrage in the region.

7 lakh Muslims among 19 lakh left out of NRC in Assam, says CM Himanta Sarma

On Sunday, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that seven lakh Muslims are among the 19 lakh persons left out of the National Register of Citizens for the state.

Lok Sabha polls: Outer Manipur will vote on two days

As the Election Commission has announced the dates for the Lok Sabha elections on Saturday, voters were perplexed...

Call for mass protests in Assam as Union government notifies rules of CAA

With the Union government’s notification of the rules for the implementation of the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act on Monday, Opposition parties and regional outfits in Assam gave a call for mass protests.

Mizoram, Nagaland assemblies pass resolution against Union’s move to fence India-Myanmar border

The Nagaland Assembly on Friday adopted a resolution urging the Union government to reconsider its decision to fence the Indo-Myanmar border and suspend the free movement regime with the neighbouring country. On Wednesday, the Mizoram Assembly had also adopted a similar resolution.

Tripura anti-Muslim violence: Supreme Court to hear plea challenging invoking of UAPA

Lawyers Mukesh, Ansar Indori, and journalist Shyam Meera Singh have moved the Supreme Court for the quashing of the FIR filed against them under the draconian UAPA over their social media posts and fact-finding reports on anti-Muslim violence in Tripura.

End ‘selective evictions’ in Assam, stop attacking minorities: AAMSU to PM Modi

Hundreds of All Assam Minority Students’ Union members on Monday staged a protest in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar against the "selective evictions" and assaults against the northeast state's minorities.
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Your govt was ‘in connivance of perpetrators,’ Muslim body writes to Tripura CM

Friday, 5 November, leaders of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat who carried a visit to Tripura following the week-long assaults on Muslims in the northeast state, wrote a letter to Biplab Kumar Deb, Tripura chief minister, seeking the state government's immediate intervention in the protection of Muslims in the state who form about nine percent of its 3.7 million population.

Man beaten to death by mob in Tripura

An unidentified Bangladesh national was lynched by a group of people in Kamalnagar village of the Sonamura area in Tripura in the early hours of Saturday.
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Tripura: 4 members of Delhi’s Muslim group arrested under UAPA over fact-finding visit

Four members of a Delhi-based Muslim NGO, Tahreek Farogh e Islam, who carried out a visit to Tripura following the violence unleashed by Hindutva groups against the northeast region’s Muslim minorities, have been booked under draconian UAPA.

Anti-Muslim violence: Tripura police now books UAPA against 68 Twitter handles

Tripura police has booked 68 Twitter profiles under draconian UAPA for their tweets on the recent anti-Muslim violence unleashed by Hindutva groups in the northeast state.
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“Communal nature of Tripura Police,” lawyers’ bodies condemn UAPA against fact-finding team members

"Communal nature of Tripura Police," lawyers' bodies condemn UAPA against fact-finding team members

Tripura: UAPA against lawyers over fact-finding report on anti-Muslim violence

On Wednesday, the Tripura Police have registered a case under draconian UAPA against members of a fact-finding team after the rights groups visited the sites of anti-Muslim violence in the state and released a report on the "targeted attacks on Muslims in Tripura."
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On violence against Muslims, TMC workers in Tripura, NHRC seeks report

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought a detailed action taken report from the Chief Secretary and Director General of Police, Tripura regarding the anti-Muslim violence across the northeast state.

Tripura: Police books 71 people for ‘provocative social media posts’

The Tripura Police on Wednesday filed five criminal cases against 71 people over allegedly provocative and fake posts on social media.
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It was a targeted attack: Supreme Court lawyers’ report on anti-Muslim violence in Tripura

"It was a targeted violence against Muslims," says a group of Supreme Court lawyers who carried out a fact-finding visit to Tripura following the violence unleashed by Hindutva groups against the northeast region's minorities.

28 hate crimes against Muslims in week-long Hindutva violence: Tripura mosque authorities to HC

At least 15 mosques were attacked by Hindutva groups RSS, VHP, and Bajrang Dal across Tripura while two of them were burnt in week-long violence against Muslims in the northeastern state, a petition to the Tripura High Court by a mosque committee president states.
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