North East India

All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief and MP Badruddin Ajmal was discharged from a Mumbai hospital yesterday as he is doing "absolutely fine."

Jawaharlal Nehru University research scholar Sharjeel Imam, who is currently lodged in the Guwahati Central Jail in Assam, has tested positive for COVID-19.

The Organizing Secretary of All Assam Minority Student Union (AAMSU) and an active voice in the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Hasina has been receiving death threats from unknown numbers, for questioning the Government on Social Media. Hasina is also a student of International Law at School of Law, Sharda University in Noida. She had completed her bachelor’s degree in Law (LLB) from University Law College, Gauhati University in Assam. Here, she speaks to Zainab Ashraf, a journalism student at Jamia Millia Islamia. Edited excerpts:

The flood situation in Assam worsened further in the past 24 hours even as with seven new cases of death, the flood-induced fatality touched 85 on Wednesday.

In the path of struggle without Akhil, the people’s struggle in Assam has come to a standstill— banners, placards, and a few slogans still holding value are lying on the streets.

The Organizing Secretary of All Assam Minority Student Union (AAMSU) and an active voice in the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Hasina Ahmed said she has been receiving death threats from unknown numbers, for questioning the Government on Social Media.

The flood in Assam continues to be forbidding and it has affected more than 16 lakh people across the State in the past 24 hours.

The latest assault on the rights and resources of indigenous people in the North-East comes as an aggressive push for building the 3097 MW Etalin Hydropower project in Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh.

Assam Chief Minister and BJP leader Sarbananda Sonowal's Facebook page was bombarded with "comrade" and "lal salam", as a strong reaction to NIA chargesheeting an Assamese youth, Bittoo Sonowal, under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.