Saturday, April 20, 2024

Topic: Assam

Assam government repeals Muslim Marriage Act

The Assam Cabinet on Friday approved repeal of the Assam Muslim Marriages and Divorces Registration Act, 1935.

“They slaughtered us”: 41 years on, Nellie massacre survivors now say justice is not for them

“Sunen Bhai’o Musalmaan o bosiaya, ki korilam Borbori te asiya, ki korilam Borbori te asiya, Maa harailam, baap haraialm hai re hai, ki korilam...

In Assam, a 55-year-old Muslim man dies from cold after ‘arbitrary eviction’

For two days, Boyat Ali slept under the open sky in the wrenching cold of winter nights in Panchratna NC, a riverine village in...

Assam CM misused state funds to charter flights for BJP programs, weddings: Report

A collective report prepared by The Wire and Guwahati-based news website The CrossCurrent revealed that the Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had used state funds to meet personal A expenses.

‘Will PM Modi decide who goes to temples?’: Rahul Gandhi on being stopped from entering temple in Assam

On Monday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was stopped by Assamese authorities from entering the Batadrava Satra Temple in Nagaon, the birthplace of the 15th-century...

BJP mob with sticks, flags, “Jai Shri Ram” slogans attacks Rahul’s Nyay Yatra in Assam

Congress former chief Rahul Gandhi was rescued and moved inside the 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' bus by his security personnel and party workers after a large saffron mob, including those carrying BJP flags and sticks and sloganeering Jai Shri Ram, flocked the yatra in Assam's Sonitpur district on Sunday.