Friday, April 19, 2024

Topic: Himanta Biswa Sarma

Assam: Is this a case of young women waiting to be saved or criminalising a community?

Often, the Bengali Muslim men are criminalised, and attempts at saving Bengali muslim women from their men are made. The next important question is whether Bengali muslim women really need saving by the Sarma government.

Miya museum sealed in Assam within days of inauguration, CM says police will probe funding

Assam's Golpara district administration on Tuesday sealed the newly inaugurated Miya museum after Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the police will probe...

AAP files complaint against Assam CM for PPE kits corruption

The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday filed a police complaint against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, his wife and his son’s associates for allegedly supplying PPE, kits above market rates during the first wave of coronavirus.

Register FIR against Assam CM over calling police killing of Muslims a ‘revenge’: Court directs police

A Guwahati court on Saturday asked the police to lodge a first information report (FIR) against Assam Chief Minister (CM) Himanta Biswa Sarma over inflammatory remarks in a speech he made last year.

Assam: Muslim delegation meets CM seeking judicial probe into police killings, land to evicted

A delegation of Muslim organisations, led by leaders of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUH) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JIH), met Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday in connection with the incidents of forced evictions and police killings of two Bengali Muslims in Darrang.

AAMSU sets seven-day deadline for CM Sarma to allot land for forcefully evicted

The All Assam Minority Students’ Union (AAMSU), an influential students body representing both religious and linguistic minorities in the state, on Saturday set a seven-day deadline for Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to allot land for thousands of Bengali Muslims being forcefully evicted from large swathes of government land in Darrang district’s Sipajhar.