Facebook flags as ‘false’ Himanta Biswa Sarma post on ‘pro-Pakistan slogans’
Nov 8, 2020Facebook on Saturday flagged Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s video post showing AIUDF supporters, who he said were shouting pro-Pakistan slogans while welcoming party chief Badrudidn Ajamal at Silchar airport, as “false information”. AIUDF leader Aminul Islam had said on Friday that the slogan was “Aziz Khan (Karimganj South AIUDF MLA) zindabad.”
My fight is against garibi, not Gogoi: PM
Mar 27, 2016PM Narendra Modi on Saturday joined BJP’s poll blitzkrieg by addressing four rallies in Assam, which his party is trying hard to wrest from Congress after a spectacular performance in the 2014 Lok Sabha election saw BJP win seven of the state’s 14 parliamentary seats.
Rs 500 & promise of gifts: What Ulfa offered teens to plant I-Day bombs
Aug 19, 2016Ulfa rebels exploit crushing poverty to promote their agenda of violence and killings, evident from the way they lured two schoolchildren to plant bombs on Independence Day by giving them Rs 500 each.
PM Narendra Modi urges Instagram users to share beauty of #MagnificientNortheast
Feb 9, 2019Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day trip to the northeast, which he embarked upon on Friday, is his fourth visit to the region in as many months
Curfew lifted in Guwahati, mobile Net ban for 24 hours more
Dec 18, 2019 After six days, curfew was lifted in Kamrup (Metro) and Jorhat districts on Tuesday, while restrictions were relaxed in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts. The ban on mobile internet, however, will continue for at least another 24 hours.
Arunachal lists 900 Chakmas and Hajongs for citizenship
Sep 21, 2017Arunachal Pradesh has finalized 900 applications out of 4,637 for citizenship in accordance with a September 2015 Supreme Court order asking the state government and the Centre to confer citizenship on Chakma and Hajong refugees.
Northeast bandh called on December 10 to oppose CAB
Dec 7, 2019 Pockets of resistance to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill across the northeast on Friday coalesced into a joint campaign by student organisations of the region, which announced a dawn-to-dusk shutdown across six states on December 10, when the Centre is likely to table the proposed legislation in the Rajya Sabha.
Two killed in firing on Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border
Jun 6, 2023Two persons were killed and as many injured when unidentified gunmen from Arunachal Pradesh stormed a sapling plantation programme on the occasion of World Environment Day in the Panbari area along the disputed Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border and fired at them.
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