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Sukrita Baruah
Sukrita is a reporter based in Guwahati, covering India's North East for The Indian Express. She was earlier a correspondent covering the education beat for The Indian Express in Delhi. She tweets at @BaruahSukrita
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Assam Police books journalist Abhisar Sharma days after summoning Siddharth Varadarajan and Karan Thapar
August 22, 2025 00:08 IST
Comes days after two other senior Delhi-based journalists, The Wire’s Siddharth Varadarajan and Karan Thapar, received summons
Fri, Aug 22, 2025
Death penalty for Assam man for murdering college student who rejected him
August 21, 2025 20:46 IST
The murder had sent shockwaves across the state at the time.
Thu, Aug 21, 2025
Assam will stop issuing Aadhaar to adults, says Himanta, citing ‘saturation’ and ‘Bangladeshis’
August 21, 2025 16:19 IST
Sarma said that Assam has 103% Aadhaar saturation, but that this is at 96% among the SC, ST and tea garden communities.
Fri, Aug 22, 2025
Nurse arrested in Guwahati for death of newborn who fell from phototherapy bed
August 20, 2025 17:34 IST
The hospital had on Monday said that the nurse was in another room preparing milk for admitted babies when the infant, along with another baby who survived, fell.
Thu, Aug 21, 2025
High Court upholds Assam govt’s eviction drive in reserve forests, calls for prevention of ‘illegal entry’
August 19, 2025 20:19 IST
In a hearing on Monday, the bench disposed of the appeal, saying, “There cannot be any question of permitting any encroacher to reside within the demarcated reserved forest land.”
Tue, Aug 19, 2025
Assam Crime Branch issues summons to journalists Siddharth Varadarajan, Karan Thapar
August 19, 2025 17:28 IST
While the summons do not contain details of the case against them, it mentions that this has been registered under Section 152, which deals with acts ‘endangering sovereignty, unity and integrity of India’
Tue, Aug 19, 2025
Newborn girl dies in Assam’s largest govt hospital after falling off phototherapy bed
August 19, 2025 07:14 IST
Assam newborn baby death: CM orders panel to probe incident; hospital official says 2 babies fell while nurse was in another room, one survived.
Tue, Aug 19, 2025
‘Is this a joke?’: Gauhati High Court on cement company being allotted 3,000 bighas in Assam’s tribal district
August 18, 2025 16:02 IST
‘3,000 bighas!... What is going on? 3,000 bighas allotted to a private company?... What kind of decision is this?,’ the Bench said last week
Tue, Aug 19, 2025
3 Assamese men assaulted for entering Nagaland ‘without permit’
August 17, 2025 07:05 IST
3 arrested; comes against backdrop of tensions on Assam-Nagaland border following large-scale eviction drives in the former's Golaghat district
Sun, Aug 17, 2025
Manipur Governor gets additional charge of Nagaland after La Ganesan’s death
August 16, 2025 22:45 IST
Bhalla, who was formerly Union Home Secretary, was appointed Manipur governor in December 2024, less than two months ahead of President's Rule being imposed in the state in February this year.
Sun, Aug 17, 2025
Himanta’s warning: If Assamese people remain silent, ‘unknown CM’ will hoist Independence Day flag in 2 decades
August 15, 2025 18:01 IST
Asks people not to sell land or rent property to ‘unknown people’; comments come less than a year ahead of assembly polls
Fri, Aug 15, 2025
A local is attacked, prompting Meghalaya to seek fence closer to border with Bangladesh
August 15, 2025 07:05 IST
State has a 443 km long international border with Bangladesh, in which a stretch of around 40 km remains unfenced.
Fri, Aug 15, 2025
All about Assam’s new arms licence portal for ‘indigenous citizens’ in ‘vulnerable areas’Subscriber Only
August 14, 2025 17:19 IST
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma called the portal an attempt to make citizens ‘first responders’ in law-and-order situations in remote areas
Fri, Aug 15, 2025
Assam CM launches portal where ‘indigenous’ people can seek gun licenceSubscriber Only
August 14, 2025 11:54 IST
In several instances, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has specifically mentioned areas where Bengali-origin Muslims are in the majority as an example of a “vulnerable” area.
Fri, Aug 15, 2025
Can a mountain of coal go missing? In Meghalaya, a hunt for something hard to missSubscriber Only
August 14, 2025 06:45 IST
An aerial survey indicated illegally mined coal in two villages. When an official reached, he found a fraction.
Thu, Aug 14, 2025
‘Lost trust in police’: Her teenage son killed in police shooting amid Assam evictions, a mother seeks judicial probeSubscriber Only
August 13, 2025 06:45 IST
On July 12, a massive eviction drive took place, in which the homes of around 1,080 families had been bulldozed to clear land in Goalpara’s Paikan Reserve Forest.
Wed, Aug 13, 2025
As BJP flies solo in Bodo Council polls, calls for its NDA partner, former ally to unite may complicate mattersSubscriber Only
August 12, 2025 13:15 IST
Five years ago, the BJP ditched its then ally Bodo People’s Front and backed the United People’s Party Liberal in the Bodo Territorial Council. But now, as the BJP looks to build support among non-Bodos, community leaders are pushing for a united regional political front.
Tue, Aug 12, 2025
A roadside altercation involving Bengali-origin man prompts Himanta to suggest changing locality nameSubscriber Only
August 11, 2025 07:30 IST
The incident took place on Friday evening in Daccapatty, a commercial locality in central Assam’s Nagaon town.
Mon, Aug 11, 2025
Oppn says minorities in Upper Assam being given ultimatums to leave by vigilante groupsSubscriber Only
August 09, 2025 11:00 IST
Assamese nationalist groups have allegedly been running a campaign in different towns in Upper Assam against Bengali-Muslims living and working there, referring to them as “suspected Bangladeshis”
Sat, Aug 09, 2025
On ‘suggestion’ to drop Foreigners Tribunal cases against people from 6 communities, Assam CM Himanta clears the airSubscriber Only
August 08, 2025 06:43 IST
The issue came up in a high-level meeting of the state Home and Political Department last month
Fri, Aug 08, 2025
Why Nagaland govt is ruffled over Centre’s ‘suggestion’ amid talks on autonomy for six eastern districtsSubscriber Only
August 07, 2025 21:11 IST
State minister says “kept in dark for years” on talks between Union government and the outfit pushing for autonomy, says separate Constitutional provision Frontier Naga Territory will be “catastrophic”
Thu, Aug 07, 2025
Why Sylheti is not a ‘Bangladeshi language’Subscriber Only
August 07, 2025 07:05 IST
Some seven million people in the North East speak Sylheti, many of whom have been living in present-day India well before East Pakistan, let alone Bangladesh, was even imagined.
Thu, Aug 07, 2025
Brief scare for family of man slapped on IndiGo flight as he goes incommunicado, police later say he took train instead of second flightSubscriber Only
August 02, 2025 20:37 IST
The family of Ahmed Hussain Mazumder said that they had last spoken to him before he boarded his flight from Mumbai.
Sat, Aug 02, 2025
In an Assam village, young men who found work in Gurgaon are returning in drovesSubscriber Only
August 02, 2025 07:30 IST
'We work hard for eight hours a day, and then we don’t know when someone will come, pick us up and take us away at night'
Sat, Aug 02, 2025
‘Harassment, false allegations’: Meghalaya CM’s letter to Chhattisgarh counterpart on arrest of 2 Kerala nunsSubscriber Only
August 01, 2025 18:21 IST
Letter asks BJP government to consider revoking case lodged against the nuns, who have been booked for alleged conversion and trafficking
Fri, Aug 01, 2025
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