Guwahati News
The incident comes amid assertions by both the state and central leadership that Manipur is inching towards peace and normalcy.
A notification dated November 15 issued by the Home Department stated the Assam Government had revised its user charges and service fees for “citizen centric service delivery” through an Assam police portal for online services called ‘Assam Police Sewa Setu’.
Kuki-Zomi organisation calls a 48-hour shutdown, effective from 6 pm on November 22, to press its demand for a separate administration
Sarma, however, said the ‘Miya’ people support him, PM Narendra Modi and the BJP, and they can continue to shout slogans in favour of the saffron brigade without voting for them.
Article 355 empowers the Centre to take all necessary steps for a state’s security. The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has denied that it has been imposed but uncertainty still remains in the state over this issue.
Rinika Bhuyan Sarma is Chairman and Managing Director of Pride East Entertainments Private Ltd, one of the largest media companies in the Northeast, that owns two news channels, a newspaper, a digital news portal and multiple entertainment channels.
Batadrava in Nagaon district is the birthplace of 16th-century Neo-Vaishnavite saint-reformer Srimanta Sankardeva.
A helicopter service from Kuki-Zomi-dominated Churacha-ndpur to the airport in Meitei-dominated Imphal had been introduced this June as the movement of people from these communities to areas dominated by the other has become nearly impossible since violence broke out in the state on May 3.
The chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is currently campaigning for the BJP in poll-bound Rajasthan and has not commented on the filing of the complaint by Saikia.
Supplementary examinations of all subjects of class 10 board exams of the Board of Secondary Education, Manipur, which had been scheduled on Tuesday and Wednesday, were cancelled in view of the bandh.
“We were surprised about how this could happen because he was a bright boy and he had managed to crack the exam to get into NIT,” Halley said.
According to Guwahati Commissioner of Police Diganta Barah, this crackdown is “only the tip of the iceberg” of a complex operation, which mostly targeted people in North America.
Third-year electrical engineering student Koj Buker, who hailed from Arunachal Pradesh, was found dead in a hostel room at the institute on Friday evening.
A Manipur Police statement stated that Haokip was “martyred in a firing incident by miscreants”.
In Nagaland, more than 86% of the population is from the Scheduled Tribes and there has been a pushback against a UCC from tribal bodies across the state.
According to police, the firing in the area began at around 5am on Tuesday. These deaths come 11 days after the last violent incident in which five people had died in Kamjong district on August 18.
The delimitation process was formally completed last week, with the President approving and thereby bringing to effect the ECI’s final order on August 16. Sarma announced that there will be changes in the districts’ boundaries in line with the redrawing of constituencies by the ECI.
In doing so, the High Court overturned a 2019 judgement by the Dhemaji Sessions Court, which had found six people guilty in the case.
On August 11, the ECI had published the final delimitation order for the 14 parliamentary and 14 Assembly constituencies in Assam. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Law and Justice published an order by the President stating that the ECI’s order took effect from Wednesday.
Bajrang Dal said 350 youths were trained in handling guns, performing martial arts, besides learning lessons on arts, politics and spirituality at the camp organised in Mornoi village in the district.
Earlier this month, on July 13, Sarma had held “miyas” – a pejorative term for Muslims of Bengali origin in Assam – responsible for high prices of vegetables in Guwahati.
Sarma was addressing a public meeting in Lakhimpur. Scaling up the BJP’s campaign for next year’s Lok Sabha elections, he also addressed another public meeting on Friday in Biswanath Chariali – the latest in a string of such meetings over the past week.
The monsoon hit Assam on June 10. Till Tuesday evening, the total number of people affected by floods in the state was 34,089. As of Tuesday, there was only one relief camp with 56 inmates.
The monsoon hit Assam on June 10; the weather department recorded an average rainfall of 41 mm in 24 hours as of Friday morning. The IMD has predicted moderate rainfall over the next five days, with heavy to very heavy rainfall likely at isolated places.
Ten third-year students left the college premises in a car early this morning, and their speeding vehicle hit a road divider and then collided with a pick-up van in Jalukbari area of the city, an officer said.