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GUWAHATI, Aug 16: Appealing to students and people from Assam living in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh not to panic, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said unidentified forces who fomented violence in the BTAD area were trying to destabilize the Central and the State governments.

Addressing reporters here on Thu...

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GUWAHATI, Aug 16: The All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) on Thursday held president of the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) Badaruddin Ajmal responsible for the mass exodus and fear psychosis among students and persons of the northeast in States like Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Addressing reporters here on Thursday, AASU advisor...

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GUWAHATI, Aug 16: Ethnic violence in Assam’s BTAD area has continued to spread panic across Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh where the people of the northeast especially Assam feared a backlash.

Some northeastern students and employees in Bangalore and other parts of the country were reportedly receiving threatening messages on phones while doctored pho...

Dattatry Hojbala said the name of the AIUDF leader Badruddin Ajmal taken by the Home Minister official in instigating the ethnic violence in the BTAD was a matter of serious concern

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GUWAHATI, Aug 16: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) said illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators were behind the BTAD violence and these infiltrators were also backed by the...

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GUWAHATI, Aug 16: State Education and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma sent his resignation letter on Wednesday to the Chief Minister and to the Assembly Speaker.

According to sources, a close aide of Sarma handed over the resignation letter to the OSD of the Chief Minister at around 4 p.m. on Wednesday and the OSD  handed over Sarma’s resign...

NEW DELHI, Aug 16: The people of the Northeastern region living in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra are feeling the States following a threat perception against them.

People from Assam and other northeast states are fleeing to their home States after some of them were targeted by miscreants in Maharashtra in the past few days, officials said on Thursday. Since early this week,...

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RANGIA , Aug 16: Army staged flag march coupled with imposition of curfew after incidence of violence hit Rangia sub-division afresh in which agitators belonging to minority community torched vehicles on NH-31 and set ablaze a Guwahati-bound passenger bus bearing no-AS-01-DD-2034 at Bhatkuchi area, about 5 km from here early today. The protestors set ablaze a wooden bridg...

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GUWAHATI, Aug 16: Several people were injured when the personnel of the Tamulpur Police Station on Thursday fired at a mob who gathered at the Tamulpur Police Station to protest the detention of 65 persons on the suspicion of being involved in the firing from a Tata Nano car at the Kaurbaha, Gossaigaon in Baksa district on Wednesday. The mob was demanding the relea...

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GUWAHATI, Aug 16: People buy land with their hard-earned money, often with the desire of building their dream house on that plot of land. But sometimes they have to encounter a lot of problems after buying a plot of land. Very often they get locked into unnecessary land disputes. So what are the points one has to look into before spending their life’s savings...

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GUWAHATI, Aug 16: At least 46 human bones and 19 human skulls were recovered at the Guwahati airport by the Excise Department officials on Thursday. Sources said the bone consignment was meant to be taken to New Delhi....