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2-day total lockdown in Shillong from Monday

Meghalaya decision on Kulsi Dam after examining DPR: CM

7:58 pm September 10, 2019

Shillong: Meghalaya government will take a call on the proposed construction of Kulsi Dam along the border with Assam after examining the detailed project report, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said on Tuesday. He expressed apprehensions that vast tracts of land would be submerged and people of both the states would be affected if the […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

NRC has spawned humanitarian crisis: People’s tribunal

8:42 pm September 9, 2019

New Delhi: Judiciary’s insistence on setting deadlines for the NRC process in Assam has increased pressure on the people involved, a “people’s tribunal” has said, criticising the implementation of the massive exercise as having “spawned a humanitarian crisis”. The tribunal, including former Supreme Court Judges M B Lokur and Kurian Joseph, and former Delhi High […]

NRC Rejection Slip likely from Mar 20: Assam Government

CM Biren Singh wants NRC in Manipur

8:40 pm September 9, 2019

Guwahati: Manipur wants a National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state like the one that has been prepared in Assam, Chief Minister N Biren Singh said on Monday, claiming many states in the northeast “need” it. He said the Manipur Cabinet had already adopted a resolution in support of a citizenship roll in the […]

Architecture student from Assam commits suicide in MP

3:21 pm September 2, 2019

Bhopal: A 24-year-old architecture student from Assam allegedly committed suicide here in Madhya Pradesh by choking herself with a gas cylinder pipe, a police official said on Monday. A suicide note was found at the spot in which the woman purportedly mentioned that she was taking the extreme step “on her own”, he said. The […]

Assam doctors to withdraw services for 24 hrs on Tuesday

11:03 pm September 1, 2019

Guwahati: Doctors in Assam on Sunday called for a 24-hour ‘withdrawal of medical services excluding emergency’ across the state on September 3 in protest against the killing of an elderly doctor by associates of a patient who died at a tea garden hospital in Jorhat. Doctors will withdraw their services from 6 am but the […]