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Gorkhas in Assam demand ST status ~ i Assam
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Me, myself And i.A Look At Assam From The Bottom Up. Gorkhas in Assam demand ST status. Gorkhas living in Assam has demanded Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for the community and creation of an autonomous council comprising Gorkha inhabited areas. The demands were placed before Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Jitendra Singh here on Tuesday when a delegation of 'Asom Gorkha Sammelan' called on him to submit some of the long-pending grievances of the community. This is partly bec...
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Me, myself And i.A Look At Assam From The Bottom Up. National Register of Citizens to be announced in Jan. 2016: Gogoi. Assam police women commando team “Viranagana” showing their skills during the Republic Day celebrations in Guwahati on Monday.- Photo: PTI. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday announced that the National Register of Citizens (NRC), currently being updated in Assam, would be published in January 2016. The Chief Minister said that his government had also taken steps for detection a...
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Me, myself And i.A Look At Assam From The Bottom Up. Flood alert after heavy rain in Assam, over 80,000 affected. The situation was particularly grim in Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts in eastern Assam, where nearly 45,000 people have been affected. A father hold his child on back to take him to school at waterlogged Anil Nagar in Guwahati on Monday. (Source: PTI). Written by Samudra Gupta Kashyap Guwahati. In Tinsukia, another district hit hard by the relentless rains, authorities have already set up th...
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2 die of Swine flu in Assam ~ i Assam
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Me, myself And i.A Look At Assam From The Bottom Up. 2 die of Swine flu in Assam. Two more persons succumbed to swine flu and 10 new cases of those infected with the H1N1 virus surfaced in Assam, officials said on Sunday. Assam Health and Family Welfare Minister Nazrul Islam said four persons have been detected with swine flu in Jorhat and Dibrugarh each, three in Guwahati and one in Tezpur. He said the Assam government has prepared isolation wards in every district hospital across the State. 2 die of Sw...
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Me, myself And i.A Look At Assam From The Bottom Up. Human trafficking intensifies in Assam, thanks to repeated floods and disasters. As the rapid recurring floods, disaster and ethnic conflicts hit Assam, the people there are witnessing a massive change in their livelihood pattern. The deteriorating livelihood in Assam has made it a hot-spot for human traffickers. Official records show that of the total 93 victims of trafficking in 2011, 36 were minors and of these 36, 28 were girls. The traffickers usu...
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Rape incidents on the rise in Assam ~ i Assam
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Me, myself And i.A Look At Assam From The Bottom Up. Rape incidents on the rise in Assam. Official records of the Assam Police reveal that more than 10,000 girls and women have been raped in the state since 2010. Such crimes have been escalating over the years. The records said that at least 1,721 rape cases had been registered in various police stations in 2010 followed by 2,011 cases in 2011. At least 2,780 cases were registered last year with an average seven women being raped in Assam daily. Sadou As...
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Me, myself And i.A Look At Assam From The Bottom Up. Where are the achhe din, asks Gogoi. AIUDF activists protest against the land acquisition bill in Guwahati on Thursday. Picture by UB Photos. Guwahati, April 23: Five hundred and eighty-two farmers committed suicide in Gujarat in 2013, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. Good days) promised by Modi? In Gujarat, 582 farmers committed suicide in 2013! I have not heard such things in Assam! Gogoi raked up the issues on a day the farmer suicide...
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“Assamese People” definition rocks Assembly ~ i Assam
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Me, myself And i.A Look At Assam From The Bottom Up. 8220;Assamese People” definition rocks Assembly. The Speaker recommended, after consultations with 53 different organisations, that the year 1951 be taken as the cut off period and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), 1951, be taken as the basis for the definition of the “Assamese People” for the purpose of reservation of seats and constitutional safeguards as required by the Assam Accord. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rockybul Hussain, while maki...
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Top Aasu leaders to step down from posts today ~ i Assam
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Me, myself And i.A Look At Assam From The Bottom Up. Top Aasu leaders to step down from posts today. Top leaders of the All Assam Students' Union (Aasu), which has been the leading students' body of the state for the last 10 years, will step down from their posts during the four-day 16th Dudhnoi convention. The convention will be held in Goalpara district from Monday. The Aasu leadership denied rumours of joining BJP in the presence of party president Amit Shah, who will visit the state in April. Bha...
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Flood alert after heavy rain in Assam, over 80,000 affected ~ i Assam
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Me, myself And i.A Look At Assam From The Bottom Up. Flood alert after heavy rain in Assam, over 80,000 affected. The situation was particularly grim in Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts in eastern Assam, where nearly 45,000 people have been affected. A father hold his child on back to take him to school at waterlogged Anil Nagar in Guwahati on Monday. (Source: PTI). Written by Samudra Gupta Kashyap Guwahati. In Tinsukia, another district hit hard by the relentless rains, authorities have already set up th...
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