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Earthquake Today: 3.6 magnitude jolt hits Karbi Anglong in Assa
1 month, 1 week ago

Earthquake Today: 3.6 magnitude jolt hits Karbi Anglong in Assa

Live Mint  

Earthquake Today: An earthquake of magnitude 3.6 occurred on 12 November 2024 at 12:28 pm in Karbi Anglong, Assam, at a depth of 20 km, with coordinates 26.40°N latitude and 93.03°E longitude, informed National Center for Seismology. Earlier in the day, an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.0 struck Rohtak, Haryana, at 07:50 am, with a depth of 7 km, …

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Weather Update: Mathura To Assam, Entire Country Faces Floods In Early July | ABP News
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Weather Update: Mathura To Assam, Entire Country Faces Floods In Early July | ABP News

ABP News  

Eight people were killed in Assam on Wednesday, taking the death toll to 56. According to a PTI report, more than 16.25 lakh people are reeling under the deluge across 27 districts, an official bulletin stated. The Assam State Disaster Management Authority report said that two persons died in Tezpur revenue circle of Sonitpur district, while one each drowned at …

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Cyclone Remal: Assam schools shut today, IMD issues ‘red’ alert for these northeastern states
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Cyclone Remal: Assam schools shut today, IMD issues ‘red’ alert for these northeastern states

Hindustan Times  

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has ordered the closure of educational institutions in nine districts in the state on Wednesday, May 29, amid heavy rainfall and landslides triggered by Cyclone Remal. Cyclone ‘Remal’ made landfall in Northeast India on Sunday night on the coast of the Bay of Bengal, bringing heavy rainfall and gusty winds across several states. IMD's …

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Northeastern View | Why the recent Karbi-Hindi tensions in Assam is a tricky situation for the BJP
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Northeastern View | Why the recent Karbi-Hindi tensions in Assam is a tricky situation for the BJP

Hindustan Times  

In late February, the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council ordered the eviction of more than 2,000 families belonging to the Hindi-speaking Nonia community living in various parts of the hill districts between northern and southern Assam. Karbi groups, such as the Karbi Students’ Association, allege that the Hindi-speaking Nonia, an Other Backward Caste agrarian community with origins in Bihar and Uttar …

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10,000 people in Assam face eviction from tribal council lands
10 months ago

10,000 people in Assam face eviction from tribal council lands

The Hindu  

GUWAHATI: Assam Revenue Minister Jogen Mohan on Friday defended a tribal council’s plan to evict about 10,000 people from areas designated as professional grazing reserves and village grazing reserves. The move by the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council to evict 2,086 families of “illegal settlers” sparked unrest, leading to the injury of 11 persons and the arrest of 17 a week …

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Mammoth problems, meaningful solutions: Marrying technical data and conservation
1 year, 4 months ago

Mammoth problems, meaningful solutions: Marrying technical data and conservation

The Hindu  

Bengaluru-headquartered Asian Nature Conservation Foundation founded by Prof Raman Sukumar of IISc and the late Prof Dhritikanta Lahiri Choudhury has been actively involved in elephant conservation since 1997. The Assam Forest Department wanted actionable insights and requested the team to look at the human-elephant conflicts in Golaghat district near Kaziranga and Hamren district near Karbi Anglong. “The short-term goal was …

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Over 100 ex-militants join BJP in Assam
1 year, 8 months ago

Over 100 ex-militants join BJP in Assam

India TV News  

Assam: Over 100 ex-cadres of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland, have joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in Assam. These former militants joined the saffron party in Assam's Karbi Anglong district on Tuesday. They are from different areas and held various top positions in the militant outfit," said BJP's Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council chief executive Tuliram Ronghang said. "The members …

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Class 10 paper leak | Assam govt. admits ‘lapses in the education system’
1 year, 9 months ago

Class 10 paper leak | Assam govt. admits ‘lapses in the education system’

The Hindu  

With two tests of the State board-conducted Class 10 exams cancelled within a week following leak of question papers, Assam Education Minister Ranoj Pegu on Friday, March 17, 2023, asserted that the entire examination system will be analysed and rectified. Days after the general science question paper leak of the Class 10 State board exam, the Assamese paper also got …

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Months After Interstate Border Clash, CM Sarma Says Mukroh Village Part of Assam
1 year, 9 months ago

Months After Interstate Border Clash, CM Sarma Says Mukroh Village Part of Assam

News 18  

Almost four months after a bloody clash claimed six lives along the Assam-Meghalaya border, the Himanta Biswa Sarma government on Monday stated that the disputed Mukroh village, where the incident had taken place, falls under its jurisdiction. In a written reply to a query by BJP MLA Bidya Sing Engleng, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Mukroh village is a …

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Assam-Meghalaya boundary on the boil after Mukroh firing
2 years ago

Assam-Meghalaya boundary on the boil after Mukroh firing

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 12, 2022 13:41 IST On March 29, Chief Ministers Himanta Biswa Sarma and Conrad Sangma of Assam and Meghalaya reached what they hailed was a “historic” out-of-court settlement in the decades-long boundary dispute in six of the 12 disputed areas. Mukroh falls in Block I. Meghalaya claims that Mukroh is in West Jaintia Hills district, while Assam …

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Earthquake of magnitude 3.6 hits Assam’s Karbi Anglong district
2 years ago

Earthquake of magnitude 3.6 hits Assam’s Karbi Anglong district

Live Mint  

An earthquake of magnitude 3.6 on the Richter Scale occurred in Karbi Anglong district in Assam on Wednesday. "Earthquake of Magnitude:3.6, Occurred on 07-12-2022, 01:12:30 IST, Lat: 26.33 & Long: 93.06, Depth: 10 Km, Location: Karbi Anglong, Assam," the NCS informed in a tweet. Earlier, an earthquake of magnitude 3.3 struck 92km SW of Changlang, Arunachal Pradesh on Monday, according …

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Deaths in police firing fan tensions near Assam-Meghalaya border
2 years ago

Deaths in police firing fan tensions near Assam-Meghalaya border

Hindustan Times  

At 7 am on the morning of November 22, Skhem Myrten was attending to her three grandchildren in her two room hut in the village of Mukroh, on the Assam Meghalaya border. While the Assam police did not issue any official statement, the state’s information department issued a press release which claimed Mukroh as a part of Assam’s West Karbi …

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Assam Police allows goods-laden trucks to enter Meghalaya amid border dispute
2 years, 1 month ago

Assam Police allows goods-laden trucks to enter Meghalaya amid border dispute

The Hindu  

Assam Police on November 25 allowed the goods-laden trucks to enter Meghalaya, for the first time after tensions rose between the two States following a clash in a disputed border area, in which six persons were killed four days ago, according to an official. According to Mustafa Ahmed, Vice president of All India Road Transport Workers Federation, Assam Unit, the …

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Why Himanta Sarma talked about Rahul Gandhi's beard, love jihad when Assam-Meghalaya border clash claimed six lives
2 years, 1 month ago

Why Himanta Sarma talked about Rahul Gandhi's beard, love jihad when Assam-Meghalaya border clash claimed six lives

India Today  

On November 22, six people were killed and several others injured during an alleged clash between an Assam police team and a mob in an area bordering the West Karbi Anglong district of Assam and Mukroh village in Meghalaya’s West Jaintia Hills district. While Meghalaya chief minister Conrad K. Sangma condemned the Assam police and forest guards for “entering Meghalaya” …

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Boundary violence | Assam opts for CBI probe into clash with Meghalaya villagers
2 years, 1 month ago

Boundary violence | Assam opts for CBI probe into clash with Meghalaya villagers

The Hindu  

In the backdrop of violent clashes with villagers from Meghalaya, the Assam Cabinet on Wednesday decided to hand over the investigation to the Central Bureau of Investigation, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The Ministers expressed concern and condolences at the death of six persons in an “unfortunate police-civilian conflict situation” in West Karbi Anglong district, Mr. Sarma added. Earlier, …

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CM Himanta says Assam govt. considering withdrawing AFSPA from more areas
2 years, 1 month ago

CM Himanta says Assam govt. considering withdrawing AFSPA from more areas

The Hindu  

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said his government is considering withdrawing AFSPA from two more locations in the State. The Armed Forces Act, 1958 was extended for six months from October 1 with the continuation of the 'Disturbed Area' tag for Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Charaideo, Sivasagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao districts along with Lakhipur sub-division …

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Himanta Says Assam Govt Considering Withdrawing AFSPA from More Areas
2 years, 1 month ago

Himanta Says Assam Govt Considering Withdrawing AFSPA from More Areas

News 18  

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said his government is considering withdrawing AFSPA from two more locations in the state. The Armed Forces Act, 1958 was extended for six months from October 1 with the continuation of the ‘Disturbed Area’ tag for Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Charaideo, Sivasagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao districts along with Lakhipur sub-division …

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AFSPA Extended in 8 Districts, 1 Sub-division of Assam
2 years, 2 months ago

AFSPA Extended in 8 Districts, 1 Sub-division of Assam

News 18  

The Assam government Thursday said it has extended the Armed Forces Act, 1958 in eight districts and one sub-division for six months after a review of the law and order situation. The government, however, withdrew the controversial law from West Karbi Anglong district as the situation there has “considerably improved”. The order dated October 15 and released on Thursday stated …

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Assam: West Karbi Anglong’s ‘disturbed area’ tag under AFSPA withdrawn
2 years, 2 months ago

Assam: West Karbi Anglong’s ‘disturbed area’ tag under AFSPA withdrawn

Live Mint  

The government of Assam on Thursday declared that they have withdrawn the declaration ‘disturbed area’ from West Karbi Anglong district with effect from 1 October 2022, news agency ANI reported. "A review of the law and order and security scenario in Assam in the recent past indicates that the situation has considerably improved in West Karbi Anglong district of the …

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Assam government withdraws AFSPA from West Karbi Anglong; to continue in these 8 districts
2 years, 2 months ago

Assam government withdraws AFSPA from West Karbi Anglong; to continue in these 8 districts

India TV News  

Assam government on Thursday gave Diwali gift to the people of West Karbi Anglong by withdrawing the declaration of 'Disturbed Area' w.e.f. "Earlier AFSPA covered 9 districts and 1 Sub-division in Assam, now it covers 8 districts and one Sub-division," news Agency ANI quoted Niraj Verma, Principal Secretary of Home and Political department as saying. Also, the state government said …

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One Injured, Six of New Militant Group Nabbed in Assam
2 years, 4 months ago

One Injured, Six of New Militant Group Nabbed in Assam

News 18  

An alleged militant was injured in a gunfight with the police and six others were nabbed in Karbi Anglong district of Assam, a senior officer said on Wednesday. According to Special Director General of Police Gyanendra Pratap Singh, the alleged militants belonged to a newly-formed group called National Socialist Council of Karbi Anglong. “Seven boys from Karbi Anglong got together, …

Injured Karbi Anglong Group Nabbed
Northeast floods; 11 lakh affected in Assam; 4 minors killed during landslide in Meghalaya
2 years, 6 months ago

Northeast floods; 11 lakh affected in Assam; 4 minors killed during landslide in Meghalaya

Firstpost  

IMD has forecast widespread thundershowers with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall over all the northeastern states, adjoining sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim during the next five days Heavy rain lashed large swathes of northeastern India on Friday, including Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, worsening the flood situation in several places, even as the Met department forecast more …

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Centre's aggressive push for Hindi as North-East India's 'link language' threatens to expose ethnic fault lines
2 years, 7 months ago

Centre's aggressive push for Hindi as North-East India's 'link language' threatens to expose ethnic fault lines

The Hindu  

North-eastern India is a linguistic mosaic, with over 400 different languages spoken in the region. Dr Banani Chakravarty said a section of the Assamese elite, while asserting Assamese linguistic aspiration, encouraged the “otherisation” of Tibeto-Burman language speakers. “A section of the Assamese power elite assumes that it is essential for Tibeto-Burman language speakers and speakers of ‘minor languages’ to know …

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PM promises to remove AFSPA if NE normalises
2 years, 7 months ago

PM promises to remove AFSPA if NE normalises

Deccan Chronicle  

Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his government was committed to bring in lasting peace in conflict zones in the Northeast and assured that the Armed Forces Special Power Act shall be removed if things return to normal. While addressing two massive public rallies at Loringthepi, Diphu in Karbi Anglong and Dibrugarh he said, “We are changing rules. After addressing …

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