Major Split in ULFA Expected to Bring Peace in Assam

Santosh Kumar Agarwal a year ago Region: India

The state government’s effort to bring overground, a section of ULFA’s military wing, has ultimately paid off. Two out of three companies of ULFA’s most dreaded and potent battalion 28 have announced unil... more

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Voices We Do Not Hear

Shantanud a year ago Region: India

The people of Majuli are angry. For years, their land , the world’s largest riverine island is having its land mass eroded by the Brahmaputra and no one is doing any thing about it. Not even the Prime Minister who re... more

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Assam’s impotent police force witness Adivasi woman being stripped

Daniel Kraig a year ago Region: India

An Adivasi woman is stripped naked near the high-security Assam state Assem-bly. A few cops and CRPF men are on duty but make no attempt to stop this shameful act. It is difficult to come across a police force more impoten... more

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Northeast India: Journalists between the devil and the deep sea

Monjib Mochahari 8 months ago Region: India

It’s a debatable question whether the pen can always fight against the bullets? Working in the trouble torn Northeast India is becoming increasingly unsafe for those who work without frontiers. In another shocking in... more

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11 serial blasts in Assam, several killed & injured

Jagan T a year ago Region: India

Eleven serial blasts  rocked several districts of Assam today, including four in Guwahati, killing at least seven persons and injuring over 50 others. Several of the injured were said to be in a critical condition ... more

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Bombs found in a mosque in Assam

Daniel Kraig 2 years ago Region: India

Even as Osama Bin Laden urged the Muslim community of Assam to launch the fight for an Islamic state in Assam, two bombs have been recovered in a masjid, in the Nalbari district of Assam. Bombs found in a mosque in Assam more

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Painter from Assam expresses himself through machines

Daniel Kraig 2 years ago Region: India

This young painter from Assam, currently a student of Kala Bhavana in Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, depicts machineries and mechanical gadgets-unique visual forms, to express the complexities in which our social ... more

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