Assam Riots

A committee has been formed to identify the officers responsible for bulldozing the house of a riot accused in the Nagaon district last year, the state government informed the Gauhati High Court on Tuesday.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma spoke to NDTV about several issues today that ranged from 'Love Jihad' to bulldozing of madrassas in Assam.

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's and Union Home Minister Amit Shah's visits to Assam over this weekend, the All Assam Students' Union (AASU) has decided to launch a state-wide protest on the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that started a wave of agitation across the country in 2019 and riots in Delhi.

The Congress in Assam has lodged strong protests against dropping of chapters on Jawaharlal Nehru's policies, Ayodhya dispute and the Gujarat riots from the Class 12 syllabus of the state board.

Policies of first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, anti-Sikh riots, Ayodhya dispute, empowerment of women and minority rights are some of the topics that have been excluded from the Class 12 syllabus of the Assam state board to lessen the academic load of students due to the pandemic.

Twenty-year-old Unish Hembram lost her father and her home just 15 days after she was born in the riots of 1996 in Assam's Kokrajahar. But instead of giving in to the tragedy, she decided to change her story.

In the aftermath of the ethnic clashes that erupted in Bodo-dominated areas of Assam last year, more than four lakh people moved to relief camps set up by the state all across the territory. While most of these camps have closed now, there are two that are still teeming with refugees.

Two months after Assam witnessed its worst ethnic violence in a decade, the epicentre of those riots, in which more than 99 people were killed and five lakhs displaced from their homes, is simmering again.

The Home Ministry and Intelligence agencies have reportedly found the Tarun Gogoi government in Assam extremely lax in the way it has handled the riots in the state in the last month.

Tarun Gogoi, the beleaguered Chief Minister of Assam, has taken umbrage at comparisons being made between the Gujarat riots of 2002 and the ethnic clashes that have rocked his state in the last month; he says such comparison is "unfair."

A state legislator in Assam has been detained by the police for his alleged role in the recent ethnic clashes in the state that have left over 70 people dead in the last one month.

The spurt of killings which began in Bodoland autonomous region of Assam in North-East India and spread to many regions of the country, has been dubbed as India's biggest-ever internal displacement so far.

Mumbai politician Raj Thackeray says he will defy a police order and will lead his party, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), in a march from Girgaum Chowpatty to the Azad Maidan, a distance of about five kms. The police has refused permission for Mr Thackeray's march; he has been allowed to hold his rally at Azad Maidan.

Bodies bruised and battered, bones broken, but spirits undaunted. At least 62 police personnel - three of them women - were injured in the violence at Azad Maidan on Saturday. The protests, which were organised by several NGOs to draw attention to the plight of a minority community in Assam and Myanmar, turned ugly within minutes.

Were the riots that shook Mumbai on Saturday, spontaneous or were they part of a planned conspiracy? Top officials of the Mumbai Police have told NDTV that they are in possession of CCTV visuals that show a mob boarding a local train at the Kurla Station on the Central Line and alighting at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus which is right opposite A...

A committee has been formed to identify the officers responsible for bulldozing the house of a riot accused in the Nagaon district last year, the state government informed the Gauhati High Court on Tuesday.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma spoke to NDTV about several issues today that ranged from 'Love Jihad' to bulldozing of madrassas in Assam.

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's and Union Home Minister Amit Shah's visits to Assam over this weekend, the All Assam Students' Union (AASU) has decided to launch a state-wide protest on the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that started a wave of agitation across the country in 2019 and riots in Delhi.

The Congress in Assam has lodged strong protests against dropping of chapters on Jawaharlal Nehru's policies, Ayodhya dispute and the Gujarat riots from the Class 12 syllabus of the state board.

Policies of first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, anti-Sikh riots, Ayodhya dispute, empowerment of women and minority rights are some of the topics that have been excluded from the Class 12 syllabus of the Assam state board to lessen the academic load of students due to the pandemic.

Twenty-year-old Unish Hembram lost her father and her home just 15 days after she was born in the riots of 1996 in Assam's Kokrajahar. But instead of giving in to the tragedy, she decided to change her story.

In the aftermath of the ethnic clashes that erupted in Bodo-dominated areas of Assam last year, more than four lakh people moved to relief camps set up by the state all across the territory. While most of these camps have closed now, there are two that are still teeming with refugees.

Two months after Assam witnessed its worst ethnic violence in a decade, the epicentre of those riots, in which more than 99 people were killed and five lakhs displaced from their homes, is simmering again.

The Home Ministry and Intelligence agencies have reportedly found the Tarun Gogoi government in Assam extremely lax in the way it has handled the riots in the state in the last month.

Tarun Gogoi, the beleaguered Chief Minister of Assam, has taken umbrage at comparisons being made between the Gujarat riots of 2002 and the ethnic clashes that have rocked his state in the last month; he says such comparison is "unfair."

A state legislator in Assam has been detained by the police for his alleged role in the recent ethnic clashes in the state that have left over 70 people dead in the last one month.

The spurt of killings which began in Bodoland autonomous region of Assam in North-East India and spread to many regions of the country, has been dubbed as India's biggest-ever internal displacement so far.

Mumbai politician Raj Thackeray says he will defy a police order and will lead his party, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), in a march from Girgaum Chowpatty to the Azad Maidan, a distance of about five kms. The police has refused permission for Mr Thackeray's march; he has been allowed to hold his rally at Azad Maidan.

Bodies bruised and battered, bones broken, but spirits undaunted. At least 62 police personnel - three of them women - were injured in the violence at Azad Maidan on Saturday. The protests, which were organised by several NGOs to draw attention to the plight of a minority community in Assam and Myanmar, turned ugly within minutes.

Were the riots that shook Mumbai on Saturday, spontaneous or were they part of a planned conspiracy? Top officials of the Mumbai Police have told NDTV that they are in possession of CCTV visuals that show a mob boarding a local train at the Kurla Station on the Central Line and alighting at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus which is right opposite A...