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Saturday, December 20, 2025
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Topic: Assam

Modi mourns death of veteran journalist PG Baruah of Assam Tribune

For decades, he had been helming the newspaper, which was founded by his father, Radha Gobinda Baruah. Baruah, 93, died in Guwahati on Sunday evening.

Fresh challenges to electoral roll revision in Assam & UP; SC notice to EC on Assam plea

Why only special revision in Assam and not Special Intensive Revision, asks a petitioner challenging EC decision. Another petition says SIR in UP was 'totally flawed, biased'.

Tezpur University protests: Ministry team assures inquiry against V-C, prof assumes charge suo motu

Team led by higher education secretary Vineet Joshi arrived at campus Saturday but was greeted with protests. Students & teachers insist on V-C Shambhu Nath Singh’s removal.

What’s fuelling Tezpur University stir: Absent V-C, charges of financial fraud & ‘disrespect’ to Zubeen

Campus in shutdown mode as students & faculty reject Vice-Chancellor Shambhu Nath Singh’s bid to appoint Pro-V-C and senior-most professor assumes charge as Acting V-C.

Is Assam’s proposed anti-polygamy law discriminatory? Penalties & exemptions spark debate

Those concealing first marriage face up to 10 years’ jail, repeat offenders get double punishment, Bill proposes. Centre's approval may be needed for law to be enacted.

2,000+ Muslims killed in Nellie. But Assam panel report buried for 42 yrs says it wasn’t communal

The report does not indicate that Nellie massacre, which took place against backdrop of anti-immigrant agitation led by AASU and AAGP, was the result of any larger conspiracy.

ECI orders special voter roll revision in Assam ahead of 2026 assembly polls

This ‘special revision’ differs from the SIR drive being carried out by EC orders in 12 states & UTs, given Assam’s unique citizenship framework & the SC-monitored NRC process.

Assam’s anti-polygamy Bill is progress for Muslim women. It’s not an attack on the community

If insisting that women be treated with equal dignity is 'targeting a community', then perhaps every community ought to be 'targeted' until equality is universal.

Why didn’t Himanta Sarma watch Roi Roi Binale? Zubeen Garg’s last film pulled into politics

Assam Jatiya Parishad leader Lurinjyoti Gogoi asked why CM Sarma, who gave leaves to state government employees to watch The Kashmir Files, is yet to watch Garg’s film.

The final goodbye for Zubeen Garg. Tears, cheers, 4 am screenings of Roi Boi Binale

Zubeen's wife, Garima Saikia Garg, shared the late singer’s handwritten letter on Instagram, which says, “Roi Roi Binale is my latest film. Come and watch. Love, Zubeen".

On Camera

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.