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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Topic: Northeast

Advisory issued over racial remarks against Northeast Indians in wake of coronavirus

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said the racial remarks are a consequences of cultural ignorance, prejudice & lack of understanding.

Army will pull forces out of internal security duties in Northeast: Gen MM Naravane

Working on a plan for the next 18-24 months on how to draw down regular forces from security duties in Northeast, Army Chief General M.M. Naravane says.

Assam is my identity, Islam a personal belief. Don’t let India communalise an ethnic struggle

Assam’s citizenship protests are in no way illiberal or about Hindus and Muslims. We have been taking in refugees for centuries.

Assam’s old 1970s fury back with Citizenship Act. This time for a new, young generation

With massive opposition to the Citizenship Act, Assam is again feeling alienated and wronged by New Delhi.

Modi’s CAB proves that concerns & fears of northeast people don’t matter in Indian politics

Northeast is burning because people know that there's no mechanism to protect the identity of the indigenous population.

How Modi, Shah have shred Vajpayee & Jana Sangh’s principled opposition to ILP in Northeast

Vajpayee & Jana Sangh fought Nehru for quarantining fellow Indians in Northeast under Inner Line Permit. Their successors have strengthened & expanded it.

Govt deploys 5,000 paramilitary personnel in Northeast as citizenship bill protests continue

Fifty companies were airlifted to the Northeastern states to maintain law and order. Around 2,000 personnel were deployed from Kashmir.

CAB protests a battle for India – either we are a secular state or we aren’t India at all

With the Citizenship Bill we cross the Rubicon, from a secular state to a ‘secular’ state. Everyone who believed in the idea of India must stand up.

Tripura isn’t anti-Hindu. But we must stop Citizenship Bill, we can’t take in more people

We told Amit Shah that we had done our bit to shelter Hindu refugees, writes head of Tripura royal house PD Barman.

Will Citizenship Bill create havoc in northeast rife with ethnic violence for decades?

The Union cabinet Wednesday cleared the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill that seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.