“This is a true message of humanity,” said a local cleric, highlighting that the rescued passengers were from the Hindu community In the predawn stillness of Nilam Bazaar on Monday, a faint splash stirred Abdul Basit, the imam of Bodo Badi Jama Masjid, from his sleep. Stepping outside, he saw headlights flickering beneath the surface...
Assam has carried out multiple eviction and demolition drives since the BJP came to power in the state in 2016, many of them in settlements predominantly inhabited by Bengali-speaking Muslims Authorities in Assam’s Nagaon district have evicted more than 1,500 Bengali-speaking Muslim families from what officials say is encroached reserved forest land, local media reported...
Islam was arrested on April 24 after he alleged that the April 22 attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam was a conspiracy by the Modi government to “incite hatred and violence against Muslims”. The Gauhati High Court has struck down the National Security Act (NSA) detention of Assam legislator Aminul Islam, saying authorities failed to...
Opposition MLA Akhil Gogoi said the bill breaches constitutional religious freedoms, while AIUDF’s Aminul Islam argued it violates several constitutional provisions.
The police made unprovoked attacks and used excessive force against displaced people in Darrang district of Assam, causing two deaths and many injuries, a fact-finding report by the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) has concluded. A fact-finding team of APCR recently visited Dholpur area of Darang district in Assam which saw the unfortunate...
By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi Assam, the northeastern state of India with one-third Muslims in the state population, has nearly 3.62 lakh landless families in 31 of its 33 districts. They are Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in their own land. This has been mainly because of land erosion and devastation caused by the mighty Brahmaputra river....
Sikandar Azam Once again, 102,462 people have to prove their citizenship credential in Assam as per the newly released National Register of Citizenship (NRC) draft. For poor common people, it is very difficult to waste entire day for the same work. The prime question is why enough scrutiny was not done by officials at the...