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...