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The Latest Breaking News from Assam

Indian state makes polygamy a criminal offence – but activists say it is a tool for discrimination

New law excludes predominantly non-Muslim tribal communities

The Independent UK

‘Justice for Zubeen Garg’: How the iconic singer’s death became a political flashpoint in Assam

Ingty Raj Gogoi, a 26-year-old businessman from eastern Assam’s Sivasagar, was overwhelmed by grief at the death of Zubeen Garg.

Newslaundry

Fans demand answers over Indian singer Zubeen Garg’s death in Singapore as police officer arrested

The sudden death of Assam’s best-known and beloved musician has sparked outrage, mass protests, and a high-profile investigation spanning Singapore and India

The Independent UK

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Zubeen Garg’s career spanned film soundtracks, independent albums, acting, and live performances

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Backlash against ‘hate-mongering’ BJP video targeting Muslims in Assam: ‘This cannot be India’

While rhetoric targeting minorities is nothing new in Indian politics, some lamented what they saw as a new low reached by Narendra Modi’s ruling party

The Independent UK

BJP’s new political frontier: Fusion of Gujarat Hindutva model with Assam anti-immigration politics

Increasingly, across a widening swathe of the world, the central campaign issue for right-wing parties is immigration. Recent statements by top leaders, along with a series of administrative moves, suggest that with the Ayodhya Ram temple built and Article 370 abrogated, immigration is now emerging as the key political issue…

Newslaundry

Muslim women in Parliament: Ranee Narah’s journey from sportswoman to politician

Three days before Ranee Narah turned 47, on 28 October 2012, her then party colleague Himanta Biswa Sarma had tweeted, ‘Congratulation to Shrimati Rani Narah for her induction into the Union Council of Ministers.’

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 381: Loopholes in Bihar SIR, Assam’s 3000-bigha land row, right-wing targeting of journalists

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Sumedha Mittal and Pratyush Deep.

Newslaundry

SC declines to quash FIR against journalist Abhisar Sharma, grants interim protection

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain journalist Abhisar Sharma’s plea seeking to quash an FIR lodged by the Assam police over a video in which he accused the state government of indulging in “communal politics” and questioned its land allotment decisions, LiveLaw reported.

Newslaundry

Abhisar Sharma moves SC against Assam FIR

Abhisar Sharma has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Assam police case against him and the constitutionality of section 152 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita under which it was lodged, among other sections, LiveLaw reported.

Newslaundry

Meet the complainants behind the Assam FIRs against journalists

In Assam, three recent FIRs have turned the spotlight on a pattern: journalists critical of the government hauled up under a new sedition-style law. There’s another trend – the complainants in at least two of the FIRs ostensibly had links to the BJP or the RSS student wing ABVP.

Newslaundry

Abhisar Sharma booked after video on Himanta’s communal statements

The Guwahati Crime Branch has registered an FIR against journalist and YouTuber Abhisar Sharma after a local resident’s complaint claiming that Sharma mocked the Assam and central governments in a video.

Newslaundry

The real story behind Assam’s 3,000-bigha land row

A video clip from a Gauhati High Court hearing has been raging across social media. It shows Justice Sanjay Kumar Medhi, visibly astonished, reacting to the allotment of 3,000 bighas of land in Assam’s Dima Hasao district to a private cement company.

Newslaundry

If your food is policed, housing denied, identity questioned, is it freedom?

As India enters its 79th year, the questions of who the Republic belongs to and who belongs in the country stare its citizens in the face in multiple ways. The day has somehow come to be one of enforced vegetarianism, with several municipal bodies across the country ordering the closure…

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Injured elephant repeatedly visits Indian village for food and water

An elephant with a leg injury has been making daily visits to a village on the outskirts of Assam in northeast India, searching for food and water.

Newslaundry

FIR on Operation Sindoor article, SC grants Siddharth Varadarajan protection from arrest

The Supreme Court has granted protection from arrest to the Wire’s founding editor Siddarth Varadarajan in an FIR lodged against him under section 152 of the Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita in Assam, LiveLaw reported.

The Independent UK

AP photos show an injured elephant frequenting an Indian village as its habitat shrinks

For months an injured male elephant has been frequenting a village on the outskirts of India's northeastern Assam state in search of food, bringing it into contact with people living in the area.

Al Jazeera

On huge river island in India’s Assam, annual floods threaten local arts

Women making clay pots using their feet, men-only performances past midnight – some unique art forms being washed away.

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India is targeting Bengali-speaking Muslims for expulsion to Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch warns

Rights group says expulsions show ‘disregard for due process rights, domestic guarantees and international human rights standards’

Newslaundry

Gurugram community centre doubles up as detention facility, 74 ‘workers from Bengal, Assam’ in custody

Seventy-four Muslim migrant workers “from West Bengal and Assam” have been detained for the past four days at a municipal community centre in Gurugram’s Sector 10A, which is being used as a makeshift detention facility, Newslaundry has learnt.

International Business Times UK

Assam Influencer 'Babydoll Archi' Exposed As AI-Generated Persona After Viral Kendra Lust Photo

Viral photo of Assam influencer 'Babydoll Archi' with Kendra Lust sparks controversy. Netizens now believe Archi is an AI-generated persona with a fake online identity.

Newslaundry

‘Need to apologise immediately’: Journalist bodies condemn Assam minister’s ‘inferior people’ remark

The Media Association of Assam (MAA) and the Guwahati Press Club have condemned Assam minister of Public Health Engineering Jayanta Malla Baruah's “insulting” remarks about a journalist.

Al Jazeera

‘Foreigners for both nations’: India pushing Muslims ‘back’ to Bangladesh

Hundreds taken to Bangladesh border at gunpoint in a crackdown by Assam, as some other BJP-ruled states follow suit.

The Guardian - UK

India illegally deporting Muslim citizens at gunpoint to Bangladesh, say rights groups

There are fears the crackdown against ‘outsiders’ is driving widespread persecution as expelled Indians are returned by Bangladesh border guards

The Independent UK

Concern grows as India ramps up deportation of alleged migrants to Bangladesh

New Delhi rounds up thousands of alleged immigrants in sweeping operation involving biometric surveillance and military transport

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