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Documentry recording torment of ‘love jihad’ to be screened at South Asian fest

KOLKATA: Assamese actor-turned-director Aimee Baruah’s documentary on love jihad in Assam is in competition at the ongoing 5th South Asian Short Film Festival. The director has interviewed multiple women, who spoke on camera about their brutal victimization. ‘Screaming Butterflies’, which won the Silver Conch award for Best Documentary Film at…

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Central officials assessing impact of Zawahiri’s killing on al-Qaeda’s presence in India

18 Indians are known to have joined the terror group between 2012 and 2015: police

The Hindu

Assam: Eight labourers injured as under-construction roof collapses in railway station

BONGAIGAON (ASSAM): At least eight labourers were injured, three of them seriously, when an under-construction roof collapsed at Bongaigaon Railway Station in Assam on Tuesday, police said.

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Assam CM Himanta slams Jharkhand MLA’s ‘fake’ FIR

Information and Public Relations Minister Pijush Hazarika said Himanta Biswa Sarma took Kumar Jaimangal to the residence of Coal Minister Prahlad Joshi for a trade union-related matter

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Pull of Sattriya draws Bangladesh woman to Assam for learning dance form

GUWAHATI: Drawn by the pull of Sattriya, a girl from Bangladesh came all the way to Assam to learn the dance form introduced by great Vaishnava saint Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankaradeva in the 15th century.

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New Assam policy to allow each tribal family to own up to 50 bighas of land

GUWAHATI: Assam will roll out a tribal land policy to allow each tribal family of the state to hold up to 50 bighas of land while the upper ceiling of 8 bighas under Assam Land Policy, 2019, will continue for the rest of the population.

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Links of 11 arrested in Assam with Bangladeshi terror outfit confirmed: Police

Police are maintaining surveillance on private madrasas across Assam for any "suspicious activities"

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Orunodoi scheme to aid Assam’s Tricolour plans

Beneficiaries to get ₹18 extra to buy flag

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Police in Assam, Uttar Pradesh flag concerns at demographic changes in districts bordering Bangladesh, Nepal

They highlight an increase in number of mosques, seminaries and a high decadal growth in population in these areas

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Assam’s Manas Reserve has more tigresses than tigers

Annual monitoring results of the trans-boundary World Heritage Site was released on Global Tiger Day

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Gauhati High Court asks Assam to file updated probe report encounter cases since May 2021

Altogether 161 encounters took place within 13 months of Himanta Biswa Sarma becoming the Chief Minister

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Assam police arrest journalists for reporting on minor’s ‘porn’ video

On July 9, a video clip was posted on social media. It purportedly showed four men having sex with a girl, later revealed to be a minor aged 17, in Assam’s Morigaon.

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New Assam NRC Coordinator appointed

Incumbent Hitesh Dev Sarma retires on July 31

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Assam CM Himanta hits out at Chowdhury over ‘rashtrapatni’ remark

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury had referred to President Murmu as ‘rashtrapatni’ while speaking to media during a protest programme at New Delhi

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IndiGo flight cancelled after aircraft skids off runway at Assam airport

GUWAHATI: An IndiGo flight from Assam's Jorhat to Kolkata on Thursday was cancelled apparently after the aircraft skidded off the runway during take-off and a pair of its wheels got stuck in the muddy outfield.

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Assam cricket pitch curators get soil science lessons

The State needs ace groundsmen for 21 upcoming cricket fields

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CCB nabs terror suspect who was working as food delivery executive in Bengaluru

The accused, a native of Assam, was living with four others in a rented house

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2 more labourers rescued in Arunachal

Ten of the 19 labourers from Assam missing since July 5 have been rescued so far

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8 of 19 missing workers from Assam rescued in Arunachal Pradesh

DIBRUGARH: Search teams combed through dense forests in Arunachal Pradesh’s remote Kurung Kumey district and rescued eight of 19 missing workers from Assam who fled a BRO road construction site on July 5 because of salary delays and lack of basic amenities at their camp. They lost their way and…

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Eight of 19 missing Assam labourers rescued in Arunachal Pradesh

Found in a jungle near the China border, they are in a critical condition, officials say

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Assam govt okays second wildlife sanctuary in Barak Valley

SILCHAR: Home to a multitude of birds and mammals, Assam's Barak Valley will soon get a second wildlife sanctuary with Governor Jagdish Mukhi approving a proposal for the creation of Barak Bhuban Wildlife Sanctuary.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 229: Assam student jailed, Alt News cofounder bailed

In this episode, host Nidhi Suresh is joined by Newslaundry’s Tanishka Sodhi and Pratyush Deep.

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Seven out of 19 Assam labourers missing in Arunachal Pradesh rescued

GUWAHATI: After 18 days, seven out of the 19 labourers from Assam who went missing from a road project site of Border Roads Organisation project in Kurung Kumey district of Arunachal Pradesh were rescued on Saturday.

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Tea worker’s grisly accident in Assam spotlights how workers are given no safety gear

“When I saw her, I almost lost hope,” said Tulsi Nayak. “She was senseless and there was no hair or skin on her head.”

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Assam bikers, on way to Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang, found dead in deep gorge

ITANAGAR: Bodies of four people from Assam were found in a deep gorge in Arunachal Pradesh's West Kameng district on Friday, a police officer said. They were members of different motorcycle riding clubs of Assam, and were on the way to Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh in a car, he said.

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