Speech of Mr Suhas Chakma on ST Amendment Bill

Exclusion of 1.9 million people from NRC is largest in recent history: RRAG, Northeast Now

Northeast NowANUP SHARMAGUWAHATI , August 31, 2019 Hours after the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) excluded 19,06,657 people from the updated citizens’ registry, New Delhi based Rights and Risk Analysis Group (RRAG) termed it as largest such incident making people ‘stateless’ in recent times. Also read: Assam gets its updated NRC…finally; 19,06,657 excluded from final list RRAG […]

Ramachandra Guha: Why Ram Mohun Roy’s colonial-era petition for press freedom is still relevant, Scroll

Scroll 21 June 2020 The Indian press is less free, more vulnerable to state intimidation than at any time since the Emergency. In 1824, the Government of Bengal (which was then in the hands of the East India Company) issued an Ordinance placing strict curbs on the freedom of the press. This gave the government […]

Exempting ILP-States from the CAB: North East all set to be balkanised!, India News Diary

Available at India News DiaryPublished on 01 November 2019 GUWAHATI/NEW DELHI: The Government of India is expected to place revised Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in the winter session of the parliament beginning on 18 November 2019 to address the crisis arising out of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) of Assam and its intention to […]