-NDTV.com Thirteen villagers and a soldier were killed at an Indo-Myanmar border district in Nagaland on Sunday as a counter-insurgency operation went horribly off script. One more villager died in the clashes that followed. The 21 Para Special forces of Army "blankly opened fire" resulting in the killing of many Oting villagers in Mon district of Nagaland near Assam border, the state police has alleged in its FIR against the Army unit....
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Forced eviction a design to target Bengali speaking Muslims by projecting them “encroachers”: Enquiry report -Mahibul Hoque
-TwoCircles.net Since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed the government in Assam in 2016, the state has witnessed a spree of evictions uprooting thousands of people. The forced eviction drive became rampant after Himanta Biswa Sarma took charge as chief minister in 2021. GUWAHATI: The forced eviction drive of Bengali speaking Muslims in Assam by the state government was aimed at serving “vested interest with ulterior motives” against the people who were...
More »More Than 33% of Children in 14 states Anaemic, Gujarat on top at 79.7% -Priyanka Ishwari
-Newsclick.in Ladakh has the highest percentage of anaemic children among UTs at 92.5%, NFHS-5 reveals. The prevalence of anaemia among children and women has increased in most states and Union Territories (UTs) in the last five years. According to the latest findings of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), 67.1% of children aged 6-59 months were anaemic in 2021 against 58.6% in 2016. According to the survey, released by the Union ministry of...
More »Anti-CAA protests gather fresh steam
-The Hindu Rollback of farm laws spurs groups in Assam, event planned on December 12. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement on repealing the three contentious farm laws has revived groups against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in Assam with a protest planned on December 12. The CAA seeks to fast-track the granting of citizenship to non-Muslims who fled religious persecution in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan and took refuge in India till December 31, 2014. A...
More »Why Millets in mid-day meal can be a political hot topic -Romita Datta
-IndiaToday.com In several states like Bengal, Assam and Odisha, rice is the staple diet On October 28, the Centre proposed millets be introduced in mid-day meals to tackle the growing problem of malnutrition among school students. Though in the past, some of the non-BJP ruled states, like Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, tried to be innovative with the menu, introducing eggs once or twice a week as protein substitutes to...
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