-The Hindustan Times Indigenous Assamese Muslim groups joined the All Assam Students Union (AASU) on Friday in charging the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief Badruddin Ajmal with fanning communal sentiments in the wake of the recent Violence in Assam. Sadou Asom Gariya – Moria Desi Jatiya Parisad (SAGMJP), an influential body of about 25 lakh Assamese Muslims, held Ajmal responsible for Northeast students and workers leaving Maharastra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh...
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Assam ethnic Violence spreads to new districts-Prabin Kalita
-The Times of India GUWAHATI: The ethnic Violence between Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslims, which sparked off in Kokrajhar on July 20 and soon affected neighbouring Chirang and Dhubri districts, has spread to new areas with fresh incidents of Violence being reported from Baksa, Nalbari and Kamrup (rural) in the past 12 hours. There was no report of any loss of life. On Wednesday midnight, after miscreants set a Tata Nano car on...
More »Maruti sacks 500, to open on August 21
-The Hindustan Times Maruti Suzuki on Thursday said it would restart production at its Violence-hit factory in Manesar, Haryana on August 21 and dismiss at least 500 permanent workers. The workers to be sacked include the 154 in police custody for the July 18 Violence, which left senior HR executive AK Dev dead and at least 96 officials injured. “Through internal enquiries, we have identified at least 500 permanent workers who, we...
More »NE migrants flee Pune, Bangalore, Chennai
-The Times of India Fearing reprisals over the Violence against Muslims in Assam, people from the northeast continued to flee from cities such as Bangalore, Chennai, Pune and Mumbai, even as ethnic clashes between Bodos and Muslims that began in July spread to Baksa, Nalbari and Kamrup districts on Thursday. More than 3,000 labourers from the northeast living in Chennai thronged the station to take the weekly Egmore-Dibrugarh Express after they heard...
More »Mischief potential of social media in full play-Sudipto Mondal
-The Hindu The combined power of the mobile phone, the Internet and the social media was on display in the crisis that led to thousands of people from the northeast fleeing Bangalore. What became clear was that rumour-mongers did not belong exclusively to either the northeast or the Muslim community. There were also other groups who may have helped fan the panic. In mid-July this year, a Pakistani news portal, columnpk.com, carried...
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