-The Indian Express The start of the sugarcane season in Maharashtra is marked by the seasonal migration of around 7-8 lakh labourers from Marathwada and North Maharashtra to the mills in various parts of the state. Pune: Maharashtra’s sugarcane crushing is all set to extend by at least a fortnight as mills complain of acute shortage of harvesting labourers. Mills say that at present around 15-20 per cent less labourers have turned...
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Why is the Northeast on the boil? -Sudipta Datta
-The Hindu In Assam, Tripura and Meghalaya, what is the unease over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019? The story so far: Curfew was eased on Saturday for some hours in towns and cities of the Brahmaputra Valley including Guwahati in lower Assam and Dibrugarh in upper Assam after days of violent protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 since the Bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha on December 11 and the...
More »Away from Right and Left-Liberal politics, northeast India fights a lonely battle -Bitasta Das
-TheNewsMinute.com Among the most detrimental impacts of the present Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAB) is the perpetuation of the feeling of alienation in the region. News and images coming from Assam submit a picture that unrest is yet again lurking at the doors after two decades of peace and stability. Deaths, mass protest, mainly by students, halting of normal life, disruption of public property, curfew, paramilitary forces’ flag march, internet blockade,...
More »Explained: Why West Bengal is in crosshairs of CAB, NRC -Abantika Ghosh
-The Indian Express In West Bengal, the bone of contention among political rivals for years has been the influx of nearly 1 crore people in 1971 from then East Pakistan — few returned. ASSAM AND the rest of northeast India is on the boil over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, but it is in West Bengal that the proposed legislation will play a critical part if the BJP-led central government goes ahead...
More »North-East Bandh Protests in Assam, Manipur after Lok Sabha clears Citizenship Bill
-The Indian Express North-East Bandh Today, Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) Protests Live News Updates: The CAB is a contentious issue in Northeast India with influential socio-political groups and political parties holding it as a threat to the interests of the indigenous communities of the region. Agartala, Guwahati, Imphal, New Delhi: Security has been beefed up across the states of North-East as an 11-hour bandh called in protest against the contentious Citizenship...
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