Amid tightened security for India’s Republic Day (January 26), serial blasts rocked Eastern parts Assam Amid tightened security for Republic Day celebration, serial blasts rocked Upper Assam on Sunday morning.
Protests against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 continued unabated across Assam on Thursday, primarily under the aegis of student bodies AASU and AJYCP, with agitators vowing not to relent till the law is scrapped.
As per reports a cross section of Assamese thinkers and literary personalities have come out against the inhuman detention camp set up in Assam. In a joint statement, issued yesterday, 31 thinkers, literary personalities, poets, singers and social activists have demanded the immediate closure of the six existing detention camps in the state and stoppage of the construction of the new detention camp proposed at Goalpara in lower Assam.
As per the media reports an earthquake of mild intensity measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale shook Assam's Kokrajhar district and its neighbouring