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On October 27, Assam woke up to a terrifying dawn. The rather long lull, which the state had almost got used to, was broken by a violent storm as a group of heavily-armed rebels of the Bhutan-based National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) crossed the border in the Kokrajhar district…

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The Centre's move to scrap Migrant Act stokes old fires

Manimanik Gogoi was like any other youth in Assam, a graduate from a small-time college looking for a non-existent government job, hanging around with friends all day and heading a youth group called Dighalia Yuvak Sangh. That was till he stumbled upon an innovative programme run by corporate giant Oil…

The Assam governor, Lt Gen (retd) S.K. Sinha, is once again in the news for the wrong reasons. This time the governor is at loggerheads with Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi over the contentious Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, 1983. Sinha is a staunch proponent of scrapping the controversial…