The United Meitei Pangal Committee Manipur (UMPC) on Monday called on the Central government to take strong measures to restore peace, hold those responsible for the ongoing crisis in Manipur accountable, and ensure justice for affected communities.
Assam State Jamiat Ulema (ASJU) has threatened to move the Supreme Court (SC) if the Assam government continues what it views as harassment of Muslims under the guise of detecting and deporting foreign nationals from the state.
More than 100 homes and shops belonging to the indigenous Chakma community were set ablaze by illegal Muslim plain settlers in the Boalkhali and Dighinala Sadar areas of Khagrachari district in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) on Thursday evening.
While speaking at the ongoing state assembly session, Sarma stated that demographic changes are occurring in parts of lower Assam and could lead to an unprecedented human disaster.
While the entire north-eastern region has urged the central government to ensure that no infiltration happens along the region’s international border with Bangladesh due to the political upheaval in the country, former Governor of Meghalaya, Tathagata Roy, has sparked a controversy by asking the Centre to open the borders to allow Hindus in Bangladesh to take refuse in India.
Muslims from across Assam on Monday urged Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to reinstate the Qazi system under the Assam Moslem Marriages and Divorces Registration Act, 1935.
With the rest of the country Guwahati celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr with great pomp and gaiety as devotees offered Namaz at the historic Chahi Jama Majhid Eidgah in Guwahati's Dakhin gaon on Thursday.
