Students body calls for extension of NRC to other Northeastern states
Students body calls for extension of NRC to other Northeastern states PTI | Updated on: 30 Jul 2018, 11:49:41 PM
Shillong/Aizawl/Agartala/Kohima/Itanagar/Imphal:
While Assam’s neighbours were on their toes on Monday to thwart possible infiltration of people who were left out of the NRC final draft, a prominent students’ body of the region called for extending the citizens’ register to the other Northeastern states.
The final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was released in Assam on Monday.
Lauding the Assam government for its achievement in preparing the draft NRC, the Northeast Students’ Organisation (NESO), an umbrella body of students of all the Northeastern states, demanded that the exercise be extended to the other states in the region as well as they too faced the illegal immigration problem.
Tripura Government Removes Memorial for 1971 Martyrs in Agartala, Faces Criticism
The government has said it is building a larger war memorial at the outskirts of the city.
The Martyrs Column. Photo: Author provided
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Agartala: The removal of the ‘Martyrs Column’ in memory of those who lost their lives in the Bangladesh Liberation War, which was erected after 1971 in Agartala, has sparked off reactions from a cross-section of society in Tripura as well as Bangladesh.
Every year since the column was erected, the state government and Indian Army pay floral tributes to the martyrs on January 26 and August 15.
But the present-BJP led Tripura government has pulled down the column and shifted two tanks which were seized by the Indian Army during the war to a new place. The government has said it will soon begin construction of a modern sculpture where the column used to be.
Tripura has achieved economic prosperity even in the middle of the Covid-19 outbreak, with per capita income exceeding the national average, the state announced on Tuesday.
Notices issued to 3 senior Tripura CPI(M) leaders
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They instigated supporters to take law into their own hands, say police
The Tripura police will question three prominent CPI(M) leaders in connection with a case concerning their statements allegedly asking party supporters to take law into their own hands to resist politically motivated attacks. They have issued notices to Left Front convenor Bijan Dhar, former MP Jitendra Choudhury and former Minister and MLA Bhanu Lal Saha to appear in person at the Amtali police station here to join investigation.