The Congress on Tuesday promised to build a memorial for the “martyrs” of the movement against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) if it is voted back to power in Assam.Five people were allegedly ki
Shivamogga explosion: Cause of blast at quarry remains mystery, toll expected to rise
Meanwhile, the Karnataka government has ordered a high-level investigation and announced an ex-gratia of five lakh each to the kin of the deceased.
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Officials have barricaded the area to prevent entry of local people as live explosives are suspected to be on the spot. (Video Screengrab)
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SHIVAMOGGA: The blast caused by a truckload of explosives, suspected to be meant for mining, at Hunasodu village near Shivamogga remains a mystery despite the bomb squad and seismic experts rushing to the spot on Friday morning.
GUWAHATI: Hundreds of people staged protests against the Centre’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the capital city on Saturday exactly a year after five persons were killed during the protests.
Protesters vowed to intensify the agitation if the Centre went ahead to implement the CAA, which has been challenged by over 140 petitions in the apex court. Deafening roars of “ami CAA namanu (we will not accept CAA)” reverberated across the city and the state as the day saw people organizing bike rallies in protest against CAA and people from Sadiya to Dhubri paid tributes to five people who died on December 12 last year during protests against the Act.
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GUWAHATI: The AASU (All Assam Students Union) on Saturday demanded a judicial probe into the police firings during the movement opposing the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) in Assam leading to the death of five persons across the State last year.
Two of them are minors, namely Sam Stafford (15 years old resident from Hatigaon in Guwahati) and Dipanjal Das (17 years old from Chaygaon of Kamrup district). The other three martyrs are Iswar Nayak (25) from Udalguri, Abdul Alim (23) from Barpeta and Dwijendra Panging from Dibrugarh. Dipanjal Das has been declared as the first martyr of the anti-CAA movement in Assam by AASU.
Students of Cotton University, along with the member of the Guwahati Mahanagar Satra Samaj, organise an anti-CAA protest in Guwahati on Friday
GUWAHATI: Hundreds of students hit the streets of Guwahati on Friday demanding the scrapping of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
Former general secretary of the Cotton University, Pranjal Kalita, said the students’ fraternity cannot forget the atrocities meted out by Assam Police on them and the people of Assam during anti-CAA protests. “We are always with the people of the state. We won’t accept the act that poses a threat to the indigenous people. It is not possible to stay silent and let the greater Assamese community go into extinction.”