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SC Hearing on CAA Highlights: No stay on CAA-NPR, Assam-Tripura matters segregated; top court bars HCs from hearing pleas on law
Fp Staff • 5 years agoSC Hearing on CAA Live Updates: The Supreme Court today made it clear that it will not grant any stay on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) without hearing the Centre. It has given the Centre four weeks to reply to all the generic petitions regarding CAA, while Assam and Tripura specific matters should be responded to within two weeks.
Students of universities in North East call for shutdown of educational institutes in view of SC hearing on CAA today
• 5 years agoIn view of the Supreme Court hearing on CAA, students unions of universities across the North East have called for a 'total shutdown' of all varsities and colleges on Wednesday.
Anti-CAA movement in Assam looks set to give rise to a new AASU-helmed political party in the state
Kangkan Acharyya • 5 years agoThe message is loud and clear: Assam is soon going to have a new political outfit born out of the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act movement
Sonowal promises to grant land pattas to over 40,000 landless indigenous people; clearly define criteria, Congress tells Assam CM
Karishma Hasnat • 5 years agoThe Congress has asked the state government to define the term indigenous since the Sarbananda Sonowal government in Assam has decided to provide land pattas to more than 40,000 landless indigenous people on 28 January
Assam BJP accuses Congress, Leftist parties, 'overground Maoist KMSS' for violence during anti-CAA protests in Dec
• 5 years agoState BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass accused the Congress, KMSS and Leftist parties of being involved in violence during anti-CAA protests
Yogendra Yadav and Shekhar Gupta vouch for a monolithic Assamese identity; get history and politics around NRC all wrong
Angshuman Choudhury And Suraj Gogoi • 5 years agoIt is a logical fallacy to support NRC and oppose CAA, as both feeds into each other.
Assam cabinet nod to accord stature of state language to Assamese may stifle growth of other tongues spoken by a few
Samyak Ghosh And Suraj Gogoi • 5 years agoThe cabinet proposal for a state language will have adverse effects on the other minor languages in the sphere of literature.
Protests unabated as North East flocks together against Citizenship Amendment Act to protect unique linguistic and cultural identity
Karishma Hasnat • 5 years agoDespite no government response to the demands, students across the region continue to protest with full support from their teachers, senior citizens, intellectuals, civil society organisations and the general public.
AASU returns to centre stage as Assamese elites, commoners repose faith in student body to lead fight against Citizenship Amendment Act
Abhinav P Borbora And Suraj Gogoi • 5 years agoDespite the protests in Assam largely being a spontaneous affair, it is AASU to whom people in Assam look for leadership in such moments of crisis.
Citizenship Amendment Act: Sarbananda Sonowal risks political apocalypse by ignoring Assamese sub-nationalism
Dowerah • 5 years agoToday Sarbananda Sonowal is a karyakarta of the BJP, a kindergarten student in the school of Hindutva, an enthusiastic apologist for the Citizenship Amendment Act but he is no longer an Assamese.