Assam Finance Minister Himant Biswas Sarma Requests People Not to Panic – “Even names of indigenous Assamese are not there in the list, names of Gorkhas are not in the list, but this is not final” In an interview to India Today, Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has appealed people not to panic over […]

Parliament on Monday passed a stringent legislation prescribing death penalty to those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years and making the law against such sexual offences harsher. The Bill replaces the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance promulgated on April 21, following an outcry over the rape and murder of a minor girl […]

JNU sexual harassment case: Panel clears professors, warns complainants The first complaint relates to an alleged incident in 2013, and the second to an incident last year — the complaints in both the cases were registered in January this year. The probe report, along with the ICC’s recommendations, in the first case was submitted on […]

Writes: Chandan Pariyar It’s time for the Monsoon flush, fighting with the wind and the rain women are seen bent at their waist behind the tea bush, plucking the tea leaves and carefully tucking it inside the cane basket hung on their head. Their sunburnt faces and the frostbitten hands may tell you hundreds of […]

Suraj Subba, the former general secretary of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s trade union, was arrested on Monday in connection with the 2017 June 8 clash that triggered the last round of the statehood agitation in the hills. He was the general secretary of the Terai Dooars Plantation Labour Union before Binay Tamang took charge of […]

Writes Geeta Mohan One of the major fallout of the National Register for Citizens (NRC) list in Assam would be on Gorkhas in India. According to reports, an estimated one lakh Gorkhas have been kept out of the draft that was published on July 30 that could be a cause for major consternation between the […]