Those excluded in NRC list could vote in Assam elections

The Election Commission on Wednesday announced that people excluded in the Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) list are eligible to vote in the upcoming...

Shah sounds bugle for Assam polls: “Would stop infiltration”

Union home minister Amit Shah is in Assam ahead of the assembly polls in the state in next few months and he terms infiltration and floods as its two biggest...

Trial vaccination would begin in Punjab from Monday

The government will start trial run of mass vaccination programme from Punjab on December 28 and 29. Other three states in which the trial runs are to be conducted...

NRC incomplete; justice needs be done to Hindus, says Sarma

National Register of Citizens (NRC) has remained incomplete in Assam and justice needed to be done to Hindus living in the Barak Valley region, BJP minister Himanta Biswa...

BJP gains most in Bodoland, said to be semi-finals of Assam assembly polls

The results of the 40-member Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) elections in Assam, dubbed as the semi-final ahead of the Assembly polls next year, has thrown up a...

While we worry on Ladakh, China has poised itself on a village which could cut off India’s northeast

We have a WhatsApp group of old colleagues from The Pioneer where I began my career in journalism 40 years ago. We usually stick to songs and shayari, avoid ideological...

Love Jihad: The legal position in India in case you wish to marry a Muslim man

Love Jihad is in news. After the Allahabad High Court passed stricture against conversion only for the sake to get married, a number of states have put to motion a law...