GENEVA: The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has voiced grave concern over the treatment of Bengali-speaking Muslims in Assam, pointing to racial bias in the ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has asserted that Bengali-speaking Muslims must forsake practices like child marriage and polygamy to be considered 'khilonjiya' indigenous people of the state ...

BJP won 82 of Assam’s 126 assembly seats — its first-ever outright majority in the state. The party came to dominate Assam through the methodical, decade-long construction of an existential enemy — th ...

Political observers believe the biggest reason behind this trend was the collapse of the All-India United Democratic Front ...

The frontier state of Assam – incidentally the land of my birth – is today seething with animosity, fear and resentment. It is tearing apart. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has done all he ...

The Haryana police have allegedly detained 26 Bengali-speaking people from Assam in Gurugram since Sunday morning on suspicion of being illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, according to eyewitnesses and ...

Silchar (Assam), Sep 1 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma asserted that Bengali-speaking Hindus have been "most comfortable" in the northeastern state under the BJP's rule in the last 10 ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday asserted that Bengali-speaking Hindus have been “most comfortable” in the state under the BJP’s rule over the past 10 years, and said his government ...