Strengthening age-old relations between the people of Maharashtra and those living in the northeastern states, Chief Minister Prithiviraj Singh Chavan has announced several concessional steps, including chartered planes from Guwahati to Mumbai and Pune for students to return to their educational institutions.
For lakhs of 10th class students in Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh is not a part of the country, as the north-eastern state is reportedly "missing" from the map in their geography textbooks.
Students from the northeast on Sunday staged a candlelight vigil for Arunachal Pradesh youth Nido Tania and demanded an anti-racism law to ensure the safety of the people from the region.
The autopsy report of Arunachal Pradesh student Nido Tania, whose death here sparked an outrage, has revealed that he succumbed due to injuries on his head and face caused by a blunt object.
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Seeking steps to stop discrimination against people from northeast, Members of Parliament from the region on Thursday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who asked the legislators to place their views before the committee constituted to address their grievances.
'The situation is very bad there. People are stranded'
'We have sent them back from the land they wanted to grab. We have the bravest soldiers on the borders and we can sleep peacefully till they are there'
The Centre said the reports of the governor mention that law and order situation has been deteriorating every passing day and there was 'total collapse' of the law and order machinery.
The monsoon spelt mayhem in several parts of the country on Monday, particularly Mumbai where local train services and flight operations were hit and everyday life disrupted as well as Assam that was grappling with floods yet again.
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Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday joined youth from the Northeast agitating to bring to book those involved in the killing of Nido Tania, a student from Arunachal Pradesh, and promised "very strict action" apart from setting up of a committee to look into the treatment meted out to people from the region.
The CJI said there is an urgent need to emerge from the adjournment culture to a culture of professionalism.
Srinagar Senior Superintendent of Police Rakesh Balwal, who has expertise in handling terror-related cases, has been "prematurely" repatriated to Manipur cadre where a fresh bout of violence has worsened the already tense situation.
Family of Nido Tania, the 19-year-old youth from Arunachal Pradesh who was allegedly beaten to death by some shopkeepers in South Delhi's Lajpat Nagar area a few days ago, on Tuesday met Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi demanding speedy justice for their son and strict punishment for the perpetrators.
The AFSPA is in force in Assam, Nagaland, Manipur (excluding Imphal Municipal Council Area), Changlang, Longding and Tirap districts of Arunachal Pradesh, and areas falling within the jurisdiction of eight police stations of districts in Arunachal Pradesh bordering Assam.
'The Opposition will continue to be attacked through misuse of agencies, civil society will be force-marched towards extinction and India's plummeting on global indices will continue.' 'Minorities and especially Muslims will continue to have open season declared on them. Institutions will continue their decline,' predicts Aakar Patel.
The on-going mass agitation against the construction of 2000 MW Subansiri lower hydroelectric project along the Assam-Arunachal border has intensified. Anti-dam protestors have resisted the movement of two turbines meant for the mega dam project that is being constructed by National Hydroelectric Power Corporation at Gerukamukh at the foothills of Arunachal Pradesh.
Bypolls in three assembly constituencies in as many states passed off peacefully on Monday with around over 70 per cent voter turnout, though some technical glitches in electronic voting machine were reported in Tamil Nadu and the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal alleged that the Central Reserve Police Force was "influencing" voters.
Days after he attacked Bharatiya Janata Party's PM candidate Narendra Modi over the 2002 riots issue, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that BJP's "divisive" policy was responsible for spoiling the country's secular fabric and incidents of hate crime.
Parents of Arunachal Pradesh youth Nido Tania, who died following an alleged racist attack in Delhi, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday and demanded capital punishment for the perpetrators.
The influential North East Students Organisation, an amalgamation of main students' bodies of all the seven northeastern states has called for a 12-hour dawn-to-dusk bandh in six states -- Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram and Meghalaya -- from the 5 am on September 6 next, will hold a public rally at Guwahati in Assam on the issue of recent exodus of NE people from outside states and presence of illegal foreigners in the region.
The government on Tuesday ordered a CBI probe into the death of Arunachal Pradesh youth Nido Tania allegedly after an assault by a group of people.
The union has sought clarification on the environmental impact of the project in the nearby areas of neighbouring Assam.
Several states declared a holiday for schools, while government offices, other establishments and public sector banks remained closed for half a day.
The student jumped into the leaping flames bringing out the victims one after another and thus saved seven lives. But after his eighth bid, he was not seen coming out and was presumed dead.
Indian Armed Forces around the country and beyond performed yoga to celebrate the eighth edition of the International Day of Yoga, June 21, 2022.
North-eastern states have led the charge in recording a decline.
Navarino Narah, a travel and luxury boutique hotels consultant from Arunachal Pradesh, tells Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar what he would like to see in Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget.
Observers say China should re-address its policies towards India or else it will continue to face flare-ups increasing the tensions between the two countries at a time China's increasing tension with the US over Taiwan and the South China Sea besides the downturn in the Chinese economy which is hit hard by the zero-covid policy.
The Central Bureau of Investigation filed a charge sheet on Friday against seven people, including three juveniles, in connection to the death of 19-year-old student Nido Tania.
Students' organisations and political parties are participating in the bandh to protest the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan if they faced religious persecution there.
Over 350,000 students from 27 states and Union territories took the exams.
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday condemned the attacks and harassment of people from the northeast in various parts of the country in the wake of the killing of a boy from Arunachal Pradesh in Delhi and said a message should go out that they should be protected.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday demanded action against those responsible for the unfortunate death of an Arunachal Pradesh student and announced steps to stop racial discrimination against North Eastern people.
Both the NSCN-IM and the government representatives have agreed to resume their peace dialogue on Wednesday in New Delhi to find a permanent solution to the vexed issue.
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