At a time when identity politics in the Northeast is repeatedly stirred for partisan gains, Sarma’s words offered a counter-narrative of Hindu civilizational unity, rejecting the manufactured binary of Assamese versus Bengali.
Days after 19-year-old Sneha Debnath, a student at Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College in Delhi University, went missing, her body has been recovered from a river under the Geeta Colony flyover on Sunday
Islamic extremists have resorted to cow slaughter in public, violent agitation in the name of Waqf protests, targeting of Hindu homes and shops, multiple cases of temple vandalism and idol desecration and even co-opting the national 'Hijab movement' to destroy peace and harmony in Tripura.
Major R. Rajamani, the commander of the Indian Army unit that reached Mandai on 9th June 1980, compared the brutality of the killings to the '1968 My Lai massacre' in Vietnam. He remarked, "I have heard of My Lai. I wonder whether that was half as gruesome as here."
NLFT was initially banned under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act of 1967. It was finally disbanded in 2024 with the signing of the historic tripartitie 'Tripura Peace Accord'.
There is no specific treaty/ agreement between India and the Bangladeshi Government regarding the deportation of the latter's citizens who entered India illegally.
Bangladesh has significantly raised the height of the embankment on its side of the border with India which will divert the water of Manu river towards India during a flood.