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The Hindu
18 hours ago
- Climate
- The Hindu
Flood situation improves in northeast; three die in Manipur
GUWAHATI: The flood situation in the northeastern region improved in the last 24 hours but the toll continues. According to Manipur's Directorate of Relief and Disaster Management, the State was dry on Friday, barring two areas, which experienced light rainfall. The rivers in receding mode, however, proved fatal for three persons, taking the death toll in rain-induced disasters across the region to 55. Assam recorded the most fatalities with 21 victims of floods and landslides, followed by 12 in Arunachal Pradesh, six in Meghalaya and Mizoram, four in Manipur, three in Sikkim, two in Tripura, and one in Nagaland. Nine persons, including a BJP Mahila Morcha leader from Odisha, are feared dead in Sikkim after the vehicle they were travelling in fell about 1,000 feet into the Teesta River on May 29. A Guwahati-based doctor, believed to have been caught in a landslide, has been missing in Arunachal Pradesh since May 31. While 1.66 lakh people continue to be affected by floods in Manipur, mostly in the Imphal Valley, the number of flood-hit people in Assam reduced by about 1.2 lakh to 4.44 lakh across 18 districts. A flood bulletin provided by the Assam State Disaster Management Authority said the Brahmaputra and four other rivers have been at certain stretches. 'We are currently operating 328 relief camps and relief distribution centres for 1.59 lakh people, who are yet to return home,' a spokesperson of the authority said.
The Hindu
3 days ago
- Climate
- The Hindu
Sikkim landslide: Lt. Col., his retired IAF officer wife among six missing
GUWAHATI: A Lieutenant Colonel and his retired Squadron Leader wife are among six individuals still missing after a landslide struck a military camp in northern Sikkim's Chhaten on Sunday evening (June 1, 2025). The missing are Lt Col. Pritpal Singh Sandhu, retired Indian Air Force officer Aarti Sandhu, their daughter Amayra Sandhu, Subedar Dharamveer, Naik Sunilal Muchachary, and Sepoy Sainudheen P.K. 'Search operations continue with urgency to locate the six individuals still missing. The Army has deployed specialised teams and engineering equipment, but the ongoing efforts have been significantly hampered by extremely bad weather, unstable ground, and the challenging high-altitude terrain,' a Defence Ministry statement said on Wednesday (June 4, 2025). Guwahati-based Defence spokesperson, Lt Col. Mahendra Rawat, said Army teams have been defying extreme weather conditions and a hazardous terrain to assist locals and stranded tourists. 'Lachen village, the main hub for tourism in the region, has been completely cut off. The Army has established foot connectivity to the village and reached out to 113 stranded tourists, who will be evacuated soon,' he said. Thirty tourists, including some foreign nationals, were airlifted by military helicopters after the weather eased on June 3. Landslides and rockfalls have been the major killers since the early monsoon rains began battering all eight northeastern States from the last week of May. Landslides claimed more than 70% of the 47 human lives claimed by rain-induced disasters across the region. Over 800 incidents of landslides have been recorded across the region, with Mizoram accounting for 644 of them, followed by Nagaland with 93. Landslides, landslips, and rockfalls have cut off many strategic locations in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim. On the brighter side, the number of people affected by floods in Assam decreased by 16,008 from 6,33,144 recorded on Tuesday. According to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority's morning flood bulletin on Wednesday (June 4, 2025) 6,17,136 people remain affected by floods across 20 districts. The number of districts hit on Tuesday was 21.
Scroll.in
6 days ago
- Politics
- Scroll.in
Two Assam women allegedly pushed out of India towards Bangladesh brought back
Two Bengali-origin Muslim women from Assam, who were allegedly forced into the no man's land between India and Bangladesh by the Border Security Force, have returned to their homes. One of them, Shona Bhanu, a 59-year-old resident of Barpeta district, was dropped on the highway around 11 pm on Saturday, 120 km from her home, her brother Ashraf Ali told Scroll. The second woman, Rahima Begum, from Upper Assam's Golaghat district, was brought home by the police on Friday night, her family said. Only three months ago, Begum had got a favourable ruling from the foreigners' tribunals, her lawyer said. On Friday, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had admitted that Assam has been 'pushing' back to Bangladesh persons who have been declared foreigners by the state's foreigners tribunals. Foreigner tribunals are quasi-judicial bodies unique to Assam, which rule on citizenship cases. They have been accused of arbitrariness and bias, and declaring people foreigners on the basis of minor errors in documents. As Scroll has reported, at least three of these expelled from Indian territory, including Bhanu, have their cases pending in the Supreme Court. Neither the Border Security Force nor the Assam police have explained why the two women have returned. Scroll sent questions to BSF and police officials. The story will be updated if they respond. Case in Supreme Court Shona Bhanu was among 14 people, including the Morigaon teacher Khairul Islam, who were allegedly forced out of Indian territory on May 27. She returned home on Saturday night, her brother Ali, said. 'I received a call at 11.30 pm that she had been dropped on the highway. I hired a vehicle and brought her home last night.' Bhanu had been summoned to the Barpeta SP's office on May 25, from where she was taken to the Matia detention centre. Bhanu had been declared a foreigner in 2013 by the foreigners' tribunal in Barpeta. The decision was upheld by the Gauhati High Court in 2016. However, in 2018, the Supreme Court stayed the high court's order, Guwahati-based advocate Sauradeep Dey, who was associated with her challenge to the tribunal ruling, told Scroll. 'Caught in a crossfire' Begum, a 50-year-old resident of Village No 2 Padumoni at Sarupather, told Scroll that she was picked up from her home on the morning of May 25 by the police and taken to the Matia detention centre in Lower Assam's Goalpara district, 425 km away. On Tuesday night, Begum told Scroll, those detained along with her were fed khichdi and handed Bangladeshi currency notes. 'The [BSF officials] asked me to go to Bangladesh and asked us to admit that we are Bangladeshi,' she said. Around dawn, they were then separated into groups and 'pushed forward'. 'We did not have any other option but to listen to them,' she said. 'We were pushed across the border by the BSF. As soon as we crossed, villagers on the other side came and asked us where we had come from. The Bangladesh border police came and questioned us and asked us to return the same way. I was also beaten up by the Bangladesh police,' Begum told Scroll. Begum said she did not know where in Bangladesh she had been forced into. When they tried to return to the Indian side, Begum said, they were caught in crossfire between the two border forces. 'We were terrified and stayed in an open field in no man's land the whole day in the scorching heat,' she said. Around 6 pm, BSF officials brought them water. 'Then they asked us to come back to the India border and we were brought to the BSF camp where they gave us food and water. They later asked to return the Bangladeshi money,' Begum said. An Indian citizen Begum is a Sylheti Muslim and she and her husband Malek Uddin Choudhury had migrated from Cachar in Barak Valley to Golaghat. Her advocate Lipika Deb said that Begum was able to satisfy the Jorhat foreigners' tribunal that her family had entered the state before March 24, 1971 but after January 1, 1966. Both those dates are crucial to determining citizenship status in Assam, as laid out in Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955. The section was enacted in 1985 to implement the Assam Accord, signed between Assamese leaders and the Indian government, which put an end to a popular movement against 'illegal immigrants' from Bangladesh. The law created two categories of citizens: those who entered Assam before January 1, 1966, and those who arrived between January 1966 and March 24, 1971. Both were granted citizenship, but the latter group had to register at the foreigners' regional registration office within 30 days and were denied voting rights for 10 years after being identified as 'foreigners'. 'A Jorhat tribunal on March 26 this year ruled that her family came to the territory of Assam between January 1966 and March 24, 1971,' Deb told Scroll. 'After that I helped her enroll at the foreigners' regional registration office on April 8 within 30 days.' Deb said her family had shown the FRRO order to some officials but they did not 'accept it'. 'They said it was a fake document,' she said. Begum's daughter said her mother is in trauma and questioned the police action. 'The government should do an inquiry before harassing people like this. Not a single Indian should go through this.'
News18
21-05-2025
- News18
Assam Man Kills Wife, Her Lover After Finding Them Together In Rented House
Last Updated: The victim surrendered after allegedly beating his wife Gita and her boyfriend Bhaskar to death with a rod in a violent altercation. He's currently in police custody In a shocking incident in Kampur in Assam's Nagaon district, a man allegedly killed his wife and her suspected lover after catching them together in their rented house. The accused, Jaykant Das, 30, had been living outside Kampur for work and returned home unexpectedly, only to find his wife, Gita Rani Das, with Bhaskar Nath, a TET teacher from Mangaldai. According to police reports, a violent altercation broke out, during which Jaykant allegedly attacked and killed both Gita and Bhaskar by repeatedly beating them with a rod. Following the incident, Jaykant Das surrendered at the Kampur police station and was taken into custody. According to Pratidin Time the police arrived at the crime scene and initiated an investigation. The bodies of the deceased have been sent to Nagaon for post-mortem examination. Sources indicate that Jayakanta Das was employed in a Guwahati-based company and stayed there for work. His wife, who lived alone in a rented house in Kampur, was allegedly involved in a long-term extramarital affair with Bhaskar Nath who resided in a nearby rented room, Pratidin Time reported. Further information reveals that Bhaskar Jyoti Nath had been teaching at a local school for the past four years. He had returned home just ten days prior and had spoken to his elder brother the day before the incident.
The Print
21-05-2025
- Sport
- The Print
NorthEast United assistant coach Naushad Moosa to look after India U-23 for Asian Games
Current senior men's national team head coach Manolo Marquez had also performed the dual role last season as he also guided FC Goa. Moosa will be available for the India U23 team's international matches as the All India Football Federation (AIFF) is yet to appoint a full-time coach for the national side. New Delhi, May 20 (PTI) NorthEast United assistant coach Naushad Moosa will continue to helm the national men's U-23 side while preparing for next year's Asian Games in Japan even as he retains his job with the Guwahati-based Indian Super League (ISL) side. 'Moosa will take charge of the team on June 1, 2025, when they begin their camp in Kolkata, with the long-term aim of preparing the Blue Colts for the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi and Nagoya, in Japan, in line with the plans laid out to the federation by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports,' the AIFF said in a release. AIFF deputy secretary general Satyanarayan M told PTI that Moosa will look after the team for the international matches and FIFA windows while continuing as NorthEast United assistant coach. 'He will be with the India U23 team for international windows,' Satyanarayan said. On a more immediate basis, however, Moosa's team will face Tajikistan on June 18 and Kyrgyz Republic on June 21 in two exposure matches in Dushanbe. 'In discussions with Manolo Márquez, we concluded that the federation needs to develop the U23 team with more emphasis. The best of these players are all training 10 months a year, and we are thankful to the clubs for the readiness with which they are available for national team duty,' Satyanarayan said. 'However, some of them are not getting much game time, which is where we are looking to bridge the gap by playing exposure matches against other competitive international teams of the same age group, during the international windows,' he said in the AIFF release. 'We want to thank NorthEast United FC for cooperating in releasing Naushad Moosa for the international windows.' Before the Asian Games, the federation plans to utilise the FIFA international windows in September, October, November, and March next year to arrange short training camps of around 10-14 days for the India U23 team, which would also include matches against other U23 teams from around Asia. Longer camps are planned ahead of the June 2026 FIFA international window, when there are no club matches. Moosa, who had coached the India U23 team in two friendly matches against Malaysia last year, said, 'Representing my country, whether as a player or a coach, is one of the greatest honours in my career. Opportunity to lead the U-23 team for a second year is both exciting and a proud moment.' 'Last year, we built a strong foundation, and the players showed real commitment. This year, we return with more experience, more hunger, and a few new faces who I believe will add great strength to the squad. I'm confident we can continue to grow and make the country proud,' said the former India international. Later this year, the India U23 team will also play in the 2026 AFC U23 Asian Cup Qualifiers, the draw for which will be held on May 29 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 'The June games are very important in our journey toward the Asian Games and the AFC U23 Asian Cup. This is an opportunity to assess player responses under pressure, improve our tactics, and build stronger bonds within the team. 'Our goal is to be fully prepared for these major tournaments by testing ourselves against strong opposition,' said Moosa. After camping in Kolkata for a fortnight, the India U23 team will travel to Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on June 16 for the two exposure matches, and return home on June 22. PTI PDS PDS AH AH This report is auto-generated from PTI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content.
