Good news on sports front. Nafisa Sadiq along with Tarunika Pratap won Bronze Medal in Pairs in the 20th junior Asian Rowing Championships at Dongshang River Regatta Course at Yi-Lan in Taiwan. Assam Boat Racing & Rowing Association General Secretary Nababuddin Ahmed informed it at a press release on Sunday.
We are deeply concerned about the continuing ethnic violence in Manipur between the Meitei community and the tribal Kuki and Zo communities. We demand an immediate halt to this violence that is causing large scale disruption of lives, livelihoods and properties and unleashing even more terror among people.
The immediate trigger to this violence was an April 2023 Manipur High Court order advising the state government to grant the Meitei community (members of which now have either OBC or in some cases SC status) the status of Scheduled Tribe. Thereby, the Meitei community would have access to land that is currently reserved for tribal communities. Several spates of violence broke...
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