India

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of paramilitary personnel and police were deployed in India’s border state of Assam on Friday, the eve of the publication of a citizenship register that could leave millions of people stateless, many of them Muslims.

For the last four years, residents of Assam have been scrambling to prove their identity in a court-ordered exercise after decades of campaigns by groups complaining about illegal immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh.

Kanpur: Unrest prevails at DBS College over two teachers' spar on a certain matter. Though other teachers have said that discontent was seething for the past several days, the open rivalry has surfaced just now. 

Students were also agitating over the point of throwing off the chair. They rejected that the chair was thrown off. It has no substance. It was a complete lie. 

Kolkata, August 28; GANASHAKTI:  Aghast at the current hegemonic politics of “divisiveness’ in the country, Nobel Laureate Prof Amartya Sen  has opined that  “Democracy is not a Majoratarian Exercize”. Winning one election do not guarantee  that you can bulldoz all the  pluralism  of society, he opined, and also added that being divided is not a problem, rather “divisiveness” being spread now, is the problem.

Srinagar, Aug 29 (PTI) Normal life remained disrupted across the Kashmir Valley for the 25th consecutive day on Thursday, with markets closed and public transport off the roads.

However, some private vehicles could be seen plying in many parts of the city while some roadside vendors also plied their trade, officials said.

The efforts of the state government to open schools up to high school level have not borne fruit as parents continued to keep the children at home due to apprehensions about their safety.

Mangaluru, Aug 29 (PTI) Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai Lama arrived here on Thursday on a private visit.

The Dalai Lama was received at the airport by the officials of the Dakshina Kannada district administration.

He was received with Tibetan traditional dance outside the airport amid tight security.

Malkangiri/Bhubaneswar, Aug 28 (PTI) A DVF jawan and a top Maoist leader were killed in a gun battle in a forest in Odisha's Malkangiri district on Wednesday, a senior police officer said.

Another jawan was also critically injured in the encounter that took place during a joint combing operation by Special Operation Group (SOG) and District Voluntary Force (DVF), the Director General of Police (DGP), B K Sharma, said.

New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI) The government on Wednesday announced a Rs 6,268 crore subsidy for export of 6 million tonnes of sugar during the 2019-20 marketing year starting October in order to liquidate surplus domestic stock and help mills in clearing huge sugarcane arrears to farmers.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Chandigarh, Aug 28 (PTI) Indian Youth Congress interim president Srinivas B V on Wednesday launched the 'Jan Shakti Abhiyan' of the party ahead of the assembly elections in Haryana.

The aim of the campaign is to highlight 'failures' of the present regime and works carried out by the previous Congress government.

Addressing a press conference here along with Haryana Youth Congress president Sachin Kundu, Srinivas said people of the state had realised that the BJP had made "false promises" due to which they would bring the Congress back to power.

New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI) The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved on Wednesday setting up of 75 government medical colleges to be attached with existing district or referral hospitals by 2021-22.

The establishment of new medical colleges, under phase III of the ongoing Centrally sponsored scheme, will add at least 15,700 MBBS seats in the country.

Raipur, Aug 28 (PTI) A former sarpanch (village head) was killed by naxals in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Kanker district, police said on Wednesday.

Pamphlets left by the assailants at the spot claimed that he was a Rashtriya Swyamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker.