Assam

NEW DELHI: A month after he sought to make a feverish pitch to shut down Madrassas operating in the country over their archaic education delivery, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday ratified his cabinet’s decision to protect the indigenous Muslim population by dividing them into five sub-groups that may entail welfare benefits. Himanta […]

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi announced on Friday to repeal farm laws in the upcoming winter session of Parliament. The public discourse and Opposition leaders gave a political angle to this announcement as elections are due in farmer-dominated states like Punjab and Uttar Pradesh early next year. But the statistics from last year and this […]