Staff reporter GUWAHATI, Aug 3 – How safe are the city’s roads and lanes for girls and women? A spate of recent incidents would indicate that many women, pedestrians in particular, are increasingly at the mercy of anti-social elements.A few days ago as two young women were walking in the Uzan Bazar area, a bike…
DetailsStaff reporter GUWAHATI, Aug 1 – Official records now indicate that Assam is emerging as a State in which crime rates are shooting up. Violent crimes are on the rise along with a sharp climb in crime against women, trends which were not so evident till a few years back. India’s rate of violent crimes…
DetailsSANJAY BARBORA Political mobilisation along ethnic lines has played a dominant role in reinforcing group differences in Assam, with blatant disregard for the present realities of its demography For the people of Assam, the last few weeks have brought misery upon misery. No sooner had they begun to recover from the floods, than came the…
DetailsBy Sushanta Talukdar in Guwahati In an incident that put India to shame, on the night of July 9, a group of men pulled out a 20-year-old girl from an autorickshaw she was trying to get into to return home after coming out of a bar on the busy Guwahati-Shillong road close to the Dispur…
DetailsPost Bureau, Guwahati (July 25): Expressing concern over the communal riots at BTAD for the last five days, Action Aid, an international NGO, organised a citizen’s meeting in the city on Wednesday. A part from the concerned citizens, various organisations like Mising Mimang Kebang (MMK), Pragotisil Nari Sanstha, North East Network (NEN) and others had…
DetailsOf all the rich G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be a woman. But how is this possible in a country that prides itself on being the world’s largest democracy? Helen Pidd In an ashram perched high on a hill above the noisy city of Guwahati in north-east India is a…
Details17 groups call for speedy justiceA STAFF REPORTER Rallying cryJuly 19: Seventeen city-based organisations have joined hands to prod the government into ensuring speedy justice for the July 9 molestation victim. While submitting a memorandum to chief minister Tarun Gogoi yesterday, the organisations also demanded special gender-sensitive training for police personnel and amendments to the…
DetailsSanjoy HazarikaThe northeast used to pride itself on its gender equality. But the gory sexual violence against a teenager in Assam shows the region is no different from the rest of India The sordid sexual violence by a group of thugs against a young woman in Guwahati has stunned people not just in India but…
Detailsyeda Hameed Posted online: Wed Jul 18 2012, 00:18 hrs Election 2014 should be fought on the issue of violence against women. In the sleepy town of Nazirabad, 75 kilometres from Bhopal, four children were playing near a garbage dump with what looked like a rubber doll. A salon owner across the road noticed something…
DetailsSamudra Gupta Kashyap Posted online: Wed Jul 18 2012, 03:59 hrs Guwahati : On January 21, 2008, when Guwahati’s first satellite TV news channel was launched in a glittering function, those behind it vowed not only to make it a mirror of society but also to try and bring the people of the Northeast into…
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