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Does Assam CM’s belligerence over border dispute mark turn from coalition builder to regional bully?
Does Assam CM’s belligerence over border dispute mark turn from coalition builder to regional bully?
Himanta Biswa Sarma seems willing to lose his clout in the North East to shore up his reputation in Assam, political observers say. 15 hours ago Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma addressed a press conference in Silchar on July 27, a day after six policemen were killed on the Assam-Mizoram border. | PTI
Five Assam police personnel fell to bullets on July 27 as a festering border dispute with neighbouring Mizoram took a bloody turn. Both states have contesting versions of the day’s events and accuse each other of opening fire first.
Big Story A once and scattered weave Identity politics is the most bandied about word this season. Politicians love it, strategists rock it, analysts roll it. But the people, they live it, for generations. The Sylhet story Upala Sen | | Published 18.04.21, 12:44 AM
I discovered the ochre book, which no one claimed to have brought home, sometime in the early months of the lockdown. A word on the cover beckoned. Sylhet. I recognised it from the long departed grandparents’ reminiscings; one of many names Dhaka, Barisal, Comilla, Poyogram. Places I have never been to and know little about, but places that are settings to stories that are my legacy.