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Crack in Congress in Assam ?

July 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment

As the communal violence in BTAD areas seems to be under control now. Indian Prime Minister visited few relief camps of both community and announced relief package of Rs. 300 crore for the riot victims. But there have been few incidents which hints at a division among Congress leaders in Assam.

Since the recent BTAD violence, Himanta Biswa Sarma was always the first to visit any violence hit site, or calamity. But strangely, this time, Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi sent Rackybul Hussain, Dr. Nazrul Islam ( both from Congress) and Chandan Brahma to Kokrajhar to take stock of the situation as soon as the violence erupted.
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Some people seem to be trying to cash in from Assam Communal Violence

July 26, 2012 By 3 Comments

Assam Communal violence has surely made an impact on India Social Media, be it twitter or facebook. Mainstream media had to take notice as social media had kept the tag #AssamRiot alive in twitter with keeping it trending on and off for last few days.

Sadly, this unfortunate violence has also created opportunities for many so-called gurus in India as well as hardcore Hindu supporters. On Twitter, it was noticed that, some tweeple tried to make it Hindu-Muslim riot, while some tried to make it ‘just another ethnic violence’ in North East India!
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BTAD Communal Violence Update: 38 dead

July 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Recent update from BTAD in Assam says that the ongoing communal violence has resulted in 38 confirmed deaths which also includes few deaths due to police firing in order to control unruly mob. Army has conducted flag march in the morning today in all four districts in BTAD.

1300 army personals has been deployed as per reports to quell the communal violence which is continuing till last Friday. Chirang district has been put under 144 as well as shoot at sight order has been given.
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Amarjyoti Kalita ‘James Bond’ arrested from Varansi

July 23, 2012 By 1 Comment

Amarjyoti Kalita, who calls himself James Bond 007, after the famous Hollywood Bond Movies, has been reportedly arrested from Varansi, Uttar Pradesh. He is the main accused in Guwahati mOlestation case which shook whole of India and social media.

After the news spread about his arrest, “Amar Jyoti Kalita” started trending in Twitter with more than 400 tweets per hour in India at one point of time.
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BTAD Violence death toll rises to 11

July 21, 2012 By 1 Comment

BTAD ( Bodoland Territorial Audonomous Districts), four districts in Assam under Sixth Schedule of Indian constitution have witnessed communal clash which resulted in 11 deaths so far. As per reports, the communal tension and violence erupted when four ex-BLT ( Bodoland Liberation Tigers) members were killed by unidentified miscreants on Friday 20th July 2012 at Joypur area in Bilasipara in Kokrajhar district.

What is reported to be retaliation killing, one 14 year boy and another 60 year old man were killed by unidentified persons.
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Is it ethical to upload molestation video with victim identity ?

July 21, 2012 By 1 Comment

The previous week has been quite eventful for North East India ( Assam in particular) and Guwahati trended in Twitter for wrong reason. Guwahati Molestation case had become national outrage in both social media as well as mainstream media. Many debates raged in newsroom and well as internet space, and we at North East India Blog had also did a poll on the same topic.

The question we put up was ( the poll is still on) “Do you think that it is justified to upload the mob-molestation video of the victim girl disclosing her identity that multiplies her misery for the rest of her life ?”
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Atanu Bhuyan Resigns over Guwahati Molestation case

July 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Atanu Bhuyan has resigned from NewsLive TV channel as editor in chief at 1PM today 17 July 2012, as per his tweet and subsequent press conference at Guwahati Press Club. He maintains that, it was not wrong thing to capture video and publish in Yutube as well as TV.

It may be mentioned that, there was huge social media (twitter/facebook) outrage against Atanu Bhuyan yesterday and #ResignAtanuBhuyan trended in Delhi for a day in twitter.
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#ResignAtanuBhuyan campaign in Twitter by Tweeple after Guwahati Molestation Incident

July 16, 2012 By 1 Comment

Today, in twitter #ResignAtanuBhuyan campaign has started and it has recorded 266TPH ( Tweets Per hour) as per http://www.twazzup.com. Yesterday, there was protest march and agitation in front of NewsLive office in Guwahati protesting against uploading of the video of molestation of a woman on 9th July evening by NEwsLive TV channel.

Atanu Bhuyan is the Chief Editor In Chief of the NewsLive TV channel which is owned by Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, wife of Assam’s powerful Health and Education Minister, Himanta Biswa Sharma.
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