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By Tora Agarwala GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - A fleet of taxis, a security escort, and a harrowing six-hour journey brought Asif Hussain and

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina imposed a nationwide curfew last week and used the army to quell protests against job quotas that killed nearly 150 people, but anger against her government does not seem to have abated.

Soldiers in lifeboats ferried people to safety on Friday in India's northeastern state of Tripura after heavy rain triggered floods and landslides, forcing more than 65,000 people from their homes and killing 23, authorities said.

Assamese nativist groups have used a rape in Assam to hound Bengali-speaking Muslims, a community frequently denigrated as “outsiders”, into leaving their homes in eastern Assam, the latest effect of a barrage of Islamophobic speech from chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who has accused them, without foundation, of varieties of jihad, repeatedly used the pejorative term ‘miyas' and called them ‘criminals'. Unmoved by criticism, Sarma's language has become increasingly biased and discriminatory in recent years.

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - More than 100 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar including women and children have been on hunger strike since Monday to

By Tora Agarwala IMPHAL, India (Reuters) - India's northeastern state of Manipur has been placed on high alert after intelligence reports

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Creators from the region are using the Korean trend to showcase a unique food culture that is derided as ‘smelly' or ‘stinky'.

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – Police in India’s northeastern state of Tripura arrested seven members of a Hindu group and charged them with breaking into the Bangladesh consulate and vandalising property, a police officer said on Tuesday.