Guwahati Curfew

In view of the prevailing situation and incidents of protest in various parts of the country following controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad by suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma and expelled BJP leader Naveen Kumar Jindal.

Night Curfew In Assam: As part of the new COVID-19 restrictions, the Assam government has decided to close schools up to Class 5 in the state and up to Class 8 in the capital city Guwahati.

A fifth-grade student in Assam has written an open letter to the UN Secretary-General over the violence that has gripped his state following protests against the newly amended citizenship law. The student's emotional letter, written amid violence and curfew, urges the United Nations to intervene and restore normalcy to his state.

Normalcy returned in Guwahati while the curfew imposed in Dibrugarh was relaxed for 14 hours since 6 am on Wednesday.

The authorities in Assam on Tuesday lifted the curfew in Guwahati, for the first time in almost a week, and restored the broadband internet services as the situation in the state, that was on the boil over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, has improved, officials said.

The Assam government on Monday announced that curfew in the state capital, imposed on December 11 in the wake of violent protests against the citizenship law, will be lifted from 6 am on Tuesday, an official statement said in Guwahati.

ISL: NorthEast United's last home match against Chennaiyin FC in Guwahati was postponed after the host city was placed under a curfew following protests.

Curfew was relaxed in Guwahati from 6 am to 9 pm on Monday, with the city going back to normalcy, following week-long protests over the amended Citizenship Act, Assam Police Chief Public Relations Officer Rajiv Saikia said.

Two more protesters injured in police firing during demonstrations against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA have died in Guwahati, taking the total number of deaths in violence in Assam over the controversial law to four. Curfew was relaxed for several hours today in the state capital and several other parts of Assam as situation improved ami...

Live Updates on Protests Against Citizenship Act: The administration has relaxed the curfew from 9 am to 4 pm in Assam's Guwahati today.

Bangladesh on Thursday asked India to enhance security for its Guwahati mission after a mob defaced two signposts near the chancery, as protests against the citizenship bill rocked Assam, plunging the state into total chaos.

Two protesters were killed and many others injured in police firing in Assam's Guwahati amid a raging agitation against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill on Thursday evening. The incident occurred even as thousands of protesters descended on the streets in defiance of a curfew imposed on the city after parliament cleared the contentious legislation ...

The Guwahati police chief was removed on Thursday, even as thousands of protesters took to the streets in defiance of a curfew imposed on the city after the parliament cleared the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill the previous night. The suspension of Internet services in 10 districts of Assam has been extended for another 48 hours from noon...

An indefinite curfew has been imposed in Guwahati, the epicentre of protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, which was passed by parliament on Wednesday. The controversial legislation was passed with 125 voting for it and 99 against. It was cleared by the Lok Sabha two days earlier with the support of as many as 334 MPs.

Journalism can be risky business, and every now and then, something happens to remind me of that. When I left my residence in Guwahati on Wednesday morning, it was to cover a protest that was threatening to become one of the worst witnessed in over three decades. By the time I got down to narrating this account, I had suffered severe bruises on my ...

In view of the prevailing situation and incidents of protest in various parts of the country following controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad by suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma and expelled BJP leader Naveen Kumar Jindal.

Night Curfew In Assam: As part of the new COVID-19 restrictions, the Assam government has decided to close schools up to Class 5 in the state and up to Class 8 in the capital city Guwahati.

A fifth-grade student in Assam has written an open letter to the UN Secretary-General over the violence that has gripped his state following protests against the newly amended citizenship law. The student's emotional letter, written amid violence and curfew, urges the United Nations to intervene and restore normalcy to his state.

Normalcy returned in Guwahati while the curfew imposed in Dibrugarh was relaxed for 14 hours since 6 am on Wednesday.

The authorities in Assam on Tuesday lifted the curfew in Guwahati, for the first time in almost a week, and restored the broadband internet services as the situation in the state, that was on the boil over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, has improved, officials said.

The Assam government on Monday announced that curfew in the state capital, imposed on December 11 in the wake of violent protests against the citizenship law, will be lifted from 6 am on Tuesday, an official statement said in Guwahati.

ISL: NorthEast United's last home match against Chennaiyin FC in Guwahati was postponed after the host city was placed under a curfew following protests.

Curfew was relaxed in Guwahati from 6 am to 9 pm on Monday, with the city going back to normalcy, following week-long protests over the amended Citizenship Act, Assam Police Chief Public Relations Officer Rajiv Saikia said.

Two more protesters injured in police firing during demonstrations against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA have died in Guwahati, taking the total number of deaths in violence in Assam over the controversial law to four. Curfew was relaxed for several hours today in the state capital and several other parts of Assam as situation improved ami...

Live Updates on Protests Against Citizenship Act: The administration has relaxed the curfew from 9 am to 4 pm in Assam's Guwahati today.

Bangladesh on Thursday asked India to enhance security for its Guwahati mission after a mob defaced two signposts near the chancery, as protests against the citizenship bill rocked Assam, plunging the state into total chaos.

Two protesters were killed and many others injured in police firing in Assam's Guwahati amid a raging agitation against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill on Thursday evening. The incident occurred even as thousands of protesters descended on the streets in defiance of a curfew imposed on the city after parliament cleared the contentious legislation ...

The Guwahati police chief was removed on Thursday, even as thousands of protesters took to the streets in defiance of a curfew imposed on the city after the parliament cleared the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill the previous night. The suspension of Internet services in 10 districts of Assam has been extended for another 48 hours from noon...

An indefinite curfew has been imposed in Guwahati, the epicentre of protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, which was passed by parliament on Wednesday. The controversial legislation was passed with 125 voting for it and 99 against. It was cleared by the Lok Sabha two days earlier with the support of as many as 334 MPs.

Journalism can be risky business, and every now and then, something happens to remind me of that. When I left my residence in Guwahati on Wednesday morning, it was to cover a protest that was threatening to become one of the worst witnessed in over three decades. By the time I got down to narrating this account, I had suffered severe bruises on my ...