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The Union Home Ministry and Arunachal Pradesh government have been asked for a report within six weeks by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against the alleged racial profiling of members of Chakma and Hajongs tribes.

Sujit Hajong, at a flood relief camp in Assam's Goalpara districts, is crying and sobbing as the disaster has caused him lose everything he had, including his crops and house.

Over the next few months, more than 19 lakh people left out of Assam's final National Register of Citizens (NRC) will try to prove their citizenship before foreigners tribunals set up across the state. While those lucky enough to survive legal scrutiny will be free to reintegrate with society, a less savoury fate awaits the ones who fail.

Normal life was hit across Arunachal Pradesh amid protests against the centre's decision to honour the 2015 decision of the Supreme Court, granting citizenship to some 54,000 Chakma and Hajong refugees in the state.

The central government is in a precarious situation over the issue of granting citizenship to Chakma-Hajong refugees living in Arunachal Pradesh and is looking for a way out. On one hand, it is under fire for its move towards deporting around 40,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees.

Chakma and Hajong refugees who fled to India from Bangladesh more than five decades ago are set to get limited citizenship in the country, but officials say they cannot be given land or tribal rights as that may trigger conflict.

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has said the Centre will urge the Supreme Court to modify its order of granting citizenship to Chakma-Hajong refugees so that the rights of the indigenous people of Arunachal Pradesh are not diluted.

Two people were killed today and 11 others seriously injured in firing by security men amid clashes at a panchayat vote counting centre in Assam's Hatsingimari subdivision where indefinite curfew has been imposed.

No fresh killings have been reported from Assam's Goalpara district where protests by the Rabha Hajong tribe during Tuesday's village council elections triggered violence. The death toll has gone up to 21 today. Director General of Police, Jayanto Narayan Chaudhary, told NDTV today that the situation is improving.

Three more people have died in police firing in Assam's Goalpara district, taking the death toll in the last one day to 20. Thirteen people have died in police firing and six in clashes, which continued overnight between the Rabha Hajong tribe, which is opposing the ongoing panchayat or local elections, and members of other communities.

North Eastern Frontier Railway will run a special train from Dibrugarh in upper Assam to Yesvantpur considering thousands of aspiring students who appear for medical and engineering exams every year in Bengaluru, North Eastern Frontier Railway Chief Public Relation officer SS Hajong said.

One person was killed and three others were critically injured on Tuesday after a train hit them near Thakurbari in Chandrapur area on the outskirts of Guwahati, police said. The deceased and the injured were all employees of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR).

The Union Home Ministry and Arunachal Pradesh government have been asked for a report within six weeks by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against the alleged racial profiling of members of Chakma and Hajongs tribes.

Sujit Hajong, at a flood relief camp in Assam's Goalpara districts, is crying and sobbing as the disaster has caused him lose everything he had, including his crops and house.

Over the next few months, more than 19 lakh people left out of Assam's final National Register of Citizens (NRC) will try to prove their citizenship before foreigners tribunals set up across the state. While those lucky enough to survive legal scrutiny will be free to reintegrate with society, a less savoury fate awaits the ones who fail.

Normal life was hit across Arunachal Pradesh amid protests against the centre's decision to honour the 2015 decision of the Supreme Court, granting citizenship to some 54,000 Chakma and Hajong refugees in the state.

The central government is in a precarious situation over the issue of granting citizenship to Chakma-Hajong refugees living in Arunachal Pradesh and is looking for a way out. On one hand, it is under fire for its move towards deporting around 40,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees.

Chakma and Hajong refugees who fled to India from Bangladesh more than five decades ago are set to get limited citizenship in the country, but officials say they cannot be given land or tribal rights as that may trigger conflict.

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has said the Centre will urge the Supreme Court to modify its order of granting citizenship to Chakma-Hajong refugees so that the rights of the indigenous people of Arunachal Pradesh are not diluted.

Two people were killed today and 11 others seriously injured in firing by security men amid clashes at a panchayat vote counting centre in Assam's Hatsingimari subdivision where indefinite curfew has been imposed.

No fresh killings have been reported from Assam's Goalpara district where protests by the Rabha Hajong tribe during Tuesday's village council elections triggered violence. The death toll has gone up to 21 today. Director General of Police, Jayanto Narayan Chaudhary, told NDTV today that the situation is improving.

Three more people have died in police firing in Assam's Goalpara district, taking the death toll in the last one day to 20. Thirteen people have died in police firing and six in clashes, which continued overnight between the Rabha Hajong tribe, which is opposing the ongoing panchayat or local elections, and members of other communities.

North Eastern Frontier Railway will run a special train from Dibrugarh in upper Assam to Yesvantpur considering thousands of aspiring students who appear for medical and engineering exams every year in Bengaluru, North Eastern Frontier Railway Chief Public Relation officer SS Hajong said.

One person was killed and three others were critically injured on Tuesday after a train hit them near Thakurbari in Chandrapur area on the outskirts of Guwahati, police said. The deceased and the injured were all employees of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR).