Rush Hour: Assam to bulldoze 600 homes, Indian students in Iran being moved to safer places and more

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The Assam government began a drive to demolish the homes of 667 families, the majority of them belonging to Bengali-origin Muslims, in an anti-encroachment drive in the Goalpara district. The authorities razed 45% of the homes on Monday and said the drive will continue on Tuesday.

The district administration claimed that it had served notices to the villagers to vacate the land in 2023 and 2024. As they failed to do so, they were asked to clear the area by Monday, claimed Goalpara District Commissioner Khanindra Choudhury. Many residents have asked the district administration to rehabilitate them.

Since the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in Assam in 2016, more than 10,620 families – the majority of them Muslim – have been ousted from government land, according to data provided by the state revenue and disaster management department in August. Read on.

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