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The Assam Rifles said that a comment by its director general on the mapping of Myanmarese citizens in India had been misconstrued to claim that people from across the border were staying in India illegally. The director general, Lieutenant General Vikas Lakhera, said on Wednesday that about 42,000 Myanmarese nationals in India have been mapped with the help of biometrics and other government mechanisms since December.
The mapping, he said, was being conducted after the new policy related to the “free movement” regime came into effect. Since the 1970s, people living within 16 kms on each side of the largely unfenced border have been allowed visa-free movement.
Former Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh had cited Lakhera’s statement to claim that Myanmarese citizens had been illegally crossing over into India. But the Assam Rifles director general had been referring to temporary crossings under the free movement regime. Read more.
Four Calcutta University students were allegedly assaulted in Kolkata and called “Bangladeshi” for speaking in Bengali. Two persons have been arrested in connection with the attack.
The alleged incident took place when one of the students, a resident of the university’s Carmichael Hostel, visited a shop under the Sealdah bridge in the city to buy mobile accessories.
The student alleged that his attempt to bargain with the vendor intensified into an argument. The shopkeeper called him a “Bangladeshi” for speaking in Bengali. The student left the shop and returned later with three friends to protest.
However, the seller, along with other shopkeepers, allegedly assaulted all four of them.
The incident comes amid allegations by the Trinamool Congress that Bengali-speaking workers are being discriminated against in states ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party on the suspicion of being Bangladeshis. Read more.
The police in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad district have told Muslim wedding band operators not to name their groups after Hindu deities. This came after a complaint was filed on the chief minister’s portal that the names were an “attempt to distort identity” and hurt religious sentiments.
The complainant, a lawyer named Shaby Sharma, claiming that about 15 to 20 Muslim band operators in the district were running their businesses using the names of Hindu deities. He said that Chief Minister Adityanath himself had called for action against such practices.
On Tuesday, several band operators in Moradabad were summoned and told to remove such names, to which they agreed, Superintendent of Police (City) Kumar Ranvijay Singh said. Read more.
A hundred and forty-five persons have died in rain-related incidents in Himachal Pradesh during this year’s monsoon. The deaths took place as a result of flash floods, landslides, drownings and structures getting damaged, the state disaster management authority said.
The Kangra district recorded 29 rain-related fatalities, while Mandi recorded 26. Kullu and Mandi districts were the worst affected in terms of infrastructure being disrupted.
The disaster management authority also said that 135 persons have died in road accidents during the monsoon. Read more.
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