Guwahati: Protests have intensified in Assam’s Goalpara district over an alleged government proposal to make a large portion of the Rakhyasini Reserve Forest available for industrial development. Local residents and protesters have opposed the reported proposal to allot around 550 hectares of forest land for industries, arguing that indigenous and landless communities living in the […]

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