In the 1990s and 2000s, Bhutia’s magic on the field brought the sport back into contention in the cricket-crazy country.


In the 1990s and 2000s, Bhutia’s magic on the field brought the sport back into contention in the cricket-crazy country.

At least 28 dead and about a million people impacted as severe pre-monsoon rains cause flooding in parts of Assam.

Ruling BJP party’s parliamentarian says Chinese forces ‘abducted’ a 17-year-old boy in the disputed border areas.

A protester killed in fresh violence in Mon district a day after 13 civilians were allegedly killed by security forces.
![Indian army soldiers ride past the main town in a convoy in Kohima, capital of northeastern Nagaland state, India, Sunday, December 5, 2021 [Yirmiyan Arthur/AP Photo]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/AP21339348469071.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Locals allege more than a dozen mosques vandalised in apparent retaliation to anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh.
![A mosque at Chamtilla area of North Tripura District which was vandalised on October 26 [Sadiq Naqvi/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_7938.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Up to 1,300 families made homeless and two killed as authorities in India’s Assam launch eviction drive.
![Kamaruddin, surrounded by tin sheets which formed his old house. Now he lives next to the river [Sadiq Naqvi/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/kamaruddin-at-his-demolished-house.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
More than 7,000 cases have been reported in the state’s large tea gardens since April, at least 53 people have died.
![Women workers pluck tea leaves at a tea garden in Dibrugarh, Assam [Sadiq Naqvi/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Women-workers-pluck-tea-leaves-at-a-tea-garden-in-Dibrugarh-March-2019.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Seven, including three journalists, set to travel to India’s capital to approach UNHCR following a Manipur court order.
![Myanmar nationals in Moreh, a border town in India's Manipur state [Sadiq Naqvi/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Myanmar-nationals-in-Moreh-2.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Al Jazeera visits village in northeastern Mizoram state along India-Myanmar border that hosts hundreds who fled coup.
![A police officer who fled from Myanmar following a military coup looks out to the mountains from an undisclosed location bordering Myanmar, in the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram [File: Anupam Nath/AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AP21077690422498.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)