India, March 4 -- The Assam cabinet on Tuesday decided that any new private university being set up in the state will first have to get security clearance and remain secular while carrying out operations.

"From now on any new private university which comes up in the state will first have to secure clearances from the home and political departments in view of national security. Secondly, these private universities will have to be secular, and they shouldn't indulge

in religious conversion both directly and indirectly," chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated after the cabinet meeting.

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He said if any complaints of violations of these conditions are ...