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Guwahati (Assam) [India], May 13 (ANI): Renowned activist and Padma Shri awardee Birubala Rabha passed away at a government-run hospital in Guwahati after a long battle with cancer. Rabha dedicated her life to fight against superstition, and social evils like witch-hunting. She was 70 and was born in 1954 at Thakurvila village near the Meghalaya border in Assam’s Goalpara district. Expressing his condolences Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma wrote on X, “I am deeply distressed to learn about the passing away of Padma Shri Smt Birubala Rabha.” “Through her untiring efforts to end social …