GUWAHATI Nine persons were booked in central Assam’s Nagaon district for pelting stones at a tiger and potentially blinding the wild animal that strayed out of a jungle. According to forest department officials, the police in Jakhalabandha, a popular stopover for travellers on the highway between Guwahati and eastern Assam towns, raided the houses of […]
The ruling NDA alliance in Assam has secured early leads in four of the five assembly constituencies where bypolls were held recently, officials said on Saturday (November 23). Also Read:Bypolls election results LIVE updates In Behali, BJP’s Diganta Ghatowal is leading by 1,091 votes over his nearest Congress rival Jayanta Bora while in Bongaigaon, AGP’s […]
GUWAHATI The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) swept the byelections to eight Assembly constituencies across three northeastern States, in results announced on Saturday (November 23, 2024). In Assam, the Bharatiya Janata Party won three of these seats — Behali, Dholai, and Samaguri — while its regional allies, the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and United People’s Party […]
GUWAHATI A record byelection victory for its candidate in the Sidli Assembly constituency has boosted the confidence of the United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) ahead of the elections to Assam’s Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) in 2025. The win has also made the UPPL, one of two regional allies of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in […]
Watch: By-polls results 2024: Who are the winners and losers? The ruling parties and alliances won most of the 48 Assembly seats in various States that witnessed byelections. The ruling NDA in Assam won all the five seats where bypolls were held. In Dholai, Behali and Samguri, the BJP defeated Congress candidates. In Sidli, United […]
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has urged the JMM-led alliance, which retained power in Jharkhand, to perform its constitutional duty of identifying and deporting infiltrators from the eastern State. Mr. Sarma, who was the BJP’s co-in-charge for Jharkhand polls, also called upon the newly elected party MLAs to raise the issue of infiltration in […]
A tribal council in Assam has decided to send back more than 1,000 Kuki-Zo people who came from ethnic violence-scarred Manipur. Tuliram Ronghang, the chief executive member of the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC), said the Karbi Anglong district has no space for the “newly arrived migrants”, indicating they settled down after the ethnic clashes […]
GUWAHATI “The Assam Government is trying to change the global perception of India’s northeastern region, which is tagged by many countries as a “restricted” region warranting travel advisories,” Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. Dr. Sarma also underscored the need to educate potential visitors that violence in one part or State of the region — currently […]
GUWAHATI: Two Assam-based Kuki organisations have criticised Tuliram Ronghang, the Chief Executive Member of the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) for claiming 1,000 Kuki migrants have settled down in the Karbi Anglong district from ethnic conflict-scarred Manipur. The Kuki Inpi, Assam and the Kuki Students’ Organisation, Assam also said Mr. Ronghang contradicted his earlier claim […]
The CBI on Friday ( November 29, 2024) filed a charge sheet against Ranjit Kakoty, the prime accused in a trading scam involving ₹260 crore and affecting around 1.5 lakh investors, before a special CBI court. The agency, which completed its probe against Mr. Kakoty within 90 days of his arrest, said he, along with […]
