The Supreme Court has criticized the Assam government for failing to justify the detention of 270 foreign nationals at the Matia transit camp, describing its affidavit as “defective.” A bench of Justices Abhay S. Oka and Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh directed the Chief Secretary of Assam to appear via video conference at the next hearing to […]
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday (December 8, 2024) said a Bangladeshi national was nabbed in the Sribhumi district on Sunday (December 8, 2024) and sent back to the neighbouring country. He, however, did not share through which location or sector the foreign national attempted to enter India. “Displaying alertness along the Indo-Bangladesh […]
GUWAHATI Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday (December 10, 2024) expressed deep concern over the ongoing persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh. Insisting that nations founded on religious extremism could not ensure the safety of their minority communities, he expressed the hope that countries such as Pakistan would learn secularism from India. “The ongoing […]
“More than 40 families were evicted in an anti-encroachment drive in Assam’s Goalpara district on Friday (December 13. 2024),” an official said. “They were served eviction notices in advance,” he said. The eviction drive was carried out with the help of excavators since morning in the Pancharatna area, under the Balijan revenue circle of the […]
Itinerant workers from other States flit from one location to another in Assam to plant bee boxes and let the honey flow, in a win-win deal for them and local farmers Source
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday (December 16, 2024) arrested an alleged operative of the banned terrorist outfit, ULFA (I), on the charge of planting improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Guwahati during the Independence Day celebrations this year. “NIA teams, with the active support of Assam Police, carried out searches at the house of […]
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed five more chargesheets in five cases against 18 accused in connection with the “unregulated deposit scam” in Assam. The chargesheets have been filed in a special Guwahati court. “These cases are being investigated by CBI Guwahati. These are apart from four chargesheets filed by the CBI Delhi, […]
GUWAHATI The Gauhati High Court on Tuesday (December 17, 2024) quashed the Assam government’s December 2023 standard operating procedure (SOP) allowing the traditional buffalo and bulbul bird fights during the mid-January Magh or Bhogali Bihu. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, an animal rights group, had petitioned against the SOP. The […]
An Assam Congress leader died on Wednesday (December 18, 2024) after police fired tear gas shells at protesters during a ‘Raj Bhavan Chalo’ programme in Guwahati. Mridul Islam, an advocate by profession, was the secretary of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee’s (APCC) legal cell, and a resident of Boko in southwestern Assam. He collapsed after […]
GUWAHATI A team of wildlife conservationists tagged the almost-blind Ganges river dolphin for the first time. A healthy male river dolphin from Kulsi, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, was tagged and released under veterinary care. An initiative of the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, it was executed by the Wildlife Institute of India […]
