Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday (November 1, 2024) lashed out at Jharkhand Chief Minister Hement Soren for being engaged in selective hospitality. He challenged Mr. Soren to push back Ghulam Ahmad Mir, Jharkhand Congress in-charge from the State then he would also leave. His statement has come amid the political debate over […]
Five Assam police personnel, including Inspector General of Police Partha Sarathi Mahanta, received awards from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for addressing some of the State’s most pressing criminal issues within a year from March 21, 2023. Three police personnel awarded are members of Assam’s Special Task Force (STF), which Mr Mahanta heads. Apart […]
Veteran Assamese actor and director Kulada Kumar Bhattacharya died at a private hospital here after a brief illness, his family said. He was 91. “The award-winning screen and stage personality had been unwell for the last few days and had been admitted to the hospital, where he breathed his last at 8.20 pm on Friday […]
GUWAHATI A forum against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019 has asked the Registrar General of India to publish the “final draft” of the updated National Register of Citizens in Assam. In a letter to the RGI more than a week ago, the Coordination Committee Against CAA said there was no reason to “keep the […]
GUWAHATI Villagers of Assam and Meghalaya along a stretch known more for inter-State boundary disputes have come together against illegal sand mining. Members of several organisations on either side of the boundary gathered at Nokmakundi in Meghalaya’s North Garo Hills on Saturday (November 2, 2024) for a rally to express resentment over the unabated illegal […]
The ruling BJP has filed a complaint with the Election Commission of India (ECI) against Congress MP Rakibul Hussain and his son Tanzil, who is contesting the upcoming assembly bypoll from Samaguri constituency in Assam, for allegedly using children during election campaigning. In the complaint filed with the ECI, the BJP alleged that children were […]
The Assam unit of Congress has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of fielding a “Bangladeshi” as the candidate for Dholai, one of the five Assembly constituencies in the State where bypolls will be held on November 13. The candidate, Nihar Ranjan Das, brushed off the allegations as the “height of falsehood”. During the party’s campaign […]
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday (November 5, 2024) alleged that the Congress is not bothered about electoral victory or defeat, and its only intention is to put hurdles in the State’s development. Likening the Opposition party to a “male cow” that cannot produce milk, he claimed that the Congress will not be […]
GUWAHATI Hyderabad-based environmentalist M. Karunakar Reddy has been chosen for the first award named after Jadav Payeng, better known as the Forest Man of India. The Jadav Payeng International Award, carrying ₹2 lakh and a citation, has been instituted by the charitable Jyoti-Protap Education Trust based at Kaliapani in eastern Assam’s Jorhat district. It will […]
GUWAHATI The tiger population in western Assam’s Manas National Park, a major wildlife preserve stretching into Bhutan, tripled from 2011 to 2019, a new study has said. The report published in the latest issue of the Journal of Biological Conservation attributed this turnaround in a park that suffered because of prolonged armed conflict to increased […]
