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 […]
In a tit-for-tat response, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said he would send two delegations to study a few things in Jharkhand, days after his counterpart Hemant Soren took a Cabinet decision to despatch an all-party team to study the plight of tea tribes in the northeastern State. Mr. Sarma, however, did not specify […]
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said his government would ban beef if State Congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah sought it in writing. He was reacting to allegations that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) offered beef to woo voters in central Assam’s Muslim-majority Samaguri Assembly constituency, wresting it from Congress in the November 13 byelection. The […]
The National Green Tribunal has sought a response from the principal chief conservator of forest, Assam, in a matter regarding alleged encroachment of forest land in the Kamrup metropolitan district of the state. The NGT has taken suo motu cognisance of a newspaper report claiming that a substantial portion of the 16 reserved forests covering […]
