Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said Hindus do not indulge in communalism in the state and accused the minority community of voting for the Congress in large numbers in Lok Sabha elections 2024 despite the development work done by his BJP government. “I proudly say that the Hindu community in Assam did…
2 min readAgartalaJun 26, 2024 09:13 AM IST The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against four accused in the attack on a military station in Assam in December last year, which was later claimed by the Paresh Baruah-led United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA-I). Two motorcycle-bome cadres of the proscribed outfit…
3 min readGuwahatiUpdated: Jul 8, 2024 11:51 AM IST After four days of looking for any signs of his eight-year-old son Avinash who had been swept away by strong currents of an uncovered drain in Assam’s Guwahati, Horolal Sarkar (35) got some news Sunday morning. Authorities had found the body of a child who they…
5 min readGuwahatiUpdated: Jul 19, 2024 08:00 AM IST The families of three men, who were accused of being Hmar militants and were killed by the Assam police on Wednesday morning, have raised questions on the circumstances surrounding their death, citing a video which purportedly shows them being apprehended from an autorickshaw a day earlier….
3 min readGuwahatiUpdated: Aug 29, 2024 07:30 AM IST In what could bring a relief to 9.35 lakh affected people, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Wednesday announced that their cards will be released soon by the UIDAI. Their biometrics were locked during the NRC process more than four years ago. A total of 9,35,682…
1 min readGuwahatiSep 3, 2024 03:48 AM IST Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday presented permanent appointment letters to 23,959 contractual and state pool teachers, calling it a milestone in the government’s efforts to provide more than one lakh jobs in the state. The appointment letters regularising the contractual and state pool teachers…
3 min readGuwahatiUpdated: Sep 3, 2024 08:52 AM IST Assam’s Bengali-Muslim singer Altap Hussain, who was arrested over a controversial protest song, was trying to whip up a “dispute between the Hindu and Miya communities”, the FIR registered in the case states. Altap, a 35-year-old singer from Dhubri, was arrested Saturday for protest song called…
2 min readGuwahatiUpdated: Sep 12, 2024 10:36 AM IST Assamese actress, choreographer and social media influencer Sumi Bora and her husband Tarkik Bora, who were wanted in connection with the multi-crore online stock trading scam, detained by the Special Task Force (STF) on Thursday, a senior police officer said. The STF detained the two in…
2 min readGuwahatiOct 7, 2024 01:01 PM IST Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday kick-started distribution of Soil Health Cards (SHC) to more than four lakh farmers across the state. At an official function here, Sarma said the government will distribute around 10 lakh SHC and four lakh of them are already ready…
2 min readGolaghatOct 20, 2024 02:24 PM IST Around 200 people have fallen ill due to food poisoning after consuming snacks during an obituary function of a deceased in Assam’s Golaghat district, officials said on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday night during a gathering at the memorial ceremony of the mother of Pradip…
