Silchar: Cachar police arrested two absconding spa owners on Saturday night in connection with a trafficking and prostitution case.The accused — Rohit Debnath and Rupali Das — were held after a fortnight-long search, police said.Addl SP (Cachar) Manas Saikia said a special Silchar police team traced the duo to their hideouts and took them into…
Silchar: An eight-year-old boy drowned after falling into a deep, rainwater-filled ditch excavated for a national highway project in Assam’s Cachar district on Saturday, triggering allegations of inadequate safety measures at the construction site.The victim, Kamil Hossain Majumdar of Tarinipur Part I under Katigorah Police Station, was found in a waterlogged excavation pit dug alongside…
Silchar: Assam Police seized 10,000 Yaba tablets, valued at around Rs 1 crore, and arrested two alleged drug peddlers in Sribhumi district on Saturday.Acting on specific intelligence, a team from Sribhumi Sadar police station launched surveillance along the national highway near Sharifnagar on the outskirts of the town after receiving information that two persons were…
Guwahati: Assam’s 2026-27 Budget announced three key connectivity projects to improve mobility and spur growth.Presenting the Budget, finance minister Jayanta Malla Baruah said govt is working with the Centre on projects to strengthen transport infrastructure across the state.These include four-laning of the Baihata Chariali-Mission Chariali road in Tezpur at an estimated cost of Rs 13,812…
Sushmita Dev (2nd from left), Sukhendu Sekhar Ray (2nd from right)and Prakash Chik Baraik (extreme right) take the party flag from BJP state president Samik Bhattacharya (centre) in Kolkata on Thursday Kolkata: The BJP’s central leadership on Thursday nominated former Trinamool Rajya Sabha MPs Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik as its…
Silchar: A Sribhumi court on Thursday sent a 19-year-old accused of rape and murder of an 8-year-old to judicial custody.Police from Sribhumi Sadar police station produced the accused in court and sought four days’ custody for further interrogation. The court rejected the plea and remanded him in judicial custody.The case invokes BNS Sections 140(1) —…
Silchar: An unidentified man, believed to be around 25, died after being hit by a train in Dima Hasao district on Monday, railway sources said on Tuesday.The incident took place between Mahur and Maigrendisa railway stations on the Lumding-Badarpur hill section, near railway km 92/4-5.According to railway officials, the man was allegedly trespassing on the…
Silchar: Residents of Barkhola on Tuesday stopped overloaded goods trucks on the damaged Silchar-Jaintia-Kalain road and staged a protest, alleging that repeated assurances on repairing the arterial route had not been followed by action.The protesters alleged that though vehicles carrying more than 20 tonnes are barred from using the road, overloaded trucks continue to ply…
Silchar: Cachar district administration will set up a chief minister’s FIFA Fan Park at the DSA stadium in Silchar for public screening of FIFA World Cup matches from the quarter-final stage.The screenings will be held on a giant LED screen and entry will be free for the public, officials said. The fan park is scheduled…
Guwahati: Buoyed by the response to the CM Fifa Fan Parks in Guwahati and Dibrugrah, the Assam govt is set to expand the initiative to other parts of the state.CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said similar football fan parks will be set up in Jorhat and Silchar to take the football fever beyond Guwahati…
