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There is finally some good news for the people of Assam who have been battling floods since the last few days. The situation in the state has shown significant improvement since Saturday evening with the number of people affected by flood coming down to 4,259 from the earlier 10,000.
Referring to the saturation of advanced science and technology in the state, Sonowal said, "We are working towards smart students, smart colleges and smart cities.
Police on Sunday arrested Shabananda Barman (24), a resident of Khejurbari village at Jogdai, in connection with the murder of three members of a family in Kokrajhar on June 27.
A 33-year-old woman from Bangladesh, rescued in Assam after being sexually exploited by a conman, was sent home with help from the assistant high commission of Bangladesh here.
As hundreds of Teachers' Eligibility Test (TET) qualified teachers were gearing up for their 'Dispur Gherao' march to the Assam secretariat demanding regualarisation of their jobs, the cops played spoilsport by barricading them at the Veterinary College ground in Khanapara area.
Police have arrested three persons allegedly involved in harassing some elderly Muslims here on Thursday. The miscreants have been identified as Sabyasathi Chakraborty, Bappa Das and Joydeep Paul, a senior police official said on Friday. All of them are residents of Silchar, he added.
Teachers' Eligibility Test (TET)-qualified teachers of the state, who are staging protests demanding regularization of their jobs, are a divided lot.
Noor Ahmed, a native of Assam who had studied in Dimapur, had hoped to secure admission in BCom (H) in a top-rated college after securing 86% in the Nagaland Board exams with the help of the newly-introduced EWS quota.
Colonial-era construction of railway tracks through the Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary in Jorhat had separated the 77-strong hoolock gibbon population there. In 2015, an iron bridge was constructed to connect the bifurcated areas,
An alert has been sounded for two districts in lower Assam where rivers are in spate following heavy rain in neighbouring Bhutan since Wednesday. A severe crisis looms over Chirang and Nalbari districts in lower Assam forcing people to take shelter in camps.
Lok Sabha MP from Assam and member of the standing committee on defence, Gaurav Gogoi, has written to defence minister Rajnath Singh reminding him of the delay in setting up the state's second Sainik School at Golaghat. The first one is in Goalpara.
Citing Gauhati high court's June 25 order and the heatwave conditions prevailing in the country's northwestern parts, the Assam forest department on Thursday kept in abeyance its permission granted to the owners of four captive elephants to send the animals to a temple in Ahmedabad for the Rath Yatra on July 4.
Three years of confinement at a detention centre in Assam's Kokrajhar district has made Madhubala Mandal, 59, too exhausted to even consider starting life anew. This despite the fact that she was released from the detention centre where she had been wrongfully confined since 2016 on Wednesday.
The Gauhati high court has rejected the bail plea of agriculture officer Mrigen Haloi who was arrested on May 9 in connection with a case related to the cash-for-job scam in the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC).
The doors of Kamakhya Temple, atop the Nilachal Hill, finally opened for devotees at 6 am on Wednesday after four days of the Ambubachi Mela that started on June 22.
Kaziranga University (KU) has banks upon academic collaborations and placement records to draw students as undergraduate admissions are about to end in most of the colleges around the state.
With the Ambubachi Mela in full flow, water shortage has come to haunt the residents of Kamakhya. During this time of the year, the city has thousands of devotees coming in from different parts of the world who are now forced to buy bottled water to even take a bath.
Lightning strikes kill more people than any other disaster in the northeast with the region experiencing more days of lightning than anywhere else in the country, reports the Lightning Resilient India Campaign (LRIC).
A woman identified as Narja Khakhlary was crushed to death on Tuesday when a dumper truck fell on top of her vehicle near Diphu.Three other persons in the vehicle were also seriously injured.
The city police’s crime branch, in a joint operation with its Bihar counterpart, nabbed the kingpin of an inter-state cattle smuggling racket from the Gopalganj area in Bihar
The Gauhati high court on Monday sought clarifications from both central and state governments over the state's decision to send four elephants from Tinsukia to Ahmedabad for the annual rath yatra festival to be held on July 4
Rains are yet to arrive with the current synoptic system preventing cloud formation over the city. Data procured from the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that the maximum temperature in Guwahati was recorded to be 37.4 degree Celsius on Monday
In what is one of the most stringent punishments for committing crimes against wildlife in Assam, the court of additional session judge at Bijni in the state's Chirang district has convicted two persons each with seven years' imprisonment and Rs 50,000 fine for killing and possessing the carcases of three hares, two mongoose, one dove, one bulbul and one barbet.
In upper Assam's industrial town of Dibrugarh discontent is quietly brewing in one of the leading universities of the region. The name of RSS ideologue Deendayal Upadhyay does not have the strongest recall value. The Dibrugarh University (DU) does not have a Hindi department.
The hot and sultry weather has not stopped devotees from flocking to the Kamakhya temple to take part in the Ambubachi Mela that commenced on Saturday. From tourists to sadhus, Guwahati seemed to be a different city throughout the weekend.
In a major breakthrough, Yanghang alias Mopa, the highest ranking cadre of the NSCN (Khaplang-Yung Aung) operating in India, was apprehended by security forces on Friday morning, less than a month after two Assam Rifles jawans were killed in an ambush Yanghang is believed to have planned. 
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed various 'asanas' with about 40,000 enthusiasts in Ranchi on the 5th International Yoga Day, Indian and Chinese Army and civilians turned the focus on peace and tranquillity with their participation in the event along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim on Friday.
Assam's largest religious congregation, the Ambubachi Mela at Kamakhya temple atop Nilachal hills, was inaugurated by chief minister on Sarbananda Sonowal. The inauguration function was also attended by Union minister of state for tourism Prahalad Singh Patel.
Two senior land revenue officials of the circle office in Karimganj have been arrested in connection with their alleged involvement in a scam involving Land Ports Authority of India's project at Sutarkandi in Karimganj. The arrested officials have been identified as Subhash Das and Pranit Nath.
The Medical Council of India (MCI) has sanctioned the addition of 174 more seats for MBBS courses in six medical colleges of Assam. With this, the total number of MBBS seats in the six medical colleges of the state will go up from 726 to 900, marking a 25% increase.
The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and Assam state forest department officials in a joint operation rescued a pangolin and arrested two persons from a hotel in Guwahati's Lokhra area on Thursday.
A local court in Karimganj district on Thursday issued an arrest warrant against BJP MLA from Hojai Shiladitya Deb for failing to appear before the court in a hate speech case against him.
For the first time, the Assam government has approved the the introduction of integrated Bachelor of Education (BEd) courses in 68 colleges around the state.
Poor rainfall in the entire region because of a weak surge of the monsoon is raining misery on the people of the region. Unbearably hot and humid conditions have been prevailing in the region since June 1.
The beheaded body of a woman was found on Wednesday in the Nilachal Hills, near Kamakhya temple, which will host the annual Ambubachi Mela from Saturday.
Hearing a petition filed by some 49 state government officials accused in the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) job scam praying for reinstatement of their jobs, the Gauhati high court on Tuesday asked the state government to file its reply by July 30.
Thousands of contractual teachers took to the streets in the district headquarters across Assam on Tuesday in protest against a recent remark by education minister Siddhartha Bhattacharya in which he had compared Teachers' Eligibility Test (TET) certificates with driving licenses that have to be periodically renewed.
A proposed hike in renewal of labour registration licence, an increase of up to 10 times, could affect thousands of small and marginal traders in the state. The state government had notified the increase in July 2016, but had not implemented it all this while because of the stiff opposition the move has met.
After his party's debacle in the recent Lok Sabha polls, former chief minister and Congress veteran Tarun Gogoi on Monday said the Grand Old Party in the state should emulate the RSS model of mass contact that helped BJP win elections in Assam. He, however, was quick to clarify that he is not endorsing the RSS ideology though.
Medical services across the northeast were severly hit on Monday as over 10,000 doctors stayed away from work because of the strike called by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) in the wake of the assault on two junior doctors in a Kolkata hospital on Tuesday.
The Lok Sabha polls are over and so is the BJP’s ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ campaign as a part of which all BJP leaders, starting from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to chief ministers and grassroots workers, had added ‘Chowkidar’ as a prefix to their profile names on Twitter.
A 15-year-old girl from Assam’s Dhubri district, who had been sold off to a human trafficking racket and gangraped, was rescued by state police from Haryana on Saturday. The girl was reportedly taken to Haryana by her boyfriend on promise of marriage but later sold off to a human trafficking racket and then gangraped.
Gauhati Commerce College (GCC) has received 2,300 applications for admission to the BCom courses this year. GCC has a total of 615 BCom seats, with 35% of them reserved for students from CBSE and boards others than Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC).
Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday sought more funds under the state disaster relief fund (SDRF) for prevention, mitigation, preparedness and rehabilitation in case of natural calamities.
Two persons were killed and three others injured when a man in an alleged inebriated condition attacked his family members and neighbours with an axe in Nalbari district, police said Saturday.
Expressing solidarity with their counterparts in West Bengal, doctors at Assam Medical College (AMC) in Dibrugarh have been providing services wearing red-stained bandages and black badges since Friday.
With Hojai College upgraded to Rabindranath Tagore University (Hojai), Madhabdev College to Madhabdev University (Narayanpur) and Bajali College to Bhattadev University (Pathsala)
