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The vice president of National Students' Union of India's (NSUI) state unit, Zubair Anam Mazumdar, was arrested on Friday for his alleged links with vandalism during the anti-CAA protests here on December 12.
In the first reported death due to coronavirus infection from northeast India, a 22-year-old youth from Tripura died in a Malaysian hospital after he was reportedly infected by the dreaded virus, family sources said on Thursday.
The National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) gave up arms on Thursday, marking an end to a 34-year armed struggle for a separate Bodoland state.
Assam Police has sought the custody of former JNU student and Shaheen Bagh Coordination Committee chief Sharjeel Imam and bring him to the state for trial in the sedition case registered against him. They have sought to investigate his alleged links with the arson and violence here on December 11 and 12 during protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).
Experts cautioned the tea industry to behave in an ecologically sustainable manner as expansion of tea plantation at the cost of forest cover has started raising alarm bells in parts of the northeast.
Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said the government is open to discussions on Ulfa-Independent's core demand for "sovereignty" if it sets the ball rolling for starting peace parleys with Assam's last rebel group.
The Board of Secondary Education Assam (Seba) has decided to bar Class X board examinees found involved in cheating from appearing in the exam for two consecutive years in addition to the year of expulsion.
A 19-year-old native of Assam has been arrested for sharing child pornographic videos on social media. The Kottur police identified the accused as Rafiq Islam, who has been working with a private firm near Rangasamudram.
Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal was greeted with black flags by the activists of All Assam Students' Union (Aasu) and Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP), who were protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), in Majuli on Tuesday. This was the first time that Sonowal was visiting his home constituency since the CAA came into effect.
A gang of nine armed dacoits was arrested by Guwahati police from the Lalmati area under Basistha Police Station on Tuesday.
With vigil being stepped up across all states in view of the Coronavirus outbreak in China, Assam health department has issued advisories to the joint directors of health services stationed in the districts to screen persons for suspected case of Coronavirus infection if they have returned from China or Nepal, or have come in contact with people who have visited the two countries.
A day after signing the Bodo Accord, the Centre is now keen on holding talks with the remaining militant outfits in the region for ensuring lasting peace in the northeast, Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday. 
The pact, described as "historic" by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, provides for setting up of a commission to reconstitute the Bodo Territorial Areas District. Here's what the deal offers:
The Centre hopes to fulfill political, economic, social, cultural and identity related aspirations of the Bodos by signing the third Bodo Accord, which, Union home minister Amit Shah feels, will close the doors on any further division of Assam's territory. This implies that the Bodos' demand for a separate state will not happen.
National Investigation Agency has claimed that an Assam module of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, in operation till July 2019, had been trained at Burdwan’s Simulia madrassa, which became synonymous with the October 2014 Khagragarh blast.
The Sarbananda Sonowal-led NDA government is set to make the ability to speak and write in Assamese mandatory for people seeking state government jobs. "If one does not know how to write in Assamese, one will not be able to apply for a state government job. The move is aimed at protecting the Assamese language,” said minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday clarified that the Centre would not upgrade the state's 'Bodoland Territorial Area Districts' (BTAD) to a Union Territory, as part of a new peace accord likely to be inked between various stakeholders and the Centre.
Assam government will register a case against Shaheen Bagh protest mastermind and former JNU student Sharjeel Imam for his controversial statement saying that Muslims are in such numbers that they can out the entire Northeast from the rest of India.
The death of two minor boys in a massive fire has once again brought to the fore the lack of proper fire safety guidelines in Guwahati.
The state health department organised a Japanese Encephalitis (JE) vaccination drive in Goalpara, one of the worst-hit areas by this deadly disease. Last year, 155 people died across Assam because of JE. "Though JE was earlier reported mostly in upper Assam,
An intricately carved figure of a Pala Empire Sun God surprised construction workers when they were recently digging the earth for the building of the new administrative office of Cotton University. The historical find, weighing about 200 kg and about 3ft tall, has also taken the university authority by surprise. The figure was lying just a few meters under the earth's surface.
Authorities of IIT Guwahati (IIT-G) are mulling action against its students who staged a hunger strike and took out a protest rally on the institute campus, seeking justice for suspended assistant professor and 'whistleblower' Brijesh Kumar Rai recently.
The Assam government on Thursday cautioned the 644 rebels from eight militant groups, who laid down their arms in the presence of chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, against engaging in any kind of unlawful activity.
Assam Youth Congress president Kamrul Islam Choudhury, one of the alleged conspirators of the arson outside the state secretariat during anti-CAA protests in Guwahati on December 12, was arrested on Thursday.
Tezpur University (TU) on Tuesday celebrated its 27th foundation day on Tuesday. The event started with a flag-hoisting ceremony by TU vice-chancellor Vinod Kumar Jain.
For the first time, an Anganwadi centre is coming up in a village in Majuli with environment-friendly plastic brick bottles instead of clay bricks.
Sam Stafford, a 17-year-old student who died in police firing during the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protests last month, was shot twice, through his chin and from behind by police, a post-mortem report has revealed.
The perception of Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) being an under-developed and disturbed area has completely changed and long-pending demands of the Bodos would soon be fulfilled, said chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
Upset over non-payment of salaries for the last eight years, over 100 government school teachers of the elementary level from Sivasagar and Lakhimpur districts on Tuesday wrote to the President, seeking his permission to commit suicide.
Amid the ongoing tussle between the government and All Assam Students' Union (Aasu) over implementation of CAA, Sadou Asom Swahid Pariyal Samannayrakhi Parishad - the coordination committee of the families of Assam Agitation 'martyrs'- has said it was not in favour of solving the decades-old illegal influx issue by granting citizenship to illegal migrants.
Representatives from several Gujarat universities took part in an event as part of the 'Study in Gujarat' campaign on Monday to showcase the prospects of the state's education sector and attract students from Assam to pursue higher education there.
President Ram Nath Kovind may visit Assam on February 3 to attend the 75th biennial session of the state's apex literary body, the Asam Sahitya Sabha (ASS).
A man poisoned his nine-month-old daughter to death at Bhauraguri village in Assam's Chirang district on Monday as he was angry with his wife for giving birth to too many girls.
Residents of about 75 villages in Dibrugarh district have donated 45,000kg of paddy to the All Assam Students Union (Aasu) to help fund its legal battle against the new citizenship law.
Suspension of flight operations between Guwahati and Bangkok from this week has come as a major setback to the government's plan to transform the city into a travel hub, and connecting it to the some international destinations in southeast Asia.
A day after taking over as the Assam education minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma fired a salvo at college teachers who are agitating against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), asking them if they knew the clauses of the Act properly.
For over two weeks, villagers from Sasoni mouza in oil-rich Naharkatiya town collected at least 4 kg paddy from each household.Those who could not afford to donate paddy, gave money.
Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday inducted two new faces in the council of ministers and followed it up with a reshuffle of some of the portfolios of ministers. The term of the BJP-led coalition government ends in May next year.
The Tripura assembly on Friday passed a resolution unanimously to increase the number of seats in Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) from 30 to 50.
An all-women rally will be brought out in Guwahati on Sunday to protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). The rally will be led by popular Assamese actor Barsha Rani Bishaya, who has been vocal against the Act in various protest rallies of late.
For the first time, there will be live online updates from Assam Class XII board examination centres this year.
The World Bank has approved a loan of Rs 630 crore to the Assam Inland Water Transport (AIWT) for modernisation of the state's passenger ferry services on the Brahmaputra and other rivers. The total project cost is Rs 770 crore.
Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said religious persecution will not be a criterion for acquiring citizenship under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).
Sanjay Kishan and Jogen Mohan were on Saturday sworn in as ministers in Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal's ministry. Governor Jagdish Mukhi administered the oath of office and secrecy to the two new ministers at a simple ceremony in the Darbar Hall of the Raj Bhawan here. Both Mohan and Kishan were sworn in as ministers of state with independent charge.
According to official sources Mahmora MLA Jogen Mohan and Tinsukia MLA Sanjay Kishan have been invited to take the oath of secrecy and office as ministers at Raj Bhawan on Saturday. The two are coming in place of Topon Kumar Gogoi and Pallab Lochan Das who won from Jorhat and Tezpur Lok Sabha constituencies respectively.
Late enrolment of children in Assam schools are costing them valuable years of their career later in life, the fourteenth Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2019 ‘Early Years’ has mentioned. The report has found that most Class I children in Kamrup district were not in the same age as mandated by the Right to Education (RTE) Act.
Former chief minister Tarun Gogoi said the anti-CAA protests in Assam were being spearheaded by “true Hindus” who believe in the secularism prescribed by the Gita, the Vedas, Srimanta Sankardeva and Mahatma Gandhi.
Several instances of bull fights have come to light in different parts of Assam over the past couple of days, while more are scheduled in the coming days, despite a Supreme Court ban on such events.
A "breeding loan" arrangement between Assam State Zoo and Nagaland Zoo has helped conserve of the Himalayan serow, an endangered wildlife species.
