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After losing its most vocal tea community leader Rupjyoti Kurmi to BJP, the Congress received another big jolt in the politically significant upper Assam belt with the exit of the promising young legislator, Sushanta Borgohain. Despite all efforts, the party could not keep Borgohain within its fold though the Congress needed him desperately to reclaim its lost ground.
A mass plantation drive was organized by the National Green Corps-Eco Club of Kendriya Vidyalaya Khanapara (KVK) on the occasion of World Nature Conservation Day.
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and Brahmaputra Board are going to collaborate to address river related issues and how to utilize rivers more efficiently for people's benefit.
Small tea growers in Assam must supply 40% fine quality tea leaves to bought-leaf factories. Such an arrangement will be in force till the Tea Board of India comes up with a new minimum benchmark price and price-sharing formula.
Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga on Friday once again reiterated from his Twitter handle that 'NorthEast India Will Always Be One" and shared an official order assuring that there will be "no restrictions" and "no harm" to non-Mizos travelling through the border district.
The Kohima bench of the Gauhati high court has stayed an order of the Nagaland government asking government employees to get vaccinated with both doses or produce Covid-negative reports every 15 days to attend office, failing which their salaries will be stopped.
A whopping upsurge of about 30% was recorded in the overall pass percentage of Assam Class X state board exam results, which were declared on Friday.
Amid the ongoing border tension with Assam, the Mizoram Boundary Committee on Friday resolved that it intends to protect “our land as it was occupied by our forefather's to its utmost ability” and asked the people of Mizoram for their solidarity and support.
The Mizoram government has refused to withdraw its armed policemen deployed at Vairengte town on the outskirts of Cachar (Assam) border despite strong pressure from the Union home ministry during the talks held between the chief secretaries of the two neighbouring states in Delhi on Wednesday
Moderate rain lashed Guwahati on Thursday, resulting in heavy waterlogging on major roads and low-lying residential areas disrupting traffic for long hours.
The Assam government on Thursday denied that there is any economic blockade on the national highway to Mizoram through the Barak Valley as the neighbouring state has reported to the Centre.
The regional version of NDA, North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) is being kept out of the ongoing border entanglement between Assam and Mizoram ruled by two of the allies — BJP in Assam and Mizo National Front (MNF) in Mizoram.
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Guwahati convicted six members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a Bangladeshi militant outfit banned in the neighbouring country and in India, in connection with a case registered for allegedly carrying out terror activities in the state. The verdict was passed on Tuesday.
The mobilisation of armed personnel on the interstate boundary by Assam police on Thursday may again flare up into a confrontation between the two neighboring states, the Mizoram government has told the Centre.
The tiger population has risen to 200 in Assam, the state forest department said on Global Tiger Day on Thursday even as three of the four tiger reserves in the state got the global Conservation Assured |Tiger Standards (CA|TS) recognition for good tiger conservation.
Amid efforts by the MHA to de-escalate tension along the Assam-Mizoram border, the Assam government on Thursday issued an advisory, asking its people not to travel to the neighbouring state and those working in Mizoram to “exercise utmost caution.”
A day after CM Zoramthanga’s assurance that “non-Mizos from all walks of life” were “at peace” in Mizoram, neighbour Assam on Thursday issued an advisory against travel to the hill state for any purpose and urged those already working there to “exercise utmost caution”.
Bunkers built by suspected Mizo trespassers just across the inter-state boundary in Barak Valley’s Karimganj district and an allegedly massive mobilisation of state forces by Assam to counter the move kept the border pot boiling for the fourth successive day since the violence in Cachar last Monday.
Assam has achieved the one crore Covid-19-vaccination goal in six months. The target was crossed on Tuesday evening as inoculation gained momentum in the state with augmented vaccine supply.
An earthquake of magnitude 3.1 was reported near Assam's Tezpur on Thursday, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said.
The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC) will declare the Class XII state board exam results at 9 am on July 31. All educational institutions and examination centres under AHSEC will be able to see the results through the online mode.
Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga, who is in quarantine after coming in contact with a Covid-positive patient, on Wednesday said the "northeast will be one" as he appealed for calm and peace.
In its first detailed rebuttal of Assam’s allegations about what led to the border violence last Monday in which five cops were killed, Mizoram on Wednesday called its neighbour “the aggressor” in a missive to the Centre that claims its civilians and state forces were the first to come under attack.
The Mizoram government, in an official letter to the Centre, has called out the Assam government as the aggressor who unleashed violence against Mizoram Police and unarmed civilians on July 26 and added that the situation could have been averted had the CRPF jawans performed their assigned duties.
Assam's Barak Valley, bordering Mizoram, stayed shut from dawn to dusk on Wednesday in protest against the killing of five Assam policemen at Lailapur near the inter-state boundary in Cachar district last Monday.
As Assam's retaliatory economic blockade against Mizoram over Monday's border flare-up stretched beyond 48 hours, the Zoramthanga government on Wednesday wrote to the Centre to get the neighbouring state to immediately reopen road and rail routes “owned and maintained by the government of India”.
The world’s hottest chilli, Nagaland’s famous ‘Bhoot Zolokia’ or the king chilli, has made its way to London via Guwahati by air. The Scoville Heat Units (SHUs) has given the chilli its status of being the hottest in the world.
Normal life was completely affected in the three districts of Assam's Barak Valley on Wednesday due to the 12-hour bandh called to protest the killing of seven people in Assam-Mizoram border clash.
The Assam government will not reopen schools unless the Covid positivity rate dips below two per cent across all districts, the state education department said on Tuesday.
The ruling BJP in Assam, while paying tribute to the Assam police personnel killed in the clash with Mizoram over the border dispute, said the Congress has politicised the incident instead of standing shoulder to shoulder with the government at this hour of need.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday claimed to have made six frantic calls to his Mizoram counterpart Zoramthanga the previous afternoon to stop the firing in which five cops from his state were killed and scores of others injured. On each occasion, the Mizoram chief minister’s only response was “I am very, very sorry”, he said.
The BJP-led Assam government’s crackdown on narcotics smuggling and the new law restricting cattle transportation through its territory might have been triggers for “non-state actors” in Mizoram to engineer Monday’s flare-up in which five cops were killed, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday.
Local residents staged a road blockade on National Highway 306 connecting Silchar with Aizawl at Kabuganj on Tuesday in protest against the killing of five security personnel in an attack by Mizos at Lailapur near the Assam-Mizoram border on Monday.
A day after five Assam cops were killed in a border clash with allegedly armed Mizo intruders backed by police, Mizoram on Tuesday refused to budge on deployment of state forces in the disputed zone even as Assam retreated 100 metres from the site on the instructions of Union home minister Amit Shah.
The Assam government will not reopen schools unless the Covid positivity rate dips below two per cent across all districts, the state education department said on Tuesday.
The number of districts under round-the-clock curfew has been brought down to two with an improvement in the Covid-19 situation. However, the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) in its SOP issued on Tuesday, said the ban on inter-district travel would continue.
In view of the death of six people in the border clash with neighbouring Mizoram, the Assam government on Tuesday declared state mourning for three days.
Three youths lost their lives in a fatal accident at Badarpur in Karimganj district after two bikes coming from opposite directions collided head-on late Sunday night. The three deceased youths were identified as Dipanjan Ghosh, Bishal Nath and Biprajit Ghosh, all residents of Badarpur, a senior police officer said.
The Congress has questioned the effectiveness of the Northeast chief ministers’ meeting in Shillong with Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday, after violence erupted on the tense Assam-Mizoram border soon after his departure to New Delhi.
Health department officials are worried over rising Covid fatalities in Jorhat and Golaghat districts where 10 people succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours despite a declining trend in positivity rate over the past few days.
Police on Monday arrested four persons for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl at Khetri. The accused were identified as Bakul Baishya, Bikash Sarkar, Chiranjit Sarkar and Keshab Biswas.
With more than 1,500 cases being reported daily on an average, the Assam government may not give major relaxations in the fresh SOP to be announced on Tuesday.
As police forces of Assam and Mizoram along with civilians from both sides clashed near the inter-state border on Monday resulting in the death of six Assam Police personnel in firing, the chief ministers of the two states engaged in a Twitter face-off tagging Union home minister Amit Shah, who immediately asked the two heads of the states to maintain status quo and resolve the issue.
Following in the footsteps of former Congress leaders Ajanta Neog, who is now finance minister and Rupjyoti Kurmi, Congress MLA from Thowra constituency in upper Assam, Sushanta Borgohain, has sealed his deal with BJP and is likely to join the saffron party on August 2 at the state BJP headquarters here.
Six Assam Police personnel succumbed to bullet hits at Silchar Medical College and Hospital and nearly 70 others were injured on Monday in one of the worst clashes revolving around the eight decades old boundary dispute between Assam and Mizoram.
Six Assam cops were killed and around 80 people, including officials, were injured in firing by Mizoram police and alleged Mizo intruders along the inter-state border in Cachar’s Lailapur on Monday as a boundary dispute festering for 25-odd years escalated into full-blown violence involving security forces and civilians on either side.
A 43-year-old man has been arrested in Assam's Karimganj district for allegedly raping a mentally challenged minor girl, police said on Monday. The man had allegedly raped his 17-year-old neighbour on Saturday, officer-in-charge of Badarpur Police Station Dipak Saikia said.
