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The Congress on Thursday requested the state election commission to conduct elections of Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC), which is being run without elected representatives for the last three years, without further delay.
The class X special exam, for those who were dissatisfied with the statistical formula-based evaluation, will commence from Friday. Over 22,000 students are appearing for the exam.
The Assam cabinet, which met at Dhemaji on Thursday instead of Dispur, approved a Rs 570-crore relief package for employees of Hindustan Paper Corporation Ltd’s now two defunct papers mills at Cachar and Jagiroad.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said illegal settlers in Assam are systematically encroaching on government land and changing the demography in assembly constituencies with an objective to take the reins of power at Dispur by 2050 (polls due in
A Special Judges’ Court here in Guwahati on Wednesday fixed October 25 for framing charges against 60 ACS and APS officers and 14 other people, which include Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) chairman Rakesh Paul, in the APSC cash-for-job scam.
The Assam government will acquire the assets of the Cachar and Nagaon paper mills of the Hindustan Paper Corporation (HPC), which have been lying closed since October 2015 and March 2017 respectively, and will provide a relief package of about Rs 570 crore to the
According to a report, cardio-vascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally, taking an estimated 17.9 million lives every year. The day is commemorated to promote different preventive steps and changes in lifestyle to avoid any cardio-vascular diseases, like heart-attack, stroke, heart failure and any other condition related to the same.
Experts have attributed the rainfall deficiency in the northeast this year during the monsoon to climate change. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) data shows that Assam and Mizoram received 22% less rainfall. They received 1371.
While the rubble bears witness to the ruthless wheels of the bulldozers pulling down structures in Dholpur, the government-run schools and healthcare centres continue to stand tall in this flattened landscape.
Offline classes for undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) courses, covering government and private institutions, will resume from October 1, the state education department notified on Tuesday.
Ten assembly seats in four NE states going to the bypolls on October 30 offer BJP and its allies a chance to strengthen their hold in the region, particularly in Assam, where five seats up for grabs, giving the ruling BJP an opportunity to increase its tally in the state assembly
Mizoram continued to reel under severe Covid-19 infection as the state recorded its highest-ever single-day surge with 1,846 testing positive in the last 24 hours.
Hostels will function only for final year students of Class X and XII, degree colleges and universities and technical education institutions.
An earthquake of magnitude 3.2 on the Richter scale struck Assam's Tezpur in the early hours of Tuesday.
Mizoram chief inister Zoramthanga's elder sister Lalvuani died of Covid-19 at a hospital on Monday. Lalvuani, 88, died while undergoing treatment at the Zoram Medical College (ZMC) near Aizawl.
Three minor boys drowned in the Brahmaputra river in Guwahati while another is still missing.The four youths have been identified as Dayal Sheikh, Jit Das, Deep Sarkar and Abinash Das. They were students of class X.
Ahoms, who ruled most of the Brahmaputra valley in present-day Assam for about 600 years till the coming of the British in 1826, will be accorded protected-class status in tribal blocks and belts of the state.
While the government termed all evicted families encroachers, the CPI-ML team defended them saying they are "erosion-affected farmers". CPI-ML termed the killings of Moinul Haque and Sheikh Farid during the last eviction drive as "murders" and demanded the resignation of chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and sacking of the Darrang SP.
Ahoms, who ruled most of the Brahmaputra valley in present-day Assam for about 600 years till the coming of the British in 1826, will be accorded protected-class status in tribal blocks and belts of the state.
The Covid-19 situation in Mizoram continued to be grim as the state, having a population of barely 12 lakh, recorded 1,322 fresh positive cases over the last 24 hours. The state logged the fourth-highest number of new cases in the country, next only to Kerala, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, according to the data released by the ministry of health and family welfare on Saturday.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday recommended the Assam Power Distribution Company Limited (APDCL) board to cancel the 2019 recruitment examination and conduct a retest. The directive came after the Chief Minister’s Special Vigilance Cell arrested 10 people on Friday in connection with the alleged APDCL recruitment scam.
A number of NGOs and opposition political leaders criticised Prasar Bharati’s decision to shut down the Silchar Doordarshan Kendra (DDK) and 412 Doordarshan relay centers across the country, which includes as many as 43 analog relay stations in the northeast and 109 digitally relaying stations, till March 31.
About 400 farmer families, whose houses are yet to be razed, have given shelter to over 700 evicted villagers who had to vacate their habitations in two rounds of evictions this week.
Dholpur in Darrang district, which is in the eye of a storm over recent evictions, has been producing mustard, maize, pulses and a large volume of vegetables for the markets of Guwahati and other parts of the state for long. Buffalo farms have been sustaining the demand for dairy products. But the massive eviction drive has turned this fertile land, flanked by two tributaries of the Brahmaputra, into rubble land.
A day after hinting at involvement of a “third force” at Dholpur, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said the government has identified six people, including a college teacher, who “mobilised people and created havoc” resulting in the death of two persons in police firing and also left nine policemen injured
The Opposition Congress in Assam on Friday staged a protest and submitted a memorandum to governor Jagadish Mukhi, demanding a halt to the state government’s ongoing eviction drive until a proper rehabilitation package is made public for the 800 families and villages under
The Assam unit of the ruling BJP on Friday claimed that the attack on the police and the district administration officials by “doubtful citizens” while conducting an eviction drive at Dholpur in Assam’s Darrang district on Thursday was “pre-planned” and that a third party was
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said the encroachers at Dholpur in Assam’s Darrang district had agreed to leave peacefully and also accepted the rehabilitation package by the government elsewhere two months back but the situation turned hostile because of a
The 800 families occupying about 4,500 bighas of land in Assam’s Darrang district who were evicted as part of the state government’s drive against “encroachments” last Monday on a peaceful note are now waiting for the government’s promised 1,000 bighas of land for rehabilitation.
A 12-year-old boy was one of the two people killed in police firing during Thursday’s clash with encroachers at Dholpur in Assam’s Darrang district, it emerged on Friday, even as chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed that the situation had turned hostile because of a “third force”.
Over 49 lakh bighas, or 6,652 sq km, of land was under encroachment across Assam, a reply from then junior revenue minister Pallab Lochan Das in the assembly in 2017 said. The area would roughly be twice the total area of Goa and just a little less than that of Sikkim.
The Assam government has ordered a judicial probe into a firing incident that took place in Dhalpur, killing two civilians and injuring nine policemen in Darrang district during an anti-encroachment drive.
Concerned with the “dying” Bharalu, a tributary of the Brahmaputra river, a group of Guwahati residents have joined hands with the government to save it, and have submitted an action plan to the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) and Guwahati Development Department (GDD).
Coronavirus infection in an orphanage here has set the alarm bells ringing in the health department. Twelve children in SOS Children's Village have tested Covid positive on a single day.
Opposition parties lambasted the Assam government for carrying out an eviction drive in Darrang on Thursday, rendering hundreds of families homeless during the pandemic.
IIT-Guwahati (IIT-G) has terminated the student who was accused of raping a fellow student, stating that the reported act of “gross indiscipline” perpetrated by the accused, violating the students’ code of conduct, “had to be strictly dealt” with by the
Two persons were killed and at least nine policemen sustained injuries when a large mob clashed with police while they were trying to evict encroachers from a vast swathe of government land in the Dholpur area of Assam’s Darrang district on Thursday.
Two civilians were killed and nine policemen injured at Dholpur in Assam’s Darrang district on Thursday as an eviction drive to reclaim government land from allegedly illegal settlers triggered mob fury and instant reprisal, including firing from all sides at a man charging at the cops with a stick before raining batons on him as he lay on the ground.Two persons were shot dead and at least seven policemen were injured in a clash when Assam Police were carrying out a drive to evict encroachers from a large swath of land that belong to a state framing project at Garukhuti in Dholpur area in Darrang district of Assam on Thursday.
The Assam government’s eviction in Darrang district as part of its drive against “encroachments” on Monday, which left 800 families homeless, has drawn sharp criticism from the Opposition Congress and AIUDF.
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday granted two more weeks to Northeast Frontier Railway for filing an affidavit on the latest development of realignment of railway tracks passing through Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary and elephant corridor.
After Bhabesh Kalita took charge as the Assam BJP president in June, the first two-day executive meeting of the ruling party began in north Guwahati from Wednesday. Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Union minister and former CM Sarbananda Sonowal were present at the meeting.
Cotton University (CU) announced the combined provisional merit lists of undergraduate applicants on Wednesday. High cut-offs are expected in both the BA and BSc (honours) courses as a tough competition awaits candidates from CBSE and state boards.
Guwahati residents are likely to get potable tap water from July next year as just around 25% of the construction of the water projects is now left to be completed.
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday announced plans to lift all Covid-19 restrictions from most parts of state, especially from the wildlife tourist destinations, from October 1. However, online classes will continue from lower primary to Class VIII for the time being.
Tamil Nadu governor RN Ravi on Wednesday resigned as interlocutor for the Naga peace process making way for former IB special director AK Mishra to take over as the sixth interlocutor for the country’s longest-running peace talks.
On World Rhino Day on Wednesday, Assam set on fire a large stockpile of over 2,400 rhino horns, which were extracted from naturally or accidentally dead rhinos as well as those confiscated from arrested poachers and stored for over four decades in government treasuries, to stop the illegal trade in rhino horns.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday announced plans to lift all Covid-19 restrictions from most parts of state, especially from the wildlife tourist destinations, from October 1, but online classes will continue from lower primary to class VIII for the time being.
The rhino horns were burned at Bokakhat, Assam's Golaghat district, near Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNPTR).
As part of the BJP-led state government’s crackdown on brokers operating in land revenue and circle offices, Assam Police arrested 520 people during various raids conducted across the state from Monday night till Tuesday afternoon.