Congress to go solo in urban polls

The All India Congress Committee (AICC) has given a go-ahead to the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) to contest the upcoming municipal polls alone.

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IIT-G, Aus institutes tie up on water management

The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) is collaborating with the Australia India Water Centre and the Western Sydney University to support water management reforms in India.

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Cattle smuggling down in Guwahati frontier of BSF

Cattle smuggling has come down by one-fifth under the Guwahati Frontier of the BSF this year.

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Aasu leader's killers will be tried in fast-track court: Assam CM

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday directed the police to file the chargesheet against the perpetrators involved in lynching All Assam Students' Union (Aasu) leader Animesh Bhuyan to death on Monday afternoon in Jorhat district within one month and asked special DGP GP Singh to personally supervise the probe. The CM added that the "culprits involved in the incident would be tried in a fast-track court to hand them exemplary punishment".

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Cattle smuggling down by one-fifth, says BSF Guwahati Frontier

On the eve of the 57 th Raising Day of the BSF on Wednesday, BSF Guwahati frontier inspector general Sanjay Singh Gehlot said the last one year has been significant as far as curbing cattle smuggling is concerned.

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Assam: Congress to contest upcoming municipal polls alone

The All India Congress Committee (AICC) has given a go ahead to the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) to contest the upcoming municipal polls alone.

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Assam CM launches construction work for bridge to Majuli

Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday ceremonially launched the construction work of a 8.25-km-long bridge over the Brahmaputra that will connect Jorhat with Majuli.

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Aasu leader lynched in Jorhat, 10 arrested

A 23-year-old All Assam Students' Union (Aasu) leader was lynched by a mob of around 50 people in upper Assam's Jorhat district on Monday afternoon when he and his two friends went to help an accident victim.

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Rare heart surgery adds feather to GNRC cap

A complicated and rare bicuspid aortic valve surgery on a 41-year old woman of the state was successfully carried out recently at GNRC Hospitals here, which is the first tertiary care superspecialty hospital of the northeast.

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Assam: New SOP for fliers likely soon over Omicron alert

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Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma keeps his word, announces loan waiver for debt-ridden women

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma kept his poll promise of coming up with a grand loan waiver scheme for the microfinance debt-ridden women.

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BDF chief in judicial custody over his remarks on Assamese language

Barak Democratic Front (BDF) chief convener Pradip Dutta Roy, who was arrested in Silchar on Saturday for allegedly making "objectionable" comments related to Assamese language, was produced before a court in Silchar on Saturday night and sent to judicial custody.

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Books bind communities, says Sarbananda Sonowal

Union minister for ports, shipping and waterways and AYUSH, Sarbananda Sonowal, visited the 12th Dibrugarh Book Fair on Sunday.

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384 voters elect new Kamakhya chief priest

Kabindra Prasad Sarma became the new chief priest of Kamakhya temple after elections for the post (bor doloi) were held on the temple premises on Sunday.

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Dibrugarh University among eight in country to get British Council grant

The Dibrugarh University is one among the eight institutes of the country to be awarded the Going Global Partnerships Grant (collaboration grant) by the British Council. The collaboration is between Dibrugarh University and Queen's University, Belfast.

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Omicron scare: Move to ramp up testing at airports, entry points in Assam

As the Centre has asked the states to ramp up surveillance amid global threats of the new variant of coronavirus - Omicron - the Assam health department has geared up to increase testing at airports and entry routes from this week.

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Rs 17 crore drugs seized in Assam's Karimganj district, 4 arrested

In a joint operation, the BSF and Assam Police seized a huge quantity of narcotics worth Rs 17 crore from two separate places in Karimganj district of Assam on Saturday night.

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Omicron scare: Move to ramp up testing at airports, entry points in Assam

The biggest relief for the northeastern states, however, can be the lack of direct international flight connectivity at present. The last international commercial flight through the northeast was for Paro-Guwahati-Singapore, which was suspended on March 20 last year amid Covid scare.

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Passenger offloaded from Guwahati-Delhi flight for unruly behaviour

A passenger from SpiceJet flight SG 8169 (Guwahati-Delhi) was offloaded on Sunday after he repeated got off his seat and created a ruckus.

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Junior doctors boycott OPD services in Assam

Lending support to the nationwide strike called by the Federation of Resident Doctors' Association (FORDA) to protest against the postponement of National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) PG counselling 2021, junior doctors in Assam refrained from out-patient department (OPD) services on Saturday.

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Daily Covid cases, testing decrease in Mizoram

The daily Covid-19 cases in Mizoram have gone down in the past few days along with a decrease in sample testing though the test positivity rate (TPR) remains high.

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Assam: Congress demands actual Covid death, compensation data

Leader of opposition and Assam CLP leader Debabrata Saikia has moved chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma with a demand to release 'authentic data' of Covid deaths and the share of compensation from the central government amounting to Rs 3 lakh, to be paid to each family affected by Covid deaths.

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Assam's infant mortality rate slides below national average

After having one of the highest infant mortality rates (IMR) in the country for several decades, the figures have finally dipped to a new low in Assam, sliding below the national average for the first time. This was revealed by the National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5) for 2019-21, which was carried out in two phases from 2019 and spilled over to the current year owing to the pandemic.

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Covid-19: Assam's door-to-door first dose verification drive from tomorrow

The Assam government has set itself up to wrap up the first dose of Covid-19 vaccination campaign by December 5 and to ensure that every eligible citizen has got the jab. A verification team will come knocking at every house in each of the 33,530 polling stations of the state.

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Assam: Congress demands actual Covid death, compensation data

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Two coal mafias held in Cachar, sent to judicial custody

Two men, allegedly involved in illegal transportation of coal from Meghalaya to Assam's Barak Valley area, were arrested from Cachar district's Gumrah. They were produced before a court on Friday and sent to judicial custody.

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Stir over withdrawal of mandatory Assamese paper from APSC exam

Congress, other opposition parties and different organisations have strongly opposed the state cabinet's decision to withdraw the mandatory Assamese language paper from the state civil service exam conducted by the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) and demanded that the decision be withdrawn at the earliest.

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Magnitude-6.1 earthquake hits Mizoram's Thenzawl, tremors also felt in Kolkata

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 on the Richter scale hit Thenzawl, Mizoram in the early hours of Friday. According to National Center for Seismology (NCS), the tremors were felt 73 km southeast of Thenzawl with a depth of 12 km.​

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Assam Congress tries to fortify base amid Mukul Sangma's exit

The exit of the former chief minister of Meghalaya, Mukul Sangma, along with 11 of Congress’s 17 MLAs in the hill state to the TMC, is being seen as another jolt for the party which has just not been able to check the exodus of its leaders to other parties.

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Gauhati HC seeks reply on tender status for Boragaon waste plant

The Gauhati High Court has sought a reply from the Assam government as well as the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) as to when they would complete the process of floating a tender for setting up a waste management plant in the Boragaon area so that the construction of the waste plant could then be taken up at the earliest.

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Mizoram, Assam CMs likely to hold border row talks today

Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma are likely to hold talks on the interstate border dispute in Delhi on Thursday.

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The elderly in Assam's hill districts, rural belts resist PM's vaccination drive at doorstep

Vulnerable and uneducated senior citizens, especially in the hill districts and rural belts of lower and northern Assam, are resisting the Prime Minister's "Har Ghar Dastak" programme aiming to bring vaccination to the doorstep though this age group recorded the highest number of deaths in the second wave.

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Assam: Bomb found in Cachar, 2nd in a month

An IED was found in the Lakhipur area of Cachar district along National Highway-37, which connects Silchar with Imphal, on Tuesday night.

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Cabinet nod to new edu model under NEP from 2023

Assam is off the block in implementation of NE well ahead of the national deadline as the state cabinet on Wednesday approved replacing of the 10+2 school education system with the new 5+3+3+4 configuration from April, 2023.

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Assam gives 4 days parental leave: 'Ministers not entitled to leave, but allowed some time off'

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Assam: Seniors in hill districts, rural belts resist ‘Har Ghar Dastak’ vaccination drive

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Those who ridicule agitations must study history, says Aasu general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi

A day after chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said another anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) stir at this time would not get public support, the Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) president and former All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi on Wednesday hit back at Sarma.

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17 smart city projects for Guwahati at 887 crore soon

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Truck pulled out from B’putra, day after it rolled off Sonitpur bridge

The truck that fell into the Brahmaputra river on Monday, after hitting the railing of Kolia Bhomora bridge in Assam’s Sonitpur district, was recovered by the rescue teams on Tuesday from 10m underneath the water surface.

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Assam villagers spawn success story with fish farming

Jokapura village near Gohpur town in north Assam has shown how a community can turn its disadvantage into a thriving success story even during the times of Covid because of the vision of one entrepreneur.

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Congress pays tributes to Tarun Gogoi on first death anniversary

The three-time chief minister of Assam had also served as a minister of state in the Narasimha Rao government. Gogoi, who represented the Jorhat seat in Parliament from 1971 multiple times, was seen to be a Gandhi loyalist and in Delhi the face of Congress from Assam.

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Assam: Congress on toes for 2022 civic polls, sets up 84 poll panels

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Assam: Crime up as 50% CCTVs in city non-functional

Insufficient CCTV surveillance has led to rise in crimes like daylight robbery in Guwahati. The city, having a population around 13 lakh, has nearly 200 CCTV cameras of which 50% are non-functional.

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Two detained in Silchar after Hindutva group levels conversion charge on them

Two women were detained in Silchar after members of a Hindutva group accused them of "publicly preaching Christianity and luring" people to get evangelised.

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Assam: Truck falls into Brahmaputra, driver and helper missing

A truck fell into the Brahmaputra after hitting the railing of the Kolia Bhomora bridge in central Assam's Sonitpur district early on Monday. The driver and the handyman of the truck could not be traced till the end of the rescue operation in the evening.

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Congress to Himanta Biswa Sarma: Not fair to talk to some Oppn MLAs for development

The Congress has reminded chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to perform 'rajdharma' and be impartial in his dealings with opposition legislators. The party took umbrage at Sivasagar MLA Akhil Gogoi meeting his arch rival, CM Sarma, at the state guest house in Koinadhora here on Sunday evening and being assured of development in his constituency.

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Assam police arrests man in Bengal for 'killing' watchman

Assam Police arrested a man in Bengal's Cooch Behar district on Monday for allegedly murdering a watchman in Guwahati's Maligaon area on November 5. The accused, Vicy Sahani, is a native of Bortola under Pundibari police station in Cooch Behar.

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Assam: Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya says AIIMS delay disappointing

Union minister for health and family welfare, Mansukh Mandaviya, has hit out at the delay in the completion of AIIMS Guwahati, calling the execution of the project "very disappointing".

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Assam: Dibrugarh university vice-chancellor Ranjit Tamuli sacked

Dibrugarh University vice-chancellor Ranjit Tamuli, who was under suspension since February 11, has been sacked from his post by governor Prof Jagdish Mukhi with immediate effect.

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Operation theaters, procedures to run till 10pm in Assam government hospitals

Major reforms have been brought in Assam's government medical college hospitals by making operation theaters (OTs) functional till 10 at night.

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Centre flags low Covid-19 vaccination coverage in Nagaland, Meghalaya and Manipur

The Centre has raised concern over low vaccination coverage in Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur and Puducherry.

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Leaders mull fresh anti-CAA stir in Assam after PM repeals farm laws

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Not fair to talk to 'selected' opposition MLAs for development, Congress to Assam CM

The Congress has reminded chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to perform ‘rajdharma’ and be impartial in his dealings with opposition legislators. The party took umbrage at Sivasagar MLA Akhil Gogoi meeting his arch rival, CM Sarma, at the state guest house in Koinadhora here on Sunday evening and being assured of development in his constituency.

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AIIMS Guwahati delay disappointing, says Union minister Mansukh Mandaviya

Sources privy to the review meeting convened by Mandaviya late on Sunday to take stock of the progress, said the minister asked the project executing agency to submit a revised timeline for completion to the ministry by next week.

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Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Sangma holds closed-door meeting with Rio in Jorhat

Close on the heels of his recent meeting with Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Sangma to settle the inter-state border dispute, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday held a closed-door meeting with his Nagaland counterpart Neiphiu Rio at the Jorhat circuit house in upper Assam.

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Assam: Dharmendra Pradhan opens two key infra projects at IIT-Guwahati

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Engineering recruitment exam to be conducted through APSC

The state government has decided to hold a combined recruitment examination for engineering services through Assam Public Service Commission and also constitute recruitment commissions for Grade III and Grade IV posts.

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NET exam gets positive response in Assam

The UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) examination for December 2020 and June 2021 merged cycle, which began on Saturday after a gap of 17 months, received encouraging response in Assam.

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Police establishments glow in blue on World Children's Day

Marching together with Unicef on its "Go Blue" campaign on World Children's Day, Assam Police headquarters, Guwahati Police Commissioner's office and four police stations at Azara, Basishtha, Pan Bazar Jalukbari (New) were illuminated blue on Saturday as an expression of solidarity with the preservation of the rights of children across the world.

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Tezpur crowned cleanest northeast city in Swachh rating

Tezpur in northern Assam has been ranked as the cleanest city in the northeast in the population category of 50,000 to 1 lakh in the Swachh Survekshan ratings announced on Saturday

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Man dies in Assam before last chance to contest 'alien' status

A 65-year-old "suspected illegal immigrant" in Assam's Hailakandi district died of cardiac arrest on Friday, purging him of his last chance to prove his citizenship that had taken him through a maze of legal complications, "corrupt" lawyers, and more than three years in a detention camp for foreigners.

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Five colleges to be upgraded to varsity level soon: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

"Assam has already made certain progress in implementing the policy. We have created a high-level committee for NEP. The draft NEP implementation plan has been ready and the Rajya Siksha Ayog has been formed," said Sarma.

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Assam could be turned into a language lab under NEP: Dharmendra Pradhan

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Swachh Survekshan: Assam's Tezpur named cleanest city in the northeast

Tezpur in northern Assam has been ranked as the cleanest city in the northeast in the population category of 50,000 to 1 lakh in the Swachh Survekshan ratings announced on Saturday.

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Assam: Magnitude 4.1 earthquake hits Guwahati

An earthquake of magnitude 4.1 on the Richter scale hit Guwahati in Assam on Saturday afternoon.

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Mizoram resumes work along Assam border

"I gave instructions to Dr H. Lalthlangliana and Dr Lalrozama, deputy commissioners of Kolasib and Mamit districts, respectively on Wednesday, as the neighbouring Assam government continued its work along the border areas," he said.

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Northeast Green Summit passes 'conservation' baton to Assam govt

The summit which ended on Thursday evening adopted several recommendations for harnessing the economic potential of eco services, biodiversity and wildlife conservation in the northeast region and using sustainable technologies in a post-Covid world.

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Guwahati Municipal Corporation collects Rs 50,000 from parlours, salons operating without license

GMC senior medical officer Dr Kumar Partha Pratim said the civic body has collected around Rs 50,000 from five unisex parlors, two beauty parlours and one bar-cum-restaurant in the last three days for operating their business without a valid trade license.

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Assam: Repeal of farm laws is victory of farmers, says Congress

Farmers from across the country have been continuously staging protests demanding scrapping of the three laws - Farmer's Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.

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Assam: Close shave for 14 newborns as fire breaks out in Goalpara hospital

The incident took place at Goalpara Civil Hospital. An electrical short circuit is suspected to be the cause of the fire.

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Union minister Narayan Rane lays foundation stone of flatted factory

Each floor will accommodate 12 numbers of industrial units and there will be provision for an elevator in the factory complex with a capacity of 2,500 kg.

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Assam Police ranks third in country in smart policing index of the IPF

Based on the philosophy underlying the Prime Minister's SMART policing idea, IPF used six competency-based dimensions and three values-based dimensions of trust in the survey.

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Mizoram reports 570 new Covid cases

At least 570 people, including 118 students, teachers and staff of a private school in Aizawl, tested positive for Covid-19, pushing Mizoram's tally to 1,30,415, an official statement said on Thursday.

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Guwahati's wait for tap water gets longer as projects drag on

Guwahati residents will have to wait for another two and half years to get access to household tap water as the water projects in the city are still pending though construction began a decade ago.

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