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For the first time, Congress will have no representation in the Rajya Sabha from the northeast after the elections to four seats in Assam, Tripura and Nagaland were swept by BJP and one of its allies.
The ongoing membership drive of the state Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) fell short of around 15 lakh of the 33 lakh membership goal on Thursday, the concluding day. The Assam PCC executive has granted one more week’s time to extend the membership drive till April 7.
Ten vultures and one steppe eagle, rescued in critical condition after poisoning in a village in Chaygaon in Kamrup district recovered completely and were released into the wild on Thursday.
Fishing using berjal, mahajal, fasijal or any type of fishing nets with meshes less than 7cm bar/14 cm mesh has been prohibited with effect from April 1 to July 15, which is the fish breeding season.
Assam state election commission has postponed polling and counting dates of the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) election, after the BJP, Congress and AGP demanded a rescheduling of dates in view of the upcoming festival, Rongali Bihu.
Absence of women-friendly public toilets in Guwahati is a major concern for the women voters, who comprise over 50% of the total voters of the city, according to the latest electoral roll.
An angry mob torched a police vehicle parked inside the Kharsang police station on Wednesday night in Arunachal Pradesh’s Changlang district after the body of a 25-year-old tribal woman, who had been missing since March 7, was discovered.
Escorted by supporters who danced and sang on the streets, a large number of candidates for the Guwahati Municipal Corporation elections made a beeline for the deputy commissioner’s office here on the last date of filing nominations on Wednesday.
Assam Public Works (APW), the NGO on whose PIL the Supreme Court had ordered updating of NRC in Assam in 2013, has filed an affidavit seeking the apex court’s directive to unlock the biometric data of 27 lakh people of the state so that they can get their Aadhaar cards.
Closure of schools, which are being used as centres for the ongoing board examinations, has hit hard the Covid-19 vaccination for children aged between 12 and 14 years in the state.
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said the northeastern states would have devised a common taxation policy, become a united tourism hub and most importantly would have been working under one separate time zone different from rest of the country had it not been for the dogging
Closure of schools, which are being used as centres for the ongoing board examinations, has hit hard the Covid-19 vaccination for children aged between 12 and 14 years in Assam.
President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday conferred the “Best District” award to Goalpara (Assam) and Siang (Arunachal Pradesh) in the northeast zone for exemplary work in the field of water management and expansion of water campaigns to underline the importance of water.
A wild elephant died of electrocution at Kathachema village in Jagun area of Tinsukia district on Monday. The carcass was discovered by the villagers while they were on their way to paddy field.
The Kaziranga National Park (KNP) recorded a growth of 200 rhinos in the last four years, according to the 2022 census released by the park authority on Tuesday. The rise in rhino population at the Unesco world heritage site has gone up to 2,613 from 2,413, recorded in 2018.
Ahead of the ensuing Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) polls, residents questioned the civic body about the measures it has taken to mitigate floods that wreak havoc every year.
A local court in Arunachal Pradesh’s Papum Pare district on Tuesday granted bail to Assam-based graffiti artist Nilim Mahanta and Itanagar-based advocate Ebo Mili and ordered them to repaint the “Wall of Harmony” and bring it back to the original before the defacement within 10
Assam and Meghalaya on Tuesday signed an agreement that settles their over 50-year-old dispute in six of the 12 areas of differences along the 884-km border in the presence of Union home minister Amit Shah, who called it a “historic day” for the northeast.
The Arunachal Pradesh Police on Sunday evening arrested a graffiti artist from Assam and an Itanagar-based advocate on charges of defacing public property for a graffiti work with a slogan against building of dams on a memorial wall in Itanagar.
About 3 lakh parched households in the city, who are awaiting proper drinking water supply for decades, have urged the state government, Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) and other authorities to ensure potable tap water ahead of the urban body polls on April 19.
Assam finance minister Ajanta Neog on Sunday heaped praise on Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma who, she said, is steadfastly working to usher in development in the state.
Amid global concerns over rise in coronavirus cases, two northeastern states, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura have become free from active Covid cases. Arunachal became free from active cases on Saturday night while as Tripura became free from Covid cases more than a week ago.
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) vice-chancellor Santishree Pandit has said the rise of “incredible India” does not alone lie solely on becoming self-reliant but in ideas.
Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said the National Register of Citizens (NRC) should be reviewed and prepared afresh, a statement likely to create an uproar as minority organisations are opposing any move to filter names in the NRC final draft published in 2019.
AICC general secretary and party’s Assam in-charge Jitendra Singh will sit with all 43 opposition MLAs, barring Congress’s suspended legislator Sashikanta Das, on Sunday evening to chalk out a final strategy to win the Rajya Sabha (RS) election in one of the two seats from Assam.
The Assam government by a notification has set into motion its biggest recruitment drive to fill up for over 26,000 posts ranging from drivers to accountants across departments as a move towards BJP’s assembly election promise to provide one lakh jobs within one year.
Two engineers and a casual worker of Kopili hydel project of North East Electric Power Corporation Limited (NEEPCO) were crushed to death by uprooted trees on Saturday morning while they were on reconnaissance of the dam area which was flooded with water triggered by incessant rain for the
Union home minister Amit Shah will hear the chief ministers of Assam and Meghalaya on their joint draft agreement for settlement of the over 50-year-old inter-state border dispute at six of the 12 areas of differences on March 29.
Filmmakers in Assam questioned the Assam State Film (Finance and Development) Corporation (ASFFDC) for allegedly not taking any bold initiative to promote regional films from the state like it has done for the special screening of Vivek Agnihotri’s ‘The Kashmir Files’ in Nalbari
Gauhati University, an autonomous educational institution, has faced criticism for its notification allowing half-day leave to its teachers, officers and employees to watch Vivek Agnihotri’s movie, ‘The Kashmir Files’.
Petrol price in Guwahati is just Rs 2.77 short of hitting the 100-rupee mark after an increase of 80 paise in petrol and diesel prices a litre on Friday. This is the third increase in four days. Diesel price per liter stood at Rs 83.36 in the city.
After experiencing a dry and hot weather for the last few weeks, rain accompanied by thunderstorm with 40 to 50 kmph wind speed lashed parts of Assam on Thursday afternoon damaging several houses, shops and uprooting trees in many places, while the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD)
The Assam cabinet on Wednesday approved a draft notification for an integrated eco-sensitive zone (ECZ) of Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve and its adjoining seven protected areas and 11 reserve forests for recommending it to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
The storm in the tea cup is only growing bigger.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday told the legislative assembly that the state government plans to establish at least one college, with special focus on women’s education, in every minority-dominated area of the state.
Amid the fear of the fourth wave of Covid-19 owning to rising cases in some countries, the government rolled out the booster shot for the 60-plus group on March 16, but most beneficiaries are shying away from the dose. Assam health department officials on Tuesday said this is a matter of concern.
Besides Biren Singh the other inducted ministers are Th Biswajit Singh, Y Khemchand, who was the speaker in the last assembly, K Govindas and Nemcha Kipgen, who is the lone woman minister to be sworn-in.
Politics over Rajya Sabha (RS) election took a new twist in Assam after chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday reached out to suspended Congress MLA Sashikanta Das at his Raha residence in central Assam's Nagaon district.
A poisoned dead carcass caused the death of a hundred juvenile Himalayan griffon vultures and an eagle in Kamrup district on Thursday. Eleven more members of the ‘near threatened’ vulture species, which also fed on the carcass, are struggling for their lives.
Assam chief secretary Jishnu Baruah unveiled the “Swachhata” mascot, a river dolphin, here during a programme organised by the Silchar municipal board and Cachar district administration.The river dolphin is an endangered species and is edging towards extinction in the river Barak.
A poisoned dead carcass caused the death of a hundred juvenile Himalayan griffon vultures and an eagle in Kamrup district on Thursday. Eleven more members of the ‘near threatened’ vulture species, which also fed on the carcass, are struggling for their lives. Vultures are the most common scavengers in the world.
The Kamrup (Metro) district administration on Thursday put on hold its order banning extraction of ground water by private water suppliers on whom almost 70% of the city’s three lakh households depend on for their daily needs after it found itself in a tight spot for the hasty decision.
The founder of a Assam-based start-up incubated at IIM-Calcutta Innovation Park has launched a ‘Zelenskyy’ brand of blended tea with a message to talk peace over a cup of Assam Tea which, he says, resembles the “distinctive strong character of Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
guwahati badruddin ajmalled all india united democratic front aiudf has finally extended support to the congress in one of the two rajya sabha rs seats from assam election to which is slated to be held on march 31 the bjp and its allies are also set to contest both the seats despite the saffron alliance being one vote short to ensure win in both the seats the congress is also set to end the tenures of ripun bora.
Assam finance minister Ajanta Neog, in her budget speech in the House on Wednesday, said amid the Covid-19 pandemic Assam is the only state in the country showing positive growth rate even as she proposed a 10-fold increase of corpus of the Contingency Fund to Rs 2,000 crore to face such
A division bench of the Meghalaya High Court has ruled that rubbing male organ on the vagina or urethra of a woman even over her underpants would still amount to penetration under Section 375(b) of the IPC and hence a commission of rape.
Manipur’s caretaker chief minister N Biren Singh, after his meeting with BJP national president JP Nadda in Delhi on Tuesday, said the new government in the state is likely to be formed after Holi, which starts on Friday.On who would be the next chief minister, Biren said, “I don’t know.
About 13.46 lakh children in the age group of 12 to 14 years will be inoculated with Covid vaccine in Assam after the ceremonial launch on Wednesday by chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and health minister Keshab Mahanta at the Rukminigaon Balika Bidyalay High School here.
Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his cabinet colleagues, along with several legislators from the ruling BJP-led coalition, watched the “The Kashmir Files” together in a cinema here on Tuesday.
