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On a day Gujarat legislator Jignesh Mevani returned home after securing bail in an assault case filed by a woman sub-inspector of the state police, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the lady officer wants to challenge the bail order in the high court.
A social organisation from Dibrugarh, Shree Gopal Gaushala, on Friday launched an ambulance service for cows suffering from accidental injuries and serious diseases. The ambulance, with a hydraulic lifting system to pick up cows, has been brought from Ahmedabad.
Assam Police have busted as many as three jihadi modules in the state, all of which are connected to al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent’s (AQIS) Bangladesh chapter Ansar al Islam (Ansarullah Bangla Team), in the last several weeks.
North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council’s chief executive member Debolal Gorlosa on Friday said there will be more than 3,000 jobs available for the local youths of Dima Hasao district of Assam with improved infrastructure in different sectors.
A day after its inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Dibrugarh Cancer Centre at the Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH) has started its services for cancer patients.
The police on Thursday evening arrested two Assam police commando aspirants for producing fake certificates during the recruitment process at Shontila in Assam’s Dima Hasao district and five others for helping them.
A government school teacher was arrested by the police on charges of sexually harassing a minor student in Hailakandi district.The arrested teacher lives in Karimganj district.The minor student’s father lodged an FIR on Thursday.
A court in Assam’s Barpeta district granted bail on Friday to Gujarat’s independent MLA Jignesh Mevani as the judge pulled up the state police for filing a “false FIR” against the Dalit leader in a “manufactured” case of molesting a policewoman and requested the Gauhati high court to stop
Ushering in a new horizon in the field of cancer care treatment in the region, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated seven state-of-the-art cancer hospitals to the people of Assam during a programme in Dibrugarh on Thursday.
Gauhati University (GU), after large-scale protests by students, have introduced an “absolute grading system” where a student’s own performance will matter solely.
Tata Trusts chairman Ratan Tata on Thursday said he has dedicated his “last years to health” at a function at Dibrugarh in Assam where PM Narendra Modi inaugurated South Asia’s largest network of affordable cancer care hospitals set up by Assam government and Tata Trusts in a joint venture
The state-of-the art cancer hospitals, which were inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Assam on Thursday, have been projected as South Asia’s single-largest affordable cancer care network that will treat patients of the northeast region, known for having the highest incidence of
Forest authorities on Wednesday night busted a pet wildlife trade racket and recovered a brown-tufted capuchin, endemic to South America and a wallaby, found primarily in Australia and said the consignment was meant for Hyderabad.
Massive requisition of city buses from Guwahati for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s programme in Dibrugarh on Thursday left the commuters stranded at bus stops for hours on Wednesday.
Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani’s counsel said a bail petition will be filed at Barpeta district session court on Thursday even as the Congress in Assam said they will protest against his arrest in all districts during PM Narendra Modi’s daylong visit to the state.
Widows of those who died of comorbid conditions and not primarily due to Covid in the first wave of the pandemic till December 2020 may be deprived of the chief minister’s financial security scheme though the Centre has revised the toll by adding about 1,300 deaths because of
The stage has been set for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Thursday visit to Dibrugarh, where he will inaugurate a cancer centre at the Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH) and address a public rally.
Rattled by the results of the Guwahati Municipal Corporation election, where the party that ruled Assam for three consecutive terms, drew a blank, Assam PCC president Bhupen Kumar Borah on Tuesday constituted a fact-finding committee to probe the reasons for the dismal show.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday asked the newly elected Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) councillors of the BJP and its key ally, the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), to work with loyalty and dedication to make Guwahati a “model town” where people will have no
The proscribed Ulfa(I) on Tuesday released a “confessional” video of one of its cadres where he has claimed that he was “planted” in the outfit by a top Assam Police official and a senior official of the Indian Army to gather inside information of the outfit and destroy its bases in
The northeastern region will be brought under a high-precision doppler weather radar system network for accurate forecasts of rainfall intensity, direction of storms and even hailstorms by the current financial year.
A local court in Assam’s Barpeta district on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani and remanded him to five days police custody in an alleged assault case filed by a woman police officer.
The written test for recruitment for Assam Police sub-inspectors held on Sunday has come under a cloud following reports that the question paper was leaked on social media.
Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday made a final inspection of the Khanikar police reserve field in Dibrugarh where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address a public rally on Thursday.
Independent Gujarat MLA from Vadgam and dalit leader, Jignesh Mevani, was re-arrested on Monday by Assam police on charges of assaulting a woman cop, shortly after he was released on bail.
Leader of opposition and senior Congress leader Debabrata Saikia on Monday said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) can never be an alternative to the Congress in Assam. Amid concerns about the Congress’s future after the grand old party drew a blank in the Guwahati Municipal Corporation election, some political analysts have applauded AAP’s growing influence in the state.
Congress, despite being the biggest opposition party in the state assembly, drew a blank in the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) election with party insiders squarely blaming senior party leaders for skipping the campaign trail.
The BJP-AGP alliance, which registered a landslide victory in the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) elections, the results of which were declared on Sunday, will select mayor and deputy mayor after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Assam on Thursday.
BJP said the party, along with ally AGP, which had won all the four assembly constituencies in the city in last year’s election for the second consecutive time, has been able to retain the trust of the voters in the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) polls because of the development work
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to Dibrugarh on April 28, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma arrived in the town on Sunday to take stock of the preparations.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) made its debut in the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) election after bagging one seat on Sunday. Masuma Begum won from ward No. 42, defeating the nearest BJP rival by a margin of nearly 500 votes.
The Karimganj district administration has submitted a proposal worth Rs 60 crore to the state transformation and development department for the facelift of Sonbeel as a tourist destination.
For the BJP, a smooth alliance in the hills and plains have made its plans easier, while exodus of Congress leaders and workers continue to hurt the grand old party.
Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has appointed former Assam Pradesh Congress Committee chief Ripun Bora as the president of the state unit of the TMC, now named the Assam Trinamool Congress.
Assam government has in an affidavit filed recently before the Gauhati High Court, accepted Justice (Retired) BP Katakey Commission’s report revealing extensive illegal coal mining in the Saleki proposed reserve forest and Tekok open cast during the period 2003-2019 by violating the
When Assam’s Government Railway Police arrested two Ukrainians from Kiev who were travelling from Agartala to New Delhi without any travel documents, little did they know that the duo were members of an international bank fraud racket, who were arrested and jailed in Dhaka in 2019.
Independent Gujarat MLA from Vadgam and dalit leader, Jignesh Mevani was arrested by Assam police late on Wednesday for allegedly posting “inciting tweets” and “inciting enmity between communities”.
A septuagenarian rape accused was injured in police firing while attempting to escape custody in Assam’s Nagaon district, while another person accused in a firing incident was injured for making a similar attempt in Dhubri district on Wednesday night.
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said the government has accepted the definition of native Muslims of Assam as recommended by cabinet sub-committees.
After a gap of nine years since 2013 when the Guwahati Municipal Corporation election was held, the stage is set for the civic polls on Friday.
The state forest department on Wednesday arrested one person for allegedly killing a three-year-old male barking deer, also called the Indian Muntjac (Sagoli Pohu in Assamese), under the Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972 in Guwahati’s Mathgharia area under the jurisdiction of the Narengi
The high-decibel campaign for the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) election came to an end with mammoth political rallies on rain-awash Wednesday, causing huge traffic congestion in the city.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Arunachal Pradesh counterpart Pema Khandu on Wednesday here decided to adopt the same model used to resolve the Assam-Meghalaya border dispute based on historical perspective, ethnicity, contiguity, people’s will and administrative
Several schools in the capital’s neighbouring district Nagaon have been without electricity since they were set up. While the central government has introduced the Diksha audio-visual app for schools, the students are not able to get access to it because of lack of power.
On April 23, Assam will honour soldiers of the state who took part in Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 but their contributions have remained little known so far.
According to AJP Kamrup-Metro unit president Sanjeev Bora’s petition, the chief minister made an announcement to include 1,000 more needy women for financial assistance under the state government’s Orunodoi scheme from each ward and grant Rs 10 crore for the development of each ward.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday issued a fresh warning of thunderstorm, lightning and gusty winds in the northeast region for five days.
Concerned about the rising crime graph in the city, voters in the upcoming Guwahati Municipal Corporation election scheduled for April 22 have demanded sufficient CCTV cameras to check crime against residents, especially women and the elderly.
