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The Centre has set a target of growing palm oil trees on two lakh hectares of land in Assam by 2025-26, which will bring half of the state’s 35 districts under the profitable edible oil business.
Days before a madrassa in Assam's Bongaigaon was razed on Wednesday, police had arrested one of its teachers, Mufti Hafizur Rahman, who is allegedly a member of Bangladesh-based Ansarullah Bangla Team - an affiliate of the al-Qaida in Indian subcontinent, Rahman had joined the madrassa as a teacher in 2018.
The Ulfa (I) on Wednesday said it executed one of its cadres after its court found him guilty of trying to escape during special operations in a bid to surrender. He has also been accused of spying for the outfit's enemies.
The Assam government on Wednesday demolished another madrassa linked to al-Qaida at Kabaitari in Bongaigaon district.
A week after the integrated traffic management system (ITMS) was launched in Guwahati, a traffic light pole collapsed in Six Mile area of the city after it was hit by a dumper in the early hours of Tuesday. The driver, who was allegedly in an inebriated condition, was later arrested.
The Dibrugarh University Post Graduate Students' Union's (DUPGSU's) protest against the fee hike decision of the authorities entered its eighth day on Tuesday. Members of the students' body have been on a strike since the evening of August 23 after the Dibrugarh University issued a notification announcing a hike in the annual fees for its arts, science and commerce streams.
Mizoram recorded the highest conviction rate in cases relating to crimes against women in the country while in Assam it was second poorest, just above West Bengal's, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) figures for 2021 released on Monday.
Eight passengers of a bus en route to Tinsukia from Guwahati were injured after the vehicle turned turtle in Sivasagar district early on Tuesday. The incident took place near the Gammon bridge over the Dikhow river on NH-37 at Nazira in Sivasagar district.
The northeastern region's biggest hospital, Gauhati Medical College Hospital (GMCH), has successfully carried out its first bone marrow transplant (BMT), rekindling hopes of many patients who can now avail the procedure at five to four times lower cost than in private facilities.
The Mizoram council of ministers on Tuesday approved the manufacture and sale of wine made from grapes harvested by local farmers in the state.
A court in Assam's Kokrajhar district on Tuesday sentenced a man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a 10-year-old girl in July 2019. The Special Judge for Pocso cases, Joydeb Koch also slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on Sharidul Islam of Gossaigaon for raping the minor girl.
The prime accused in the murder of a businessman, who was shot dead in the heart of Guwahati six months ago, was arrested in Delhi on Monday. The arrest was made by Assam Police in cooperation with Bihar Police and Delhi Police.
Chairman & managing director of Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corporation Limited (BVFCL) based in Namrup in Dibrugarh district, SP Mohanty, on Friday (August 26, 2022) assumed the charge of chairman of the Fertiliser Association of India (FAI), Eastern region, at a function held in Kolkata.
Three men have been arrested in Assam's Karimganj district for allegedly kidnapping and gang-raping a woman two days ago, police said on Monday.
A day after the primary schoolteacher who allegedly stripped a Class I girl student in Mizoram's Lunglei district was sent to prison, the state project director of Samagra Shiksha on Monday placed her under suspension.
BJP national president JP Nadda on Monday said BJP will rule the country with durability because it is never ruled by one family.
Guwahati, the capital city of Assam, saw the most theft and cheating cases, among various crimes, in the first seven months of this year. This was followed by auto theft and burglary. While these criminal offences have seen a decrease from last year, there was a 23% rise in murder and NDPS cases.
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday proposed five national capitals - one each in north, south, west, east and the northeast - to remove the regional economic disparity for which his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal habitually makes mockery of states poorer than the national capital.
The Assam government on Monday bulldozed a madrassa, which was set up by a Bangladeshi national and member an al-Qaida affiliate illegally on government land in 2019, in Barpeta district.
The Board of Secondary Education Assam (Seba) on Sunday conducted the selection examination for the state government’s Grade III posts under several tough restrictions to prevent malpractices, including jamming of mobile internet services up to 100-metre radius around over 1,200 test
Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday announced that the state government will refund the fees of those candidates who fail to qualify in the ongoing recruitment exams for 30,000 Grade III and IV posts in various government departments.
The Twitter spat between Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Assam counterpart stretched on to Saturday with the AAP chief asking Himanta Biswa Sarma when should he come to see the schools of the northeastern state.
RC Jain, chaiperson of the Board of Secondary Education (SEBA), Assam, on Saturday supported the state government's order to suspend mobile net services during the grade III recruitment exams. Nearly 8 lakh candidates from 25 districts of the state will appear for it on Sunday.
Ganja worth nearly Rs 1.10 crore was seized and four men were arrested in two different operations near the Assam-Tripura border on Saturday.
Assam, which earned the distinction earlier this month to become the country's pioneer state to increase the retirement of doctors from 65 to 70 years, is now facing opposition from within the medical fraternity over blanket increase in retirement age.
When a lower primary school in a village in Assam's Jorhat district with a handful of students was issued a closure notice by the state government, the teachers and the villagers were faced with a do-or-die fight to save the 59-year-old institution.
A teacher of a government-run primary school at Thangpui village in southern Mizoram's Lunglei district was arrested on Saturday for allegedly taking off the uniform of a Class I girl student when her mother threatened to take her out of school because of the treatment being meted out to her daughter by a "bully" and the alleged indifference of the authorities concerned to it.
Around 15 tonnes of legacy waste of the West Boragaon dumping site in the city, where Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) had dumped garbage for 13 years since 2008, will be removed as soon as the civic body settles the tender process.
The CID of Assam Police succeeded in tracing and freezing an amount of Rs 10.48 lakh of a cyber fraud victim within 24 hours of lodging a plaint, reports Mukut Das.
President Droupadi Murmu will confer National Awards to Teachers 2022 to 46 selected awardees on September 5 at Vigyan Bhawasn in New Delhi to honour their unique contribution to school education and among them are five teachers from the northeast.
The Assam unit of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday demanded the resignation of state education minister Ranoj Pegu for the poor board examination results for which the government has decided to shut down 34 government-run schools.
Early reporting of congenital heart disease (CHD) has brightened the chance of survival of children diagnosed with the disease in the state.
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma went all out against his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal for his tweet advising against Assam government’s decision to shut down 34 government-run schools in which none of the students passed the Class X state board exam this year.
Mizoram health department officials said 65% of the HIV/AIDS-positive people in the state were infected because of unsafe sex while around 32% were intravenous drug users (IDU).
All Cachar Karimganj Hailakandi Students Association has demanded immediate transfer of Cachar deputy commissioner Rohan Kumar Jha over the arrest of principal of Cachar College, Silchar, Siddharta Shankar Nath.
The Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha has sought social security schemes for the 5 lakh tea estate workers working in the small tea gardens.
Assam police have dismantled the second newly floated insurgent group in the hill district of Karbi Anglong in a span of 22 days as a cadre of fledgling militant outfit was injured in a gunfight with police and six others were arrested along with weapons in the district on Wednesday.
The Dibrugarh University authorities on Wednesday announced that it would not roll back its decision on fee hike, which it has announced for the academic year 2022-23. The development came amid the stalemate between the authorities and Dibrugarh University Post Graduate Students' Union (DUPGSU) over the fees hike issue.
As the Indian summer has become deadly with air pollution, an analysis of summer air quality, recorded between March and May this year, done by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has marked Guwahati and Agartala as the most polluted cities in the northeast.
The Assam government will shut down 34 schools after none of the students from these state-run Institutes cleared the class X state board examination held in March this year.
The much-awaited integrated traffic management system (ITMS) was launched in Guwahati on Tuesday evening by chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
A local court in Assam has served summons to Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, asking him to appear before it on September 29 in a criminal defamation case filed by Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma.
After facing outrage over the Assam cabinet’s decision to teach maths and science in English from Class III in the state’s vernacular medium schools, state education minister Ranoj Pegu on Tuesday said a new strategy is being evolved to teach students in “home languages” simultaneously in
The Assam Tea Tribes Students' Association (ATTSA) on Tuesday demanded a high-level inquiry into the alleged reports of illegal land grabbing of poor tea garden workers by mafias. Addressing a press conference here, general secretary of the ATTSA Dibrugarh unit Lakhindra Kurmi alleged that the land mafias have been forcefully grabbing land from the "poor and illiterate" tea garden workers by forging papers.
The much-awaited integrated traffic management system (ITMS) was launched in Guwahati on Tuesday evening by chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
The Assam wing of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the students’ body affiliated to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has opposed the BJP-led state government’s decision to teach mathematics and science in English language from Classes 3 to 12 in all government and provincial
The film-makers from Assam and other northeastern states do not need to go to Mumbai, Kolkata or Chennai for post-production work for their movies from now onwards as chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday dedicated a hi-tech audio-visual hub at Jyoti Chitraban Film Studio in
Assam and Arunachal Pradesh took another step forward towards resolving the differences on the inter-state border as the ministerial-level committees of the two states met on the ground on Monday in a follow-up action of ‘Namsai Declaration’ signed on July 15 between the chief ministers
The Assam government has formulated an "SOP" - standard operating procedure - for imams coming from other states or countries and for the minority community of the state amid back-to-back arrests this month of three alleged members of al-Qaida operating under the garb of imams.
An Assam police home guard constable, who was engaged in guarding the office of the superintendent of police in Morigaon district, allegedly died by suicide after he shot himself in the head with a 303 rifle on Sunday.