Sandeep Sharma, Guwahati: North Eastern Tea Association (NETA), an organisation of tea producers of the Northeast, has opposed the Central government’s gazette notification mandating a 100 p... Read more
Mubina Akhtar, Assam: In the latest “World Air Quality Report 2023” released by Swiss air quality monitoring body IQAir, India landed on the “third-most polluted country” spot after Banglade... Read more
Guwahati, Assam: Six traditional crafts from Assam have received the Geographical Indication (GI) Tags with support from NABARD, regional office, Guwahati. It has been facilitated by Padma S... Read more
Avik Chakraborty, DIBRUGARH: The All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) has suspended its 100-hour OIL blockade in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts of the state. The students’ body decided to susp... Read more
Sandeep Sharma, GUWAHATI: Bringing a ray of hope to all aspiring entrepreneurs from Assam, Bhaskar Jyoti Dutta, a young entrepreneur hailing from Jorhat, has scripted a trailblazing success... Read more
DIBRUGARH: The police in Dibrugarh district of Assam have rebutted media reports claiming detention of Chinese nationals at the airport. In a statement, the Assam police clarified the situat... Read more
– Eighteen sub-adult rhinos were translocated from Kaziranga National Park and Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary to Manas National Park in 2008 to revive the population there. Mongabay, Assa... Read more
Aminul Islam, AIUDF MLA and advocate, too said there should not have been a ‘sweeping’ order to keep land sales in abeyance for three months Umanand Jaiswal, Guwahati: An Assam g... Read more
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday laid down certain conditions for the migrant Bangladesh-origin Bengali-speaking Muslims, called “miya”, if they want to be re... Read more
PCBA contested air quality data in clarification, describing report as misleading, contradictory and absurd while urging Guwahati residents not to worry Umanand Jaiswal, Guwahati: Guwahati i... Read more
Targetting the anti-CAA brigade, Sarma said people will get an idea of how many have applied under the CAA a day before April 19, the first phase of polling in Assam, after the CAA rules wer... Read more
AJP general secretary Jagadish Bhuyan announced this in Guwahati amidst the presence of leaders from the 16-party Opposition United Forum in Assam, including Assam PCC president Bhupen Kumar... Read more
Assam News Desk: A cultural procession organized by the Bodoland University (BU) in Kokrajhar, Assam mocked Muslim people portraying them as criminals inviting protests from various Muslim s... Read more
Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma asserted that he would be the ‘first’ to ‘step down’ if a single person other than those who had applied for inclusion in the Natio... Read more
The liaison office was formally inaugurated by the High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh Pranay Verma. Assam News Desk: Assam’s Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) has opened its first offi... Read more
The anti-CAA brigade believes the implementation of the CAA will lead to an influx, destroying the culture and identity of the Assamese people by nullifying the 1985 Assam Accord aimed at de... Read more
Sarma said any opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) of 2019 should be taken to the Supreme Court and protesting on the streets would serve no purpose as the law had already be... Read more
Assam News Desk: In what could be seen as an attempt to gain more traction for the incumbent government, Assam is planning to introduce a Social Media Influencer Bill which would help increa... Read more
Assam News Desk: The Bangladesh high commission has announced its decision to open a visa centre at Silchar in Barak Valley of Assam. This was informed by Bangladesh assistant high commissio... Read more
– Reveals journalist Rajeev Bhattacharyya’s book – The book reveals that between 1996 and 2004, ULFA rebels, along with members of other Northeast insurgent groups such as the ND... Read more
