Category: ASSAM

• GUWAHATI
• KARIMGANJ
• SHILCHAR
• Dibrugarh
• Hailakandi

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday attacked the Left lobby on 'Sengol', the ceremonial sculpture given to the former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru to symbolise the transfer of power from the British to India in August, 1947.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will on Thursday distribute appointment letters to nearly 45,000 Assam youths who have cleared the two-tier examinations for getting recruited in various state government departments.

The Chief Ministers of Assam and Meghalaya held a second round of meeting on Wednesday to resolve the interstate dispute in the remaining six areas along the 884.9 km border of the two northeastern states.

Pro-Khalistan leader and 'Waris Punjab De' chief Amritpal Singh was interrogated by the National Security Agency (NSA) officers in Assam's Dibrugarh jail. Singh has been lodged in the Dibrugarh jail since April 23 after he was taken into police custody from Moga's Rode village in Punjab.

Months ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, doubts persist whether the Congress would be able to regain its political space in the northeastern region, once a Congress stronghold, even as the grand old party notched up wins in Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh.

Deep ethnic, subnational, and interpersonal fault lines have long defined the politics of Meghalaya. The Khasis, Jaintias, and Garos are the prominent indigenous communities in the three separate hill regions that make up the state.

Despite the assurance from the government, the long-pending demand of six ethnic groups in Assam - the tea tribes, Chutia, Koch-Rajbongshi, Matak, Moran, and Tai-Ahom - to grant Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to them is yet to be fulfilled.

The northeast region, which covers 8 per cent of India's total geographical area and has 4 per cent of the country's population, presents a complex linguistic mosaic with over 200 tribal dialects.

After a number of athletes at the Sports Authority of India's (SAI) training facility at Solalgaon in North Lakhimpur town of Assam accused swimming coach Mrinal Basumatary of sexual harassment, he has now been booked for suspected sexual harassment of young female athletes.

The school teachers in Assam must be dressed in formal attires only, while jeans, T-shirts and leggings etc. will not be allowed within the school premises, a government notification has mentioned.

An Assam government official has been arrested on charges of corruption and sleuths of the anti-corruption wing have recovered cash worth more than Rs 65 lakhs from her possession, officials said on Friday.

According to a senior police officer, the incident happened on Tuesday night when the four youth forced the girl inside a car and sexually assaulted her while travelling on National Highway 31C.

Assam police personnel, who are overweight, have time up to November this year to shed extra kilos, else they will have to accept the Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS), said DGP G.P. Singh on Tuesday.

Even as a section of people who sought refuge in Assam's Cachar district due to wide-scale violence in Manipur had earlier returned to their state after the situation improved there, they have again started taking shelter in temporary camps in Cachar, a district official said on Monday.

The three deceased have been identified as Dil Bahadur Sonar, Binod Sonar, and Dalmaya Sonar. Two others were also injured in the accident. All the deceased and the injured were occupants of the car.

Assam Chief Minister and BJP's key strategist in the northeast, Himanta Biswa Sarma, on Saturday said that there is nothing surprising in the Karnataka assembly election results as several surveys earlier indicated that the party would not do well in the south Indian state.

The pro-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has expressed its displeasure with the draft peace deal that the Central government provided to them for initiating the talks.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday termed his neighbouring state counterpart Mamata Banerjee's decision to ban 'The Kerala Story' in West Bengal a wrong one.

A social worker and office bearer of an Assam-based NGO has filed a defamation case against the former Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi, claiming that the latter's autobiography contained some offensive things in the context of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) updating exercise.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday launched the ambitious 'Ayushman Asom' scheme in line with the Central government's 'Ayushman Bharat' to provide health coverage to 26 lakh families in the state.

The committee would look into the provisions of the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Act of 1937 in conjunction with Article 25 of the Indian Constitution - the guiding principle of state policy, Sarma said at a presser in Guwahati.

The 2,000 odd Manipuris, who sought refuge in Assam's Cachar district in the wake of large-scale violence in their state, will return to their home within the next two days, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday.

An advocate in Assam was found guilty of contempt of court after making disparaging statements about a judicial officer, including commenting on her attire and equating her with a mythical demon. The Gauhati High Court sentenced him to six months in prison.

Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo yatra that began in southern India, Srinivas is believed to have played an important role in giving the campaign its initial boost. For the upcoming Karnataka election, he is a key player in galvanising the Youth Congress workers.

A Manipur MLA, who visited the refugee camps in Assam's Cachar district on Saturday where at least 1,500 people from ethnic violence-hit Manipur have taken shelter, asserted that peace is returning in the state and people who have been displaced can return to their homes in the next two days.