Category: ASSAM

• GUWAHATI
• KARIMGANJ
• SHILCHAR
• Dibrugarh
• Hailakandi

The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), which operates in the northeastern states and in seven districts of West Bengal and five districts of north Bihar, has achieved 64 per cent electrification of its network, officials said on Tuesday.

Heroin, smuggled from Myanmar, worth over Rs 6.40 crore was seized and three persons were arrested in two separate operations by the police personnel in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh on Friday, officials said.

After the derailment of six coaches, engine and the power car of Agartala-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express on Thursday at Dibalong in Assam, the normal train services were restored on Friday in the Lumding-Badarpur Hill section, officials said.

A total of six coaches besides the engine and the power car of the Agartala-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express derailed on Thursday at Dibalong in Assam's Dima Hasao district, an official said, adding no casualties, however, were reported.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday announced that the Nabagraha temple in Guwahati will witness a major transformation with the state government planning to spend more than Rs 12 crores in upgrading the existing structures of the temple.

He said, "The BJP government has been working for the benefit of the people and this government has undertaken unprecedented development works under the leadership of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.”

The four-month-long Southwest Monsoon has withdrawn from the entire northeast region of India on Monday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials said.

Drugs worth nearly Rs 4.5 crore have been seized and four drug peddlers were arrested from southern Assam’s Karimganj district on Sunday, officials said.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said that 92 Assembly constituencies in the state surpassed the target of enrolling more than 40,000 people for the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) ongoing membership drive.

On the first day of immersion of Durga idols on Saturday, Assam witnessed no untoward incident and the entire ritual was peaceful so far across the state, police said.

The Durga Puja festival, which is celebrated with fervour in the northeastern states, especially in Assam, Tripura, Manipur and Meghalaya, came to an end as per religious schedule on Saturday with the beginning of immersion of idols on the occasion of Vijaya Dashami.

The Chief Ministers of the northeastern states on Thursday mourned the demise of iconic industrialist and Chairman Emeritus of the Tata Group, Ratan Tata, who passed away late on Wednesday night at the age of 86.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday launched co-districts with an aim to decentralise administrative power from the district headquarters to the sub-divisional level. 

The membership drive of the BJP has crossed 55 lakh members in Assam and it has achieved 90 per cent of the target, said Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday.

The Assam government will make public the findings by a committee regarding the "huge corruption and malpractices" that happened in competitive examinations conducted by Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) during the previous Congress regime in the state, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday.

In a move that is likely to cause some hardship to the people of the state, mobile Internet services were suspended in Assam on Sunday for eight hours from 8:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday asserted that the Assam government has taken a firm stand against infiltration from Bangladesh and 17 of its nationals, including eight children who tried to enter the Indian territory illegaly, were pushed back on Saturday.

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said that the state government will make Justice (Retd.) Biplab Kumar Sarma committee report regarding clause 6 of Assam Accord public in a day.

A senior government official said, "Four hundred fifty families, who illegally settled in Bandarmatha Reserve Forest, spread across 118 hectares, in Lakhipur range of the district. It will bring down the man-elephant conflict to a great extent."

All schools in Assam's Kamrup (Metro) district, which comprises Guwahati, have been ordered to remain closed for four days from September 24 to 27 due to prevailing excessive heat conditions.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has claimed that due to the double-engine government of the BJP, poaching of rhinos in the state has come down by 86 per cent.

Assam Police have seized drugs, smuggled from Myanmar, valued at Rs 15.5 crore, and arrested two drug peddlers in Cachar district in this connection, an official said on Saturday.

Chief Ministers of three BJP-ruled northeastern states - Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura - on Wednesday welcomed the Union Cabinet's approval to the ‘One Nation, One Election’ recommendation by a high-level committee headed by former President Ram Nath Kovind.

The controversial Assamese actress Sumi Borah and her husband Tarkik Borah were sent to five days of police custody and the investigating officers have been conducting marathon interrogation of the couple to unearth more details into the Rs 2,200 crore online trading scam, officials said on Friday.

The controversial Assamese actress Sumi Borah and her husband Tarkik Borah, accused in the multi-crore online trading scam, surrendered before the police on Thursday.