Category: GUWAHATI

With the end of filing of nomination papers by the candidates of ruling BJP party and the oppositions, the Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday claimed that the BJP will return to power in Tripura for development and peace.

One hardcore NSCN (K-YA) cadre along with an Over Ground Worker (OGW) was arrested during an operation carried out by 19 Assam Rifles in Jairampur sub division in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh, officials said on Sunday.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said that women should give birth to children before they attain 30 years of age. Sarma was speaking at a function at Sankardev Kalakhetra in Guwahati.

A minor confrontation occurred between Assam Rifles troopers and cadres of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim-Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM) in Nagaland's Peren district, according to army sources.

According to an official statement issued by the Assam Rifles, the seizure occurred on Thursday night from Rongpur area that comes under Ratabari police station area in Karimganj.

The Chief Minister further said that Assam has witnessed a lot of change in its path of development, and the situation is very different now compared to when the ULFA-I was formed.

Eleven distinguished personalities from the northeast have been conferred the Padma Shri award on occasion of Republic Day 2023. Debbarma and Wangchu will be posthumously awarded the Padma prize.

Amid a boycott call by the banned militant outfit ULFA-I, Assam Minister Pijush Hazarika has played down the insurgent group's statement, saying the people of Assam will celebrate Republic Day with full enthusiasm.

In Assam, the banned United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I) militant group has called for an 18-hour bandh and asked people to remain indoors and mark the day as protest instead of celebrating it.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has alleged that Left-minded intellectuals, who have written history, consciously ignored the contributions of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, to the freedom struggle of India.

Tripura ruling coalition member Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) has been holding seat-sharing talks with both current ally BJP and opposition Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA) for the February 16 assembly polls.

The case of Ranjit Das, a resident of Assam's Karimganj district, is interesting and unusual. He was declared a foreigner by a tribunal court in Karimganj as there were discrepancies in many documents he had provided to the Foreigner's Tribunal (FT) when his citizenship was challenged.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said that Shah Rukh Khan called him up late Saturday night. The actor expressed concern over his upcoming film 'Pathaan' poster being burnt by some members of Bajrang Dal in Guwahati.

Mahanta said: "Based on a tip off, we intercepted a vehicle in Khanapara as it was entering the city. The consignment was cleverly hidden in a chamber along the driver's cabin. We had to cut through the body of the truck to recover the drugs."

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Thursday that it is big news that Jiban Singha Koch, the self-styled chief of militant outfit Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO), has returned to the mainstream.

India during its one-year tenure of G20 presidency will showcase the North-East part of the country. North-East India has remained unexplored by many despite its breathtaking beauty and rich cultural heritage.

When in the Congress, he was the key manager for the party in the Rajya Sabha polls, where many leaders from the BJP, All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) switched sides overnight to vote for the Congress candidate.

They chose Tripura as their target as the state has a large number of Bengali-speaking people and also, politically, Tripura and Bengal have many similar characteristics with both the states witnessing a very long Left rule.

Under the Centre's flagship Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) initiative, the Assam government has approved more than three lakh houses, an official said on Thursday.

Assam Police have cracked down on terror modules in the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR). According to Special Director General of Police, G.P. Singh, the police have information of an armed militant group forming in the BTR over the past month.

The Assam Police arrested an ex-MLA, Hitesh Basumatary, and two others after recovering arms and ammunition from Basumatarys house in Kokrajhar district, the police said on Saturday.

The Supreme Court on Friday lifted the stay imposed by the Meghalaya High Court on a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by Chief Ministers of Assam and Meghalaya in connection with demarcation of physical land boundaries between the two states.

The Union Cabinet has approved continuation of schemes of Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region with an outlay of Rs 12,882 crore, for the balance period of the 15th Finance Commission (2022-23 to 2025-26).

The Assam government told the Gauhati High Court that action will be taken against officers who have been accused of demolishing houses of persons involved in setting fire to a police station in Nagaon district's Batadrava.

Banned militant outfit, the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO), active in the western part of Assam and north Bengal, has expressed its interest in concluding the peace talks with the government.