Category: GUWAHATI

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.

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.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday slammed Rahul Gandhi for his recent comment on scrapping the reservation system in India while interacting with students and faculties in a university in the US.

Assam Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Pijush Hazarika said on Wednesday the fraudsters involved in the multi-crore online trading scam will face stern punishment and nobody will be spared.

Many doctors in Assam’s Dibrugarh district invested in scamster Bishal Phukan’s online trading company after being lured by the controversial actress Sumi Borah, an official said on Tuesday.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said that the state government will remain double vigilant to deal with the infiltration from the neighbouring nation of Bangladesh, adding that most of the infiltrators are currently being pushed back within hours of crossing over to Indian territory.

Assam Police on Saturday arrested another person from Jorhat district’s Titabor area for his alleged involvement in the Rs 2,200 crore online trading scam that has shocked the state, officials said on Saturday.

According to him, the Assam Assembly starts at 9.30 A.M. from Monday to Thursday and on Friday, it begins at 9 A.M. to give the two-hour break for Namaz. However, since this has been changed, from now on the Assembly will begin its operation at 9.30 A.M. every day.

A low-cost solar fence that protects standing crops on three hectares of land from depredation by wild elephants in the Mirza area of Assam’s Kamrup district boosted paddy harvest by the local farmers in the last harvesting season.

The Assam Assembly on Thursday passed a Bill to abolish a British-era Muslim marriage and divorce act, making government registration of marriages compulsory and doing away with the role of Qazis in registering any Muslim marriage in the state.

Train services in large parts of Tripura and some parts of Mizoram have been stopped for nearly a week now as the railway tracks were badly damaged due to the recent floods in the two northeastern states, officials said on Monday. 

Healthcare services have been severely affected in all the northeastern states due to a nationwide strike called by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) over the ghastly incident of rape and murder of a woman doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, an official said on Saturday.

Officials said that over the last three months, around 250 Bangladeshi nationals and 35 Rohingyas were arrested by the GRP, Border Security Force (BSF), and Tripura Police from the Agartala railway station and various other places in Tripura after they illegally entered India.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday expressed concern over the decline in Hindu population and rise in Muslim population, affecting the demography of the state.

Banned militant outfit United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I) claimed on Thursday that its has planted bombs in 24 locations across Assam. The places include Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sivasagar, Nagaon, and at least eight spots in Guwahati.

According to officials, these were recovered in a police operation earlier this morning in the Bilasiguri-Batasipur village under the jurisdiction of Dhekiajuli police station in the district.

Assam DGP G.P. Singh said on Saturday that a unit of United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I) active along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border is making plans to launch an attack in the region before Independence Day.

In the wake of unrest in Bangladesh, the lone Integrated Check Post (ICP) in Assam’s Karimganj District with the neighbouring country has been closed and trade has been suspended, officials said on Saturday.

A group of Bangladeshi people tried to enter through the international border along Assam's Dhubri district, an official said on Saturday, adding the vigilant BSF troopers pushed them back to their own territory, foiling an infiltration attempt.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed on Wednesday that from 2001 to 2014, people from a particular community were recruited in police and forest department, but after the BJP came to power, things have changed.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the unrest in Bangladesh is a deep concern for the northeast as the neighbouring country once acted as a safe haven for the terrorist organisations active in the northeastern region of India.

Slamming the West Bengal and Jharkhand governments on the Rohingya infiltration issue, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said that the instances of Rohingyas entering eastern India have significantly increased, posing a serious threat of demographic invasion.