Assam
Regional
Assam gives Rs 12.96 cr relief to tea workers for airport
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has handed over cheques of Rs 1 lakh each to 1,296 families residing in Cachar district’s Doloo Tea Estate, which got mired in controversies earlier in the year over land acquisition for a...
Regional
Modi stamped out terrorism in Assam: Sarma
Assam Chief Minister and BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said terrorism couldn’t be contained under Congress’ rule because of “appeasement politics.He also said Prime Minister Narendra Modi stamped out terrorism in the last eight years with resolute...
Regional
Kokrajhar receives award for e-gov
Assam’s Kokrajhar district received a national award for successfully implementing an e-governance project for an effective service delivery system, officials said.The initiative ‘Infrastructure Snapshot Kokrajhar’ won the award for e-Governance for 2021-2022 under the category ‘Excellence in District Level...
Regional
Assam continues to ‘restrict’ movement of people to M’laya
Assam continued to restrict the movement of people and private vehicles to Meghalaya for the fifth consecutive day on Saturday following violence in a disputed area along the inter-state border that led to the death of six people, police...
Regional
After border killings, non-cooperation in M’laya; Assam issues travel advisory
Attendance in government offices in Meghalaya was ‘thin’ on Friday in response to a call by various organisations for a non-cooperation movement in protesting against the November 22 violence along the border with Assam, which left six people dead,...
Regional
Rahul Gandhi looks like Saddam Hussein: Himanta
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has claimed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi looks like “Saddam Hussein”, the former Iraqi dictator, and it would have been better had he turned his appearance like Sardar Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru or Mahatma Gandhi.Hitting...
Regional
Assam conservationist awarded ‘Champions of the Earth’
Assam’s leading conservationist Purnima Devi Barman has been awarded the United Nation’s highest environmental honour, ‘Champions of the Earth’, for 2022.Barman, a wildlife biologist, bagged the award along with four others from different countries for their transformative action to...
Regional
7 killed in two road accidents in Assam
Seven people were killed in two road accidents in Assam, police said on Tuesday.Five people died in an accident in Nagaon district, while two others were killed in Sonitpur district, they said.Both the accidents happened late on Monday, they...
Lead Story
Six killed in Assam-Meghalaya border firing
MOBILE INTERNET SUSPENDED; ASSAM & MEGHALAYA ORDER JUDICIAL PROBE
Tension along Assam-Meghalaya border heightened after six persons from Meghalaya including an Assam forest guard were killed and two seriously injured following a clash on Tuesday morning at Mukroh village in...
Nagaland News
Book on ‘Disability and caregiving’ released
A book titled “Disability and Caregiving: A Pastorl care and conuselling perspective” was released by associate professor department of pastoral care and Counseling, Dr S. Ekonthung Ezung at Cooks Chapel at Eastern Theological College, Jorhat, Assam on November 18....
