Saturday, April 1, 2023

Himanta Biswa Sarma

BJP-AGP combine sweeps GMC polls, Cong draws blank

The BJP-AGP alliance swept the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) polls on Sunday, bagging 58 out of the total 60 wards, while the main opposition party Congress drew a blank.The other two wards were won one each by the Aam...

Assam-Arunachal meet to resolve border disputes

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma met his Arunachal Pradesh counterpart Pema Khandu on Wednesday, and announced that the two Northeastern states will form district-level committees to resolve the longstanding border disputes in a time-bound manner.This was the second...

‘Loudspeakers not integral to religion’, says Assam CM

As the political debate surrounding the demand for a ban on loudspeakers in mosques heats up, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, on Monday, said that “our civilisational value has been under attack for a long time”.He said that...

Police official who loses cool not fit: Himanta Biswa Sarma

Correspondent Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Wednesday said a police official who loses his cool while handling a situation is not fit to be a member of the police force.Addressing the passing out parade of the 50th batch (basic...

Parliament to take final call on Assam-Meghalaya border dispute

A day after he and his Meghalaya counterpart inked a pact to partially resolve interstate border disputes, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday told the Assembly that Parliament would be taking a final call in the matter.The...

Congress MLA Das to vote for NDA in RS polls: Himanta Biswa Sarma

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday claimed that suspended Congress MLA Sashi Kanta Das will vote for the BJP-led NDA candidates during the Rajya Sabha biennial elections in the state.Two Rajya Sabha seats from the state are...

Amit Shah to meet Assam and Meghalaya CMs after March 10

In a recent development, the Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be meeting the Chief Ministers of both Assam and Meghalaya after 10th March 2022 to discuss and settle the border clash between the two northeastern states, reports The...

Himanta Biswa Sarma speaks to EAM to evacuate Assamese in Ukraine

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said he has spoken to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar regarding evacuation of people from Assam stranded in war-torn Ukraine.“Spoke to Hon EAM Sri @DrSJaishankar about safety of our students in...

Assam to order 200 electric buses for Guwahati

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said the state government will place an order for 200 electric buses within a month to run those in the capital city.The state Cabinet had in August last year decided to...

Assam CM, wife summoned by court for poll code violation in 2019

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his wife Riniki Bhuyan, who is the chairman-cum-managing director of an Assamese news channel, have been summoned by the chief judicial magistrate of Kamrup Metropolitan for alleged violation of the model code...