Himanta Biswa Sarma

BJP’s Mrigen Sarania and Smita Roy were unanimously elected Mayor and Deputy Mayor, respectively, of the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) on Tuesday.Sarania was elected as GMC Mayor for the second term as he held the post earlier from 2016...

Ram Nath Kovind would be the first President to attend and address the 61st annual conference of the Bodo Sahitya Sabha (BSS), a regional language literary meet, in western Assam’s Tamulpur on Wednesday.The President accompanied by his wife arrived...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said that his government was taking up several measures to beautify the Ahom-era relics and sites in Sivasagar, and convert the place into a global tourism hub.Talking to reporters at Sivasagar...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has strongly pitched for implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the country, saying no Muslim woman wants her husband to have three wives.Sarma here on Sunday also met Uttarakhand Chief Minister...

The Assam government has made elaborate arrangements for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s day-long visit to the state on Thursday, with Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma monitoring the preparations, officials said.The prime minister is scheduled to reach Dimapur airport in...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...