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Ex-student leader Pramod Boro joins UPPL giving it a boost For the first time since 2003, an ally of the BJP is expected to face a strong opposition in the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) polls in Assam. Elections to the 40-seat tribal council are scheduled in April. The council, established under the Sixth Schedule of […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Kokrajhar in Assam on Friday to participate in an event to celebrate the signing of the Bodo agreement in January this year. This will be the prime minister’s first visit to the Northeast since protests erupted against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act last December. “Tomorrow, I look forward to being […]
Former Jawaharlal Nehru University student and Shaheen Bagh protester Sharjeel Imam will be brought to Guwahati for interrogation related to his “hate speech” against Assam and the rest of the northeast. Mr. Imam was slapped with a sedition case for allegedly delivering an inflammatory speech inciting people to cut off Assam from the rest of […]
The body will decide on the reservation of seats in Assam Legislative Assembly and jobs under the government of the State. A high-level committee, set up by the Home Ministry to suggest ways for providing constitutional safeguards to the indigenous people of Assam, on Monday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and discussed with him […]
While Delhi is infamous for crimes against women, it is Assam, which has topped the chart for rate of crime against women in the country for the second consecutive year, as per the 2018 National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) figures. Rate of crime against women in Assam stood at 166 for 2018, almost three times […]
The incident took place during a regular training session at Chabua in upper Assam’s Dibrugarh district Shivangini Gohain, an archer from Assam, was airlifted to Delhi and admitted to the AIIMS Trauma Centre on Thursday after an arrow accidentally pierced through her shoulder during a practice session. The incident took place during a regular training […]
Opposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, saying the Congress will not allow them to attack the culture and identity of Assam and expressed apprehension that the state is returning to the path of violence due to the ‘anti-people’ policies of the saffron party. […]
Anyone born in India before July 1, 1987 or whose parents were born before that date are bona fide Indian citizens according to law and need not worry due to the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 or a possible countrywide National Register of Citizens, a top government official said on Friday. The clarification came amid ongoing […]
Gauhati High Court had ordered restoration of the service by 5 pm on Thursday. Mobile internet services resumed in Assam on Friday, ten days after it was snapped in the wake of violent protests over the the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) . A senior official of private telecom operator Airtel said the ban was lifted […]
Police arrest PFI State unit president for ‘inciting violence’ Offices of the Assam government wore a deserted look in Wednesday as members of the Sadou Asom Karmachari Parishad, the apex employees’ organisation, ceased work in protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). Central government offices, banks and other establishments functioned normally while schools remained closed […]