The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday issued an order to extend the earlier ‘guidelines for COVID-19 surveillance’, which will remain in force up to January 31, 2021. “While there has been a continuous decline in the active and new COVID-19 cases, there is need to maintain surveillance, containment and caution, keeping in view […]

Oscar-winning music composer AR Rahman’s mother, Kareema Begum, died in Chennai on Monday, sources close to the family said. Rahman uploaded a picture of his mother on his official Twitter page, without a caption. Condoling her death, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami posted on Twitter, “Sad to know that Kareema Begum, mother of music […]

The Assam government on Monday said that 98.35 percent of fencing work along Assam- Bangladesh border has been completed. According to News On Air, in a written reply to the State Assembly session on Monday, State Transport Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary said that 1.65 percent fencing work is pending due to objections raised by the […]

As the winter session of the Assam Assembly began on Monday, Health and Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday introduced a bill to repeal the provincialisation of Madrassa in the state. The bill proposes to abolish two existing acts – The Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialisation) Act, 1995 and The Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialisation of […]

Former Assam minister and Golaghat MLA Ajanta Neog and former Assam Congress legislator Rajdeep Goala are set to join the BJP on December 29, 2021. Both the leaders will join BJP tomorrow at the state BJP headquarters in Hengrabari. According to a statement released by the state BJP office, it is mentioned that Ajanta Neog […]

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released its holiday schedule for Assam on its official website for the year 2021. Banks would remain closed for a total of 17 days in 2021. Banks across India will remain closed for more than 40 days throughout the year, as per RBI. According to RBI, bank holidays […]

Residents from three villages in Arunachal Pradesh came together to renovate and repair the iconic 15th-century iron bridge, the Chagzam bridge in Mukto Village on Sunday. Led by village headmen and residents of Mukto, Gomkeling and Mirba villages of Tawang district, the villagers carried out maintenance and restoration of the Chagzam bridge, restoring its original […]

The ongoing trend of contraction of India’s total active COVID-19 cases continues as the active caseload of the country stands at 2,77,301 today. The share of active cases in the total positive cases has further shrunk to 2.72 per cent, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). A net decline of […]

Security forces in a joint operation apprehended Self-Styled Corporal, Denial Lotha, a key member of the NSCN-U, from the outskirts of Namrup town in Assam on Sunday. The cadre was actively involved in Recruitment and Extortion activities of the outfit and operated in and around the Arunachal-Nagaland border areas. Weapons and live ammunition were also […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India’s first-ever driverless train on Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line and launched National Common Mobility Card on the Airport Express Line on Monday, via video conferencing. “The inauguration of the first driverless metro train shows how fast India is moving towards smart systems. Today Delhi Metro is being connected to the […]