In a bid to check accidental deaths of animals near Kaziranga National Park, the Assam government informed the National Green Tribunal that a budgetary allocation of Rs 11 crore has been cleared by the assembly to install sensor-operated automated traffic barriers. The state government informed also said that the amount would be released immediately. The […]

Assam Legislative Assembly Speaker Hitendra Nath Goswami along with his wife were injured after the vehicle they were travelling in was hit by a goods carrying vehicle. The accident took place at Dadhora in Dergaon of Jorhat district. The Speaker was returning to Guwahati from his hometown.

The Kamrup (metropolitan) district administration carried out eviction raids at Bhutnath area of Guwahati city against suspected illegal migrants residing in the area. Apart from this, criminal activities have allegedly surged up in the area following illegal migrants beginning to settle in the area.

Portfolios have been allocated to the newly inducted ministers of the Sarbananda Sonowal led Assam government. Siddhartha Bhattacharya has been named the new Education Minister of the the state. He will also hold the Guwahati Development Department, Law & Justice department portfolios. Meanwhile, former education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will be the new PWD Minister, […]

The CBI today interrogated former Tripura minister Badal Choudhury at the 2nd MLA hostel in Agartala today in connection with the Rose Valley chit fund scam. Choudhury is the former finance and health minister of Tripura. The central investigation team had yesterday grilled another former Tripura minister Bijita Nath for over two hours in connection […]

As the date for publication of the final NRC of June 30 is drawing near, two important meetings over NRC were held between Central officials and student leaders today. Both the meetings were held at the office of the Special branch of Assam Police at Kahilipara in Guwahati. The first meeting was held between the […]

Heavy bombing in the firing range that is surrounded by 8 villages at Kamle district in Arunachal Pradesh has been creating havoc in the area with people from these villages living under extreme fear. Daily lives of the people of these villages are being affected due to regular bombing exercises carried out by the Indian […]

Arunachal MP Ninong Ering has written to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging the Prime Minister to take up the issue of the Siang River waters turning murkier with China in his upcoming meeting with Chinese President on April 27 and 28. Urging Modi to accord top priority to the Siang issue during his meeting […]

In another development in the APSC cash for job scam, police carried out a night-time raid in a flat at Srihari Apartment in Guwahati and recovered 200 answer scripts as well as the inside pages of 300 other answer scripts used in the APSC Examination. All the scripts had the stamp of APSC on them. […]

Lashing out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for discrediting the BJP’s victory in Tripura, the latter’s Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said the former “should get her brain examined in a hospital.” The newly-elected chief minister further suggested that the Trinamool Congress Chief should visit temples for mental peace. Earlier, West Bengal Chief […]