The Meghalaya government has maintained that there is a need to sit with the centre together for a tripartite talks on the issue of banned militant outfit Hynniewtrep National liberation Council or HNLC. The HNLC had recently offered to hold political dialogue with the Centre and the state government but maintained that they will not […]

Assam Health and Finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has asserted that the BJP will not shy away from a head on contest if the AASU goes ahead to form a political party. Sarma’s remark comes in the wake of repeated statements issued by AASU general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi and president Dipanka Nath that an alternate […]

Two new ministers were sworn in into the Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal’s cabinet. Mahmora MLA Jogen Mohan and Tinsukia MLA Sanjay Kishan were administered oath of office at the Raj Bhawan by Governor Jagdish Mukhi. Both Jogen Mohan and Sanjay Kishan have been reportedly inducted after 2 berths fell vacant following the election of […]

Northeast Athletes shone on the 8th day of the 3rd edition of the action-packed Khelo India Youth Games. The mega sporting spectacle witnessed Hosts Assam, followed by Frontier State Arunachal Pradesh and sporting powerhouse Manipur notching up medals in the respective weightlifting events. Assam Eve Gitashree Sonowal did the Hosts proud as she won Silver […]

Members of the News Broadcasters Federation (NBF) led by president Arnab Goswami today met Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to hand over a recommendation requesting for parity on GST with the newspaper industry. As of now, GST on the print media stands at 5% whereas the news broadcasters are charged 18% GST. During the meeting, […]

A Delhi court on Friday issued a fresh death warrant against the four death-row convicts in a Nirbhaya rape case who will now be executed on February 1 at 6 am. Earlier, they were to be hanged on February 22 at 7 am. This came after the public prosecutor representing the Tihar jail authorities requested […]

Framing of rules for the Citizenship Amendment Act have already started and have made steady progress. This was informed by top BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma while speaking to newsmen in Delhi. Sarma stated that it was important to get done with the process at the earliest so that all confusion could be removed from […]

The National Democratic Front of Bodoland or NDFB, under the leadership of B Saoraigwra has agreed to come overground and join the peace process by being a signatory to the proposed comprehensive Memorandum of Settlement with Bodo organizations. This comes after the Government of India, Government of Assam and the NDFB(S) entered into a tripartite […]

The central government, Assam government and the World Bank signed a loan agreement of USD 88 million here on Thursday to help modernise Assam’s passenger ferry sector that runs on its rivers including Brahmaputra. A Finance Ministry release said a majority of Assam’s more than 361 ferry routes cross the Brahmaputra or serve its islands, […]

India’s telecommunication satellite, GSAT30 was successfully launched from onboard Ariane-5 flight at the Kourou launch base in French Guiana in the early hours of Friday. GSAT-30, India’s first space mission in 2020, was successfully launched into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) at 2:35 a.m according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The European rocket […]