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 […]

Former Indian skipper MS Dhoni has been left out of the BCCI’s Annual Player Contracts list for the 2019-20 season announced on Thursday. Indian captain Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Rohit Sharma were played in Grade A+, the highest grade in the contract but MS Dhoni’s name was surprisingly missing from the list of 27 […]

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and representatives of Bru refugees have signed an agreement to end the over two decade old crisis of Bru refugees who fled Mizoram and took shelter in Tripura back in the year 1997. The Agreement was signed in presence of Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb and Mizoram Chief Minister […]

The three-day long historic Jonbeel Mela, held annually after Bhogali Bihu near Jagiroad in Assam’s Morigaon district, got underway on Thursday. Large crowds, including tourists gather during the fair to witness the age old barter system in practice between the people of the plains and hills. Tribals from the hills in neighbouring districts and from […]

In an unfortunate incident, a woman died following a boat accident at the Panimur Waterfalls, a tourist spot in Assam. The deceased has been identified as a 26-year-old woman named Konika Langthasa. Konika along with four of her friends was enjoying a boat ride at the waterfall site on the occasion of Bhogali Bihu. As […]

Assam’s Simanta Saikia, who was lodged in a Pakistan jail for over a year, returned to the state on Thursday. Saikia, a resident of Merapani in Golaghat distirct was arrested by the Maritime Security Agency of Pakistan along with 7 other fishermen from India for allegedly violating Pakistani territorial waters in October 2018. All the […]