Three illegal migrants have been arrested by the police in Manipur’s Tengnoupal district. Acting on a tip-off a police team led by Tengnoupal SP S Ibomcha Singh arrested the three Mynamar nationals from a bus at the Tengnoupal checking point. The Myanmarese nationals had secured fake identity proofs said to have been prepared in Uttar […]

Intensifying the crackdown against corruption in Assam, the Anti-corruption and vigilance wing of the Assam police have arrested Bongaon Block Development Officer Atifur Rahman and Junior engineer Suchitro Talukdar on charges of bribery. The accused duo were caught red handed while accepting bribes of Rs five thousand from a contractor to award him a contract […]

The Dibrugarh police has filed a supplementary charge-sheet in the Assam Public Service Commission cash-for-job scam. The chargesheet, submitted in a special court, names Kaushik Kalita, Deputy Superintendent of Police of 26 IRBN, Rituraj Gogoi, Revenue Circle Officer of Dhakuakhana, South Salmara, Satyajit Sarkar, Assistant Employment Officer of Majuli, Abhishek Borbora, Inspector of Excise, Rangiya, […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is hosting his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina at Shantiniketan today. PM Modi is in Shantiniketan to address the convocation of the Visva-Bharati University. Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina is the special invitee to the convocation. Following the convocation the two leaders are expected to hold discussions on various issues. While Bangladesh is […]

The stage is all set for a floor test as the newly formed Janata Dal Secular–Congress coalition government in Karnataka under Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy will face a trust vote today to prove majority in the Karnataka Assembly. Karnataka witnessed the second swearing in ceremony of a Chief Minister within a week after BJP State […]

Former AGP president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta has reiterated his party’s stand to oppose the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill tooth and nail. Significantly, Mahanta stated that he had spoken to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who assured that Hindus are absolutely safe in the country. Mahanta also took the attack to the Congress by pointing out that […]

The All Assam Students Union and the Axom Sahitya Sabha has joined hands to jointly oppose the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. Both the organisations will jointly move the Centre to revoke its proposed plan to introduce the Bill that provides citizenship to migrants from Bangladesh Pakistan and Afghanistan. Besides both the AASU and the literary body […]

The total pass percentage in the 2018 Assam HSLC examinations has been recorded at 56.04 percent. A total of one lakh eighty nine thousand one hundred and ninety one candidates successfully cleared the examination out of a total of three lakh thirty seven thousand five hundred and seventy candidates who had appeared for the examination. […]

The Assam State commission for Protection of Child Rights today organised a close group discussion with media Houses on the representation of Children in media. The Chairperson of state child rights Protection along host of other speakers were present during the session. The speakers talked about the role of media and the do’s and don’ts […]

Eight Bharatiya Janata Party activists were allegedly beaten up by CPI(M) workers. The incident took place last night in Thakurchara Para of Jolaybari in south district of Tripura. According to reports, the CPI(M) workers had gone to collect their belonging from the Thakurchara party office which was bulldozed by the BJP led government citing it […]