Guwahati: Vishwa Samvad Kendra (VSK) Assam has organized the annual Devarshi Narad Jayanti lecture on Sunday (7 June 2026, program beginning at 10:30 am) at Sudarshanalay in Barbori locality of the city. Nationally acclaimed news presenter and currently a senior advisor at Delhi Doordarshan news section, Prakhar Shrivastava will deliver the lecture highlighting the life…
President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar U Min Aung Hlaing has landed arrived in India this morning with a five-day official visit, when the former top military commander of the southeast Asian nation is expected to meet high profile dignitaries including President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi with others. Elected as…
When the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won important legislative assembly elections in two eastern States, both bordering Bangladesh, mixed reactions surfaced from Dhaka. The rise of the nationalist political entity in West Bengal after attaining political power at the centre for more than a decade back was assumed not just an assembly election victory, but…
The north-eastern region of India is not merely a geographical territory; rather, it is a vital part of India’s cultural soul. Its tribes, languages, folk traditions, nature worship, festivals, and social life have enriched India’s millennia-old civilization. However, in recent decades, rapid religious conversion in this region has triggered deep social and cultural concerns. According…
Guwahati: Vishwa Samvad Kendra (VSK) Assam has organized the annual Devarshi Narad Jayanti lecture on Sunday (7 June 2026, program beginning at 10:30 am) at Sudarshanalay in Barbori locality of the city. Nationally acclaimed news presenter and currently a senior advisor at Delhi Doordarshan news section, Prakhar Shrivastava will deliver the lecture highlighting the life…
President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar U Min Aung Hlaing has landed arrived in India this morning with a five-day official visit, when the former top military commander of the southeast Asian nation is expected to meet high profile dignitaries including President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi with others. Elected as…
When the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won important legislative assembly elections in two eastern States, both bordering Bangladesh, mixed reactions surfaced from Dhaka. The rise of the nationalist political entity in West Bengal after attaining political power at the centre for more than a decade back was assumed not just an assembly election victory, but…
The north-eastern region of India is not merely a geographical territory; rather, it is a vital part of India’s cultural soul. Its tribes, languages, folk traditions, nature worship, festivals, and social life have enriched India’s millennia-old civilization. However, in recent decades, rapid religious conversion in this region has triggered deep social and cultural concerns. According…
Anything but the saffron waves grip eastern India in recent years and it was truly confirmed by the swiping victory of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal and pure consolidation of political power in Assam, where the nationalist party established the consecutive third term electoral victory. When some commentators made optimistic views during the…
As the saffron waves grip eastern India, political observers start dissecting the massive electoral victory of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal and consolidation of political power in Assam, where the nationalist party marks a consecutive third term win. The ruling alliance retained power in Assam with over a hundred winning seats in the…
The swiping victory of Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance in Assam legislative assembly elections 2026 brought the limelight on Zubeen Garg once again, but in a different perspective. One can observe that all the candidates and parties, which brought the issue of Zubeen’s unusual death in Singapore and subsequent investigative processes to electoral politics, lost the…
Counting of votes begins in all 126 legislative assembly constituencies of Assam, where elections were held simultaneously in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Keralam, Puducherry union territory, along with bye-elections in some other States in the last few weeks. As the clock touches 8 in the morning (4 May 2026), the process kicks off in 40…
Assam chief electoral officer Anurag Goel stated that preparations for counting of votes on 4 May for the assembly election, held on 9 April 2026, have been completed. The counting will start at 8 am simultaneously in 40 designated centres across 35 counting districts. The ECI deputed 126 counting observers (IAS officers from rest of…
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses concern over the murder of Indian scribe V Jaganmohan Reddy, who was hacked to death on Tuesday as the Telugu scribe went for a morning walk at Venkatagiri Kotain area under Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. Local media reported that Jaganmohan (40)…
