Guwahati: Referring to Bihu festival as a representation of rich cultural heritage belonging to Assamese community, State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday commented that the revered festival should be celebrated in a befitting manner across the State. Attending the ceremonial distribution of one-time financial assistance of Rs 1.5…
Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, soon after his arrival in the city on Friday, will dedicate AIIMS Guwahati and three other medical colleges to the nation. Prior to it, PM Modi in presence of Assam Governor Gulab Chand Kataria, State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Union health & family welfare minister Mansukh L. Mandaviya with…
After days of public uproar across Assam, the State electricity board recently came out with a number of clarifications. Firstly, it asserted that the conversion of metering equipment (from postpaid to prepaid) does not increase the energy loads for a consumer. Secondly, the issue of higher charges against the electricity consumption by a household will be…
Geneva, 9 April 2023: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, expressed concern over the arrest of three Afghan journalists by the Taliban forces in the south Asian country and demanded the authorities to stop persecuting the scribes. Local media outlets reported that two reporters from Radio Television Afghanistan (Safiullah Wafa and Noor Agha) and…
Guwahati, 9 April 2023: Expressing concern over the alleged unusual increase of monthly electricity charges after shifting to prepaid bill paying system, a forum of graduate engineers urges Assam Power Distribution Company Limited, a division of the government run Assam State Electricity Board, to clarify its stand as the process of changing conventional electro-mechanical meters…
Guwahati: Assam police personnel continue their mission to nab the activists belonging to the outlawed radicalized outfit Popular Front of India (PFI), which aims to convert India into an Islamic nation by 2047. Two leaders of PFI and one belonging to its student wing, Campus Front of India (CFI) were picked up from Barpeta in…
Guwahati: Terming the elephants as very intelligent, sensitive and social animals, President Droupadi Murmu inaugurated two-day Gaj Utsav-2023 at Kaziranga National Park in eastern Assam on Friday. President Murmu, who arrived in Bokakhat on Thursday with a three-day Assam visit schedule, graced the annual festival organized jointly by the State forest and tourism departments to…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, while attending passing out parade of the 178th batch of 1,715 successful un-armed and recruit constables at Lachit Borphukan police academy in Dergaon on Thursday, commented that the State is moving on the path of peace and progress because of the unstinted contribution of Assam police personnel. Paying…
Guwahati: Union ports, shipping & waterways and Ayush minister Sarbananda Sonowal, while attending the platinum jubilee celebrations of Gauhati High Court in the city on Thursday termed the higher court as crusade for justice in northeast India. He also congratulated the chief justice, judges, legal fraternity and staff of the institution on the historic occasion. “Gauhati High Court has come a long way since its inception on 5 April…
APW Complain NRC to PM & HM of India (1) Guwahati: Assam Public Works (APW), a leading civil society organisation of northeast India, while expressing concern over the delay in legal actions against those involved in the National Register of Citizen (NRC) updation scam, urges Prime Minister Narendra Modi for intervening on the matter so…
