Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, while gracing the opening ceremony of 7th India Industrial Fair (titled UDYAM 2022) on Friday at Khanapara in the city, emphasised on a new industrial policy for the north-eastern region (NE) in line with the one enacted for the union territory of Jammu & Kashmir. Organised by the…
Guwahati: The polling for Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) elections concluded peacefully on Friday evening, but the voters’ turnout was visibly low this time. Held after a gap of nine years for various reasons including the Covid-19 pandemic, the exercise witnessed only 50% polling percentage. The counting of votes is scheduled for 24 April and the…
Guwahati: Three persons were arrested by the Hatigaon Police for allegedly gang-raping a woman on Wednesday. The arrested persons have been identified as Naimuddin Ali, Mukul Islam and Ashraful Amin. According to police, a 37 year old allegedly gang raped in a house located at Neelkamal Path in Hatigaon on Wednesday. The victim lodged a complaint…
Guwahati: Assam government, while showing sincerity to overall developments of indigenous Muslim community in the State, has vowed to adopt short, medium and long term strategies in the coming days. Receiving the reports of seven sub-committees, which were formed by the government a few months back after pragmatic interactions with a group of eminent personalities…
Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar of Gujarat on 19 April 2022, where the groundbreaking ceremony was attended by Mauritius Premier Pravind Kumar Jugnauth and World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus. Identified as the world’s first and only global centre for traditional…
The country is looking into Kerala, a state that is known as the hub of Islamic terrorism. In a shocking incident, yet another RSS karyakarta was hacked to death by a 5-member gang in Palakkad. The deceased has been identified as former Sharirik Pramukh Sreenivasan. He had sustained serious injuries to his head and legs….
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global body for media safety and rights, condemns the murder of Bangladeshi journalist Mohiuddin Sarker Nayeem (28) and demands exemplary punishments to the perpetrators. In an earlier statement, the PEC expressed its serious concern over the sharp rise in journalists killed across the world this year. Mentionable is that…
Guwahati: The Bhumi Puja for construction of a 1.4 kilometre long four-lane flyover from Diphu stadium to Diphu head post office on Lumding-Dimapur road having two-lane extended arm on Diphu civil hospital road was performed on Friday. State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, while taking part in the program at the headquarter of Karbi Anglong…
Guwahati: Assam Governor professor Jagdish Mukhi and chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma extended greetings to the people of Assam on the occasion of Bohag (Rongali) Bihu and Assamese New Year. Sarma in a statement said that Rongali Bihu brings new hope and possibility, which also reinforces our age-old bond of unity and camaraderie. He wishes…
Guwahati: Eminent Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan was honoured with the 56th Jnanpith award for the year 2021 in a glittering function held at Rabindra Bhawan in the city on Monday evening. Phookan becomes the third Assamese litterateur to receive the highest literary award in the country after novelist Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya and scholar Mamoni Roisam…
