Guwahati: Assam Governor Gulab Chand Kataria recently adopted ten patients suffering from tuberculosis (TB) for six months as part of Nikshay Mitra, a community support initiative for TB patients under Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan. The initiative is understood as a step towards garnering community support for the specific healthcare system. Governor Kataria appealed…
Guwahati: Emphasizing on the issue of police modernization in Assam, State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma declared once AFSPA is lifted from the entire State by the end of 2023, Assam police battalions would be empowered to replace the central armed police forces (other than the number of CPAFs whose presence is mandatory in Assam…
Guwahati: State PHED minister Jayanta Mallabaruah officially launched the first Jal Shala, under the Jal Doot program at an event in Pachariya locality of Kamrup district. Mentionable is that Jal Doot program has been initiated to act as a community-level voluntary system that carries out functionality and impact assessment of various water supply schemes and…
Guwahati: A dream will come true for the people of Assam as the Stategovernment has taken pragmatic initiatives to establish Srimanta Sankardev chair at School of Sanskrit & Indic Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. A memorandum of understanding was signed on Thursday in presence of State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma…
“The film is released in the rest of the country. West Bengal is not different from other parts of the Country. If it can run on other parts of the country, why should the State of West Bengal ban the film? If the public does not think that the film is worth seeing, they will…
Guwahati: The former Chief Justice of India and currently a member of Rajya Sabha, Ranjan Gogoi faces a defamation suit in Assam for his objectionable views penned in a book relating to Aabhijeet Sharma, president of Assam Public Works (APW). Gogoi termed the APW chief as a threat to Prateek Hajela, IAS, then State Coordinator…
Narad Jayanti award 2023 conferred on journalist Rupam Barua Society always rejects negative news: Narendra Kumar Guwahati: The role of media is to balance between truth and general welfare of the whole society and it should be the mantra for media personnel as propounded by Devarshi Narad since time immemorial, said Narendra Kumar, Akhil Bharatiya…
Guwahati: Heralding a new era of inclusive growth and progress in the Karbi hills, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday laid the foundation stones for as many as 46 projects under various departments worth Rs 2,500 crore. Addressing the gathering at Diphu, Sarma commented that these initiatives are aimed at fulfilling the promises…
Guwahati: Assam water resources and information & public relations minister Piyush Hazarika on Thursday visited several places in Cachar district on the second day of his Barak valley visit. Hazarika first inspected the repair work of the dam in Badrighat area of Barak river and then visited Betukandi area. A sluice gate is already being…
Guwahati: Flagged off a cargo ship on Thursday at Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port in Kolkata onway to Sittwe port of Rakhine State in Myanmar marks the beginning of a new era of international trade sea routes between the two neighbouring countries which is expected to benefit Northeast extensively. The ship MV-ITT LION (V-273) carrying 20,000…
