Guwahati: Chalachitram national film festival ২০২২ kicked off on Thursday at Jyoti Chitraban auditorium in the city, where film director Aditya J Patwardhan and actor Kankana Chakraborty lighted the inaugural lamp. Organised every year under the initiative of Chalachitram, a subsidiary of Viswa Sangbad Kendra Assam, the two-day festival is aimed to propagate the cinema…
Guwahati: Attending the Jungal Balahu Divas and Bhumipujan ceremony for development of tourist facilities at the legendary Tiwa ruler’s rampart in Raha locality of central Assam, State chief minister Himanata Biswa Sarma on Tuesday commented that the medieval era ruler Jungal Balahu made immense contributions towards the socio-economic and spiritual progress of various communities inhabiting…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday visited Gauripur town in Dhubri district to attend the ceremonial handing over of the authority of Hawa Mahal to the State government in Dispur for converting the old bungalow into a heritage monument and museum as tributes to the empress of Goalparia folk music. Located on…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday flagged off 100 new compressed natural gas (CNG) run buses for the benefit of nearly 15 lakh city dwellers and also inaugurated the city’s first CNG fuel station near the inter-State bus terminus of Guwahati. Gifted by the Guwahati smart city limited (under its Smart City…
Guwahati: Assam Book Fair (2022-23) begins with fanfare among the book lovers in the region on Thursday. Jointly organised by Publication Board Assam and All Assam Publishers & Book Sellers Association at Assam Engineering Institute playground in Chandmari locality of the city, Asom Granthamela was inaugurated by the reputed Indonesian performing poet Tara Noesantara on…
Guwahati: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has detected massive financial anomalies involving Indian Rupees hundreds of crores in the process of National Register of Citizens (NRC) updation in Assam. The national audit body also recommended action against the former State NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela and the system integrator (Ms Wipro Limited). The…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, while laying foundation stones and inaugurated projects worth Rs 973.38 crores for Dibrugarh district on Saturday, urged the people to lead an economic revolution to give a major fillip to overall development of the State. Attending the Bikakhor-Babe-Eta-Pokhek program at Tingkhong, Sarma commented that the State witnessed many…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, with an aim to bring about a paradigm shift to the development narrative of Dhemaji district in eastern Assam, laid foundation stones, performed bhumi pujan and inaugurated projects worth Rs 1220.21 crores under the initiative titled Bikakhor-Babe-Eta-Pokhek on Friday. Sarma laid foundation stones for a new medical college…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday launched the Jorhat leg of development fortnight christened Bikashor-Babe-Eta-Poshek at the historic Jorhat court field. The initiative included bhumi- pujan and laying foundation stones of 17 projects involving a financial outlay of Rs 853.1548 crore. Mentionable is that the State government is observing a fortnight of…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma officially launched Orunodoi 2.0 on Wednesday virtually from Assam House in New Delhi. Orunodoi is a welfare scheme of the State government where the money is transferred directly to beneficiaries and the poverty alleviation scheme is inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of direct benefit transfer (DBT)…
