Guwahati: Assam’s very own Lovlina Borgohain is fighting in Olympic Games on Wednesday for Silver/Gold medal, after ensuring a Bronze in boxing category. She thus became the first Assamese to secure a medal in the history of 125 years of Olympic Games. In an attempt to pray for the boxer, a lighting program was organised…
Guwahati: Rich tributes were paid to eminent social reformer Harekrisna Mahanta, who was the Satradhikar of Sri Sri Borongajuli Shrimanta Shankardev Satra at Udalguri in central Assam recently when State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma visited the Vaishnavite monastery. The saffron leader offered floral tributes to the portrait and statue of the Satradhikar. He also…
Guwahati: The Union government in New Delhi has summoned both State police chiefs and chief secretaries of Assam and Mizoram to New Delhi for a thorough discussion over the ongoing border clashes. Union home minister Amit Shah as already talked to chief ministers Pu Zoramthanga and Himanta Biswa Sarma, who incidentally happens to be the…
Guwahati: Before leaving for New Delhi on Sunday evening, Union home minister Amit Shah inaugurated the radio therapy block of State cancer institute at Guwahati medical college hospital and also dedicated a newly installed state-of-the-art linear accelerator machine for the service to the common people. “Northeast will become a cancer care hub very soon,” commented…
Guwahati: As Assam’s young athlete Lovlina Borgohain arrived in Tokyo for participating in Olympic Games 2020, a cycle rally was organized this morning in the city, where State chief minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma joined in it along with a number of members in State legislative assembly. “We are so proud of Lovlina, who becomes…
Guwahati, 20 July 2021: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat is visiting Assam to grace a session of RSS Asom Kshetra to be held, following all necessary Covid-19 protocols, at Sewabharati Janajati Chatravas in Adinggiri area of Maligaon locality inside the city. The RSS chief will leave for Chennai on 22 July. The…
Guwahati: Assam government has launched a series of drug-disposing events, where various banned psychotropic items, seized by Assam police personnel in the last few days, have been destroyed in full public view. State chief minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma himself attended two such programs at Golaghat and Diphu on Saturday, where he set on fire…
Guwahati: Assam’s first woman finance minister Ajanta Neog on Friday presented rupees 566.20 crore deficit budget in the State legislative assembly. The first full-fledged 2021-22 budget of Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma led Bhartiya Janata Party’s coalition government in Dispur maintained its focus on sustained development and growth even without levying any new tax burden on…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma, while answering questions from the opposition members in the State legislative assembly on Thursday reasserted the government’s zero-tolerance policy against crimes and reiterated its stand towards the rapists, murderers, drug-peddlers, human traffickers, etc will continue. Sarma stated that the police forces would take strong actions under the…
Guwahati: Nature’s Beckon, a prominent bio-diversity conservation group of northeast India, proposes Assam government to declare two of incredibly rich forests in Goalpara district, bordering Meghalaya and also Bangladesh as wildlife sanctuaries as both Ajagar and Pancharatna forests constitute the primary habitat for wild elephants in the region. Apart from Asiatic elephants, over 35 species…
