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…
Guwahati: Assam Governor Gulab Chand Kataria on Sunday attended Utkal Divas program, organized by the city-based Kalinga Sanskritik Sansada and Jagannath temple trust at Kalakshetra premise and extended his wishes on the sacred occasion stating that Odisha has great contributions in enriching the spiritual orientation and giving the people a strong identity, where Puri Jagannath…
Anti-conversion remains a major social issue in Bharat for decades, but the recent voices by a large number of indigenous organisations to prevent various government benefits to the converted families, arouse a pertinent debate in the south-Asian country. The argument raised here, if one converts to foreign religions (read embracing Christianity and Islam) (s)he gives…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday inaugurated a golden silk park & commercial centre at Khanapara in the city. Apart from providing silkworm breed to silkworm farmers, Sarma expected that the initiative of handloom & textiles and sericulture department will provide a platform to indigenous silk weavers to sell their produce. Sarma also appealed…
Guwahati: Assamese translation of the original Hindi book ‘Meri Pracharak Yatra’ by senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Pracharak Shashikant Chauthaiwale was released on Saturday in the city. RSS Kshetra Sanghchalak Dr Umesh Chandra Chakraborty and the Sangh’s all India executive member V. Bhagaiah unveiled the book (translated by RSS’s Assam Kshetra Baiddhik Pramukh Tirthankar Das) in…
Guwahati: Prateek Hajela, IAS, who faces a number of FIRs in Assam for alleged involvement in National Register of Citizens (NRC) updation scam in the State, has been relinquished by Madhya Pradesh government from the social justice department (also the chief executive officer in Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis) in…
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses concern over the arrest of Evan Geshkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, by the Russian security agency and demands his immediate release as he was only doing his assigned job with the accreditation from the Russian foreign ministry. The American reporter was…
Guwahati: Assam government inked a MoU with Abhinav Futuristics private limited, Oil India Limited and Numaligarh Refinery Limited for establishment of two high performance sports training and rehabilitation centres in Guwahati and Jorhat at a function held in the city on Thursday in presence of State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. The sports and youth welfare director Nibedan…
