Rs 1 crore each for 800 JSKs in 800 tea gardens granted Guwahati: Ushering in a new era of academic excellence in tea plantation areas of Assam, the State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday dedicated 96 newly built model high schools in tea garden localities at a function held in Sonitpur. Sarma inaugurated…
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) has strongly condemned the murder of journalist Subhash Kumar Mahato, who hailed from Begusarai locality of Bihar in central India on 20 May 2022. The global media safety and rights body also demanded punishments under the law to all four identified gunmen who targeted Subhash (27) outside his residence in…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma visited the landslide areas of Dima Hasao (formerly North Cachar Hills) district on Tuesday and took stock of the roads, badly damaged by the incessant rain and consequent landslides in Haflong locality. Sarma directed the concerned officials to start restoration works at the earliest for the convenience of…
Following the incident in Batadrawa, police have arrested three persons in connection with the attack on the police station. The arrested accused have been identified as Majibur Rahman, Rafiul Islam and Anowar Hussain. Meanwhile, as many as 14 persons have been detained from the Salanbari village which includes a few women as well. Police are…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma launched the ceremonial distribution of appointment letters to 22,958 new recruits in 11 departments of the State government in a program held in the city on Saturday. Sarma ceremonially handed over appointment letters to 17 candidates and urged every new recruit to take a pledge to perform the…
Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA), while expressing worries at a police complaint lodged by National Register of Citizens (NRC) State coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma against his predecessor Prateek Hajela for deceitfully including names of suspected individuals in the NRC with software tempering, urges both the governments in New Delhi and Dispur to support a…
Guwahati: Union education and skill development minister Dharmendra Pradhan, while inaugurating North East Research Conclave (NERC) 2022 at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati on Friday, commented that it would strengthen the linkages between industry, academia & policy makers and further invigorate the research, start-up and entrepreneurship ecosystems in the resource-rich north-eastern region and the…
Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam worsens as over 662,000 people including women and children have been affected in 27 districts (out of 34) including. At least nine people were killed in the natural disaster. The army & para-military forces, national & local disaster response force personnel have joined the district administration in rescue initiatives….
Chennai. Madras High Court on Sunday held an emergency hearing through WhatsApp and allowed a rath yatra to be organised at a Tamil Nadu temple. Justice GR Swaminathan was on a personal visit to Nagercoil when the petitioner made a fervent prayer for urgent hearing of the case. “‘Our village will face divine wrath if…
Mumbai. Raksha Mantri launched two frontline warships of the Indian Navy – ‘Surat’ and ‘Udaygiri’ – at Mazagon Docks Limited (MDL), Mumbai. ‘Surat’ is the fourth Guided Missile Destroyer of P15B class, while ‘Udaygiri’ is the second Stealth Frigate of P17A class. Both warships have been designed in-house by the Directorate of Naval Design (DND)…
