“Bodh-Sangam”, a programme on Indian Knowledge System (IKS) was organised by “Manikanchan – A Gauhati University Scholarium,” in Association with Gauhati University Research Scholars Association and Post Graduate Students Union, at P. D. Seminar Hall, Gauhati University, on March 10, 2026. The programme featured a speech competition on the topic – “Indian Knowledge System Towards…
The recently concluded 3rd All India Chakma Students’ Union (AICSU) annual conference in Guwahati was an eye opener for many socio-political observers in eastern India, as the two-day event, held at Shilpgram NEZCC auditorium, paved the way for a series of discussion and deliberations on the present status of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in southern…
Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the Nepali people and also the interim government in Kathmandu for the successful general elections on 5 March 2026. “It is heartening to see my Nepali sisters and brothers exercise their democratic rights so vibrantly”, Modi said on a social media post asserting New Delhi’s commitment to work in…
Polling conducted in the Himalayan nation of Nepal peacefully on Thursday evening (5 March 2026) to elect a new Parliament in Kathmandu amid tight security cover where over 60 % of 19 million Nepali electors cast their votes. Nepal Election Commission established 23,112 polling centres under 10,963 polling stations across 77 districts of the south…
Guwahati: Polling begins in the Himalayan nation of Nepal to elect a new Parliament in Kathmandu amid tight security cover where nearly 19 million Nepali electorates are eligible for voting. Erected 23,112 polling centres under 10,963 polling stations in all 77 districts of the south Asian nation were ready to start the exercise at 7…
When Nepal goes for national polls on Thursday, political observers across the Asian region are looking for Pushpa Kamal Dahal (popularly known as Prachanda), who led a decade long anti-monarchy Maoist movement in the Hindu majority Himalayan nation that dethroned the last king Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev in 2006. Within the next two years,…
The landlocked Himalayan nation Nepal prepares for its ninth national election on 5 March, which was necessitated with the collapse of its government in Kathmandu during September last year following an anti-corruption mass uprising, which was initiated by the young people and resulted in the killing of dozens of agitators and injuring hundreds other. The…
Even all political parties, not to speak of millions of fans and well-wishers of Assam’s revered cultural icon Zubeen Garg, continue preaching for sparing the maverick singer’s name in doing politics, his mysterious death last year in a foreign land may dominate the electoral politics in the forthcoming legislative polls. Indications surface that Assam assembly…
As Bangladesh has lately conducted a national election to get its government in Dhaka, the people of eastern India will only hope for a progressive nation with political stability and economic development. The Muslim majority nation of over 170 million people continues to become a headache for north-eastern states, precisely Assam, for several reasons ranging…
After meticulous preparations for a free & fair election, which turned into reality with a festive electoral exercise, Bangladesh went to polls on 12 February, where the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP, led by Tarique Rahman) established a landslide victory. One of the oldest political parties in the south Asian nation, the BNP won over 200…
