Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma speaks during the ‘Roadshow on Advantage Assam 2.0 Summit 2025’, at Colaba in Mumbai. File. | Photo Credit: PTI GUWAHATI Assam is seeking investments in green energy ahead of a major business summit on February 25 and 26. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said has drawn the attention of…
Apurba Kumar Barooah. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Sagar Mehta. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement GUWAHATI An association of tea producers has named two nonagenarians for its first lifetime achievement awards. The awards are scheduled to be conferred upon 96-year-old Sagar Mehta and 93-year-old Apurba Kumar Barooah at the ‘Chairman’s Dinner’ in eastern Assam’s Golaghat…
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma during 76th Republic Day celebrations, in Dibrugarh. | Photo Credit: ANI GUWAHATI Dibrugarh, the British-era hub of tea, oil, and coal trade, will be Assam’s second capital and sport an Assembly complex by 2027, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday (January 26, 2025). Addressing a Republic Day…
Indian Army personnel check the venue of the Republic Day Parade 2025, in Guwahati, Friday, January 24, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI A cache of explosives buried in a jungle was recovered in Assam’s Sonitpur district on Saturday (January 25,2025), even as security was tightened across the state for 76th Republic Day celebrations, police said….
Assam Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya will deliver the opening address on the first day inaugural in Kokrajhar. File | Photo Credit: X/@Laxmanacharya54 “The Assam Assembly’s budget session will be held from February 17 to March 25,” an official said on Thursday (January 23, 2025). “In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the session’s inaugural day will take place…
A still from the Malayalam film “Level Cross”, starring Asif Ali. The film was directed by Arfaz Ayub. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement GUWAHATI: The three-day Guwahati Asian Film Festival (GAFF) 2025 from February 7 will showcase the best from Asian cinema with a Caucasian-Central Asian flavour. The highlight of the inaugural edition of the…
Rajib Barman, 39, had heard that the job of a rat-hole miner was hazardous, but he chose to do it because he had a debt of ₹60,000 to pay off. A resident of Sitlabazar village in western Assam’s Kokrajhar district, Barman decided to work at the Kalamati mine in the Umrangso area of Dima Hasao…
The Hoolock gibbon, India’s only ape species, is found in the Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Jorhat district, Assam. The Sanctuary spans 20.98 sq km, while its ESZ covers 264.92 sq km. Photo: Special Arrangement The Centre’s wildlife panel has approved a proposal to carry out oil and gas exploration in the eco-sensitive zone of the Hollongapar Gibbon…
Efforts underway to rescue the labourers trapped inside a coal mine, in Dima Hasao district, Assam, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. | Photo Credit: – The body of one of the nine workers trapped inside a coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district was recovered by army divers on Wednesday (January 8, 2025) on the third…
Office of the foreigners tribunal in Barpeta district of Assam. | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar GUWAHATI The Assam government on Thursday said more than 43% of the 47,928 foreigners detected in the State from 1971 to 2014 were Hindus. The Foreigners’ Tribunals declared these people, including 20,613 Hindus, as non-citizens during this period. Also…
