Headlines from Assam.
Guwahati: The Assam government has defended the re-engagement of retired Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer M.K. Yadava as Special Chief Secretary (Forest), arguing before the Gauhati High Court that the challenge to his appointment is not maintainable and that the decision was taken in accordance…
Haflong: The Dima Hasao Tour & Travel Committee has announced that the Jatinga Festival 2026 will be held on November 21 and 22, with this year’s edition moving to a new venue opposite Haiyam, near N. Leikul village. The festival was previously organised at Haiyam. The two-day event will feature…
Guwahati: The sleuths of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted search and seizure operations on Wednesday at 13 locations in Tripura, West Bengal and Maharashtra in connection with an investigation into an alleged fake tender racket run in the name of a government agency. The searches were…
North Lakhimpur: Lakhimpur Police arrested a woman passenger at Harmuti railway junction on Wednesday for allegedly attempting to transport four counterfeit gold artefacts to West Bengal by train. The woman, identified as Jaynas Parvin, a resident of Daulatpur under Laluk, was detained on the…
Adopts eight principles on land governanceGuwahati, November 5 (MExN): The Consortium of Landscape Alliances for Nature Stewardship (CLANS) was formally launched following a two-day regional meet at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, which adopted eight principles on customary land…
Maligaon, November 5 (MExN): Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) Construction General Manager Ashish Bansal on November 4 met Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to discuss key railway infrastructure projects in the Northeast, including the Lumding-Furkating Double Line and Kamakhya-Guwahati Third…
Guwahati: Former IAS officer Ripnar Lyngdoh was sworn in as Meghalaya’s State Chief Information Commissioner on Thursday, filling the vacant post under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005. Meghalaya Governor CH Vijayashankar administered the oath of office at Lok Bhavan in Shillong. The…
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on November 5 reviewed the progress of a proposed Flood Plain Zoning Bill intended to regulate construction and land use along riverbanks as part of efforts to strengthen the state’s flood management system. The proposed legislation aims to create…
Guwahati, Nov 5: Assam Education Minister Ranoj Pegu on Thursday visited the Bordoibam wetland along with the local Circle Officer and residents to discuss a mutually acceptable approach to demarcating the boundaries of the proposed bird sanctuary, with a focus on balancing environmental…
Guwahati, Nov 5: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday highlighted the expansion of educational facilities to remote tea garden areas of the state, saying children living in frontier districts, located more than 500 km from Guwahati, are opening textbooks for the first time. In a post…
Guwahati, Nov 5: Ruling and Opposition parties in Assam paid homage to music maestro Bharat Ratna Bhupen Hazarika on his 15th death anniversary on Thursday. Paying homage and heartfelt tributes to Bhupen Hazarika, leaders, karyakartas and members of the Assam BJP recalled the contributions of the…
Guwahati: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday announced a Special Summary Revision (SSR) of electoral rolls in Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Odisha and Sikkim, along with the Union Territories of Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diu. The exercise aims to update voter…
Guwahati, Nov 5: The Second Dr Bhupen Hazarika Oration Series, organised by the Dr Bhupen Hazarika Centre for Creativity at The Assam Royal Global University (RGU), featured an inaugural lecture by Prof. Alak Kumar Buragohain, Vice Chancellor of RGU, who explored the legendary cultural icon’s role…
Guwahati: Firm on their stand against the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP), three prominent organisations leading the agitation in Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday rejected Chief Minister Pema Khandu's fresh invitation for talks, while demanding release of those arrested by the government and…
Hyderabad: The EAGLE Force has busted an interstate drug racket in Hyderabad. The STF team, along with the Choutuppal police, arrested five, including the gang’s alleged leader, on Thursday, November 5. Acting on a tip-off that two couriers from Assam had come to deliver ganja at the alleged…
Guwahati: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has conducted search and seizure operations at 13 locations across Tripura, West Bengal and Maharashtra in connection with an alleged fake government tender racket that reportedly defrauded a Nagpur-based company of approximately Rs 14.55 crore. The…
Applications are invited for recruitment of various medical positions or career in BBCI Guwahati Assam in 2026. Dr B Borooah Cancer Institute (BBCI), Guwahati, Assam is inviting applications from eligible candidates for recruitment to the posts or career of Consultants in 2026. Name of post…
GUWAHATI: Naga organisations held simultaneous rallies in Manipur’s violence-hit Ukhrul and Kamjong districts on Thursday, urging the Centre to recognise the crisis as a historical problem rooted in alleged illegal Kuki immigration and hill-valley disparities, end “proxy warfare” and find a…
Guwahati, November 5 (IANS): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday highlighted the expansion of educational facilities to remote tea garden areas of the state, saying children living in frontier districts, located more than 500 km from Guwahati, are opening textbooks for the first…
Citing government data, Himanta Biswa Sarma highlights improvements in filing chargesheets and in conviction rates
Applications are invited for recruitment of 16 vacant positions or career in Bhattadev University Assam in 2026. Bhattadev University Assam is inviting applications from eligible candidates for recruitment to the posts or career of teaching professionals in 2026. Name of post : Professor No. of…
Shillong, Nov 5: Six students with disabilities from Meghalaya were among 77 scholars from five Northeastern states felicitated under the Indus Towers Scholarship Programme for the 2026-27 academic session. The ceremony, held in Guwahati on October 29, marked a decade of the flagship CSR initiative…
Guwahati: Portuguese football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has announced his retirement from international football, bringing an end to a remarkable 23-year career with Portugal that saw him establish himself as the most-capped player and highest goalscorer in men’s international football. The…
Nongpoh, Nov 5: A night super bus carrying around 35 passengers overturned on National Highway 27 near Jorabat early Thursday morning. The bus, bearing registration number AR-01-M-7947, was travelling from Duliajan in Dibrugarh district to Guwahati when the accident occurred at around 5 am at a…
Raijor Dal chief warns of daily protests if SC grants bail to prime accused Shyamkanu and Siddharth tomorrow
Panel received one complainant in person despite notices published in 149 newspapers nationwide across India
Guwahati: The Supreme Court has reiterated that its earlier directions on verifying the ownership and identity of captive elephants, as well as regulating their transportation, must be strictly followed, amid concerns over the recent transfer of five elephants from Assam to temples in Tamil Nadu. A…
Telangana state EAGLE Force busted an Assam-based interstate drug trafficking network operating in and around Hyderabad on Thursday.
In the forest-fringe villages of Kamrup (rural) district, Assam, the emergence of a large, endemic tarantula signals the arrival of a seasonal food for the Rabha community. The Rabhas, also known as Ravas, are an Indigenous community that predominantly reside in Goalpara and Kamrup districts in…
First Mayor Amarendra Paul puts waterlogging top priority as civic body inherits Silchar’s chronic urban problems
Guwahati, November 05 : Teer Result is a lottery game. People who buy tickets for the Juwai Teer game can check the lucky number for the first and second rounds, here Winners are decided on the basis of the number of arrows shot in a particular round. Juwai Teer Result is based on an archery game…
Chief Minister confirms administrative suspension and criminal proceedings following the fatal collapse in the capital
Flood preparedness is difficult to teach through instructions alone. A resident may understand a warning in principle but still struggle to picture how rising water could affect the road to a shelter, where medicines should be stored or why one household may need more time to evacuate than another…
Discharged from GMCH Thursday, shot survivor Pathak was relieved to learn Gogoi died, doctor says
Residents warn burying waste under soil could further narrow the channel and strain city’s drainage
16-year-old Monu Karmakar (name changed) dreamed of getting a good education, but destiny had forced him into a human trafficking network, which has been a growing concern in the tea gardens of Assam’s Tinsukia. Monu was not the only victim of child trafficking; his younger brother and sister also…
Applications are invited for recruitment of seven vacant positions or govt job under ASACS Guwahati Assam in 2026. Assam State AIDS Control Society (ASACS) Guwahati Assam is inviting applications from eligible candidates for recruitment to the govt job of Medical Officers and Senior Medical Officers…
Dhaka, Nov 5 : As many as 50 people, including law enforcement personnel, were injured, while more than 200 factories in Savar and Ashulia were forced to declare holidays as protests by garment workers in Bangladesh turned violent, local media reported on Thursday. The protests continued across…
Doomdooma: The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has proposed a uniform one-kilometre Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) around the Bherjan-Borajan-Padumoni Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam’s Tinsukia district. The proposed zone will cover a total area of 32.01 square kilometres. The…
The study by a Guwahati-based non-profit development organisation says 91% of the respondents across three States cited a “push” factor, such as shortage of land for farming or the need to repay loans, behind migration
Quetta, Nov 5 : The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed responsibility for 25 operations across several areas of Balochistan over the past few days targeting Pakistani forces that resulted in the death of 40 security personnel and injuries to dozens of others, local media reported. In a…
As Ramayana receives a positive response from audiences, one performance that stands out and leaves a lasting impression is Yash as Ravana. Bringing immense screen presence, intensity and depth to a character as multifaceted as Ravana, Yash proves yet again that he is not just a superstar who…
North Lakhimpur: Former acting president of the Asom Sahitya Sabha (ASS), Biswa Baruah, passed away at a private hospital on Wednesday after a prolonged illness. He was 96. Born in 1930 at Sonarigaon, Garehaga, on the outskirts of North Lakhimpur, Baruah was a respected academic, writer and literary…
AASU seeks Guwahati Railway Station renaming, cultural train and international research institute in Hazarika’s name
Applications are invited for recruitment of various teaching positions or career in CRCSRE Guwahati Assam in 2026. Composite Regional Centre for Skill Development, Rehabilitation & Empowerment of Personswith Disabilities (CRCSRE), Guwahati, Assam is inviting applications from eligible candidates for…
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