Assam

Guwahati: The Assam police has arrested four alleged members of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) from different locations in Kamrup district, officials said on Friday.The arrested PFI members have been identified as Nazrul Islam, a resident...

Guwahati: The Assam government will distribute scooters to nearly 36,000 meritorious students, mostly girls, who have passed this year’s higher secondary examinations.The cabinet headed by the Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has approved Rs 258.9 crore for implementing the...

Guwahati: The Assam government has increased the daily duty allowance of home guards from Rs 300 to Rs 767, according to a notification.The hike will come into effect immediately, said the notification issued by the Home and Political Department...

Guwahati: As many as 20 lakh beneficiaries of welfare scheme Orunodoi has been finalised in Assam after a survey by the government.Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma chaired a meeting through video-conferencing with public representatives, Deputy Commissioners and members of...

Kolkata/Guwahati: The Assam government and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Tuesday launched an initiative to rapidly expand tree coverage outside of traditional forests in the North Eastern state by bringing together farmers, companies, and private institutions.The...

Kolkata: The body of an Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, student was found in one of its hostel rooms on Friday, police said.Twenty-three-year-old Faizan Ahmed, a third-year mechanical engineering student, was found dead by the police who had been...

Guwahati:  The third wave of floods in Assam has turned grim as heavy rains lashed several districts in Assam overnight triggering floods in many parts of the state.According to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority, nearly 40,000 people in...

Guwahati: Massive landslides have been reported from the 2000 MW Subansiri Lower Hydro-electric Project (SLHEP) at Gerukamukh in the Dhemaji district of Assam.Landslides at the hills of the nearly completed 2000 MW Subansiri power plant site at Gerukamukh have...

Guwahati: President Droupadi Murmu will visit the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati campus on Thursday during her visit to Assam.Murmu will be on a two-day visit to the northeastern state which will be her first after assuming the...

By: NJ ThakuriaGuwahati: If a senior scribe is named and shamed in social media as a scam star, should or should not he respond to it? Moreover, when a particular social media post (following up with a series of...