Assam

Umiam: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said that crime rate in the state has come down significantly for the zero-tolerance policy adopted by the police force during his regime.However, he said that along with zero...

Guwahati: Congress has suspended two of its MLAs in Assam Sashi Kanta Das and Siddique Ahmed for disobeying the party whip as the party alleged that they have cross voted.Meanwhile, the counting of votes from the two Rajya...

Guwahati: The Assam government has signed a mining pact worth Rs 2000 crore with public sector unit Oil India for exploration and extraction of petroleum products in eight blocks.Geology and Mining Director Ananda Kumar Das and Oil India Limited...

New Delhi: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Meghalaya counterpart Conrad K Sangma on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to resolve a decades-old boundary dispute between the two Northeastern sister states.The MoU under which...

Guwahati: Graffiti artist and activist Neelim Mahanta has been arrested by Arunachal Police from his residence in Lakhimpur for an anti-dam graffiti that he painted on the 'Wall of Harmony' in Itanagar.A police team of the Itanagar Police...

Guwahati: Three employees, including two engineers, of the government-owned North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) were killed after a turbine of the dam got flooded and exploded at Khandang hydropower project in Assam's Dima Hasao district, officials said.NEEPCO...

Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was re-elected as the President of Badminton Federation of India (BAI) for another term at the general body meeting here on Friday.Sarma, who is also a vice president of Badminton Asia...

Guwahati: The polls for the 60 wards of the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) will be held on April 19, the State Election Commission said on Wednesday.The counting of votes will be held on May 21. Of the 60...

Guwahati: In a gruesome incident, a woman was knifed to death by three unidentified persons in a marketplace of Barpeta district in lower Assam, police said on Tuesday.The deceased has been identified as Rinima Begum, a lawyer, and...

Guwahati: One kg of Pangolin scales was seized by Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and the forest department on Wednesday.In a joint operation, one person who was carrying the pangolin scales was also arrested from Guwahati.The accused,...