Woman Gets ‘Talaq’ After Voting BJP
Guwahati : A Muslim man gave talaq to his wife after she declined to vote in favor of Congress and post her vote for Bharatiya Janata Party in Assam Assembly Elections 2016. A story is doing round in regional newspapers More...
5.4 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Meghalaya
GUWAHATI: A earthquake of moderate power shook parts of Meghalaya, Assam and other North Eastern states today. The epicentre of the quake, measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale, was located in the East Garo Hills in More...
Election Clarion for 5 States : Vote Starts From Apr 4, Counting on May 19
New Delhi : The Election Commission on Friday declared the calendar for assembly polls in West Bengal, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. “Election will be held in 824 assembly costituencies in the More...
Modi Slams Gandhi Family for Disrupting Parliament
Moran : Singling out the Sonia Gandhi family, Prime Minister OF India Narendra Damodardas Modi on Friday charged the Congress president and her son Rahul Gandhi of disturbing Parliament to retaliate for defeat in More...
Modi attacks Cong over ”lack of development” in Assam
In 2006 Assembly polls, the BPF had won 11 seats and joined the Tarun Gogoi-led government as a Congress ally. In 2011 polls, it had won 12 seats and again joined the Gogoi government. However, in 2014, BPF broke More...
Assam Police to launch ‘Citizen Portal’ from January 1
Guwahati: Bringing policing closer to the people, Assam Police will roll out its ambitious “Citizen Portal” from January 1 as a pilot project by offering a host of services like tenant or staff verification, More...
Tarun Gogoi to be CM candidate in 2016 Assam polls: Rahul
All India Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday announced that Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi will be the Congress’ chief ministerial candidate for the 2016 Assam state assembly elections on his two-day More...
NDFB(S) militant killed in encounter
An NDFB (Songbijit) militant was killed in an encounter today with a joint police and Army team in Assam’s Kokrajhar district, a senior police official said. The encounter took place at about 5.20 AM between More...
Assam CM Heaps Praise upon Indian Constitution
GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today stated the Constitution of India is among the best and the country has the greatest regard for Dr B R Ambedkar who played a major function in framing it. “The More...
Militants explode bomb on rail track in Assam
Tezpur: Militants exploded a bomb on the Rangya Rangapara rail track near Merabil Garia village in Assam’s Udalguri district and planted another on the same railway track at Rowta, a police official said More...
Sonowal made Assam BJP chief, to head election committee
New Delhi: BJP today appointed Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal its Assam unit president and also the head of an election management committee it constituted for the poll-bound state, signalling that he could More...
Governor Acharya behaving like RSS activist: Gogoi
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today alleged that Governor P B Acharya was behaving more like an “RSS activist” than a constitutional head of a state. “The Governor is playing a very partisan More...
Four hardcore NDFB(S) militants nabbed
Four hardcore NDFB(S) militants have been apprehended by security forces during a joint operation in Assam’s Chirang district. Acting on specific information, a joint team of police and army launched a joint More...
Gogoi Greets the Nation on Durga Puja
GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has broadened his festive greetings to the nation and said Durga Puja implies triumph of truth and uprightness in the battle of good over insidiousness. In an announcement More...