Kaziranga National Park will be closed for tourists from May 16.
A notice issued by Divisional Forest Officer Rohini Ballav Saikia on Friday said "Kaziranga National Park will remain close for visitors from 16th May, 2019 untill further orders".
7 Mar 2016 - 3:50pm | AT News
Stunned by the Jorhat incident the authorities have suspended inspector of school, Sankardev Seminary HS School principal. SEBA secretary Kamaljyoti Gogoi has also received a show cause notice in...
24 Apr 2014 - 9:03pm | Hamidul Gani
The central programme of the tenth annual Bohagi Utsav of Srimanta Sankardev Sangha will be celebrated this time at Dhupdhara in Goalpara district with a day long various programmes on April 27. The...
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The Assam Assembly begins its winter session with the address of the Assam governor S C Mathur on Monday morning. The session is expected to be a stormy one in the wake of the strings of blast,...
8 Jun 2008 - 4:49pm | editor
The more Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is trying to extricate himself from on going trouble the more his is getting sinking in it. In yet another development, former Rajya Sabha MP Basanti Sarma...
At a time when people of Assam are battling with the COVID-19 pandemic, the same are also preparing how to tackle the multiple waves of rising flood situation. Many rivers have started to flow above warning marks gradually causing threat to communities’ lives and livelihood. Flood in times of COVID are in fact challenging, and this worsens the capacity of people to cope. Severe flooding in the northeast Indian state of Assam has submerged croplands and villages, pushing thousands of people into relief camps.
Last year, days of heavy rainfall over the week caused riverbanks to burst. State authorities said that the floods have affected at least 6 million people in 30 of...
Bhupen Borah was appointed as the new president of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) replacing Ripun Bora on Saturday.
The newly appointed Working Presidents are : Rana Goswami, Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha and Jakir Hussain Sikdar.
Congratulations to @BhupenKBorah for becoming the new President of @INCAssam. My best wishes to Working Presidents Rana Goswami, Kamalakhya Purkayastha and Jakir Hussain Sikdar. My gratitude to our former PCC @ripunbora. We will work with @JitendraSAlwar to strengthen @INCIndia .— Gaurav Gogoi (@GauravGogoiAsm) July 24, 2021
The Covid-19 crisis in India has posed severe challenges to small and growing businesses in the country, widening the pre-existing gender gaps and diminishing considerable developments achieved within the women entrepreneurship ecosystem in the past decades.
In a bid to shed light on the unique and disproportionate impact of the pandemic on women-led businesses, GIZ has recently come out with a detailed report. The report titled “Women Entrepreneurs’ Resilience in Times of Covid-19” was based on GIZ’s Project Her&Now. The Her&Now project is implemented by GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) on behalf of the German Federal...
Governor Prof.Jagdish Mukhi has extended his greetings to the people of Assam on the occasion of the holy festival of Islam Id-ul-Zuha.
In a statement here on Tuesday, Prof. Mukhi said, “I extend my heartiest greetings and warm wishes to the Muslim brethren of the state on the occasion of Id-ul-Zuha. May the festival augur peace and motivate all of us to embrace each other with the feeling of brotherhood. On this occasion, I appeal to the people to celebrate the festival with a renewed sense of sacrifice for the larger societal goal and work for strengthening the bond of co-existence to make our life more beautiful and harmonious”.
He further said that the celebrations of...
FASS International (a think-tank non-profit organization for NER overall development ) was little involve in Assam Govt.
Budget preparation this year. FASS International welcomes and congratulating Assam Finance Minister to presenting a strong progressive budget for the year 2021-22.
FASS is incredibly happy to see lots of provision in this budget that included as suggested by FASS. Assam is an agriculture-based state and enough importance have been reflected in this budget for this sector.
TEA industry is one of the backbones for Assam economy and budget is giving good focus in TEA industry and the people involved in this industry.
It is a balanced budget and going to build a...
Essays on Srimanta Sankaradeva authored by Dr Sanjib Kumar Borkakoti is a valuable addition to the works on Indian culture and philosophy. The author has carried out extensive research on Assamese hagiographies, particularly Sankaradeva and different aspects of Sankari culture. The book contains several analytical articles, a few of them that have already been published in different journals or websites. Dr Borkakoti has analysed in this book the significant impact left by the saint litterateur Srimanta Sankaradeva on the socio-cultural as well as economic milieu of Assam. How the medieval polymath influenced the society from literature to culture to economy is exhaustively analysed in this...
In yet another incident of human-elephant conflict, two persons lost their lives in the Goalpara district of Assam today.
Bhaturam Rabha (45) and Mithun Mallick (22) had been trampled by wild pachyderm at Govindpur in Rangagara. Residents say that the two were trampled by a loner elephant.
A week ago, one Dilip Das lost his life in a similar incident at Mornoi in Goalpara.
The Goalpara district has become a hot spot of frequent human-elephant interaction over the years. Clearing of forests and destruction of the elephant corridors for cashew plantations, rubber plantations and other developmental activities in the Assam-Meghalaya border are drivers of human-elephant conflict...
Assam Don Bosco University has been ranked in the group 301-400 with a score from 70.9 to 66.3, in the recently released Impact Rankings by the TIMES Higher Education (THE) which ranked 1,115 Higher Education Institutions from 94 countries/regions. The criteria for the ranking is based on the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals .To be ranked, a university has to submit the per forma report for SDG 17 and at least 3 more other SDGs. THE will consider the score of SDG 17 and the highest 3 scores from the other SDGs for the overall ranking. The University of Manchester, United Kingdom, secured the highest score 98.8 in the overall ranking while the lowest ranked score was...
Incarcerated ,Peasant rights activist Akhil Gogoi who heads the Raijor Dal and is languishing in jail since December 2019 on charges of sedition and inciting violence during the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act movement, has won from Sibsagar, making it a history in the Assam Politics to have been elected a legsilator from jail. Contesting as an independent, he defeated his nearest rival Surabhi Rajkonwari of the BJP by a margin of 11,875 votes. The 45 year old peasant leader is currently undergoing treatment and is admitted to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital and had filed his nomination from the medical facility. The consolidation of the leftist votes, anti-CAA...
The Gauhati Press Club has urged State Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma as well as the Health Department to provide COVID-19 vaccines to all journalists irrespective of their ages due to the deterioration of the pandemic situation . In a statement signed by Manoj Nath and Sanjoy Ray, the president and general secretary of the Press Club, respectively has said that a number of journalists across the country already has succumbed to the deadly virus infection. “ At the outset, let us express our sincere gratitude to you(Health Minister) and the Health and Family Welfare department for facilitating a vaccine camp for media persons above 45 years of age.
However, with the battle...
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