The Assam Government is seriously considering formation of ten more districts citing stress on congenial governance.
The move to form these new districts and over 30 sub divisions started when the group of ministers set up to deal with the proposal met in Dispur on Friday.
The meeting discussed the criterion for formation of the new districts. If things move on right direction, the state is set to get these new districts before the Assembly polls.
31 Jan 2013 - 9:22pm | AT News
Police constable Abhijit Baruah once again makes Assam proud when set new record of hitting the highest number of punches in a minute on the boxing pad on Thursday.The 23-year-old cop hit 387 punches...
3 Feb 2014 - 1:58pm | Dibya J Borthakur
A statue of Assam's cultural icon Dr.Bhupen Hazarika was unveiled today by Sudhakantha's sister in law Manisha Hazarika in a programme held at Kamarjan village at Raha today. The statue which cost...
21 Nov 2017 - 6:11pm | Shajid Khan
A total of ten promising athletes have been selected to represent Assam at Vishakhapattanam of Andhra Pradesh to participate in the 15th junior national inter district athletic meet to be held from...
8 Jun 2012 - 7:26pm | Hamidul Gani
During the 24 hours Goalpara District bandh, which ends today, called by Goalpara District Committee of All Rabha Students Union and six other students organization a Vespa scooter was set ablaze by...
In a horrific incident, a 40-year old man was lynched in a village of Karbi-Anglong on Sunday night.
As per reports, a mob of some villagers brutally assulted a man to death. The victim was identified as Monsing Rongpi. He was a resident of the Karashi Bey village under the Bakalia police station. The mob first took him to a football field where they tied him to a goalpost before beating him mercilessly. Due to the assult, Rongpi died at the spot, reports said. Today morning, the police reached the spot, recovered and sent the victim body for postmortem.
Later, the police filed a case and arrested five persons in connection with the incident. The arrested were identified...
Kaliabor MP Gaurav Gogoi may lead the Congress party from the front in the upcoming Assam assembly elections. Such speculation is brewing as the young MP has been seen active in public speare since yesterday, which was normally associated with other senior Congress leaders like Ripun Bora, Prodyut Bordoloi, among others.
On Sunday, when PM Narendra Modi addressed a rally in Dhekiajuli, Gaurav participated a press conference and raised some issues which are likely to take place in the Congress manifesto for the upcoming elections. Not only that he said that he hoped for a joint rally with Akhil Gogoi and Lurinjyoti Gogoi, who happen to be the presidents of the Raijor Dal and the AJP...
Guwahati: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched distribution of Rs 240 crore to over 7 lakh tea garden workers at a function in Guwahati on Saturday.
All these tea garden workers would get Rs 3,000 each in their bank accounts.
In his address state finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the government was in the process of revising the daily wage amount for the tea garden workers very soon.
Premier biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak has installed 18 km of solar powered fence to facilitate human-elephant coexistence at Nagirjuli, Baksa. This initiative will ensure food security and substantial decrease in human-elephant conflict incidents, thus directly benefiting approximately 15,000 people of 35 hamlets in 12 villages. The installation of solar-powered fences was conducted with extensive support from local communities and Forest Department, and funded by Elephant Family Foundation India.
The 18 km solar powered fence with two strands has been installed into two phases covering several villages around the Nagrijuli-Udalguri national highway. A 14 km fence was...
Guwahati : AJP and Raijor Dal will fight the upcoming assembly polls jointly. This was what the leaders of both the regional parties told media in Guwahati on Friday.
AJP president and Raijor Dal leader Bhaskar De Saikia said that they would maintain equidistance with AIUDF, Congress and BJP.
They further said that never they would have any patch up with any national party and that they would keep doors open for the regional parties.
Lyrinjyoti Gogoi and Jagadish Bhuyan called on Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi at GMCH on Thursday where both the new regional parties struck deal.
Asam Jatiya Parishad president Lurinjyoti Gogoi categorically ruled out any alliance with a national party for the upcoming Assam assembly elections.
The AJP president today called on Akhil Gogoi at the Guwahati Medical College& Hospital, where he has been undergoing treatment for last 3-4 months.
After meeting the jailed Raijor Dal leader, Gogoi spoke to media and said that the newly floated regional parities would jointly fight in the upcoming assembly election.
“We, the AJP and the Raijor Dal formed an alliance. But we will not form any alliance with any national party or communal party,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Congress formed a pre-poll alliance with five other parties...
Guwahati: AJP president Lurinjyoti Gogoi and general secretary Jagdish Bhuyan visited Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi in Guwahati on Thursday amid the speculations of the move to forge alliance to fight against BJP and Congress.
The trio met at the Guwahati Medical College in the morning where the jailed peasant leader has been undergoing treatment.
Earlier they sent feelers to each other when Raijor Dal urged AJP to jointly fight the polls to beat BJP and Congress.
Diphu: There is no breakthrough in the food poisoning case in Diphu 2 days after a BJP worker died and over 130 fell ill when they consumed packet launched served at a government function.
The food packets were rushed from Guwahati to serve the people who attended a ceremony to begin the academic session of the Diphu Medical College Hospital by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and health ministers Himanta Biswa Sarma and Piyush Hazarika.
One hour after they the people consumed the food, many people started vomiting and complained stomach ailment and were rushed to DMCH. A BJP worker died when his condition deteriorated.
Local authorities have ordered a probe. But there is no...
As the days nearing to the next Assam assembly elections, the ruling BJP-led alliance has been increasing their organizational activites across the state. Despite the Congress-AIUDF alliance creating speed breaker for the ruling party, yet their election strategists like minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and others are seen unrelenting to boost the morale of the party workers. Political analysts believe that the saffron party has acquired significant presence in the upper Assam districts like Golaghat, Jorhat, Sivasagar, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia etc. Contrary to this, the opposition parties are keeping snail pace in the most upper Assam districts so far as the election is concerned. However, in the...
New Delhi: AICC leadership in New Delhi discussed a slew strategies to fight the upcoming Assam Assembly polls with a few state leaders. Presided over by state in charge Jitendra Singh, the meeting further discussed in detail the possibility of electoral benefit out of the alliance with AIUDF, CPI, CPM and CPIM.
The state leadership further apprised the high command of the grievances of a section of sitting MLAs who are dead opposed to the alliance with AIUDF. State president Ripun Bora, leader of Opposition Debabarata Saikia, MPs Gaurav Gogoi, Pradyut Bordoloi, and MLA Rockybul Hussian attended a series of meetings at the Congress headquarters.
Talking to reporters waiting outside...
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