Guwahati: Forest and environment minister Jayanta Mallabaruah said protecting the grassland in Manas National Park, a Unesco natural world heritage site, is a priority of the forest department and that efforts will be intensified to restore them.The minister was responding to a concern raised by BJP’s Khumtai MLA Mrinal Saikia over the rapid decrease of…
Guwahati: The Assam govt on Monday said fencing could not be erected along 4.35km of the state’s border with Bangladesh due to objections from the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).Border protection and development minister Atul Bora, in a written reply to a query by AGP MLA Diptimayee Choudhury, said there is also no fencing along 34.609km…
Guwahati: Assam Police have filed chargesheets in just over half of the nearly 10 lakh criminal cases registered since BJP formed its first govt in the state in 2016, according to official data tabled in the assembly by chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday.In a written reply to a question by Congress MLA Rekibuddin…
Guwahati: Buoyed by the response to the CM Fifa Fan Parks in Guwahati and Dibrugrah, the Assam govt is set to expand the initiative to other parts of the state.CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said similar football fan parks will be set up in Jorhat and Silchar to take the football fever beyond Guwahati…
Guwahati: The entire Opposition bench, comprising Congress, AIUDF, Raijor Dal and TMC, staged a walkout after three adjournment motions on different subjects were rejected by speaker Ranjeet Kumar Dass in the Assam assembly on Monday.Leader of the opposition Wajed Ali Choudhury of Congress moved an adjournment motion over irregular electricity supply in the state. “In…
Agartala: Tripura has emerged as the poorest performer among NE states in utilising funds from the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS).Recent data published on the Empowered India digital platform placed the state at 22nd out of India’s 36 states and Union Territories, with an overall fund utilisation rate of only 22.78%, which…
Guwahati: Football fever has moved from television screens to store shelves, with sportswear shops across the city witnessing a rush of fans eager to don the jerseys of their favourite team.Store owners said Argentina and Portugal jerseys are the top sellers, driven by fans of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.“We have jerseys of teams from…
Silchar: As many as 148 newborns died across Barak Valley in the past three months, exposing persistent gaps in maternal and neonatal healthcare, particularly in rural areas where delayed referrals, inadequate infrastructure and a shortage of specialised facilities continue to cost lives.Official figures show Cachar recorded the highest number of neonatal deaths at 74, followed…
Dibrugarh: Members of the All Adivasi Students’ Association of Assam (AASAA) took out a procession in Dibrugarh on Monday to the district commissioner’s office to press for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for the Adivasi community, a wage hike for tea garden workers and land rights for those living in gardens and rural areas.The procession moved…
Dibrugarh: The Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) on Monday held a three-hour sit-in demonstration at every district headquarters across Assam, demanding that the Centre declare the state’s recurring flood and erosion crisis a national disaster.In Dibrugarh and Tinsukia, two of the districts worst affected by riverbank erosion along the Brahmaputra, the protest drew large…
