Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that with all five states sharing the border with Bangladesh now aligned with the Centre after the electoral win in West Bengal, home minister Amit Shah can initiate a cohesive effort to protect eastern and northeastern India, including the sensitive Siliguri ‘chicken’s neck’ corridor.“I believe the Prime…
Guwahati: Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) on Tuesday admitted that it failed to win the minority seats it had hoped to secure for the NDA.BJP leaders, including CM Himanta Biswa Sarma, repeatedly said BJP had no chance of winning in about 22 Muslim-majority seats. When AGP announced its list of 26 candidates for the assembly polls,…
Guwahati: A 4% increase in vote share can look modest on paper, but it can dramatically alter seat counts. That is exactly what happened with BJP in Assam’s 2026 assembly elections.Assam’s elections output is a clear example of India’s electoral calculations that vote share alone does not determine outcomes, the distribution and concentration of the…
Dibrugarh: The joint inter-state boundary delineation exercise along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border has recorded further progress, with the successful completion of Stretch-II covering the Telam area up to the Seren Agma river under New Seren Circle in the Lower Siang (Arunachal) -Dhemaji (Assam) sector.The survey, which commenced on May 1, was carried out jointly by…
Guwahati: After the crushing defeat in the Assembly election, Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi said the party has accepted the verdict but will firmly defend the Constitution.Speaking to the media, he said democracy in Assam would die if Congress MLAs failed to act strongly as the opposition, and no one would be able to check…
Guwahati: BJP stepped up efforts to form the next govt in Assam on Tuesday by appointing Union minister JP Nadda as central observer for the election of the legislative party leader. Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini was named central co-observer.Sarma is likely to resign as caretaker chief minister soon as the process for forming the…
Guwahati: Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said Congress’s attempt to politicise Zubeen Garg’s death led the singer’s fans to stay away from supporting the party, adding that Pawan Khera dragging his wife Riniki Bhuyan Sharma in controversy led to Gaurav Gogoi’s “crushing” defeat.“No political party should bring music maestro Bhupen Hazarika or Zubeen Garg into…
Guwahati: Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNP&TR) has recorded an unprecedented surge in tourist footfall, with visitor numbers quadrupling during the recently concluded financial year at the Unesco heritage site.Park director Sonali Ghosh said records from 2016-17 to 2025-26 indicate sustained growth in tourism. “The total visitors have increased more than three times in…
Guwahati: AJP candidate Kunki Chowdhury, youngest in the fray, though faced a defeat at the hands of her rival candidate Vijay Kumar Gupta (70), a senior BJP worker, expressed gratitude to the people of her constituency for the support extended to her even though she was “new to politics” and “got less than a month”…
Kokrajhar: Kokrajhar woke up on Tuesday to a town still in motion — loud, still crowded and dressed in saffron and green — as celebrations for the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) rolled into second day. After Monday’s official results confirmed BPF’s return to the crucial 15-seat BTC bloc, the heart of the Bodoland Territorial Region…
