Two Bangladesh nationals were apprehended by the police from a Guwahati-bound passenger bus in Assam’s Karimganj district along the Assam-Tripura border on Saturday night. According to Karimganj district police, the duo entered India from Tripura’s Agartala-Akahura side without valid documents. The Bangladeshi nationals have been identified as Masum Billah and Sheikh Bappi. They hail from … Read more
Jorhat police have arrested 13 persons in the mob lynching incident in which AASU leader, Animesh Bhuyan (23), was killed after a mob of 50 people attacked him and two others. The kingpin in the lynching, Niraj Das alias Black boy, has finally been netted by Jorhat the police net. He has been to jailed … Read more
MLA Pradip Hazarika Elevated To Cabinet Rank The Assam Cabinet which met at Bongaigaon Deputy Commissioner’s office on Wednesday decided to set up a committee under the chairmanship of Amguri MLA Pradip Hazarika to study the illegal land occupation as well as to free the satras of illegal occupation of their lands. Hazarika will have … Read more
Lt Gen Rana Pratap Kalita is the First Assamese to Get the honour Lieutenant General Rana Pratap Kalita, General Officer Commanding (GOC) of 3 Corps of the Indian Army received one of India’s military decorations for wartime Distinguished service, the Uttam Yudh Seva Medal from President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan. It may be … Read more
Two AASU Leaders had Stopped a Vehicle Carrying Fish Though it has been an open secret that traders, especially fish, onion, potato, are often extorted by student and youth bodies and other organisations, now two All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) leaders were arrested for allegedly trying to extort money from a fish dealer at Namrup … Read more
The Border Security Force jawans, in an act of daredevilry, rescued one injured person from an overturned boat in Brahmaputra River near South Salmara on Sunday. According to a BSF release, on Sunday a civil boat got overturned in Bharamputra river during loading process at Boleralga Ghat, in South Samara of Assam. Alert border guards … Read more
Foresters of Baikunthapur forest division in the Dooars in West Bengal have recovered deer skin and pangolin scales from a resident of Assam on Sunday and arrested him. Bishnu Jain, from Tezpur in Sonitpur district of Assam, was trying to smuggle these items to Nepal along with some aides when he was nabbed in Jalpaiguri’s … Read more
Assam & Nagaland CM discuss various issues of mutual interest Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Nagaland counterpart Neiphiu Rio held a closed-door meeting on Sunday at Jorhat and discussed several issues affecting the two states. Though officials were tight-lipped about the issues discussed in the meeting, sources said the duo spoke only … Read more
Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) Nabam Rebia has condemned the eviction notice served by Govt. of Assam to Arunachal villages settled in Assam Arunachal Border areas namely- Belo, Lora, Buka and Gumto. The Govt of Assam is not oblivious of the fact that Local Boundary Commission Report headed by Justice Tarun Chatterjee is now pending … Read more
Sonowal Visited NEIAFMR, Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh Union Minister for ports, shipping & waterways and AYUSH, Sarbananda Sonowal announced a slew of major initiatives for promotion of AYUSH in Arunachal Pradesh at Pasighat on Saturday. This is in continuation to the focused approach to develop the AYUSH sector in the entire Northeast. Speaking at the North … Read more