Sahitya Akademi announces Yuva Puraskar, Bal Sahitya Puraskar winners for 2024The Sahitya Akademi announced the winners of the prestigious Yuva Puraskar and Bal Sahitya Puraskar for 2024. A total of 23 writers, includ...
15 Jun, 2024, 03.15 PM IST
Google remembers Dr Bhupen Hazarika on his 96th birth anniversary, pays tribute to singer with a doodleThe Google doodle pays a tribute to Dr Bhupen Hazarika's work which popularised Assamese cinema & folk music.
08 Sep, 2022, 01.22 PM IST
Govt to bring tribal land policy in Assam in six months: Himanta Biswa SarmaThe Chief Minister informed the state government has set up Department of Indigenous Faith and Culture for preservation of cultural heritag...
05 Mar, 2022, 07.47 PM IST
Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, political parties decide to boycott LAHDC (Leh) electionsThe Apex body of People’s Movement for Sixth Schedule for Ladakh, which consists of political, religious and civil society organizations of...
23 Sep, 2020, 10.36 AM IST
Student, civil society groups hit the streets of Assam against Citizenship BillAasu, along with 30 other organisations of Assam, organised a “clarion call of indigenous people” against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill,...
24 Jan, 2019, 08.58 AM IST
Bodoland People Front chief Hagrama Mohilary may play key role in government formationMohilary is the key player in 2016 Assembly elections and can play a decisive role in next government formation.
09 Apr, 2016, 04.00 AM IST
Battleground Assam: What makes it a melting potThe Assam Agitation that capped six years of anti-foreigner movement from 1979 to 1985, also impacted the way the state votes.
24 Mar, 2016, 10.44 AM IST
Congress targets 20 seats in BTC polls, BJP confident of better performanceCongress has promised to review the Bodo accord and increase the number of seats for non-Bodos in the BTC if voted to power in council’s el...
03 Apr, 2015, 06.03 PM IST
Ethnicity-based politics: Why Assam’s adivasis are soft targetsAdivasis, say observers, suffer because they are caught in the vortex of Assam's ethnicity-based politics. The BTAD has tried to use the ad...
04 Jan, 2015, 10.57 AM IST
Songbijit Kathar’s NDFB faction responsible for mass killings in Assam, brother Prakash heads KLNLFKLNLF says it fights for the cause of the Karbi tribes people and its declared objective is Hemprek Kangthim, meaning selfrule or self-dete...
29 Dec, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Fear is the byword in Assam's KokrajharKokrajhar the corridor to Northeast India had a history of riots each leaving its imprints on the mind of people residing in area.
21 Apr, 2014, 05.19 PM IST
- Looking back at India in year 2012
Leading on from the year 2011, corruption continued to be a focus issue this year too.
30 Dec, 2012, 01.31 PM IST
Why Assam is sitting on a volcanoConsidering the magnitude of the explosion and compelling evidence of administrative lethargy, even the by-now mandatory demand for the CM'...
12 Aug, 2012, 08.54 AM IST
- Assam flares again; government must act firmly but the state needs broader dialogue
State government in Assam failed to react preventively first when some members of the minority community were killed earlier this month.
27 Jul, 2012, 04.32 AM IST
- Assam riots spread to new areas, toll rises to 40
Even with the state machinery out in full gear and soldiers maintaining vigil in four districts, violence in lower Assam continued unabated.
26 Jul, 2012, 10.26 AM IST
- Assam toll at 40, 1 lakh refugees
Communal violence has resulted in 1 lakh people shifting to relief camps.
07 Oct, 2008, 04.37 AM IST
- Pygmy hogs, a new lease of life
In a major stride toward wildlife conservation, as many as 16 highly endangered pygmy hogs were released in the Sonai Rupai sanctuary in As...
26 May, 2008, 01.45 PM IST