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May 2026 Calendar: From Labour Day, Mother’s Day, Buddha Purnima to Bakrid; full list of national and international eventsMay 2026 brings a calendar full of significant events. National holidays like Labour Day and Mother's Day are celebrated. Religious festiva...- NHRC takes cognisance of journalist detained after he went to cover a dharna in GuwahatiThe National Human Rights Commission of India has taken note of a journalist's detention in Assam for covering financial irregularities at ...
- Assam CM says online news portal workers not recognised as journalistsAssam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma clarified that the state does not officially recognize individuals working for online news portals...
- Assam journalist arrested under SC/ST act amid bank corruption probe, sparks outrageA Guwahati court granted bail to journalist Dilwar Hussain, arrested under the SC/ST Act for allegedly abusing a bank guard while covering ...
- 'Strong undercurrent' in Cong's favour in Northeast: Jairam RameshCongress general secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh said that there is a fear in the Northeast that a government that can "bulldoze t...
- Four-member expert panel formed by Assam government to examine legality to ban polygamyThe Assam government has constituted a four-member expert committee to examine the legislative competence of the state legislature to enact...
- ULFA-I terms threat to Assam govt by pro-Khalistan Sikhs as unfortunate and misunderstoodA person identifying himself as Gurpatwant Singh Pannu of the separatist Sikh for Justice (SFJ) made calls to some journalists on Sunday an...
- Assam Assembly passes resolution against BBCBJP MLA Bhubon Pegu raised the issue through Private Members' Resolution and alleged that BBC has questioned India's free press, judiciary ...
- RSS is world's biggest school of patriotism: BJP on Rahul's criticism of Hindutva organisationThe RSS' role is to effect good changes in people and inspire patriotism in them, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar told reporters after he ...
- Assam police to set up SIT for investigation into cartel of illegal cattle trade in DhubriA senior police official who did not want to be named told ET that the case has been transferred to CID. Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal ...
- Sahitya Akademi awardee, family of Assam Agitation martyr excluded from NRCThe great granddaughter of freedom fighter Chabilal Upadhyay, has also been left out of the NRC upgrade process.
- One-day ban on NDTV dangerous for democracyAcross the board, journalists and editors have opposed the one-day ban on NDTV India and News Time Assam, declaring it an authoritarian ove...
- PM Narendra Modi gets poor response, thin presence in rallies: JoshiC P Joshi claimed that poor response of people and thin presence in rallies of the PM in the state indicated that the party was losing the ...
- BJP's agenda to impose single ideology on India not possible: Tarun GogoiThe BJP government's attitude of "we are funding their education, so the students cannot criticise us, is absolutely wrong and unacceptable...
- RSS trying to hijack Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose: Tarun GogoiNetaji, he said, was the most secular freedom fighter of the country and he had never endorsed religious fundamentalism.
- Nagaland Governor backs Assam Rifles on notice to mediaGovernor PB Acharya said the paramilitary force has done the right thing by asking newspapers not to publish statements of banned militant ...
- Assam Rifles order to newspapers pernicious: Editors GuildFive newspapers had yesterday published blank editorials as a mark of protest against the Assam Rifles order.
- Assam Rifles denies issuing gag order to media in NagalandThe Assam Rifles today denied that it had issued any "gag order" to the media in Nagaland on matters relating to NSCN(K).
- Nagaland newspapers published with blank editorial spaceFive newspapers in Nagaland were published with their editorial spaces blank to protest what they termed an effort by the Assam Rifles to s...
- Naga dailies carry blank editorials after Assam Rifles rapThe five media houses which received the Assam Rifles notification included the abovementioned papers, as well as Nagaland Post and Capi.
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