Assam assembly elections: TMC announces first list of 17 candidatesPolitical parties in Assam have announced multiple candidates as the Assembly election race intensifies, with Congress releasing its fourth...
Assam polls: AGP releases 26 candidates; Congress names 22 in third listThe Asom Gana Parishad has announced 26 candidates for the upcoming assembly polls. Its ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party, is part of the ND...
AAP releases list of 14 candidates for Assam assembly pollsThe Aam Aadmi Party has unveiled its initial list of 14 candidates for the upcoming Assam assembly elections. Meanwhile, the Congress relea...
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma's Jalukbari constituency among 30 seats to be altered by proposed delimitationAssam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will have to look for a new constituency as Jalukbari constituency, which he had been representing...
Many 'illegal settlers' vacate forest land on eviction drive eve in AssamAn eviction drive to clear 501 hectares of Pava reserve forest in first phase in Adhasona and Mohaghuli villages will be carried out on Tue...
Eviction drive to clear 500 hectares of forest land in Assam's Lakhimpur: OfficialsOut of 2,560.25 hectares of Pava reserved forest, only 29 hectares are currently free of any encroachment. In the first phase, 500 hectares...
Heavy rain inundates parts of Assam; over 33,000 people affectedThe Regional Meteorological Centre, Guwahati, said that rain with thunderstorms and lightning is likely to occur in various places in 21 di...
Fear of ‘D voter’ tag drives Assam Muslims to poll booths in drovesOne of the reasons they do so is fear of being marked as a “D (doubtful) voter” and possibly getting disenfranchised. In the just-concluded...
Assam assembly polls: Big guns’ fate to be sealed in phase-1Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal - who is seeking re-election from Majuli – is among 264 candidates whose fate will be determined ac...
March 27 poll to decide fate of Assam CM, Speaker, top ministers and opposition leadersMost of these seats will likely witness triangular contest between the ruling BJP-AGP alliance, the Congress-led opposition grand alliance ...
Assam Election: Nomination papers of 28 candidates of second phase rejected during scrutinyAltogether 408 candidates had filed their nominations for the 39 constituencies going to polls on April one and 28 of these were rejected d...
Assam assembly polls: 281 candidates file nomination for first phaseAmong prominent candidates who filed nominations were Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal from Majuli, sitting BJP MLAs Angoorlata Deka from ...
Four policemen were injured in an attack of mob in Assam’s Lakhimpur districtThe incident took place on Thursday evening place at Pandhua Kuet area under Naoboicha police station in the northern Assam district where ...
BJP sweeps hitherto traditional Congress bastionBJP charted its historic win in Assam, the first for the party in the Northeast, by sweeping hitherto traditional Congress bastions of Uppe...
14 Assam constituencies record more than 90% turnoutIn a record turnout, more than 90 per cent voters exercised their franchise in 14 constituencies in Assam in the second and final phase of ...
Assam flood situation turns grim, claims one lifeThe flood situation turned critical in Lakhimpur, Dhemaji and Sonitpur districts with a minor boy being washed away by the flood water in N...
- Assam polls: 25% voting in the first four hours
An estimated 25 per cent of the electorate cast its franchise in the first four hours of polling in 62 Assam Assembly constituencies today ...