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Assam CM mocks Rahul Gandhi by sharing parody video
Guwahati

Assam CM mocks Rahul Gandhi by sharing parody video

Guwahati, Sep 10: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma once again mocked Rahul Gandhi on Friday which irked the Congress party. Taking to the micro-blogging site Twitter, Sarma shared a parody video of Rahul Gandhi. The character portrayed as former Congress president can be seen dancing over...
NF Railway clocks 17pc jump in freight loading in Aug
Guwahati

NF Railway clocks 17pc jump in freight loading in Aug

Guwahati, Sept 8: The Northeast Frontier Railway has registered a 17-per cent rise in freight loading to 0.950 million tonnes (MT) during August, a senior official said. NFR Chief Public Relations Officer Sabyasachi De said the railway division has been continuously registering growth in freight...
Assam Guv, CM greet teachers, call them building blocks of nation
Guwahati

Assam Guv, CM greet teachers, call them building blocks of nation

Guwahati, Sept 5: Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi and Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday greeted the academic community on the occasion of Teachers' Day, describing them as "building blocks" of the nation. "This day glorifies our teachers and acknowledges their unparalleled and unique role...
Assam govt gives 3 months deadline to rehab centres to ensure basic facilities
Guwahati

Assam govt gives 3 months deadline to rehab centres to ensure basic facilities

Guwahati, Sept 4: Assam Social Justice and Empowerment minister Pijush Hazarika has instructed owners of private rehabilitation centres to ensure basic facilities like hygienic living conditions and regular medical check-up for the inmates within three months. He also mulled the idea of skill...
Guwahati

'We prefer to work quietly': Himanta tweets, tagging Kejriwal again

Guwahati, Sep 3: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday listed the initiatives of his government in the education sector, particularly for tea garden tribes, on Twitter, tagging Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal again. Sharing a video clip, Sarma said, "Unless forced to, we prefer to work...
Advanced cancer research centre to be set up in IIT-Guwahati
Guwahati

Advanced cancer research centre to be set up in IIT-Guwahati

Guwahati, Sep 2: A centre to work on research related to advanced and affordable diagnostics solutions for non-communicable diseases, primarily cancer, will be set up at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati. The premier higher education and research institute has entered into a...
New Assam chief secretary Paban Kumar Borthakur takes charge
Guwahati

New Assam chief secretary Paban Kumar Borthakur takes charge

Guwahati, Sept 1: Senior IAS officer Paban Kumar Borthakur on Thursday took charge as the new chief secretary of Assam. He replaced Jishnu Barua, who retired from service on Wednesday. Borthakur, a 1989-batch IAS officer, was serving as the additional chief secretary to the state government in...
Assam Police arrest another man with suspected links with Al Qaeda
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Assam Police arrest another man with suspected links with Al Qaeda

Guwahati, Sept 1: Assam Police on Wednesday apprehended another man suspected of having links with an Al Qaeda network in Bangladesh, officials said.The person, identified as Amjad Ajmal Hussain, was arrested from Guwahati's Fatasil Ambari area.A senior police officer informed that as per the...
Assam govt asked to speed up minority development: Nat
Guwahati

Assam govt asked to speed up minority development: Nat'l Commission for Minority...

Guwahati, Aug 31: The Assam government has been asked to accelerate implementation of schemes meant for development of minority communities in the state, a member of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) said here on Wednesday. The Constitution of the minority finance corporation and the...
From launch of ITMS to young writers winning Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puruskar, the week that was
Assam

From launch of ITMS to young writers winning Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puruskar, the...

Guwahati, Aug 28: The weekly news of ''The Week That Was'' features launch of phase-I Integrated Traffic Management System (ITMS) in Guwahati .It also features Orang to be stretch till Kaziranga and the news of four young writers bringing laurels to Assam by bagging the Sahitya Akademi Yuva...
Egalitarian society a myth, casteism prevalent in Assam, claim observers
Assam

Egalitarian society a myth, casteism prevalent in Assam, claim observers

Guwahati, Aug 28 (PTI) Political patronage of forces that fuel casteism, and growing intolerance and hatred towards other castes and religions are barriers to effectively form an egalitarian society, according to social observers of Assam. Education in the real sense of the term and not degrees,...
Assam govt
Guwahati

Assam govt's initiative of installing freedom fighters' statues of NE earns...

Guwahati, Aug 26: The Assam government's move of installing statues of freedom fighters from other Northeastern states at a newly inaugurated park in Guwahati has drawn applause from the chief ministers of the neighbouring states.The chief ministers of Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, and Manipur have...
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