In a surprising incident in Assam, a student reportedly secured 9th position in the recently declared Higher Secondary School Leaving Certificate (HSSLC) results in the state, where he did not even appear for the subject. Arnab Kapil, a student of Cotton College in Assam, himself informed the council that he[Read More…]
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced its result for class X today on its official website cbse.nic.in. Until now, the results of 11 regions, including, Allahabad, Chennai, Delhi, Dehradun, Trivandrum, Ajmer, Chandigarh, Bhubaneswar, Madras, Guwahati and Patna have been announced. However, the board informed that the results of[Read More…]
Marking the third year in power at the Centre, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Dhola Sadiya bridge in Assam on Friday. It replaced Mumbai’s Bandra- Worli Sea Link as the longest bridge in the country. He said that the bridge will be named after late Indian singer Bhupen Hazarika. Modi[Read More…]
On Monday, former chief minister of Assam Tarun Gogoi, was prevented from visiting Dhola-Sadiya bridge in Tinsukia district because of “security concerns”. The bridge is to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. The construction of the bridge began back in 2011, when the Congress party was in power. The site[Read More…]
An Indian Air Force Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft has gone missing after it lost radio contact in Assam’s Tezpur, near China border on Tuesday. The fighter jet, with two pilots on board, took off from Salonibari in Assam at 10.30 am on Tuesday. The aircraft’s fleet was facing some engine troubles[Read More…]
Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal asked the state police to take strict action against those using social media to abuse others. This comes after several incidents of online abuse of politicians and prominent people. Sonowal further directed the police to deal sternly with issues of online abuse and urged the cyber-cell[Read More…]
Students in Assam are not attending school in fear of the ‘RSS vaccine’. The panic has set among the parents as well. This fear is an aftermath of a widespread rumour that this RSS vaccine would be administered in schools to make students infertile. According to the rumours, this RSS[Read More…]
On May 26, Prime minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate India’s longest river bridge in Assam. The bridge, 9.15 KM long, will be capable of withstanding the weight of a 60-tonne battle tank. Dhola-Sadiya bridge is over the Brahmaputra river and is 3.55 km longer than the Bandra-Worli sea link in[Read More…]
As most of India were hooked to their TV screens watching the results of the five-state assembly elections on the afternoon of 11th March, 2017; Himanta Biswa Sarma landed quietly at Imphal airport with a small team of trusted protégés. There was a palpable tension in Imphal city as the[Read More…]
According to the new policy, formed by the BJP led government in Assam, an interim pension will be given to the Muslim women in Assam who have been divorced using the provision of triple talaq. Health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the same while talking about the modifications made to[Read More…]
On Thursday, the Health and Family, Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the Assam government will recommend to the Centre about the disqualification of MLAs and MPs who do not adhere to the proposed two-child norm. “The government of Assam will take up with the Centre that MLAs adhere[Read More…]
In a dreadful incident, a three-year old boy died after he was harshly beaten up by a person who suspected him to be a ‘ghost’ in Nagaon district of lower Assam, said the police. The kid was standing unaccompanied on the road at Sarudal Basti of Salna, waiting for his[Read More…]
According to the Central Groundwater Board, the concentration of iron contamination was found to be the largest in Northeast. Iron contamination in the Northeast has even crossed the permissible limit of 0.3 milligramme/litre. Water samples were collected through its permanent network of 678 groundwater monitoring stations in the Northeast, which[Read More…]
Hundreds of youths from the Karbi community in Assam, representing 24 organisation, staged an unprecedented naked protest alleging lack of response to their demands for electoral reforms. The naked protesters took out a huge procession across the district headquarter in Diphu town. “For the last several years we have been[Read More…]
As per current updates, a total of 56.35% of over two lakh voters turned out till 3 PM in the bypoll to Dhemaji Assembly constituency in Assam on Sunday said Returning Officer Roshni Aparanji Korati. He also added that no untoward incident has been reported. However, in the day some[Read More…]
Two persons were arrested and a minor was apprehended and booked in Kenduguri in Assam under the Assam Cattle Preservation Act, 1950 for possessing beef, the police said on Thursday. According to Police, the daily waged labourers had bought half kilogram beef from somewhere and showed it to a shopkeeper,[Read More…]
Rumours about the all-new Volkswagen Polo have been doing rounds all over the Internet for quite a while now. There had been reports about the new-gen VW Polo being spotted testing in Germany and this time around, clearer photographs of the next-gen Volkswagen Polo have emerged from South Africa. The[Read More…]
As clashes erupted between a mob and security personnel in Assam’s Dhemaji district, a number of people including police personnel. The clash turned violent as the mob even allegedly attacked several vehicles, the police was forced to resort to lathicharge and fire teargas on protesters. Meanwhile, the conditions worsen at[Read More…]
Seven blasts rocked Assam and Manipur on the occasion of Republic Day on Thursday. Five serial blasts by anti-talk ULFA (Independent) shook upper Assam as low intensity IEDS were detonated in Charaidow, Sibsagar, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts, police said. In Dibrugarh town, the blast took place just 500 metres away[Read More…]