GUWAHATI Four northeastern neighbours are occupying more than 82,000 hectares of Assam’s land, the State’s Border Protection and Development Minister Atul Bora told the 126-member Assam Assembly on Wednesday (March 5, 2025). The four neighbouring States named by the Minister are Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Nagaland. Responding to a question from Congress MLA Rekibuddin … Read more
There was a reason why the British invested in a 65-km railway track from Dibrugarh to Margherita in the early 1880s, less than two decades after Asia’s first oil well was drilled at the nearby Digboi town. The track helped transport coal, tea, and timber from Margherita and stations en route to the Brahmaputra River … Read more
Bengal florican in Manas National Park. Photo: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT GUWAHATI A natural process of change in grassland type, hastened by human interference, is robbing the critically endangered Bengal florican of its hiding and mating spaces in the best of its remaining few habitats in India, a new study said. Among the heaviest of the flying … Read more
Lawyer Aman Wadud wants to be the voice of his people and change the narrative. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement When the first list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was released in Assam in 2018, it excluded 4 million residents. They had to reapply to be included and submit their biometrics. That day, … Read more
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Assam, the people of Bokakhat in Golaghat district on March 7 evening lighted 1 lakh diyas (earthen lamps) to welcome the Prime Minister. Assam Agriculture Minister and local MLA Atul Bora, State Forest Minister Chandramohan Patowary, and Tourism Minister Jayanta Malla Baruah also attended the programme. Prime … Read more
Participants of a pride walk in eastern Assam’s Dibrugarh demanding gender-neutral washrooms. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement More than a hundred people from diverse backgrounds participated in a pride walk in eastern Assam’s Dibrugarh to demand gender-neutral washrooms in educational institutions across the State. Assam Transgender Welfare Board member and Nguvu Change leader Rituparna led … Read more
Pro-Khalistani leader and Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh. File. | Photo Credit: ANI Fugitive radical preacher Amritpal Singh who has been booked under National Security Act has been arrested from Punjab’s Moga, police said on April 23. Amritpal’s arrest comes a month after the police launched a massive crackdown against him and his outfit ‘Waris … Read more
A vew of the Maa Kamakhya temple in Guwahati. File photo | Photo Credit: ANI GUWAHATI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, appreciated Assam’s “landmark” Maa Kamakhya initiative and hoped it would be like the Kashi Vishwanath Dham in Varanasi and Shree Mahakal Mahalok in Ujjain. Taking to Twitter on April 18, … Read more
Jnanada Kakati, sitting, with film director Bobbeeta Sharma to her right and scriptwriter Jimoni Choudhury behind her. Photo: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT A new documentary has traced the “unplanned” cinematic journey of Assam’s first announcer for All India Radio in 1948. Jnanada Kakati stepped accidentally into the world of cinema at a time when working in films … Read more
Assam’s Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve is set to open for tourists today after a gap of seven months due to the coronavirus outbreak. One-horned rhinoceroses are seen at the flooded Kaziranga National Park in Assam. (File photo: Reuters) Assam’s Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve is set to open for tourists seven months … Read more