Wednesday's meeting was led by the two chief ministers, Himanta Biswa Sarma of Assam and Conrad Sangma of Meghalaya, and was also attended by other top ministers and officials.
Junmoni Rabha, a sub-inspector with the Assam police, died around 2 am on Tuesday when her vehicle collided with a truck in Nagaon district. Earlier that night, Rabha had been accused in a case of extortion and dacoity.
On Tuesday, Assam DGP G P Singh announced that the state police have decided to professionally record the Body Mass Index (BMI) of all Assam police personnel, including IPS officers.
The Gauhati High Court also directed the Assam State Legal Services Authority to seek a report from all prisons in the state on the status of detenues.
Assam has 31 administrative districts and 126 Assembly constituencies. According to Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the state government is working towards setting up ‘DC offices’ in all 126 constituencies.
The district administration, however, claimed it was a "misunderstanding" caused over some clips during a trial run and the final cut was approved after consultation with different stakeholders.
In September 2021, the DNLA had declared a unilateral ceasefire for a period of six months “for better peaceful environment, development talks and co-relation among us”, after which talks began with the government.
Amritpal Singh and nine of his associates from Punjab, who were booked under the National Security Act (NSA), are lodged in Dibrugarh Central Jail after their arrest.
On Wednesday, Justice Ajit Borthakur observed that the interim prayer to stay the FIR could only be considered after the receipt of the case diary from the police and after the complainant is served notice.
Gunotsav 2023 is the latest iteration of a programme aimed at assessing specific learning outcomes at the elementary and secondary levels in government, provincialised, tea garden management and model schools, introduced by the Assam government in 2017.
Modi had a packed itinerary during his visit to Guwahati, beginning with inaugurating a slew of medical projects, including the newly built AIIMS campus that has a capacity of 750 beds and 100 MBBS seats per session.
With no news of what happened to her husband for another month, she reached Guwahati on March 13 with her son and local activists, to demonstrate at the city’s designated protest site.
Videos captured by locals on Monday showed soil and boulders crashing down a hillside that has been cut for construction alongside where work is underway on the Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project at Gerukamukh in Assam’s Dhemaji district.
Commissioner of Police, Guwahati, Diganta Borah said the prime accused is Pradeep Pathak (52), a government employee from Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district, who planned the killing as an “offering” to Goddess Kamakhya.
Sarma was in Dwarka to attend Shree Krushna-Rukshmani Vivah Satkar Samaroh (Shree Krishna-Rukmini marriage reception) organised by the Gujarat Pavitra Yatradham Vikas Board, marking the culmination of the five-day-long Madhavpur cultural fair.
Now, with a six-month-old parotta manufacturing unit, 32-year-old Das is selling packaged parottas – a once unfamiliar food item – every day to residents of Upper Assam.
To counter allegations by Opposition MLAs that the crackdown had targeted those from minority communities, the CM had said that the ratio of Muslims and Hindus arrested was 55:45.
A slip of tongue sometimes happens and ''we have experienced it too, but we issue a statement apologising, saying it was unintentional. Gandhi could have done the same and the matter would have ended there'', Sarma said on the sidelines of a programme here.
