
March 22, 2016 19:21 IST
The Congress says it has contributed “much more than the BJP can imagine” for protection of identity of the Assamese and other communities of the state.
Tue, Mar 22, 2016
March 22, 2016 02:15 IST
Giving the break-up, Deka said Congress' 66 MLAs and AIUDF's 17 MLAs and one each from BJP and BPF had cast their votes in the Rajya Sabha poll.
Tue, Mar 22, 2016
March 22, 2016 01:20 IST
“It took only five or six months for me to understand what kind of a party the BJP is. I am 100 cent assured the Congress alone can work for Assam’s interests,” said Roy.
Tue, Mar 22, 2016
March 21, 2016 17:11 IST
Sanctioned way back in 2000 for gauge conversion, the 84.25-km project was completed “well within target”, Pranav Jyoti Sharma, CPRO at the Northeast Frontier Railway headquarters said.
Mon, Mar 21, 2016
March 21, 2016 02:14 IST
"Regionalism is here to stay. We had allied with the CPI and the CPM and run our second government. At the Centre, we were partners in at least two governments, but that has not wiped out regionalism," said Bora.
Mon, Mar 21, 2016
March 18, 2016 02:08 IST
Himanta will ruin Sonowal’s prospects and career. Sonowal is a good person caught in an impossible situation. I am afraid he will also lose his ministership at the Centre after the elections. I have sympathy for him, the AIUDF chief said.
Fri, Mar 18, 2016
March 18, 2016 01:58 IST
The victim, an ASTC yard master, turned out to be Dimbeswar Rajkonwar, elder brother of ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa.
Fri, Apr 01, 2016
March 17, 2016 00:26 IST
Two of the Congress candidates in the hill districts of Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao, too, are sons of Congress veterans.
Fri, Mar 18, 2016
March 16, 2016 02:35 IST
Hoardings depict students among other images to ask if this is ‘achche din’
Fri, Mar 18, 2016
March 16, 2016 02:20 IST
The BJP’s chief ministerial candidate in Assam describes his ambitions and his challenges to The Indian Express.
Fri, Mar 18, 2016
March 15, 2016 01:02 IST
'Both Congress and BJP are similar as far as their communal character is concerned,' said Ajmal.
Mon, Mar 21, 2016
March 15, 2016 00:00 IST
“We appeal to all sides not to make secret killings an election issue. If they had some sincerity, they would have definitely identified those involved in the secret killings,” ULFA founder general secretary Anup Chetia.
Tue, Mar 15, 2016
March 14, 2016 02:00 IST
The airfield in Ziro, 167 kms from Itanagar, which originally belonged to the Airports Authority of India, was lying idle without any maintenance for several years, once had Vayudoot service from Dibrugarh.
Mon, Mar 14, 2016
March 14, 2016 00:38 IST
The two parties are now more busy fighting their respective internal battles after disgruntled leaders floating new parties and naming candidates against their own parties.
Fri, Mar 18, 2016
March 11, 2016 01:28 IST
The regional party is also expected to announce a second list of candidates in constituencies where the party will have a “friendly fight” with the BJP.
Fri, Mar 18, 2016
March 10, 2016 20:10 IST
"Look where their misrule has led Assam to. Whiles life and property of the common man is not secure, the Congress government cannot even ensure safety of High School finals answer scripts,” Bora said.
Thu, Mar 10, 2016
March 10, 2016 00:07 IST
Former Congress strongman Himanta Biswa Sarma and five of his loyalists — all ex-Congress MLAs — have also got tickets.
Fri, Mar 18, 2016
March 09, 2016 01:26 IST
The two senior BJP leaders who joined the Congress are Sankar Prasad Ray, the previous president of All-Assam Students’ Union (AASU), and noted lawyer Sabda Ram Rabha, both ‘victims’ of the saffron party’s new alliances.
Fri, Mar 18, 2016
March 08, 2016 20:59 IST
The BJP, which announced "Mission 84" after winning 14 Lok Sabha seats in Assam, find themselves contesting in less than that number after allotting seats to its allies.
Fri, Mar 18, 2016
March 08, 2016 00:24 IST
Urkhaw Gwra Brahma was an independent candidate for Kokrajhar in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, in which the BJP had backed him.
Fri, Mar 18, 2016
March 07, 2016 01:05 IST
In Rangiya, which had thrice elected former AGP president Thaneswar Boro, local leaders threatened to float a new party called AGP (Anchalik).
Fri, Mar 18, 2016
March 07, 2016 00:54 IST
The two awards were given by separate Delhi-based publications. It is on that count that the BJP qualifies the presence of its ministers in the hoardings.
Fri, Mar 18, 2016
March 06, 2016 01:37 IST
"The BJP government at the Centre had only helped those with black money to turn their money into white, " Rahul Gandhi said hitting out at the govt for EPF tax proposal.
Fri, Mar 18, 2016
March 05, 2016 02:37 IST
PA Sangma's greatest moment, however, arrived in May 23, 1996 when he, then just 49, was elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
Sat, Mar 05, 2016
March 05, 2016 00:59 IST
Rahul Gandhi also repeated his complaint against the BJP and RSS of running the country from the latter’s headquarters in Nagpur.
Fri, Mar 18, 2016




