According to a Defence official, a vehicle-mounted patrol of three Assam Rifles vehicles was moving from Changlang in Arunachal Pradesh to Margherita in Assam’s Tinsukia district when it came under attack by “unknown personnel” near Namdhang, Assam, around 8:30 am.
The BJP is contesting in 11 seats out of total 14 in the state, leaving two for AGP and one for United People's Party Liberal (UPPL).
His apprehension comes four days after ISIS India head Haris Farooqi alias Harish Ajmal Farukhi and his associate Anurag Singh alias Rehan were arrested in Dhubri district after they had crossed over from Bangladesh.
There is nothing new about the CAA as it was enacted earlier, the chief minister said, adding that 'now the time has come for application on the portal'.
The Prime Minister will be unveiling an 84-foot-tall statue of Lachit Borphukan, a general in the Ahom Kingdom, in another example of Modi and the BJP celebrating regional icons in recent years.
The Dibrugarh prison is one of the oldest and most high-security jails in the Northeast. It was constructed in 1859-60.
At the event, Sarma said that another seven state cancer institutes are planned to be completed in 2025 and 2026.
The decision will benefit students of the tribal communities by enabling them to study their languages at the school level, according to the list of the cabinet decisions posted by the chief minister on X.
The proposed bill seeks to "prohibit and eliminate practices of magical healing in the name of treatment of some congenital diseases such as deafness, dumbness, blindness, physical deformity and autism".
The two US nationals, identified as John Matthew Boone and Michael James Flinchum, had attended the inauguration of a Baptist Christian association office on January 31.
Speaking to reporters in Guwahati, the DGP said, “Like I said before, I shall resist anyone who tries to stop the journey of the development of Assam and shall take all legal actions."
The madrasas operating under the state government have been in the eye of several controversies in the last few years.
The eviction drive began on Monday and was supposed to continue till Wednesday, but ended a day early as all the 246 families living on forest land illegally were evicted, an official said.
SP Kumar said a case has been registered at the Haflong Police Station under different sections of the Indian Penal Code
An analysis of records of those arrested in the last crackdown showed that 62.24% of those arrested were Muslims, while the rest were Hindus and people from other communities.
Rabiul Islam, the businessman, alleged, among other things, that he was wrongfully detained by police and told to pay Rs 2.5 crore, failing which he would be killed in an encounter.
MP Roy told reporters that the boy's mother and her two children had been living in his house for the past three years.
The Home and Political Department of the Assam government on Monday issued a public notice, inviting members of the public to share their suggestions on the proposed law.
Family members of Rahima Khatun, the woman killed in what officials call an act of self-defence, were said to have moved there because the place they had put up tents after their eviction had been flooded.
Sahitya Akademi Award-winning Anuradha Sarma Pujari’s debut novel ‘Hriday Ek Bigyapan’ became a breakout success, capturing the collective imagination of a generation of Assamese readers.
The project is a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between the Assam health department, eGovernments Foundation, and Karuna Trust.
Lakhimpur is the worst hit with over 25,200 people affected, followed by Dibrugarh with more than 3,800 people and Tinsukia with almost 2,700 persons, it added.
Leaders of the 12 parties — Congress, Asom Jatiya Parishad, Raijor Dol, CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML), Trinamool Congress, NCP, RJD, JD(U), AAP and Jatiya Dal Assam — raised demand for Sarma’s arrest under the National Security Act.
On 31 May, Partha Majumdar, NRC state coordinator issued individual “release notices” to at least 121 contractual ‘circle project supervisors’ — most recruited in 2014 to oversee NRC-related work at the circle level — stating that their services were “no longer required”.
The school girl was riding pillion with her elder sister when the school bus hit their scooter and sped away.




