Police and forest officials in western Assam’s Kokrajhar district booked a YouTuber for capturing parakeets from the wild and putting them up for sale on his YouTube channel. Acting on a complaint by the People for the Ethical Treatment of…
Assam Rifles on Monday busted the People's Liberation Army (PLA)'s extortion racket in Imphal and arrested three of its cadres, an official said. "Keithelmanbi Battalion under the aegis of HQ IGAR (South) busted PLA extortion racket by apprehending three PLA…
The disaster management authority across all the districts has geared up along with the other departments, including PWD, agriculture, water resources department and state disaster response force (SDRF), to tackle the devastating floods that hit the state every monsoon. The…
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in a reply in the assembly said the disputed Mukroh village falls under the state's jurisdiction. Reacting to it, Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong on Monday said the village is very much a…
As many as 22 people have been arrested in Assam in connection with the paper leak incident for the General Science subject of the High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) examination. According to the state's Director General of Police (DGP) GP…
A mere 494 persons out of 8,773 people who were charge-sheeted for child marriage and POCSO cases in Assam have been convicted since 2017, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday. Replying to a query by Congress MLA Abdur…
The Board of Secondary Education Assam (SEBA) on Monday rescheduled the General Science paper of the Class 10 final examination for march 30 after an alleged question paper leak, prompting the opposition parties to demand the resignation of education minister…
Amid the quake panic in the country’s largest metropolis of Istanbul, which has a population of 16 million, the city’s municipality is taking measures to ban mezzanine floors in accordance with the new zoning regulation to make the city more…
Fresh erosion caused by the Brahmaputra was witnessed in the Koilaghat area of Dibrugarh on Saturday amid the ongoing work being carried out by the water resources department to prevent the disaster. The officials said the erosion took place on…
The Assam government has banned the import of poultry and pig from other parts of the country amid rising cases of bird flu and African Swine Fever (ASF) outside of the northeast. The ban came into force on Saturday. An…