The second phase of training for Presiding and Polling Officers of BTC Election 2025 began in Kokrajhar on Saturday. Sessions were held at Kokrajhar University, Gossaigaon College, and schools in Parbatjhora under the supervision of the District Commissioner and Election…
Raijor Dal chief Akhil Gogoi announced his party will contest 36 constituencies in the 2026 Assam Assembly elections, including his own candidature from Sivasagar. He stressed the need for respectful opposition unity, criticized Congress’s approach, and attacked CM Himanta Biswa…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Guwahati on Saturday for a two-day visit. He attended the Bhupen Hazarika centenary event at Khanapara and will stay overnight in Guwahati. On Sunday, he will visit Mangaldoi and the Numaligarh refinery to launch and…
Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi criticised PM Modi’s Manipur visit, calling it delayed and focused on optics over ground realities. He said Modi should have visited during the 2023 ethnic violence that killed over 260 people. Gogoi stressed the visit should…
BJP leader Ranjeet Kumar Das campaigned for Bijni MLA Ajay Kumar Ray in Thuribari, declaring BJP will form the next BTC government. Addressing rallies at Phagunagaon and Shialmari, Das praised Ray as a grassroots leader and projected his victory. He…
The Tai Ahom Youth Council (TAYC) staged a massive rally in Moran demanding Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for six indigenous communities. Protesters lit up NH-37 with flashlights after police tried to block them. TAYC president Bijoy Rajkhowa accused the BJP…
Ahead of PM Modi’s Assam visit, AJP president Lurinjyoti Gogoi accused the BJP of betraying Assam on key promises, including full Assam Accord implementation, ST status for six indigenous communities, and upliftment of tea workers. Gogoi criticised the Citizenship Amendment…
A 50-year-old villager, Moteswar Moran, was trampled to death by a wild elephant near Dwarmara reserve forest in Tinsukia’s Doomdooma division on Friday evening. He was attacked while collecting vegetables in the jungle and died on the spot.
The Assam GST Department uncovered a major tax evasion case involving BGS SGS SOMA Joint Venture, builder of the Gerukamukh dam. A 10-member team led by Superintendent Monuj Kumar Dowari conducted the raid on September 9, recovering ₹8.2 crore on…
Leader of Opposition Debabrata Saikia accused CM Himanta Biswa Sarma of creating controversies over “suspicious foreigners” to divert attention from real issues before the 2026 polls. He demanded a bill defining such terms, criticized Sarma’s handling of border disputes, and…