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GUWAHATI, July 23: Online sale of liquor has started in the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) area following a notification issued by the state excise department permitting such sale for a month on experimental basis to avoid…

GUWAHATI ,July 23: In a major breakthrough, a team from Assam Police carried out a search operation in Sikkim and rescued as many as 42 children belonging to Chirang district in Bodoland Territorial Region. The kingpin of the child…

From CK Nayak NEW DELHI, July 22: Congress MP from Meghalaya, Vincent H Pala on Thursday created a sensation in Parliament when he demanded a CBI inquiry into the illegal weighbridges run by the state government on the main national…

GUWAHATI, July 22: As the situation along the Assam-Mizoram border remains tense but ‘under control’, Cachar Police have clarified that no such instances of civilians leaving their homes in fear of their lives have…

GUWAHATI, July 22: The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) has asked the Centre to institute a CBI inquiry into the alleged anomalies in distribution of financial aid under the PM-Kisan scheme to farmers in the state. Addressing…

GUWAHATI, July 22: The Assam Cabinet on Thursday took a number of key decisions, including making genuine farmers with land patta and small tea growers eligible for benefits under the PM-Kisan scheme. Assam, it may be noted, has secured…

GUWAHATI, July 22: National Liberation Front of Bodoland (NLFB) chief M Batha, along with two other leaders and 20 cadres of the militant outfit, laid down their arms at a surrender ceremony at Lalpani police station in Udalguri district in…

GUWAHATI, July 20: Assam Chief Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said he expected “some headway” in the Assam-Meghalaya border talks in Shillong on July 23, ahead of the two-day North Eastern Council (NEC) meeting to be attended by…

GUWAHATI, July 20: The Assam Assembly on Tuesday unanimously resolved to support and motivate state boxer Lovlina Borgohain in her quest for glory at the Tokyo Olympics, which gets under way on Friday. A ‘congratulatory’ proposal was…

GUWAHATI, July 20: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said that “Assam is a better fiscally-managed state than any other Congress-ruled state in the country. Addressing the Assam Assembly during a discussion on the state…