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Congress leader and Jorhat MP Gaurav Gogoi (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Congress has made a major move to boost its prospects in Assam as it attempts to return to power in the state after a decade. The party has fielded its state unit chief, Gaurav Gogoi, currently an MP from Jorhat, to contest his…
NEW DELHI: Assam MP Pradyut Bordoloi joined the BJP on Wednesday, a day after leaving Congress and being invited by BJP’s Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.Speaking after Bordoloi joined BJP Sarma said, “Assam Pradesh BJP will recommend to the central leadership that he should fight the assembly elections. There is no reason for someone with…
Guwahati: With an eye on consolidating the NDA in Assam before the April 9 polls, the BJP on Tuesday brought back Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) into its fold after five years and firmed up seat-sharing with AGP, even as its current partner in govt, Bodoland-based United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL), left the NDA earlier in…
Shah is felicitated at a BJP youth event in Guwahati. Congress is against SIR as infiltrators are being removed from rolls, he said GUWAHATI:: Union home minister Amit Shah accused Congress of turning Assam into a “safe haven for infiltrators” and launched a string of projects in the state on Sunday, hours before EC announced…
Rajasthan Royals’ Yashasvi Jaiswal and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (PTI Photo) Mumbai: There will be no change in the IPL-2026 schedule in Assam, with Guwahati on track to stage three matches involving the Rajasthan Royals, BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia confirmed to TOI after the Election Commission of India on Sunday announced the Assam elections in a single…
The Election Commission on Sunday announced the assembly poll schedule for four states — West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala — and the Union Territory of Puducherry. The elections will be held between April 9 and April 29. The results for all five legislative assemblies will be declared on May 4.These polls are mandated as…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission announced the dates for assembly elections in Assam on Sunday.According to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, voting for the 126-member Assam assembly will take place in one phase on April 9. Votes would be counted on May 4. Officials have indicated that the upcoming elections are likely to be conducted…
Assam has taken a major step toward promoting science education with the inauguration of the Guwahati Science City, a large science and learning complex developed on the outskirts of Guwahati. Spread across around 82 acres and built at a cost of INR 300 crore, the new facility aims to inspire scientific curiosity among students and…
GUWAHATI: PM Modi will launch the distribution of land deeds to thousands of tea workers in poll-bound Assam on March 13, giving them a stake in plantations where they have lived and worked for two centuries since British planters brought them from villages of Chotanagpur division, Bihar and Bengal.Nearly 3.5 lakh families across 825 tea…
SILCHAR: A 60-year-old woman from Assam’s Cachar district has become the first person in the state to receive Indian citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), nearly two years after she was declared a foreigner and put in a transit camp.Dipali Das, a resident of Hawaithang in the Dholai block of Cachar, received her Indian…
