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NEW DELHI: Two pilots were killed after sustaining fatal injuries following the crash of an IAF Su-30MKI jet in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district during a training mission. “IAF acknowledges the loss of Sqn Ldr Anuj and Flt Lt Purvesh Duragkar, who sustained fatal injuries in the Su-30 crash. All personnel of the IAF express sincere…
(This is a representative AI image. Credit: Chatgpt) NEW DELHI: “Pakistan should not have any assets in India,” declared Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma ahead of the 2026 state assembly elections. This wasn’t a mere statement, it was something Assam‘s beloved CM ‘Mama’ asserted to draw a comparison to former CM Tarun Gogoi’s son,…
NEW DELHI: Calling Himanta Biswa Sarma “Assam’s Jinnah”, Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi played down the exit of former state Congress chief Bhupen Borah from the party ahead of the assembly polls.Speaking at a press conference in Guwahati on Wednesday, Gogoi questioned Borah’s decision to quit the Congress and join the BJP on February 22. Former…
NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has alleged that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was responsible for blocking his elevation to the chief minister’s post when the party was in power in the state.Sarma claimed that in 2014, then Congress president Sonia Gandhi had asked him to decide the date for his swearing-in. According…
NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday refused to walk back from his remarks on “Miya Muslims” after the criticism by the opposition.A day after the chief minister said that he encourages troubling the “Miyan” to drive them back from the state, Sarma clarified that the word was used to refer the…
NEW DELHI: Violent protests over alleged illegal non tribal settlement in Assam’s constitutionally protected Karbi Anglong hill region entered the third day on Wednesday, leaving two people dead, dozens injured, and prompting the state government to impose curfew-like restrictions and suspend mobile internet services in two districts.The violence erupted in West Karbi Anglong and adjoining…
GUWAHATI: Violent tribal protests against illegal non-tribal settlement in a constitutionally protected hill region of Assam left two people dead Tuesday – as Sixth Schedule protections and land rights ignited a volatile fault line. Assam DGP Harmeet Singh, IGP (law and order) Akhilesh Kumar Singh and 48 police personnel were wounded after crowds armed with…
SANGJURAI: Seven elephants, including four calves, were killed, and another calf was injured when the Delhi-bound Sairang (Mizoram)-New Delhi Rajdhani Express collided with a herd of wild jumbos at Sangjurai village in the Jamunamukh-Kampur section of the Northeast Frontier Railway in central Assam’s Hojai district.The locomotive and five coaches of the train were also derailed…
The report had made recommendations on curbing illegal immigration, regulating land transfer, defining ‘Assamese’ identity and safeguarding it GUWAHATI: Successive govts in Assam allowed the state’s “land and identity crisis” to fester for four decades while they kept under wraps a report that had flagged it as a ticking time bomb that led to the…
Zubeen Garg was cremated with state honours in Kamarkuchi, Assam. Actor Plabita Borthakur remembered him as Assam’s unifying voice and social activist. His wife, Garima Saikia, bid an emotional farewell. The state mourned for three days after Garg’s sudden drowning in Singapore. He was a cultural icon and multi-talented artist. Noted singer and composer Zubeen…
