BCCI Secretary and Advocate General of Assam, Devajit Saikia has been appointed as the chair of the International Cricket Council’s newly formed Governance Review Committee, one of two key panels created during the ICC Annual Conference in Edinburgh.
When Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma tells audiences that his state faces an “existential” demographic threat, he is not reaching for hyperbole in a vacuum.
For decades, Assam's assembly ran on three languages, and now a fourth joins the mix. Starting July 6, Hindi will be used in the state assembly for the first time, alongside Assamese, English and Bodo.
As the states of Assam, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh prepare for enactment of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) following Uttarakhand which became the first in the country to do so, the discourse around UCC pertaining to individual rights is under much discussion.
The NIA has filed a chargesheet against 11 accused in an alleged terror conspiracy linked to a JMB offshoot. The agency claims the network targeted vulnerable youth and sought to expand its activities across West Bengal, Assam and Tripura.
As geopolitical uncertainties mount and security threats diversify, the urgency to indigenize defense production has never been greater. Against this backdrop, the proposal to establish a defense industrial corridor in Assam is not just timely. It is strategically imperative.
Addressing the media, Sarma dismissed the statement as politically motivated and accused the Jamiat leadership of being out of touch with the realities of modern Assam.
Under the new policy, citizens above 18 years who have never enrolled for Aadhaar will have just one month — September 2025 — to apply.
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Sarma alleged that certain activists and professionals from other states have been visiting Assam with what he termed as “an agenda to protect foreign infiltrators.”
Carrying copies of the Constitution and raising slogans against what they termed a “democratic heist,” the protesters attempted to push past police barricades in a bid to reach the DC office.
