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.
Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing the Assam government of misusing central agricultural schemes to extend political patronage and benefit relatives of ruling party leaders.
The Congress leader, who recently took charge as APCC president, appeared confident of the party’s revival prospects.
The arrests were made following multiple surprise inspections at major railway yards in Guwahati, including Azara and Paltan Bazar.
Train services in the Lumding–Badarpur Hill section of Assam have come to a halt after a massive landslide, triggered by relentless rains, damaged nearly 100 metres of railway track.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has once again asserted his government’s commitment to reclaiming illegally occupied lands across the state, pledging an intensified eviction campaign in the coming weeks.
