He added that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, by initiating the observance of Constitution Day, has helped enhance public awareness and appreciation of democratic values.
Thirteen applications were approved on November 29, 2023, and another eight on May 31, 2024.
After four decades of ethnic conflict and loss of around 20,000 lives, the Bodoland region on the northern banks of the mighty Brahmaputra in Assam is limping back to normalcy, peace and harmony.
The Central government on January 27 signed an accord with the banned Assam-based insurgent group NDFB providing political and economic bonanza to the tribals, sans the outfit’s key demand of a separate Bodoland state or union territory.
This is the third Bodo accord to be signed in the last 27 years when the violent movement for a separate Bodoland state claimed hundreds of lives, destruction of public and private properties.
Several organisations supporting creation of Bodoland state have threatened to resume the agitation over their demand, initially through a ‘rail…
Tension gripped parts of Assam after two unidentified assailants shot dead Lafikul Islam, President of the All Bodoland Minority Students'…
It is a question uncomfortable to ask: it may even be slammed as politically-motivated, antinational or seditious given the politically…
The BJP-led Assam government completes one year in office on 24 May. The patched-up alliance includes the Asom Gana Parishad,…
Can language become a dominant factor in polarising politics of our time? Seemingly Assam education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s positioning…
