Award-winning Assamese writer Mitra Phukan, in an interview with Frontline, discussed how conflict in various forms, insurgency, violence, tensions between tradition and modernity, superstition versus science, and personal relationships, forms the core…
At least 140 people have been killed and over 30 lakh displaced across several Indian states as severe monsoon rains triggered flooding and landslides over the past week, according to the Springfield…
Tension has risen along the Assam-Nagaland border after the Lotha Lower Range Public Organisation (LLRPO) claimed that 59 families slated for eviction in Golaghat district's No. 2 Negheribil area live on land…
Efforts to end the Assam-Meghalaya transport row produced divergent timelines on August 23. Assam Border Minister Atul Bora said normal movement would resume in one or two days after talks with Meghalaya…
In Guwahati's Beltola area, two women, Rupa and Jolly, run a makeshift food and paan stall, living as mother and son. Both were abandoned by their husbands. Rupa, from Kokrajhar, met Jolly…
A Supreme Court-constituted Central Empowered Committee has taken exception to the Assam government's inaction on mining near Kaziranga National Park. In a letter to the state Chief Secretary, the CEC said mining…
The Gauhati High Court has dismissed a writ petition seeking registration of an FIR, reiterating that statutory remedies under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) must be exhausted before invoking writ jurisdiction…
Cricket equipment was distributed to 86 sports clubs and educational institutions in the char areas of Assam's Kamrup district on Saturday. The event at the District Commissioner's Office in Amingaon was attended…
Assam has achieved a major milestone in livestock biotechnology with the birth of the world's first IVF female calf of the indigenous Lakhimi breed, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced on Saturday.…
Opposition parties and civil society groups staged a sit-in at Chachal in Guwahati on Saturday demanding the unconditional release of land rights activist Pranab Doley and the withdrawal of the National Security…
