Jailed activist Akhil Gogoi will contest the upcoming elections in Assam from Sibsagar as a candidate of his newly-floated Raijor Dal. Announcing the list of 18 candidates that the party fielded in t...

The Opposition Congress on Thursday not only launched a website in poll-bound Assam for online employment registration for unemployed youth — www.congressor5guarantee.in. — but also announ...

Speaking to the media a few days back, state Congress president Rameshwar Oraon had said that they would be campaigning actively in Bengal and Assam. “Both states have a considerable tribal popu...

Launching a state-wide protest against growing unemployment in Lakhimpur, she told a gathering of youth, “You are the state’s biggest strength. I have come here to launch the programme for...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Mann Ki Baat radio broadcast on Sunday praised the people of poll-bound Assam for their conservation efforts — starting with water birds in Kaziranga to turtl...

The decision of poll-bound Assam to increase the daily wage of tea garden workers by Rs 50 a day may have a debilitating effect on the organised industry unless the cost push is tempered by a commensu...

The Opposition Congress has latched on to the Assam government’s decision to declare the entire state as disturbed for six months to dismiss Union home minister Amit Shah’s claim that peac...

The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced dates for Assembly elections to four states and one Union territory on Friday with polling scheduled to be held in eight phases in Bengal and three pha...

The ruling BJP on Wednesday promised to make Assam flood-free in the next five years, the announcement coming in wake of the Opposition criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not raising the flo...

Gauhati High Court has directed the central government to “frame appropriate rules” for regulating the easy availability of calcium carbide, used as an artificial fruit ripener, in the ope...