A polling official’s detention for misconduct, a woman voter being stabbed by her estranged husband and malfunctioning of electronic voting machines marked the first phase of Lok Sabha polls in Assa...

Shaukat Ali, who was assaulted by a mob at Biswanath in Tezpur Lok Sabha constituency on Sunday for selling beef at his food stall, missed out on exercising his franchise on Thursday.Ali is recuperati...

There is a spectre more ominous than the sword of Damocles looming over the state of Assam. Come August 31, the updated National Register of Citizens or NRC will be published (no prevarication, the Su...

A former top bureaucrat of Assam, M.G.V.K. Bhanu, 60, who retired last year, joined the Congress at the party’s Assam headquarters here on Monday.The 1985-batch IAS officer, who served four Congress...

The head of the army’s eastern command, Lt Gen M.M. Naravane, is scheduled to visit Tezpur in Assam next week amid heightened activities in the wake of mounting tension on the western front, army so...

The villagers of Thiyo Aati Kolabari Rajuar comprising Number 1 Bihoguri panchayat and Bahbari panchayat under Tezpur subdivision of Assam will not cast votes in the panchyat polls to protest apathy o...

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Wednesday said the BJP-led state government was always committed to working for the welfare of every community.Sonwal, who attended a series of rallies at Ra...

A workshop on rural waste management was held at the conference hall of the Sonitpur zilla parishad here on Friday. The workshop, which was formally inaugurated by deputy commissioner Manvendra Pratap...

The last rites of social worker and Rangapara MLA Rajen Barthakur, who passed away at Times Hospital here around 10.29pm on Tuesday night, were performed at his residence on Wednesday in the presence ...

The first phase of Lok Sabha elections in Assam recorded 78.23 per cent turnout, a marginal dip from the 2014 elections, when the percentage was 78.75. The first phase was held in five constituencies ...