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Guwahati, July 15 (UNI) The Assam government has freed more than 12,000 hectares of land from illegal encroachment over the past four years. Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma described the effort as a significant milestone in safeguarding the state's land, identity, and cultural fabric from what he termed as "existential threats" posed by infiltration and planned demographic changes. Taking to social media, Dr. Sarma underscored the scale of the drive, stating that over 160 square km -- ne ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam) [India], July 13 (ANI): Amid criticisms of the eviction drive carried out by the BJP-led Assam government to evict the encroachers from the government lands, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that there is a concerted effort to change the demography of the state constituencies. From our recent eviction experience, we have seen that people originally from districts 400 km away have encroached upon lands in predominantly Hindu constituencies. There is a concerted effo ...Read More >
Guwahati: Assam government has started an eviction drive in Goalpara district. With this eviction the district administration will reclaim around 1,040 bighas of land in Paikan Reserve Forest of Krishnai Forest Range in Goalpara. The encroachers were given a July 10 deadline to vacate the area. The Gauhati High court has earlier asked the government to clear encroachment in the forest land. A senior government officer said, "We are clearing 149 hectares. The process is likely to be completed ...Read More >
GUWAHATI An organisation in central Assam's Dima Hasao district has urged the State government to make public the findings of the judicial commission that probed the rat-hole coal mine tragedy of January 6 in the Umrangso area. Nine persons were trapped in a flooded mine that was allegedly being operated illegally. Their bodies were recovered following a 44-day search and rescue operation led by the Indian Navy, the National Disaster Response Force, and other agencies. Editorial | Burrow trag ...Read More >
Guwahati: Assam government has started an eviction drive in Goalpara district. With this eviction the district administration will reclaim around 1,040 bighas of land in Paikan Reserve Forest of Krishnai Forest Range in Goalpara. The encroachers were given a July 10 deadline to vacate the area. The Gauhati High court has earlier asked the government to clear encroachment in the forest land. A senior government officer said, "We are clearing 149 hectares. The process is likely to be completed ...Read More >
Guwahati, July 12 (UNI) More than six months after the devastating rat-hole coal mine tragedy in Assam's Dima Hasao district, a key regional organisation has demanded that the state government immediately make public the findings of the judicial commission that probed the incident. On January 6, 2025, nine workers were trapped inside an illegal coal mine in the Umrangso area of Dima Hasao due to sudden flooding. After a massive, multi-agency rescue operation involving the Indian Navy, National ...Read More >
Guwahati: The Assam government on Saturday launched a massive eviction drive to evict 1080 families allegedly encroaching upon about 140 hectares of forest land in the Paikan Reserve Forest in Western Assam's Goalpara district. Amid the protest of those being evicted, the state administration said that drive was primarily to curb human-elephant conflict and restore ecological balance in the area. In order to maintain law and order during the eviction drive, joint teams of the Forest Department ...Read More >
Guwahati, Jul 11 (PTI) The Assam government will press for a tripartite meeting involving the Centre and a conglomerate of 21 organisations of Karbi Anglong for resolving their demands, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Friday. Sarma met with representatives of the Forum for Hills Autonomous State Movement (FHASM) Alliance here to discuss the issues raised by it. The alliance, involving political as well as apolitical organisations, has been pressing for a "state within state" for Kar ...Read More >
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that in the last four years as many as 25,000 acres have been cleared of illegal encroachment. The Assam government has initiated a series of eviction drives. Some organisations claimed that this drive is targeted towards Bengali speaking Muslim. Sarma announced that eviction in Goalpara district will start soon. In Goalpara, the district administration is likely to carry out the eviction drive to clear around 1,040 bighas of land in Paika ...Read More >
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has clarified that the issuance of a National Register of Citizens (NRC) notice to a West Bengal resident by the Foreigners Tribunal in Assam was a judicial process and not initiated by the state government. His statement came after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee criticised the Assam government over the notice, calling it an "unconstitutional overreach." Ready for a challenge? Click here to take our quiz and show off your knowledge ...Read More >
Guwahati, Jul 11 (PTI) The Assam government will open 80 more model schools in tea garden areas along with introducing initiatives like mid-day meal schemes for classes 9 and 10 students and smart classroom facilities, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. Interacting with the headmasters of the Tea Garden Model Schools and Adarsha Vidyalayas here on Thursday, the chief minister said that with the vision of bringing about qualitative changes in the academic landscape of the tea garden areas, ...Read More >
Guwahati, Jul 10 (PTI) Asserting that eviction drives will continue in Assam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said that over 25,000 acres of land have been cleared of encroachment across the state in the last four years. Addressing a press conference after a cabinet meeting here, Sarma announced that an eviction drive will take place in Goalpara on Saturday to clear forest land from alleged encroachment. Also Read | Bengaluru Peeping Tom Case: CM Siddaramaiah Condemns Man Filmin ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam) [India], July 9 (ANI): The Assam unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday reiterated its support for the state government's ongoing eviction drive to remove what it termed as illegal encroachments on government and forest land, asserting that the campaign will continue in the coming days. In a statement issued by BJP Assam spokesperson Pankaj Borbora, the party alleged that a large portion of protected land and forest areas had been occupied by 'illegal infiltrator ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam) [India], July 9 (ANI): The Assam unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday reiterated its support for the state government's ongoing eviction drive to remove what it termed as illegal encroachments on government and forest land, asserting that the campaign will continue in the coming days. In a statement issued by BJP Assam spokesperson Pankaj Borbora, the party alleged that a large portion of protected land and forest areas had been occupied by 'illegal infiltrator ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam) [India], July 9 (ANI): The Assam unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday reiterated its support for the state government's ongoing eviction drive to remove what it termed as illegal encroachments on government and forest land, asserting that the campaign will continue in the coming days. In a statement issued by BJP Assam spokesperson Pankaj Borbora, the party alleged that a large portion of protected land and forest areas had been occupied by "illegal infiltrator ...Read More >
Guwahati, Jul 8 (PTI) Congress Lok Sabha MP Rakibul Hussain on Tuesday alleged that the eviction drive carried out by the Assam government to clear 3,500 bighas of land in Dhubri district was "illegal and unconstitutional". Hussain the local MP claimed that the Gauhati High Court had stayed any eviction till the next date of hearing a petition in this regard filed by the alleged encroachers, but it was disregarded by the government. The ruling BJP, however, claimed that the operation was carri ...Read More >
Guwahati: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee criticized the BJP and called for Opposition unity on Tuesday after learning that Assam's Foreigners Tribunal had issued a National Register of Citizens (NRC) notice to a resident of Cooch Behar in West Bengal, declaring him an illegal migrant. Reacting to the notice served to Uttam Kumar Brajabasi, a 50-year-old Rajbanshi man from Dinhata, Banerjee expressed outrage, calling the move "a systematic assault on democracy." Ready for a challeng ...Read More >
Kolkata, July 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday launched a scathing attack against the Assam government accusing it of harassing a resident of Cooch Behar in West Bengal by branding the latter as an infiltrator. "I am shocked and deeply disturbed to learn that the Foreigners Tribunal in Assam has issued an NRC notice to Uttam Kumar Brajabasi, a Rajbanshi, resident of Dinhata in Cooch Behar for over 50 years. Despite furnishing valid identity documents, he is being har ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam) [India], July 7 (ANI): Assam Legislative Assembly Deputy Speaker and senior BJP leader Numal Momin has launched a sharp attack on the Congress, alleging that 'terrorism and atrocities' against the tribal people was prevalent in Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), Dima Hasao and Karbi Anglong during their reign. He said that the Congress party had used the tribal people, minority community and Adivasi tea tribe people as their vote banks for years after years, but did nothing for ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam) [India], July 7 (ANI): Assam Legislative Assembly Deputy Speaker and senior BJP leader Numal Momin has launched a sharp attack on the Congress, alleging that 'terrorism and atrocities' against the tribal people was prevalent in Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), Dima Hasao and Karbi Anglong during their reign. He said that the Congress party had used the tribal people, minority community and Adivasi tea tribe people as their vote banks for years after years, but did nothing for ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam) [India], July 7 (ANI): The Chief Executive Member (CEM) of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), Pramod Boro, highlighted the remarkable progress in peace and development since the signing of the 2020 Bodo Peace Accord. Boro said that decades of violence, unrest, and movements involving various groups and communities had marred the region for years. Also Read | MS Dhoni Birthday Special: A Look at Top Five Achievements of Captain Cool in His Cricketing Career. "Decades afte ...Read More >
Baksa (Assam) [India], July 5 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma visited Baksa district on Saturday following review meetings in Udalguri and Tamulpur, with the objective of expediting developmental efforts in the BTR region and ensuring the effective implementation of government welfare schemes. At the office of the District Election Officer in Mushalpur, he held a review meeting focused on the status of five key welfare initiatives. Also Read | Gurugram Shocker: Police Arrest Ma ...Read More >
Guwahati: The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has ordered legal action against Assam's Special Chief Secretary, M K Yadava, for serious breaches of the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980. The case involves the unauthorised diversion of reserved forest land for the construction of Commando Battalion Camps in Assam -- projects initiated without mandatory prior approval from the Central Government. Ready for a challenge? Click here to take our quiz and show off your knowledge! Ya ...Read More >
The construction of the camps has been under a cloud since early 2024 and faced scrutiny from the environment ministry as well as the National Green Tribunal's principal bench and eastern zone bench (Kolkata). The Union environment ministry's regional office in Shillong has directed the Assam forest department to take legal action against Special Secretary (Forest) M K Yadava for authorising two commando battalion camps on forest land in "gross violation" of the law, official documents show. T ...Read More >
Guwahati: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has announced a statewide protest on July 4, alleging massive irregularities in the procurement and distribution of Gir cows under the Garukhuti Multipurpose Agricultural Project in Assam. CPI(M) state secretary Suprakash Talukdar addressed the media at the party's state office on Wednesday and accused the Assam government of financial misconduct. Ready for a challenge? Click here to take our quiz and show off your knowledge! He demanded a time ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday met Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari and discussed the status of progress of key infrastructure projects in the state. During the meeting held at the Union Minister's official residence, Chief Minister Sarma sought the support and cooperation of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) to ensure the timely completion of ongoing infrastructure projects. The Union Ministe ...Read More >
Guwahati, Jul 2 (PTI) The opposition Congress on Wednesday demanded a CBI inquiry into the alleged sale of 90 Gir cows from an Assam government project to individuals, including the wife of a BJP minister, MP and several MLAs. Addressing a press conference here, senior Congress leader Ram Prasad Sarmah alleged that funds are available for ministers and MLAs, but not to support 'gaushalas' (cowsheds) to look after the cows. "There have been widespread irregularities and corruption in the Gorukh ...Read More >
GUWAHATI, July 2: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday met Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari and discussed the status of key infrastructure projects in the state. During the course of the meeting that took place at the Union Minister's official residence in New Delhi, Sarma sought the support and cooperation from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) for ensuring timely completion of the ongoing infrastructure projects. The Union minister a ...Read More >
Guwahati, June 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Assam government on Monday carried out a large-scale eviction drive to clear 82 bighas of occupied Village Grazing Reserve (VGR) land in Bakrikuchi village under Nalbari district's Borkhetry revenue circle. The operation began at dawn with a heavy security deployment, including 500 police personnel, to prevent unrest. No clashes were reported during the demolition of unauthorised structures, officials claimed. District Commissioner Nibedan Das Patowary st ...Read More >
Nalbari, Jun 30 (PTI) The Assam government launched an eviction drive on Monday morning to clear encroachments from 82 bighas of village grazing reserve (VGR) land in Assam's Nalbari district, officials said. The eviction drive began at Bakrikuchi village under Borkhetry revenue circle early in the morning amid tight security. No untoward incidents have been reported so far, District Commissioner Nibedan Das Patowary told reporters here. Through a notice, the circle office on June 3 asked the ...Read More >
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