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GUWAHATI, April 9: The four tiger reserves of the State - all national parks - are grappling with acute funding crisis, with the Union Finance Ministry failing to release even half of the required funds under the Centrally sponsored scheme Project Tiger & Elephant since September 2025. Official sources said that the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) had sanctioned Rs 20.70 crore under the scheme as second instalment, but it could release only a small portion of it to the park authori ...Read More >
Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, winding up his election campaign in Assam on Monday, launched a blistering attack on the Gandhi family and Congress, accusing them of corruption, dynastic politics, and siding with Pakistan.Addressing rallies in Barpeta, Hojai, and Dibrugarh -- just a day before the silence period begins at 5pm Tuesday -- Modi said, "The first family of Congress is the most corrupt in the country, indulging in scams of huge proportions and currently out on bail. Congress c ...Read More >
Barpeta/Hojai/ Dibrugarh, Apr 6 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that while his government carried out 'Operation Sindoor', the Congress continued to "sing to the tune of" Pakistan. Addressing back-to-back election rallies in Barpeta, Hojai and Dibrugarh in Assam, Modi also accused the Congress of taking a myopic view on development, while asserting that the BJP focuses on long-term growth. "The party always took short-term measures so that they could indulge in corruption. Bu ...Read More >
Sarbananda Sonowal, former chief minister and Union minister for shipping, ports and waterways in the Narendra Modi government, is among the key strategists of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a star campaigner for the assembly elections in Assam. In an interview, he shared his views on the party's prospects and key issues as it eyes a third straight win. How is the campaign going so far, and how do you rate the prospects of the BJP and its allies? I have seen the brightness in the faces o ...Read More >
Guwahati, April 5: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday mounted a scathing attack on Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, accusing him of corruption and divisive politics, while asserting that the people of the state would hold him accountable. Addressing a public rally in Assam's Biswanath district, Rahul Gandhi alleged: "Himanta Biswa Sarma is the most corrupt and the most communal Chief Minister in the country. He has betrayed and misled the people of Assam -- the evidence is before t ...Read More >
Barpeta: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday entered the electoral arena in Assam. Addressing a public rally in Barpeta in support of NDA candidate Deepak Kumar Das, he strongly targeted the Congress and UDF. He said, "Congress has already fled the field before the elections, and the time has come to throw the UDF into the Bay of Bengal". He appealed to the people of Assam to once again form a Bharatiya Janata Party government and said that infiltrators must be driven out and the demograph ...Read More >
Lucknow/Barpeta, April 03: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday addressed a high-voltage election rally in Assam's Barpeta, strongly attacking the Congress and UDF while campaigning for NDA candidate Deepak Kumar Das. Targets Congress, UDF in rally He said Congress had already "fled the ground" ahead of elections and called upon voters to reject the UDF, alleging it thrived on infiltration and vote-bank politics. Stressing national security, Yogi declared that Assam would not ...Read More >
Guwahati: Even as the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has put an immediate stay on the Assam government's decision to deploy over 1,600 Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) personnel for election duty, the state's forest department appears to be preparing for a legal pushback instead of compliance -- raising serious questions over intent and priorities. A two-member bench of the NGT's Eastern Zone, comprising Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi and Expert Member Ishwar Singh, on Thursday stayed the March 19 ...Read More >
GUWAHATI: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said the NDA would not allow the Congress and the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) to change Assam's demography. Addressing a rally in the election-bound state's Barpeta, Adityanath alleged that the two Opposition parties had played with Assam's culture. "The Congress and the AIUDF tried to change Assam's demography by allowing infiltrators to come here. The infiltrators committed a robbery on your rights. They tried to ...Read More >
Kamrup (Assam) [India], April 3 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday accused the Nehru-Gandhi family of "never having good feelings for Assam," recalling former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's remarks during the 1962 Chinese aggression. Addressing a gathering in the rally here, Shah asserted that no one can seize even an inch of Assam's land and highlighted the BJP government's development and peace initiatives in the state. Also Read | Fake Sensodyne Toothpaste Manufacturing Unit ...Read More >
Kamrup (Assam) [India], April 3 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday accused the Nehru-Gandhi family of "never having good feelings for Assam," recalling former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's remarks during the 1962 Chinese aggression. Addressing a gathering in the rally here, Shah asserted that no one can seize even an inch of Assam's land and highlighted the BJP government's development and peace initiatives in the state. "The Gandhi family, the Nehru family, they have never had ...Read More >
Guwahati: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Friday, launched a sharp attack on the Congress and AIUDF while campaigning for NDA candidate Deepak Kumar Das in Assam's Barpeta, asserting that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance would not allow the state to become a hub of "love jihad" or "land jihad". Addressing a public rally, Chief Minister Adityanath alleged that the Congress had "already fled the electoral field", while claiming that the time had come to politically s ...Read More >
In this image posted on April 2, 2026, LoP in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi waves, as others look on, during a public meeting, in Assam. Picture: X/@INCIndia via PTI GUWAHATI In its manifesto for the April 9 Assembly elections in the State, the Congress has promised Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for six communities, the formation of an Anti-Corruption Commission to probe scams by the Himanta Biswa Sarma government, a white paper on Assam's financial condition, and an Urban Flood ...Read More >
GUWAHATI, April 2: Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday campaigned for Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) candidate from Kaliabor constituency, Keshab Mahanta, claiming that the 10 years of development and positive transformation achieved under BJP-led NDA government 'should be written in golden words in Assam's history'. "The AGP-BJP gathbandhan (alliance) in Assam has been there for the past decade and will certainly be there in the future, like the sun and the moon. The Congress says the alliance ...Read More >
Kaliabor (Assam), Apr 2 (PTI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday made it clear the BJP was not against the indigenous Muslims of Assam and was against infiltrators, as he accused the Congress of facilitating illegal immigration during its rule in the state. Addressing an election rally here for AGP's Keshab Mahanta, he also asserted that the alliance between the BJP and the AGP was "like the Sun and the Moon", and asked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to stop day-dreaming that the partnersh ...Read More >
GUWAHATI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday drew a comparison between 10 years of NDA and Congress governments in Assam, hitting out at the rival party on the issue of "infiltrators". Addressing a rally at Kaliabor to drum up support for BJP ally Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) candidate Keshab Mahanta, Shah claimed that the Congress had never done anything for Assam's development. "From 2004 to 2014, there was a Congress government in Assam and the Manmohan Singh government at the Centre. As ...Read More >
Guwahati: The Eastern Zone Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has stayed an Assam government order proposing the deployment of 1,600 personnel from the Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) for election duty, days ahead of the Assembly polls scheduled for April 9. The development follows a report by Northeast Now that first flagged the issue, pointing to the large-scale deployment of frontline forest personnel from core duties such as anti-poaching patrols, prevention of illegal logging, ...Read More >
Ambikapur (Chhattisgarh) [India], April 2 (ANI): When the going gets tough, the tough get going, is a popular phrase that defines hunger to excel in sports. Wrestler Debi Daimiri's story is symbolic of the willpower and determination to overcome hurdles. The 28-year-old from Dineshpur village in Sisupani, Golaghat district of Assam, lost her parents at the age of seven and had to move in with his uncle and aunt and had to work odd jobs just to keep training due to financial difficulties, accord ...Read More >
A group of retired Indian Administrative Service and Indian Forest Service officials and wildlife conservationists has raised "serious concerns" over the Assam government deploying around 1,600 personnel of the Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) on election duty. An Assam government official confirmed to The Hindu that it was the "first time" forest personnel were requisitioned for election duty. Assam votes in a single phase on April 9. In a joint representation addressed to authorities on ...Read More >
Guwahati: A group of 40 retired civil servants has urged the Assam government to withdraw its decision to deploy personnel of the Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) for election duties, citing violation of established norms and concerns over wildlife protection. In an open letter to Chief Secretary Ravi Kota, the Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG) -- a non-partisan body comprising former IAS, IPS, IFS and other Central Services officers -- expressed "serious concern" over the reported move to ...Read More >
Guwahati: A group of 40 prominent former civil servants has written to the Assam Chief Secretary, expressing "serious concern" over the state government's decision to deploy approximately 1,600 personnel from the Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) for the upcoming 2026 Assembly elections. The Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG), comprising retired officers from the IAS, IPS, and IFS, alleged that the move directly contravenes established legal norms and recent Supreme Court directives. In the ...Read More >
Guwahati, Dec 17: With an eye firmly on the 2026 Assam Assembly elections, the ruling BJP is set to intensify its political and development outreach in the state as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah are scheduled for a series of high-profile visits to Assam later this month. Announcing the itinerary, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on a live feed, said the visits will showcase transformative infrastructure projects, and boost economic confidence. The Prime ...Read More >
Investigators of the Gujarat Cyber Centre of Excellence found that the accused had created a website to mimic the official government portal, allegedly issuing at least 12,000 fake permits The Gujarat Cyber Centre of Excellence on Wednesday said it had arrested two persons from Delhi for allegedly black marketing and profiteering from the illegal sale of safari permits for national parks across India. The accused -- Ajaykumar Ghanshyam Chaudhary and Arvind Shrikant Upadhyay, both residents of ...Read More >
Guwahati, Oct 20: Two senior officials of the Assam Police reached Singapore on Monday to investigate the death of cultural icon Zubeen Garg in the island nation last month. According to a senior official, CID Special DGP Munna Prasad Gupta and Titabor Co-District SP Tarun Goel have already reached Singapore on a direct flight from Guwahati. Gupta is leading the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted under the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), while Goel is one of the nine members ...Read More >
GUWAHATI The Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, home to the most one-horned rhinos on earth, recorded 146 species in the latest bird survey, Assam's wildlife officials said on Sunday (October 19, 2025). The survey by the Assam Bird Monitoring Network in collaboration with the Kaziranga authorities was timed with Kati Bihu on Saturday. It was conducted across five key locations - Agoratoli, Gamiri, Panbari, and Panpur ranges of the national park and the adjoining Laokhowa Wildlife Sanct ...Read More >
Guwahati: Assam Cabinet Minister Atul Bora officially inaugurated the 2025-26 tourism season at Kaziranga National Park on Saturday, marking the opening of the Agaratoli Range for visitors. Alongside the tourism launch, Bora also unveiled a new weaving unit designed to support women and young girls in the region. "I am happy to declare the Agaratoli Range open for visitors for the 2025-26 tourism season. Alongside, the newly established weaving unit will give a new commercial dimension to Muga ...Read More >
Guwahati: The Agoratoli range of the Eastern Assam Wildlife Division of Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNPTR) officially reopened to the public on Saturday, marking the beginning of Kaziranga's new tourism calendar. The occasion also saw the inauguration of a 'meteka loom' -- a community-led initiative aimed at transforming invasive water hyacinth into sustainable handicrafts.According to park officials, the newly launched meteka loom at the Agoratoli community hall represents a sign ...Read More >
India Post is set to introduce a new guarantee-based delivery service for mails and parcels, offering customers assured timelines of 24 and 48 hours, Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia announced on Friday. Aimed at enhancing the efficiency and reliability of postal services across the country, the initiative will see 24-hour and 48-hour delivery options for mails and next-day delivery for parcels, starting January-2026. The move is part of India Post's broader strategy to moder ...Read More >
Park's director Sonali Ghosh said that intelligence inputs had indicated the movement of armed poachers inside the park, following which all anti-poaching camps were immediately alerted. "They were instructed to comb the area and block possible escape routes," she said. Around 2:50am, a river patrol team from the Burapahar Range spotted light emanating from an unidentified object in the Maite Tapu area and located a group of suspected poachers. Also Read: Assam: Suspected poacher killed in Ka ...Read More >
Guwahati, Oct 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Alert security forces in Assam's Kaziranga National Park & Tiger Reserve (KNPTR) on Thursday foiled a rhino poaching attempt and arrested three poachers, officials said. KNPTR Director Sonali Ghosh said that in a joint operation conducted by Biswanath Police along with Majuli Police and Lakhimpur Police, led by Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) (Crime), Biswanath and Additional Superintendent of Police (HQ), successfully foiled a rhino poaching attempt. ...Read More >
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