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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. | Photo Credit: PTI GUWAHATI Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday (August 12, 2026) defended the State government’s move to notify a 1 km Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) around the Kaziranga National Park. The default 10-km buffer zone will continue to apply around protected areas until the Centre…
Tamuli Gaon, a village in eastern Assam’s Jorhat district, is about 40 kilometres west of neighbouring Sivasagar district’s Bihubar, the epicentre of destruction by one of Assam’s worst localised floods since the 1950s. The gushing waters that submerged much of Sivasagar and adjoining Charaideo districts on July 19–20 lost momentum by the time they reached the…
A woman goes to her house through a waterlogged area as the region faces flooding, in Sivasagar on Sunday (August 2, 2026). | Photo Credit: ANI The flood situation in Assam improved on Sunday (August 2, 2026) with around 1.35 lakh people now affected in five districts even though three more persons died, taking the…
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BJP emerged as the single-largest party, winning 82 seats, followed by Congress in a distant second with 19 seats. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Story so far: Incumbent Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma won a second term as the BJP-led North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) won 102 of the 126-seat Assembly polls. The Congress-led six-party alliance won only 21 seats (Congress –19, Raijor Dal – 2) while All India United Democratic Front (AIDUF) won…
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A huge hoarding of ‘Akou ebar BJP sorkar’ (BJP government once more) greets visitors as they emerge from the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Assam’s Guwahati. However, there’s little else giving away the fact that it’s election season here barring an odd party flag or empty booth. The road to the city is festooned…
At 87, writer and activist Hiren Gohain, one of Assam’s foremost public intellectuals, shows no sign of slowing down. The Assam Nagorik Sanmilani, a citizens’ collective led by him and retired IPS officer Harekrishna Deka, was at the forefront of calls for Opposition unity and seeking judicial intervention over a “sustained pattern of hate speeches”…
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma during the inauguration of an Orchid Park at Kaziranga, in Golaghat, on March 3, 2026. Photo: X/@himantabiswa via ANI. The 1,302 sq. km Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, acknowledged as the world’s safest address of the one-horned rhinoceros, has a new attraction—an orchid centre. On Tuesday (March 3,…
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Representative image | Photo Credit: Getty Images GUWAHATI The Consultative Committee of Planters’ Associations (CCPA) has set certain conditions for the proposed distribution of tea estate land patta (ownership) among plantation workers in Assam. On November 25, the Assam government tabled the Assam Fixation of Ceiling on Land Holdings (Amendment) Bill, 2025, aimed at removing…
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday urged Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi to defend his father, Tarun Gogoi, who was indicted by a government report in the ‘cash-for-job’ scam in state civil services recruitment. During a discussion on the Motion of Thanks on the Governor’s speech in the Assam Assembly, Mr Sarma said that…
Guwahati: Australia has lifted travel restrictions for Assam, while Germany is in the process of revising its advisory. However, restrictions will remain in place for four districts – Tinsukia, Charaideo, Sivasagar, and Dibrugarh – where the Disturbed Areas Act is still enforced due to the presence of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act or AFSPA….
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