Meghalaya celebrates 50 years of statehood amid anti-vaccine protests and knife attacks on non-tribals
January 21 is a significant day for the Northeast. On this day, the North East Reorganization Act, 1971 was implemented. Before this Act ...
Tag: Assam
Thanks to Himanta Biswa Sarma, ULFA will not pose any threat to Republic Day celebrations in Assam for the first time
Soon after taking over as Assam’s chief minister last year, Himanta Biswa Sarma vowed that his government would bring all insurgent groups to the mainstream ...
Dr Dhaniram Baruah from Assam was vilified for his pig-to-human heart transplant, and now the US is claiming it
A 57-year-old terminal heart patient named David Bennet, last week received a genetically modified pig heart transplant in a first-of-its-kind surgery in the USA. The ...
Assam’s Himanta-led govt has started a major crackdown on cattle smugglers
BJP’s firebrand leader and Chief Minister of Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma is on a crusade to weed out cattle smugglers from the state. ...
AIUDF MLA says Kamakhya land was donated by Aurangzeb
Recent few years have witnessed Assam being transformed from a Bangladeshi-friendly state under former governments to a proud Hindu one under current CM ...
The extortion industry in Northeast India that no national media portal talks about
Extortion in the northeast by numerous pressure groups self-branded as NGOs mostly, apart from militant organisations and even sub-nationalist organisations, is an under-reported ...
Raghav Juyal called an Assamese kid Chinese and Momo on a reality TV as Remo and Madhuri smirked
Raghav Juyal, host of popular dance reality TV show Dance Deewane 3 has found himself in hot waters for racist comments directed towards ...
“India belongs to Hindus, and they can return anytime”, CM Himanta sure doesn’t mince any words
Assam’s firebrand Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is not known for mincing his words when it comes to supporting his Hindu brethren. His ...
Big setback in recently-held bypolls lays bare the state-level leadership crisis in BJP
The recently held by-polls across 13 states and 1 Union Territory and their results announced yesterday by the ECI (Election Commission of India) ...
Borders near Punjab and West Bengal will be turned into Fortresses by Modi govt
Modi government through a gazette notification on Monday decided to grant more power to Border Security Force (BSF) by extending its jurisdiction across ...
‘The entire Assamese community is hateful and bigoted,’ The Hindu gets booked for outrageous and hateful article
Following the derogatory references to the Assamese community on the backdrop of the eviction drive against the illegal migrants in Assam’s Darrang, FIR ...
Child marriage rampant in Kerala despite all claims of high literacy and women empowerment
The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act was passed 15 years ago, but it has very little impact - especially among the Muslim community ...
