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In Lachit Borphukan's Assam, Muslim population explosion and fanatical designs of new age 'Aurangzeb', Badruddin Ajmal
Muslim population explosion is a terrifying reality in Assam and none can deny it → Read More
Congress in Assam: BJP won't always win elections in Narendra Modi's name, says ex-CM Tarun Gogoi
Himanta Biswa Sarma was with us in 2014 but despite that, we lost the election, says former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi. → Read More
Meghalaya Assembly Election: BJP uses corruption plank to attack Congress govt; NPP maintains safe distance from 'Hindutva'
Whether the Wards Lake in Shillong will have lotus in it alone or so will the Meghalaya Assembly, only EVMs will be able to tell us on 3 March. → Read More
Born Assamese, always Indian, dumped by NRC: Misadventures with Assam's citizen registration exercise
The summer of 2015 was when the whole of Assam devoted days and nights in a quest for elusive → Read More
Tripura CM speech row: Manik Sarkar says Prasar Bharati, Doordarshan trying to 'mislead people'
The chief minister termed the letter to the editors by Doordarshan as a sheer attempt to deflect from the real issue. → Read More
BJP calls Manik Sarkar 'mannerless', says Independence Day speech should not be political
Annoyed by the accusations against the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, the BJP reacted sharply to the Tripura chief minister. → Read More
Assam floods Part II: For Majuli island, Subansiri dam in Arunachal Pradesh is an apocalypse in the making
Majuli is one of the youngest districts in India but it is continually surviving an insecure present as it cannot take its eyes away from a probable perilous future. → Read More
Assam floods Part I: Corruption, fund crunch, lack of political will won't stop the rampage of rivers
The intention of the Narendra Modi government has come under a cloud as there are many flood and erosion control schemes proposed by the Assam water resources department lying with the Centre for lack of approval for years. → Read More
Sarbananda Sonowal set to expand Assam ministry before 15 August; Topon Gogoi, Siddhartha Bhattacharya among probables
This round of expansion is likely to see the entry of eight new ministers with six from the BJP and one each from the two allies. → Read More
Uneasy calm settles over Assam's Kokrajhar district as killing of Muslim leader revives memories of 2012 riots
The incident happened an hour after Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for New Delhi from Guwahati after reviewing the damage caused by the recent wave of floods. → Read More
Cattle sale restrictions: North East fumes against new beef rules as BJP struggles to defend govt move
The political hullabaloo notwithstanding, the notification has managed to worry people of northeastern states which have a close association with beef. → Read More
IAF Sukhoi 30 MKI from Tezpur airbase in Assam goes missing in Arunachal Pradesh; search operations launched
A Sukhoi 30 aircraft of the Indian Air Force lost radio contact and went off-radar on Tuesday, reports said. The aircraft took off from the Tezpur Air Force station in Assam. → Read More
Namami Brahmaputra: Rains, Hindutva controversy inundate Assam festival
The Namami Brahmaputra festival got stuck in controversies just as a boat does in shallow water → Read More
Ahead of Assam elections, BJP names Sarbananda Sonowal as CM candidate
Sonowal was at the helm of affairs of the BJP in the state during the Lok Sabha polls last year and he engineered a massive victory for the party by wresting the entire Upper Assam bastion of the Congress for the first time. → Read More
President's Rule: Submit your report to us in 15 minutes, SC tells Arunachal Pradesh Guv
Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Arunachal Pradesh Governor Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa to submit its report within 15 minutes on the basis of which the Pres - Firstpost → Read More
Modi hits out at Manmohan-led UPA govts of the past, as Assam catches election fever
Both the national parties have started attacking each other on issues ranging from political to the economic, but it is abundantly clear that voters no longer buy bogus promises or noisy tom-toming of pseudo achievements. → Read More
Why Ashubi Khan’s pioneering run ends today
Over the decade, despite male resistance, which once led them to resign en masse in protest, the chief of Haryana’s first all-women panchayat in 2005, Khan, and her then nine women panchs (ward members) in southeastern Haryana’s Neemkheda gram panchayat (village council) racked up an impressive list of achievements. → Read More
As it happened: PM Modi makes big start for Startup India, gifts 3-year tax holiday
Earlier today, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at the launch of the start-up event said although India ended the licence raj in 1991 with the economic liberalisation, the government continued to exercise control over many key areas, which throttled the startups and entrepreneur spirit in the country. → Read More
Live: PM Modi to address Startup India event soon
Earlier today, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at the launch of the start-up event said although India ended the licence raj in 1991 with the economic liberalisation, the government continued to exercise control over many key areas, which throttled the startups and entrepreneur spirit in the country. → Read More