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Happy Baisakhi 2022: Wishes, Messages, Quotes, Images, Facebook & Whatsapp status

Baisakhi or Vaisakhi is the festival of harvest and is celebrated every year on April 13. This year, Baisakhi is being celebrated on 14th April. It is also the first solar month of the Punjabi calendar. On this day farmers start their harvesting of the crops. It is popular with…

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Time ideal to amend UAPA: rights group

It cites reduction in violent incidents including left–wing extremism

The Hindu

When is Baisakhi 2022: Date, History, Story, Significance and all you need to know about Vaisakhi

Baisakhi, also called Vaisakhi or Vaisakh Sankranti, is an annual festival which is celebrated with great enthusiasm and fervour by Sikhs and Hindus. It is a spring harvest festival and so it generally falls in mid-April every year. Many Hindus also believe that Baisakhi marks the beginning of the New…

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Andhra Pradesh: Bodies of train accident victims sent to their native places in Assam, West Bengal

Five people run over by Konark Express near Batuva village in Srikakualm district on April 11 night

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Explained | First commercial flight of the made-in-India Dornier-228

The 17-seater Dornier-228 can carry out day and night operations and take off from semi-prepared runways.

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56th Jnanpith Award presented to Assamese poet Nilamani Phookan

Eminent Assamese poet Nilamani Phookan was conferred the 56th Jnanpith Award at a ceremony on April 11, 2022. The award ceremony was held for the first time in Assam, considering Phookan's health-related issues. He is 88 years old.

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Made-in-India Dornier 228 takes off on maiden commercial flight from Assam to Arunachal Pradesh

Service will help bolster tourism, says Arunachal CM Pema Khandu

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Plea to issue Aadhaar cards to those in final NRC list

Assam, UIDAI denying basic amenities, TMC MP tells SC

The Hindu

BSF team comes in 15 km to seize cattle

New jurisdiction of force is 50 km

The Hindu

Maoists planning to set up base on Guwahati outskirts: Top cop

GUWAHATI: Law-enforcing agencies in Assam, battling Ulfa insurgency for decades, may have another big security problem at hand with Maoist rebels on the run from central and south India setting up base on the outskirts of Guwahati city.

The Times of India

Assam-Meghalaya border dispute | The people caught between two States

Villagers of six areas of dispute between Assam and Meghalaya were asked to give their consent for inclusion in either State towards ending a 50-year-old boundary dispute. An agreement between the States has led to friction between the ‘Meghalaya supporters’, mostly Garos, and the ‘Assam supporters’, mostly non-Garos, reports Rahul…

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Ready to fight new Covid-19 variant XE: Assam health minister

GUWAHATI: Assam health minister Keshab Mahanta on Thursday said the state is ready to fight the coronavirus variant of XE, though the Centre is yet to confirm the presence of the new mutant in Mumbai.

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Stop donations, embrace Bihu culture: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma to non-Assamese

GUWAHATI: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday appealed to the non-Assamese population of the state to set an example towards building a greater Assamese society by embracing the state’s culture and wear the gamocha on Bihu instead of donating to Rongali Bihu functions in their localities.

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Assam to foot power bill of 20 lakh poor households

GUWAHATI: Assam will pay the electricity bills of 20 lakh poor households with a capping of Rs 250 each per month through direct benefit transfer mode under an ongoing socio-economic empowerment scheme called ‘Orunodoi’.

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Amlan Borgohain sets national mark, Sable cracks 5000m meet record on debut

KOZHIKODE: Assam's Amlan Borgohain scorched the track to set a new men's 200m national record by clocking 20.52 seconds on a rain-hit final day of the 25th National Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships on Wednesday.

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Sumy-returned students stare at uncertain future in Assam

GUWAHATI: Assam students, who have returned from Sumy city in Ukraine, are facing a big dilemma, as the Assam medical education directorate has failed to offer them alternatives so far to continue with their studies. Sumy State University authority is not conducting online classes either.

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Assam student designs sensor-enabled smart shoe for visually impaired

A 9th standard student from Assam's Karimganj has designed a sensor-enabled smart shoe for visually impaired persons.

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AP Photos: Northeast India holds female bodybuilders contest

India’s northeastern Assam state has organized its first top contest of female bodybuilders.

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In a first, high schools to start in Assam tea estates

The State-Owned Priority Development fund was set up in 2020 to establish 119 model high schools across Assam’s tea belt

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Noida: Trafficking gangs now more organised, operate via apps

NOIDA: Big city dreams were all she was about. So, in 2018, a woman from Assam packed her few belongings and came to Noida with the promise of a job. Instead, she was “sold” to a 55-year-old businessman who raped and tortured her for four years in a highrise in…

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Northeast now part of ‘mainstream’: Rijiju

The lifting of AFSPA from most parts has put the States in a transformative mode, says Law Minister

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Step by step: On Assam-Meghalaya border accord

The agreement to resolve six disputed points along the Assam-Meghalaya border is a model for others

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‘Disturbed areas’ under AFSPA cut in Assam, Manipur and Nagaland

Move due to improved security situation, says Union Home Minister

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The Assam-Meghalaya boundary dispute resolution

How did the two States reach an agreement? Will it help to solve other border rows in the northeastern region?

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Assam favours redefining minorities district–wise

There is a perception that only Muslims are minority in India, says Chief Minister

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