Members of Bhattadev Jyoti Sangha protest at Dispur Last Gate on Thursday demanding establishment of Bhattadev University. Picture by UB Photos Guwahati, March 9: Leader of the Opposition Debabrata Saikia has written to Gauhati High Court Chief Justice Ajit Singh seeking…
More than 50 lakh women have submitted Panchayat secretary-issued residency certificates as part of the process to prove that they are Indian. Assam’s gargantuan – and much deferred – project to count its population and update its National Register of…
A classroom in the village of Dadara in Assam State. Sanskrit will become mandatory for students in the upper grades of all public high schools in the state. Credit Anupam Nath/Associated Press MUMBAI, India — The government of the northeastern…
BJP seems to be on a mission to saffronise education in the state. The BJP government in Assam has made Sanskrit compulsory in all state board schools till Class 8. In state board schools across Assam, students are taught either…
Leader of Opposition Debabrata Saikia talking to media persons during the Budget Session of the Assam Legislative Assembly in Guwahati on Wednesday. – AT Photo GUWAHATI, March 1 – Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Debabrata Saikia today slammed the statement…
Guwahati, Feb. 24: Opposition leader Debabrata Saikia has written to Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal requesting him not to transfer officers involved in the National Registrar of Citizens (NRC) update to avoid delay in the process. “It is learnt that…
Debabrata Saikia in Dispur on Wednesday. Picture by UB Photos Guwahati, Feb. 1: The Congress and the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) MLAs today walked out of the Assam Assembly after the Speaker rejected their plea for an adjournment…
GUWAHATI, Feb 1 – The Assam Legislative Assembly today witnessed noisy scenes followed by a walkout by the opposition Congress and AIUDF legislators after Speaker Hitendra Nath Goswami rejected the plea for adjournment motion filed by both the parties to…
Guwahati, Jan. 17: Assam’s leader of Opposition Debabrata Saikia has written to the Union civil aviation ministry demanding better facilities at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport here. Saikia, leader of the Congress Legislature Party, had sent a letter to…
GUWAHATI: Congress legislature party leader Debabrata Saikia has written to chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal seeking his intervention to ensure central funds to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for the preservation of Charaideo Maidam are released. Chariadeo was the first…