Guwahati High Court ruling on citizenship document will hurt women the hardest
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…
Indian State Says It’ll Require Study of Sanskrit, Raising Eyebrows
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…
Why impose Sanskrit in Assam classrooms when Hindi is still an optional subject?
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.…
Cong CLP leader slams statement
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…
Saikia plea to stop transfers
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…
Walkout over evictions
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…
House witnesses noisy scenes, walkout over eviction
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 to upgrade LGBI Airport – Debabrata writes to Delhi
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…
Congress legislature party leader moves Chief Minister over derelict state of Charaideo
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…
Invoke Article 49: Nazira MLA to Union Min for Culture
Debabrata Saikia, the Congress Leader of Opposition called upon Union Minister for Culture Mahesh Sharma. In a letter Saikia drew the attention of Sharma on a recent training session organized…
Assam Opp Leader Demands Action Against RSS Workers
Guwahati: Leader of Opposition in the Assam Legislative Assembly Debabrata Saikia has sought the intervention of Union Minister Mahesh Sharma over the chanting of religious slogans by the RSS cadres…
Saikia moves PM on ‘insults’
Guwahati, Dec. 16: Assam CLP leader Debabrata Saikia today moved Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking an apology from Assam Assembly Deputy Speaker Dilip Kumar Paul for allegedly passing derogatory remarks…