Guwahati, July 21: Leader of theOpposition Debabrata Saikia today requested Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal to sanction funds to revive the Nagaon and Cachar paper mills instead of waiting for central assistance. “The state government should not delay any longer…
Tejesh Kumar Bongaigaon, July 1: Police today arrested advocate Nazrul Islam from the Goalpara court campus in connection with yesterday’s protest against alleged harassment of D-voters in which one person was killed in police firing and several injured. Islam was…
Guwahati, June 25: The Congress today requested Assam governor Banwarilal Purohit and chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal to ask the Centre to clear the misgivings regarding the framework agreement signed between New Delhi and the NSCN (I-M). The appeal came a…
The opposition to hydro power projects by political parties in Assam seems to have come to an end, and all the major parties have arrived at a consensus on this issue. Over 160 hydro power projects are planned in the…
Guwahati, June 17: Leader of the Opposition Debabrata Saikia today wrote to chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal seeking his attention on issues like possible closure of two paper mills, government-owned tea gardens, controversy regarding recruitment of teachers in model schools and…
GUWAHATI, June 11: Leader of the Opposition in the Assam Legislative Assembly Debabrata Saikia has expressed outrage at the ‘insulting’ comments made by BJP president Amit Shah on Mahatma Gandhi. Asserting that the BJP has started revealing its true colors…
GUWAHATI, June 11 – Congress members today staged a three-hour sit-in demonstration on the Rajiv Bhawan campus here in protest against the insalubrious comment of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah on the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi.…
Guwahati, June 11: The leader of the Opposition in the Assam Assembly, Debabrata Saikia, and Assam PCC (APCC) today expressed outrage at the “insulting” comment of BJP president Amit Shah that Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi was a ”…
Guwahati, June 9: Assam Congress leader Debabrata Saikia today filed a complaint with the cyber crime unit of the CID against the “rise” of derogatory and obscene comments on social media platforms. The complaint was based on a Facebook post,…
GUWAHATI, June 6 – A nine-member delegation of Assam Congress Legislature Party (ACLP) led by Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly Debabrata Saikia met the State Coordinator of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) Prateek Hajela at the latter’s…