‘Hidden grace marks’ by SEBA By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, May 12: Be it grace or falling from grace, the controversy triggered by State Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma seems to linger long with Leader of Opposition in the State…
Guwahati, May 11 (PTI) The Opposition Congress today staged walk-out from Assam Assembly after the Speaker rejected their prayer to move censure motion against Irrigation Minister Ranjit Dutta. Congress had submitted an application to the Principal Secretary of Assam Assembly…
Guwahati, March 17: Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court Ajit Singh has welcomed the suggestions made by the leader of the Opposition, Debabrata Saikia, to improve the performance of foreigners tribunals in the state. Singh, in a letter to Saikia,…
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…