06.04.19 APSC (Assam) Current Affairs

ASSAM   Usable groundwater rapidly depleting in north, east India: Study   India’s northern and eastern states saw a rapid decline in usable ground water between 2005 and 2013, raising an impending risk of severe droughts, food crisis, and drinking water scarcity for millions of people, researchers have found.   Groundwater-level data was used from 3,907 … Read more

05.04.19 APSC (Assam) Current Affairs

ASSAM     ·         Supreme Court bans mining activities along Kaziranga park ð  The Supreme Court has banned all mining activities along the Kaziranga National Park and catchment area of rivers originating in Karbi Anglong Hills in Assam. ð  A bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta issued a notice to the Assam government … Read more

04.04.19 APSC (Assam) Current Affairs

ASSAM   Suhungmung Dihingiya Raja (1497-1539)   The reign of Suhungmung Dihingiya Raja broke from the early Ahom rule and established a multi-ethnic polity in his kingdom. Under him the Ahom Kingdom expanded greatly for the first time since Sukaphaa, at the cost of the Sutiya and the Kachari kingdoms.   He also successfully defended … Read more

03.04.19 APSC (Assam) Current Affairs

ASSAM   Assam History : The Koch state   The Koch dynasty emerged as the dominant kingdom after the fall of the Khen dynasty in 1498 and Kamat Dynasty in 1515.The first of the Koch kings, Viswa Singha and then his sons, Nara Narayan as the subsequent king and Chilarai as the general, soon occupied … Read more

02.04.19 APSC (Assam) Current Affairs

ASSAM   The Kachari state   The rulers of Dimasa Kachari Kingdom belonged to the Dimasa people, The Kachari kingdom a nd others (Kamata, Sutiya), led by chieftains of indigenous tribes, developed in the wake of the Kamarupa kingdom, were examples of indigenous state formations in Medieval Assam. Remnant of the Kachari kingdom existed till … Read more

01.04.19 APSC (Assam) Current Affairs

ASSAM   Assam History : Rule of Pratap Singha(1603-1641) Ahom- Mughal wars- the treaty of 1639   Susenghphaa (reign 1603–1641), also Pratap Sinha (Singha) was the 17th and one of the most prominent kings of the Ahom kingdom. As he was advanced in years when he became king, he is also called the Burha Raja … Read more