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ASSAM Amit Shah urged to honour poll promise of autonomous State The Autonomous State Demand Committee (ASDC) and its associated organisations have urged Union Home Minister Amit Shah to keep the party’s electoral promise of creation of an Autonomous State comprising Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao autonomous districts under the provisions of Article … Read more
ASSAM Boost in exports, domestic consumption can help tide over crisis Increased export and domestic consumption can save the crisis-ridden Indian tea industry. For augmenting its export, Indian tea industry should remove the doubts of the importing countries on the quality of its produces. Therefore, quality green leaf harvesting and manufacturing is the … Read more
ASSAM Assam gets its first-ever CNG fuel station in Dibrugarh Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated the first-ever CNG fuel station of the state in Dibrugarh. With the inauguration of this clean and green fuel station, it will reduce environmental pollution. Sonowal has given much emphasis to make the state free from pollution. … Read more
ASSAM Janata Bhawan to have biometric attendance system soon In keeping with the government’s emphasis on work culture among employees, biometric attendance system is being introduced at Janata Bhawan shortly. The biometric system will be the same as has been successfully implemented at the Central Secretariat and will be Aadhaar-enabled. The … Read more
ASSAM PM urged to sanction toy train, ropeway projects to boost tourism The Viswa Shanti Sangathan, Assam after a threadbare discussion with its national organisation Viswa Shanti Sangathan, Bharat, having its headquarters at Ayodhya, UP has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to introduce nano electric train service (toy train service) right from Udalguri via Bhairabkunda … Read more
ASSAM Assam tea fetches record Rs 75,000 for a kilo A kilo of Dikom Tea Estate’s Golden Butterfly tea was knocked down for Rs 75,000 at the Guwahati Tea Auction Centre, breaking the record for the highest price fetched by a tea at a public auction for the third time in a fortnight. The Golden … Read more
ASSAM New inventions likely to lift State’s agarwood industry The inventions of the artificial infection process of agarwood (Aquilaria malaccensis Lam) trees and the sachi vekur (agarwood fungus) species that has the capacity to swarm rapidly in agarwood trees, have virtually changed the entire scenario concerning the prospect of the State’s agarwood-based industry. … Read more
ASSAM Khelo India to be held in Assam from 10th to 22nd January The Khelo India will be held in Assam from 10th to 22nd of January 2020. In a bid to give a boost to sports infrastructure, the Assam government will build 22 thousand playgrounds at the village level. 500 such playgrounds will be … Read more
ASSAM Govt to scrap 61 of 209 incomplete irrigation schemes in State The irrigation department has decided to pre-close 61 of the 209 schemes, including some major ones, which have remained incomplete since years. Work on some of these schemes had begun nearly 10 years back, although the progress so far has been … Read more
ASSAM Northeast states fear Jammu and Kashmir redux, loss of protection under Article 371 The loss of Jammu & Kashmir’s special status and statehood in the course of a single day led to speculation about what lies in store for the northeast. With the exception of Meghalaya and Tripura, all northeastern states have been accorded … Read more