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ASSAM Maharashtra, Assam to field biggest contingents in Khelo India Youth Games Maharashtra and hosts Assam will field the biggest contingents at the third edition of the Khelo India Youth Games to be held in Guwahati from January 10 to 22. The hosts are aiming for a best-ever finish and Basumatary is hoping that home crowd will … Read more
ASSAM Assam state zoo first to breed endangered Hargila The Assam State Zoo cum Botanical Garden and Aaranyak has jointly attained a landmark achievement by successfully hatching a pair of Greater Adjutant or Hargila chicks in an artificial platform within the zoo enclosure, in the first ever experiment of its kind. This rarest of … Read more
ASSAM Assam forms a squad to tackle human-wildlife conflicts in state Aiming to control the human-elephant conflicts, the Assam government launched Anti-Depedration Squads of the state forest department. The squad would be stationed at 15 major human-wildlife conflict districts in order to mitigate the problem and to ensure the safety of both humans and wildlife. … Read more
ASSAM Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal launches welfare scheme for students Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal launched the state government’s Abhinandan scheme during a programme held at Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra in Guwahati. This scheme emphasis on one-time subsidy against education loans availed by the students for an amount of Rs 50,000 each to 1,546 students. Abhinandan scheme … Read more
ASSAM Assam Govt to fill up 55,000 vacant posts in various departments soon Government of Assam would soon start the process for filling up 55,000 posts of different categories including teachers which are lying vacant in various departments in the State. Chief minister Sonowal while reviewing the implementation of development schemes in the meeting stressed on … Read more
ASSAM Assam to reveal number of Hindu Bengalis who failed NRC test State finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma here on Thursday said the government will table district-wise figures of Hindu Bengalis excluded from the final NRC list during the ongoing winter assembly session. The final NRC list, published on August 31, has the names of 19 lakh … Read more
ASSAM Nearly 1.6 lakh people are fighting for their cases in Foreigners Tribunals: Assam minister Nearly 1.6 lakh people are fighting for their cases in Foreigners Tribunals to prove their Indian citizenship across Assam, the state Assembly was informed. Out of all the orders as declared foreigners, 1,31,459 cases have been contested by the accused … Read more
ASSAM 227 deported from Assam in 2019, Lok Sabha told As many as 289 declared foreigners were detained in Assam in 2019 and 227 others deported to their country of origin as on December 5, 2019 128 detenues under Foreigners Act who had completed more than three years in detention centres had been released in compliance with SC order dated … Read more
ASSAM Assam finds 3 lakh ‘ghost kids’ in government schools, vows action Over three lakh students from government schools in Assam have been identified as ‘ghost children’ in the 2018-19 academic session. This came to light at a meeting of the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), covering elementary, secondary and teacher education departments, which was chaired by … Read more
ASSAM Himalayan serow born in Assam zoo after ‘breeding loan’ A “breeding loan” arrangement between Assam State Zoo and Nagaland Zoo has helped conserve of the Himalayan serow, an endangered wildlife species. The Assam zoo on Wednesday saw the birth of a Himalayan serow calf. The Assam zoo, the coordinating zoo for conservation breeding of serow, had only two female … Read more