Assam is a state in northeastern India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of 78,438Ā km2 (30,285Ā sqĀ mi). The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur to the east; Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and Bangladesh to the south; and West Bengal to the west via the Siliguri Corridor, a 22 kilometres (14Ā mi) strip of land that connects the state to the rest of India.
Eager not to be caught unawares by BJP like before, Congress may come out with a stance against any bid to extend the National Register of Citizens outside Assam amid claims by saffron leaders to that.. IndiaTimes - Published
āLadenā, the wild elephant that had killed five people in Assamās Goalpara district before being tranquillised and captured seven days ago in an operation led by an MLA, died on Sunday at a.. IndiaTimes - Published
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi on Sunday strongly defended the current exercise of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, saying prior to it there was "guesswork" on the number of.. IndiaTimes - Published
The 22-year-long peace dialogue between the NSCN-IM and the government of India finally concluded on Thursday with the Centre āresolvingā three contentious issues ā a separate flag, own.. IndiaTimes - Published
The Union Home Ministry said that it has come to the govt's notice that lot of rumours is being spread in the media that the final Naga settlement has been arrived at and will be announced soon. The.. IndiaTimes - Published
Besides sedition and waging war against the country categories, Assam also has recorded the highest rate of total crimes against women in the country in 2017, which is more than double the national.. IndiaTimes - Published
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Assam has decided that people with more than two children will be ineligible for government jobs after January 1, 2021. The cabinet also decided to grant.. IndiaTimes - Published
The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre and the Assam government to take steps to "forthwith" shift Assam-Meghalaya cadre IAS officer Prateek Hajela, who as coordinator of Assam's National.. IndiaTimes - Published
The National Testing Agency (NTA) will conduct a common admission test for 15 of the central universities of the country from the 2020-21 academic session. These will include universities of Assam,.. IndiaTimes - Published
Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal and his Bangladeshi counterpart Tipu Munshi will lead delegations of the two countries to a meeting here next week to discuss the opportunities created following.. IndiaTimes - Published
Only five states ā Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Karnataka and Assam ā have implemented the amended Motor Vehicles Act nearly five weeks after the Centre notified the new law. TOI has learnt that.. IndiaTimes - Published
In a murder that sent shock waves across the artist community, 65-year-old Shireen Mody was killed by her 68-year-old gardener Praful Jana at her residence at Arpora on Sunday morning. Police said.. IndiaTimes - Published
The home ministry on Saturday inserted an enabling provision in the Foreigners (Tribunals) Order, 1964 to deal with a scenario where no appeal is filed by a resident of Assam against his or her.. IndiaTimes - Published
India and Bangladesh on Saturday signed seven pacts including one for setting up of a joint coastal surveillance systems as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina.. IndiaTimes - Published
The U.N. refugee agency said on Wednesday it was holding talks with India about its citizenship register in the border state of Assam, amid concerns that many people, the majority of them Muslims,.. Reuters - Published
For generations, members of Motibar Rahman's family here have been looking after the upkeep of the temple in Rangmahal area of the city. Rahman, now in his mid-70s, makes it a point to sweep the floors.. IndiaTimes - Published
The appeal against exclusion from the NRC must be filed in the quasi-judicial tribunals within 120 days of the publication of the final NRC. The final NRC was released on August 31 with 19,06,657 of.. IndiaTimes - Published
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat sought to allay concerns over exclusion of people from the NRC in Assam, asserting that not a single Hindu will have to leave the country. "Bhagwatji has clearly said that not a.. IndiaTimes - Published
The Gorkhas, whose names have been excluded from the National Register of Citizens in Assam, will not visit Foreigners' Tribunals to prove their Indian citizenship, a community body said on Sunday... IndiaTimes - Published
Defending the NRC which has been published in Assam senior BJP leader Shahnawaz Husain said India was "not a dharamshala". The curt remark was made by Husain where he also made it clear that "people.. IndiaTimes - Published
Normal life was affected in parts of Assam on Friday as a students' union observed a 12- hour bandh in the state over exclusion of members of an indigenous group from the final NRC. Asserting that the.. IndiaTimes - Published
Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar said that like Assam, the National Register of Citizens (NRC) would also be implemented in the state. He said that the Haryana government is working at a fast pace on its.. IndiaTimes - Published
Speaking to media persons on Saturday, Deputy Commissioner of Police of Ahmedabad Zone-5, Akshayraj Makwana stated, "The labourers were brought from Nagaland and Assam. They were neither being paid nor.. DNA - Published
The abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370, publication of NRC in Assam and declaration of India's four most-wanted individuals as terrorists were cited as the Ministry of.. IndiaTimes - Published
"We will never allow NRC in Bengal. We will not allow them to divide the people on religious and caste lines. We will not accept NRC in Assam. They have silenced the people of Assam by using police.. IndiaTimes - Published
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