The first phase of the Assam Panchayat Elections 2025 concluded on May 2 with a voter turnout of 70.19 per cent, officials said.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said the systematic extrajudicial killings in Balochistan—commonly known as the “kill and dump policy”—remain one of the darkest chapters in Pakistan’s human rights record.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has hailed the Centre’s decision to approve the inclusion of caste-based enumeration in the upcoming Census 2025.
Voting for the first phase of the Assam panchayat elections will take place on Friday, May 2, marking the beginning of a high-stakes electoral battle, ahead of the crucial 2026 assembly elections in the state.
The project will be executed “at a total cost of Rs 22,864 crores,” Mr Vaishnav said in a presentation while addressing a press conference after the Cabinet meeting.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has officially begun its probe into a multi-crore online trading scam that has rocked Assam, with a staggering Rs 2,200 crore in fraudulent investments linked to the scheme.
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955, which was inserted to give effect to the Assam Accord and formed the basis of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam in 2019.
According to Northeast Frontier Railway officials, the incident caused the locomotive and eight coaches to leave the tracks.
In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, which grants Indian citizenship to immigrants who entered Assam between January 1, 1966, and March 25, 1971.
In a meeting organized by the Jamiyat Ulama in Assam, AIUDF leader Maulana Badruddin Ajmal on Wednesday strongly criticized the government's handling of Waqf properties.
