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.
Anandamay Barman, Member of Legislative Assembly from Matigara Naxalbari in Siliguri , has urged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to speed up the opening of the Super Specialty block at North Bengal Medical College and Hospital NBMC&H).
The deputy leader of Congress in Parliament said the BJP has again returned to communal politics not able to digest the moral defeat.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma suggested that Rahul Gandhi should be made the brand ambassador of population control in India, hoping that this would result in an immediate decline in the state's population growth.
The first meeting of the Sabha was held in the Shivsagar district of Assam in 1917.
Quick intervention by railway personnel ensured the fire was swiftly extinguished, preventing a potential disaster.
