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The Assam government on Wednesday introduced an amendment bill in the Assembly to exempt acquisition of land for specified purposes from certain provisions of the existing principal Act. ‘The Right to ...
News India » Assam » Government: 228.5 km of Assam-Bangladesh border fenced, 39 km still uncovered due to riverine, BGB hurdles: Government
The Assam Government on Wednesday, July 22 informed the State Assembly that 228.541 kilometres of the 267.5-km-long India-Bangladesh international border in the state has been secured with barbed wire ...
News India » Assam » Government: Assam govt Announces Rs 4 Lakh Ex Gratia For Flood Victims' Families As Death toll Rises to 31
The Assam government has declared a ₹4 lakh ex gratia for families of the 31 flood victims, as 5.65 lakh people face hardships across 12 districts.
News India » Assam » Government: Assam flood: 31 dead so far, 5.65 lakh affected, govt announces Rs 4 lakh ex gratia
Guwahati, Jul 22 (PTI) Twenty-one more people lost their lives and nearly 5 ...
News India » Assam » Government: Assam's gender-justice push: Govt to cut welfare benefits for polygamy practitioners
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the decision has been taken to strengthen women empowerment and ensure gender justice.
News India » Assam » Government: More than 38 kilometres of India-Bangladesh border in Assam yet to be fenced: Minister Atul Bora
Replying to a question by AGP MLA Prakash Chandra Das during Question Hour, Bora said border fencing covers 27.30 km in Cachar, 93.95 km in Sribhumi, and 107 km in Dhubri and South Salmara districts.
News India » Assam » Government: Assam NRC: SC notice to Centre, others on plea to initiate appeal process
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought responses from the Centre and others on a plea seeking a direction to authorities to initiate an appeal process for those excluded from the final National Register ...
News India » Assam » Government: Assam LoP raises alleged harassment of Indian citizens under "pushback policy"; AIUDF legislator Mazibur Rahman says State govt ignoring concerns
MLA Mazibur Rahman on Wednesday alleged that the Assam government was harassing genuine Indian citizens in the name of its "pushback policy" and accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party of ignoring ...
News India » Assam » Government: Why Assam floods: The obvious answer is Brahmaputra, but there's so much more to it
The floodwaters spreading across Assam this week have killed almost a dozen people, displaced over 3.63 lakh and inundated 15 districts.
News India » Assam » Government: India taps dairy sector as next frontier for biomethane with Assam project
India’s drive to scale up biomethane production continues with a new compressed biogas project in Assam that will convert dairy waste into renewable fuel. Purabi Dairy, the National Dairy Development ...
News India » Assam » Government: Assam Repatriated Over 1600 Illegal Immigrants To Bangladesh In 2 Years
Assam reports 193 foreigners pushed back under the 1950 Expulsion Act in two years ...
News India » Assam » Government: India’s Assam State to Conduct Census on Indigenous Muslims
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in India’s northeastern state of Assam plans to conduct a census on indigenous Muslims in the state. While the decision is ostensibly for the ...