Assam Government

West Bengal: The Trinamool's 'cheat' fund nexus

Reported by Sreenivasan Jain (with inputs from Alok Pandey, Niha Masih) | Sunday May 5, 2013

The Mamata Banerjee government is facing an escalating crisis, with fresh proof emerging every day of Trinamool's links to the fraudulent chit fund company, run by the Saradha Group.

Oil Ministry allows drilling in exploration area

Sunday February 10, 2013

The Petroleum Ministry has issued formal orders allowing companies like Reliance Industries and Cairn India to explore oil and gas within the producing fields subject to certain conditions.

Kaziranga Park to be divided to protect rhinos

Indo-Asian News Service | Saturday February 9, 2013

The unabated killings of rhinos has forced the Assam government to divide Kaziranga National Park into four new divisions, Assam Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain said Saturday.

Review panel okays blocking of 306 Twitter accounts

Press Trust of India | Wednesday February 6, 2013

A high-level government review committee has given its stamp of approval on a decision to block 306 accounts being used on micro-blogging site Twitter in the wake of communal violence in Assam's Kokrajhar district and large scale migration of people ...

Assam asks Centre for CBI investigation into rhino poaching

Alok Pandey | Monday February 4, 2013

The Assam government has asked the Centre to order a CBI probe into the rising incidents of rhinoceros poaching in Kaziranga National Park and other places of the state. The decision was taken after noticing increase in instances of rhino poaching, s...

56 Assam villages want to merge with Mizoram

Press Trust of India | Monday December 31, 2012

Residents of 56 backward and interior villages in the greater Cheragi area of Assam's Karimganj district have blamed the state government for lack of any development activities in the region and expressed interest to merge with neighbouring Mizoram.

Assam violence displaces thousands again, government in denial

Kishalay Bhattacharjee | Thursday November 22, 2012

The Assam government claims only 35,000 of the five lakh people displaced by the Bodoland violence of the summers are left to be rehabilitated. But NDTV has found that thousands have been forced to leave their homes again in the fresh round of killin...

UP, BJP-ruled states not to implement FDI in retail; Congress-led states back Centre

Saturday September 15, 2012

Uttar Pradesh and BJP-ruled states today said they will not implement FDI in multi-brand retail which got the support of states like Jammu and Kashmir and Assam where Congress and allies are in power.

Special Train from Guwahati to Chennai and Bangalore

Press Trust of India | Sunday September 9, 2012

The Assam Government has arranged a special train for Chennai and Bangalore on September 20 for persons who recently returned to the state from there following threats of attack on people from the North East region.

Govt withdraws ban on bulk SMS-es and MMS-es

Edited by Surabhi Malik | Thursday August 30, 2012

The government has withdrawn with immediate effect a ban it had imposed on sending bulk SMSes and MMSes.

Assam govt lax, wasted chance to stop violence: Intelligence sources

Edited by Surabhi Malik | Wednesday August 29, 2012

The Home Ministry and Intelligence agencies have reportedly found the Tarun Gogoi government in Assam extremely lax in the way it has handled the riots in the state in the last month.

Assam violence: Home Ministry unhappy with state government?

Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Tuesday August 28, 2012

Is the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) unhappy with the Tarun Gogoi-led Assam government? After reports of violence spreading to other parts of the state, sources have told NDTV that the home ministry had asked the state government to make preventive ...

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister appeals to North-Eastern people to return

Press Trust of India | Sunday August 26, 2012

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister R Ashok today appealed to students and workers from the North-East, who had left Bangalore recently in the wake of "wrong" SMS messages on Assam violence, to return to the state and resume their work without fear. "Th...

Parliament stands united on the North-East issue; assures students, professionals of safety

Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Saturday August 18, 2012

There are fewer people reaching railway stations to go back home to the North East today in cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune. The two Houses of Parliament suspended Question Hour to discuss the Assam crisis and its fallout - MPs spoke in one...

All bulk SMS-es banned for 15 days to stop rumours

Edited by Prasad Sanyal | Friday August 17, 2012

After reports of threatening SMS-es being sent to North Eastern students in Bangalore and other cities like Hyderabad, the government has banned bulk text messages for the next 15 days. So no cellphone user can send a message to more than 5 people.