Ratnadip Chowdhury

Bengal Post-Poll Violence Delaying New Assam Chief Minister Announcement

India News | Written by Ratnadip Chowdhury, Edited by Harish Pullanoor | Thursday May 6, 2021

The BJP has not yet announced the new Chief Minister for Assam, a state it won decisively in the recently-held Assembly election, because of the post-poll violence reported in West Bengal.

After Joining Congress-Led Alliance, Assam 'Kingmaker' Challenges BJP

India News | Written by Ratnadip Chowdhury, Edited by Harish Pullanoor | Sunday February 28, 2021

Once known as a kingmaker in Assam politics, Hagrama Mohilary, the chief of the Bodoland People's Front (BPF), today formally returned to the Congress fold, joining the Mahajath or grand alliance led by the state's main opposition party. It is, technically, still in alliance with the BJP till the end of this Assembly's term, one that it had yesterd...

Assam polls: Will The Anti-CAA Gamosa Help The Congress Swat BJP?

India News | Written by Ratnadip Chowdhury, Edited by Harish Pullanoor | Wednesday February 24, 2021

If the Congress is to be believed, the signature Assam gamosa holds good portends for itself in the upcoming assembly polls. The state's main opposition party has, in the past week alone, collected at least a lakh pieces of the traditional clothing, whose name means 'cloth to wipe/dust one's body'. Handed over by those opposed to the Citizen...

"A Week More": ULFA Threatens To Execute 2 Kidnapped Oil Firm Employees

India News | Written by Ratnadip Chowdhury, Edited by Harish Pullanoor | Saturday February 20, 2021

Assam-based terrorist organisation United Liberation Front of Asom - Independent (ULFA-I) has said it will execute next week two persons it had kidnapped last December. The ultimatum was issued yesterday after the first deadline ended. The government has pleaded against "shaming" the state by shedding the blood of innocents.

Haven't Reached Finality As Far As Assam NRC Is Concerned: Himanta Biswa Sarma

India News | Written by Ratnadip Chowdhury | Wednesday February 3, 2021

Though the final list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) has been completed, Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said the state government has approached the Supreme Court for a re-verification of the Assam NRC published online in August 2019, claiming that the figures have not reached its 'finality', once again pricking...

Proposed MSME Ordinance Won't Impact Indigenous Land Rights, Says Assam

India News | Written by Ratnadip Chowdhury | Friday July 10, 2020

Assam government on Thursday clarified that it is going to add provision in the draft MSME Ordinance that all the provisions of the Assam Agricultural Land (Regulation of Reclassification and Transfer for Non-Agricultural Purpose) Act, 2015 will have to be followed for setting up of any MSME.

20 Dead In Landslides In South Assam, Several Injured

India News | Written by Ratnadip Choudhury, Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Tuesday June 2, 2020

Twenty one people have died in a series of landslides that took place in Assam today. The dead are largely from three different districts of the Barak valley region in southern Assam. Seven other have been injured. Rescue teams have been rushed to the sites and 21 people have been evacuated. The region has been experiencing heavy rains for the last...