Asom Barta

Mamu Bora of Nagaon was a constable with the Virangana wing of the Assam Police. She was hooked to music and dance from a very tender age although she could never hone...

Shyam Sundar Kalita (61), a former employee of Guwahati Refinery under Indian Oil Corporation Ltd and a resident of Jyotinagar area in Guwahati, had long been thinking of ways and means to...

The Assamese traditional scarf, "Gamocha", the identity of Assam, has received the Geographical Indication (GI) tag from the Geographical Indications (GIs) Registry. The feat was achieved on December 13, 2022, five years...

A high-level meeting of regional committees of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh to solve the boundary dispute between the two neighbouring States was held in Janata Bhawan on December 22. The meeting re-emphasised...

In yet another breakthrough for the State Government’s continuous drive against insurgency, 1179 insurgents belonging to two different outfits in Barak Valley laid down arms on December 12 and joined the mainstream....

Aynol Haque (46) is a farmer at Cholpara village, some 5 km north of Chhaygaon town in Kamrup district of the State. Cholpara village falls under the greater Goroimari area, an agri-horti...

National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in collaboration with the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) organized a workshop on “Mid-Term Review & Documentation of Best Practices of Aapda Mitra Scheme” in Guwahati...

Krishna Kingkor Nath is the proprietor of the Kaziranga-based Seven Sisters Tours and Travels. Having navigated the worst of times during two years of Covid, life and business are normalising for him...

If you are a resident of Pub Sarania or Zoo Road Tiniali like Bharat Chakraborty and Nabajit Sharma respectively, one can be sure that you are on Cloud Nine. A commodity that...