Asom Barta

A marriage in India sans gold ornament is ‘incomplete’ for most brides and even their parents. Such is the importance of the metal in the country since time immemorial. The Assam Government,...

The annual Ambubachi Mela concluded in Guwahati on June 26 with nearly eight lakh people visiting the Kamakhya Temple, a famous Shakti shrine. This despite the mela being a low-key affair because...

Nature pummelled Assam again. The destruction caused by incessant rainfall leading to landslides and flood has come back to haunt us one more time. To begin with, the districts of Bajali, Darrang...

AB BUREAU, GUWAHATI The year 1992. A quiet boy had done his parents and those around proud. His name had figured among the handful of aspirants who had passed the Joint Admission...

When nature proposes, we cannot dispose. This is the recurring lesson for humanity which I am reading once again as I see nature’s fury all around me from Silchar to Siphajhar, Kampur...

AB BUREAU, GUWAHATI The Assam growth story has started to find a few takers. Conglomerates in the private and public sectors are working on ways and means to invest nearly ₹ 92,000...

One of the most visible departments of the present Government in Assam is Power. With a proactive Chief Minister and a new minister at the helm, the Department has started clicking on...

Heralding a new dawn for Assam in interdisciplinary medical research, the Government of Assam signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati to establish a first-of-its-kind integrated...