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Paddy cultivators in Assam never had it so good until this time. On January 8, Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma nudged six procurement agencies, including Food Corporation of India (FCI), to...

Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Parsis in Assam will henceforth be officially certified as minorities in the State, according to a Cabinet decision of the Government of Assam.. “This decision is...

The Assam Cabinet in its last meeting held on May 29 approved a standard operating procedure for Mission Amrit Sarovar which seeks to introduce a source of water for small and marginal...

Is it too much to chase one’s dream? I think each one of us has a dream and we end up going the distance to realise it. Although there will only be...

It is heartening to see that there is an increasing awareness about farming of various fruits, both exotic and common, among the farmers and the common people. Also laudable is the fact...

Unemployment can never be an issue in countries which give importance to agriculture. The combination of the usage of advanced technology along with traditional agricultural practices can herald agriculture-led economic revolution in...

On December 8, 2017, while delivering her inaugural address at the 8th Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) 2017 in Hyderabad, Ivanka Trump, the then adviser to the former US President Donald Trump, specifically...

Daisingri is a non-descript village in Bajali district although Chandraprabha Saikiani, the noted freedom fighter and Padma Shri awardee, and Dr Rajaniprabha Saikiani, Assam’s first female doctor, had put it on the...

From time immemorial, rivers like Barak, Brahmaputra, Jhanji and Subansiri, etc., have nourished Assam. Time and again, these rivers have also shown their other side damaging property through floods while eroding vast...