Asom Barta

Kulsi in Kamrup is a biodiversity hotspot, a favourite picnic place, tucked some 20 kilometres from Mirza Chowk, amidst sylvan surroundings. Under the Rabha Hasong Autonomous Council, Kulsi is in the news...

The road from Tinsukia to Namrup is bumpy but with lush green tea estates on either side it is worth a journey. The visually appealing images of tea estate workers plucking leaves...

The month of July brought us double delights. The first one was a Niti Aayog report that said that Assam has pulled 47 lakh people out of multidimensional poverty in five years...

Place: 11th AP Bn, Dergaon. Time: 6.30am. Weather: Raining heavily. Yet, forgetting their daily emotional ups and downs, sometimes even their own beings, 30-odd women in khakis are furiously going through drills...

When the Suranjana band of the Assam Police plays its quintessential Kadam Kadam Bhadaye Ja or the Central Brass Band of 10AP Bn plays Almora Quick March, just next to your house,...

Nuria Begum (21 years) is from Bar Dampur Ali Kash village under Hajo revenue block in Kamrup district of Assam. She was blessed with a son on the morning of July 22...

Adivasis groups across Assam have welcomed the move by five Adivasi insurgent groups along with their three factions to lay down arms and return to the mainstream. Nowas Barla, the general secretary...

Narayan Tanti (30) of Birjhora Tea Estate under Dangtal Development Block, Bongaigaon could not believe his fortune when he first entered his newly constructed house under the Prime Minister Awas Yojana (Grameen)...

It is a few minutes past nine in the morning. Like other days in recent times, Minoti Das (50) of Bathan village in Sualkuchi is busy storing potable water. This water to...