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Hyderabad: ‘Hazaar rupai ki chai?!’ Yes. Hyderabadis, who survive on tea, are now going gaga over the latest, premium Maijan Golden Tips tea served at Niloufer Café. The aroma and the unique taste of the exotic tea priced at Rs.1,000, is made of hand-plucked second flush exclusively from a village called Maijan in the tea […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based 3F Oil Palm is expanding its operations in the North-East part of the country under the National Mission on Edible Oils – Oil Palm (NPEO-OP) envisaged recently by the Government of India to enhance the production of Oil Palm to multifold growth. The company will invest Rs 1,750 crore in oil palm cultivation […]

Mangaldai/Guwahati: Staccato sounds of gunfire broke the fragile peace of Sipajhar in Assam’s Darrang district on Thursday as police tried to evict “encroachers”, leaving two people dead in police firing, around 20 injured, in clashes, and a shocking video where an apparently dead man with a bullet wound on his chest lay motionless but was […]

Addressing a press conference here to launch eight new original productions, Reeldrama Director Kuheli Dasgupta said the OTT (Over-The-Top) company has identified several offenders and it is taking action against them.

Guwahati: At least 30 people, including women, were missing after a big boat capsized, following a collision with another boat on the Brahmaputra on Wednesday at Neamatighat in Assam’s Jorhat, officials said. Police said that the boat was travelling from Neamatighat to Kamalabari ferry point in Majuli “island” while the other was Neamatighat-bound. Jorhat district […]

A senior Police official in Guwahati said that the DNLA extremists fired several rounds at the truck drivers and other people before setting six of the trucks on fire.

The audience will get to see her in a never-seen-before avatar performing extreme physical training routines alongside the Veerangana Force, India's first female commando unit to tackle rising crime against women in the state.

On August 8, a drug trafficker was killed and two others, including a police officer, injured in an encounter with a gang of drug dealers in Nagaon district.

Senior ministers from governments of Assam and Mizoram held a detailed discussion on August 5 regarding the boundary dispute between Assam & Mizoram

The chief minister had earlier said that the police have been given "full operational liberty" under the ambit of the law to fight criminals.

The recent border clash between the police personnel of Assam and Mizoram had resulted in blockade and political confrontation between the two States

The inter-state border disputes have come under fresh focus recently after five Assam Police personnel and a civilian were killed in clashes along the Assam-Mizoram border.

In fragile Northeast abound with border disputes, the flare-up between Assam and Mizoram over territorial claims is risky  

The Assam government also asked the people of Assam, staying in Mizoram due to work-related compulsion, to "exercise utmost caution".

The border friction between Assam and Mizoram needs to be addressed with political maturity, fairness, and mutual accommodation

This variety was declared the hottest chilli pepper in the world by Guinness World Records in 2007

Tensions have been building between the two states since last month over the 164 km long-running border.

The clash between the two states place after Union Home Minister Amit Shah returned from Meghalaya by completing his two-day visit to the region during the weekend.

The chief minister emphasised that a right balance is needed to be struck between protecting the Assamese culture and fulfilling the historical duty.

The earlier order had exempted those travellers who had taken both doses of COVID-19 vaccine from mandatory testing for infection at airports and railway stations.