Villagers receive blessings during a religious procession to mark the traditional Gohain Uliuwa Mela in Mayong village, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of Guwahati.
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Villagers participate in a religious procession during the traditional Gohain Uliuwa Mela in Mayong village, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of Guwahati. The festival marks the...
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Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal pays tribute to former CM Bhumidar Barman, who died on Monday.
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Karbi tribesmen and women take part in a religious procession during the traditional 'Gohain Uliuwa Mela' festival at Mayong village in Morigaon district. Mayong is considered as t...
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Workers arrange beds at a COVID-19 treatment facility newly set up at an indoor stadium in Guwahati.
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Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi joins Muslim community members during their 'Iftar' on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, in Guwahati.
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Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi dances with artists during Rongali Bihu celebrations, at Latashil Playground in Guwahati.
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Artist perform traditional Bihu dance to celebrate Rongali Bihu at Tezpur in Sonitpur district.
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People buy Pitha, Ladoo and other breakfast (Jolpan) items from a stall at the ongoing Rongali Mela organized by Bor Asom ahead of 'Rongali Bihu' festival, at Lakhidhar Bora Khetr...
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Women perform 'Uruka' rituals on the occasion of 'Rongali Bihu' festival, at Tezpur in Sonitpur district.
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Villagers participate in community fishing on the occasion of 'Rongali Bihu' festival, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, at Digholi Lake in Nagaon district.
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People, not adhering to social distancing norms, throng Fancy Bazar, ahead of the Rongali Bihu festival, amid coronavirus pandemic, in Guwahati.
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A health worker sprays disinfectant outside a COVID-19 testing centre, amid surge in coronavirus cases, at Gauhati Railway Station in Guwahati.
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Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal receives the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, in Guwahati.
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Passengers undergo digital scanning to check body temperature in view of COVID-19, at Guwahati Railway Station.
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Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal addresses a press conference, in Guwahati.
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Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal meets family members of CRPF Dilip Kumar Das, who was killed in the recent gun-battle with Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh, at Bharegaon, Saru...
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Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal pays tribute to CRPF Jawan Bablu Rabha, who was killed in the recent gun-battle with Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh, at Damra in Goalpara dis...
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Workers carrying baskets pluck tea leaves, at Amguri in Sivasagar district.
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Craftsmen prepare Pepa, a wind instrument made from buffalo horn, ahead of the 'Rongali Bihu' celebration, at Nimai Jan in Sivasagar,
ONGC said a complaint has already been lodged with the local police and higher officials have reached the site. No demand for ransom or anything else has been received so far.
Voters in 40 Assembly constituencies will decide the fate of 337 candidates, including those of senior minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, his five cabinet colleagues and BJP state unit president Ranjeet Kumar Dass.
The incident occurred after the village head refused to accept the Election Commission’s (EC) voters’ list and brought a list of his own, according to which people cast their ballots, officials said.
Some of the ECI’s decisions in the ongoing Assembly elections have sparked outrage among the Opposition parties, raising questions about the poll body’s independence.
A welcome Bihu break—song, dance, revelry and pleasing mekhela-sador—after weeks of verbal poison rain. But on the other side, the mystery will unravel. Who will win Assam?
The CAA-NRC gambit didn’t go the way the BJP would have liked in Assam, so that familiar tactic is back in play: a perfume baron is in the crosshair of some choice stink darts.
Congress dissenters convene a show of defiance in Jammu; decrying them, first family loyalists highlight the exertions of Rahul-Priyanka for the upcoming elections.
The more immediate source of tension in Calcutta currently is the possibility that the forty lakh people who were declared illegal by the neighbouring state could try to flee Assam and enter the city as refugees.