As per the saffron party's arrangement with the AGP, the BJP would fight eight seats while the remaining six seats would be contested by the AGP.
List of govt hospitals authorised to treat swine flu
Continuing with their agitation, Air India employees on Friday staged a sit-in at the New Delhi airport to protest the decision of the airline management to defer payment of their salaries by a fortnight.
Kishor Kumar Das minutely observed ordinary household objects, mostly traditional Assamese items, and used them as motifs to interpret them in relation to the happenings beyond one's home.
The legislators of the opposition parties led by Asom Gana Pasrishad stormed the well of the House shouting slogans against the government for 'engineering the murder of state Communist Party of India leader Manoj Deka' after the Speaker Tanka Bahadur Rai reserved his ruling on an adjournment motion moved by the leader of the opposition Chandra Mohan Patowary (AGP).
A top official in Assam Police informed that two ULFA militants were engaged in an encounter by a joint team of the army and police at Halikuchi on the bank of a river in Rangiya sub-division of Kamrup district on Thursday afternoon. Pranjal Deka was killed in the exchange of fire while the other militant managed to flee by crossing the river.
The CBI team surveyed the two rooms in the house where the two ULFA militants had taken refuge along with their hostage. The CBI team also collected documents related to the case from the state CID office in Guwahati and spoke with investigating officers.
The arrested militants -- armed with rocket launchers, grenades and pistols -- were hiding in the residence of a villager after killing one Ratan Deka, who they believed was a police informer.
Doctors have advised people not to neglect even the slightest pain in the ear during this season as it can be a severe infection called Otomycosis. The infection may be sub-acute or acute and is caused by wax accumulation in the ear, bathing in dirty water like in ponds and unclean swimming pools and living in unhygienic conditions.
Assam BJP president Ramen Deka said that in a letter addressed to him, the al Qaeda has threatened to kill him and blow up the state party headquarters in Guwahati. The purported letter from the al Qaeda was received at the state BJP headquarter in Guwahati on Wednesday.
The blast took place in the busy Athgaon area during the evening rush hour.
Stating that there are "many similarities in the Malegaon and Assam bomb blasts incidents..." Deka said the ISI and Jihadi outfits are at large in the state and the government is a "silent spectator."
Both the MASS activists and driver of the vehicle were arrested by the police. Shyamal Sharma is the general secretary of Darrang district unit of the MASS.
More than 750 constituencies spread across four states and one union territory will go to the polls on Tuesday
India clinched the badminton team championships for both men and women in the final of the SAF Games.
The government has deputed a top police official to join the Indian team to oversee all the security arrangements.
Pranati Deka had entered the country from Bangladesh by crossing the Brahmaputra River in a boat and was travelling to Mankachar in Dhubri district (in Assam) when she was nabbed along with her accomplice.
Harekrishna Deka will be replaced by Assam Police Housing Construction Limited CMD P V Sumant.
Flights will be disrupted on Thursday when 15 unions covering pilots, cabin crew and ground staff, go on a 24-hour strike to demand revocation of tax on free and concessional air travel passes.
The Journalists Forum Assam on Tuesday appealed to the people of the northeast region to defy the call given by militant outfits prohibiting them from celebrating Independence Day on August 15.
At least 117 Electronic Voting Machines malfunctioned and were replaced during the first phase of assembly polls in 65 constituencies in Assam, where the two-phase election process started Monday.
The third seed was shown the door by Unseeded S D S Krishna in the first round of the Major badminton tournament in Mumbai.
A round-up of results from the Ranji Trophy matches played on Sunday.
We are definite that we will form the government here," Sonowal told media persons.
A round-up of Day 3 of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Saturday.
The crash of the Mi-17 V5 took place at around 6 am when it was on a maintenance mission.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has asked Congress MLAs to submit detailed reports on development activities being undertaken in their respective constituencies.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who has been spearheading the UPA's ambitious Food Security Bill, left the Lok Sabha while the voting was underway on Monday night on various amendments moved by the Opposition.
Helping Hands, a group of young volunteers, hopes to rebuild a "stronger, prettier and a prouder Nepal" after the Himalayan nation was rattled by the April 25 earthquake. Anusha Subramanian reports from Kathmandu.
In the second phase on April 18, 97 seats,spread across 13 states and one Union Territory, will go to the polls.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi rejected Tarun Gogoi's offer to resign after the party's poor performance in the state. Anurag Kashyap reports.
Rebellion in Assam Congress on Monday showed up in the assembly as nine of their MLAs joined opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in protest on the law and order situation in the state.
'If there are provocations and people try to exploit and manipulate the situation along linguistic, religious lines, then Assam might relapse into its troubled past.'
Metro cities are ranked lower in cleanliness index and tourist towns also lag
As the counting begins on Friday the public focus in Assam will be mainly on how helpful the 'Modi Wave' has been for the Bharatiya Janata Party to challenge a confident Congress in Assam. Both the parties have contested in 13 out of 14 parliamentary seats.
Anusha Subramanian talks to some of these volunteers, who are helping out in far-flung Nepal villages.
At least five policemen were killed and a huge cache of arms and ammunition were looted by militants belonging to the outlawed Garo National Liberation Army in an ambush in Garo hills of Meghalaya on Tuesday.
The citizens' register in Assam does not get to the bottom of things.
The death toll in Assam in the current flood rose to 30 on Wednesday with 14 bodies recovered from worst-affected Goalpara and Kamrup (rural) districts even as relief and rescue work continued round-the-clock.
