India

200 Years of First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-2024): Unusual Perspectives from Ahom, Burmese, East India Company
Diphu May 7, 2023: In the approaching month of March next year (2024), the first Anglo-Burmese war completes two hundred years from its occurrence. It was a militaristic response to the Burmese expansionist campaigns in Assam, Arakan, Manipur, and Cachar by armies of...

Education Ripoff: Indian Private Schools and Book Commissions
Books from private publishers selected by schools are up to five times more expensive than NCERT books. In private schools, expensive books from private publishers combine with changing the books every year. Parents are suffering while Government and administrations are silent.

After Nine Days Of Worshiping Girls, Everyone Forgets
Navratri is a Hindu festival. Navratri is a Sanskrit word, which means 'nine nights.' During these nine nights and ten days, nine forms of Shakti Devi are worshipped. During the nine nights of Navratri, three goddesses - Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati, or Saraswati and...

Army-Air Force Conduct Successful Multi Domain Air-Land Exercise
Diphu 23 March 2023: The Indian Army and Indian air force recently conducted an intra-theatre air mobility operation somewhere in eastern command. Multi Domain Air-Land Exercise In the second week of March 2023, the Indian Army and the Air force jointly conducted a...
NorthEast

Adivasi People’s Liberation Army Surrenders
Diphu June 2 2023: Thirty nine cadres of Adivasi ethnic militant group, Adivasi People’s Liberation Army led by the group’s commander-in-chief laid down their arms before Assam Police and Assam Rifles in Bokajan subdivision of Assam’s Karbi Anglong district today....

Assam NRC: Complaint Registered Against Hajela, Wipro, ISS
After a number of FIRs for alleged involvement with National Register of Citizens (Assam NRC) updation scam in Assam, much talked about Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Prateek Hajela now faces a case registered in the Kamrup (metro) chief judicial...

Revenue Collection Surge For Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council “Unprecedented”
Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council experienced an unprecedented surge in revenue collection for fiscal year ending 2023 to 308 crores.

Nation’s Largest Solar Power Plant To Be Built in Karbi Anglong
Karbi Anglong autonomous district of Assam is to build the largest solar power plant in the nation by the end of 2024
Business

Surajit Roy New Head of Eastern Region Services Of IOCL
Diphu December 2 2022: Surajit Roy joined as Head - Regional Services of eastern region in Indian Oil. A Mechanical Engineer by profession, Roy has experience of more than three decades in various domains of Indian Oil. He has been pivotal in setting up state of the...

Second Quartzite Mine Opens In Karbi Anglong
The Chief Executive Member of Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council Tuliram Ronghang on Thursday formally began the mining of a quartzite mine at Bey Village, Koilamati, Bokajan subdivision of Karbi Anglong district.

Death of Oil Refinery Based Power Projects
Diphu August 19: Two thermal power projects based at both the Guwahati oil refinery and the Bongaigaon oil refinery were abandoned as loss making and inefficient in utilizing the ‘tail gas' produced in these two refineries. The power plants are the Bongaigaon Thermal...

Bank Manager Accused of Deceptive Withdrawal
Alleged Deceptive Withdrawal by Bank Manager Diphu July 26: A police case has been registered against Dibyajoti Kalita, Manager of Assam Gramin Bikash Bank (ancillary of State Bank of India), Lahaorijan branch of Bokajan subdivision, at Khatkati police station...