Three-day session of 15th Assam Legislative Assembly begins today

The first sitting of the 15th Assam Legislative Assembly began on Friday. The three-day session has been summoned by the Governor. On the first day of the session, all 126 newly elected MLAs were administered the oath of secrecy. The oath was administered by protem speaker Phani Bhushan Choudhury. Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma […]

Bodo gets associate official language status in Assam

The Assam Legislative Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill to accord Bodo the status of an associate official language of the state. The bill was tabled in the assembly on Monday. Parliamentary affairs minister Chandra Mohan Patowary tabled the Assam Official Language (Amendment) Bill, 2020 on the floor of the Assembly on behalf of chief […]

Assam introduces Bill to protect people from high-interest money lending firms

The Assam government on Monday introduced a Bill in the Assembly seeking to protect economically vulnerable groups and individuals from the hardship of usurious interest rates and coercive means of recovery by microfinance institutions or money lending agencies. Tabling The Assam Micro Finance Institutions (Regulation of Money Lending) Bill, 2020, on the first day of the […]

98.35 percent work on fence along Bangladesh border complete: Assam Govt

The Assam government on Monday said that 98.35 percent of fencing work along Assam- Bangladesh border has been completed. According to News On Air, in a written reply to the State Assembly session on Monday, State Transport Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary said that 1.65 percent fencing work is pending due to objections raised by the […]

Assam: Himanta Biswa Sarma tables bill to repeal provincialisation of Madrassa

As the winter session of the Assam Assembly began on Monday, Health and Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday introduced a bill to repeal the provincialisation of Madrassa in the state. The bill proposes to abolish two existing acts – The Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialisation) Act, 1995 and The Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialisation of […]

Three-day Assam Assembly winter session begins today

The three-day winter session of the Assam Assembly commenced on Monday, following COVID-19 protocols in Dispur, Guwahati. The assembly started at 9:30 AM. Assam Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that he will introduce a bill to repeal provincialisation of Madrassas. According to reports, around 12 government bills — including ‘The Assam Repealing Bill, 2020’ […]

Sprinter Hima Das to be appointed as DSP

Sprinter Hima Das will be appointed as Deputy Superintendent of Assam police, announced Assam’s finance minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma at the assembly. In his budget speech, Dr. Sarma said,“Those sports persons from Assam who have won gold medals in Olympic, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games will be appointed as the grade one officer of […]

Budget session of Assam Assembly begins from today

The budget session of the Assam Legislative Assembly began from Monday. There will be fourteen working days in the session. Finance minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma will table the state budget on March 6. This will be the last full fledged budget that the BJP-led state government will table before the state goes to polls […]

Former Assam Assembly Speaker Pranab Kumar Gogoi passes away at 84

Former speaker of Assam Legislative assembly Pranab Kumar Gogoi breathed his last on Monday at a private nursing home in Guwahati. He was 84. Gogoi was the Congress MLA from Sivasagar Legislative constituency and was also a cabinet minister during the Congress regime, led by Tarun Gogoi. He was elected to Assam Legislative Assembly for […]