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OIL India Drilling & Production project worth Rs 35 billion planned for Assam The Oil India Limited has come up with a project to invest Rs 35 billion on drilling exploratory wells and production installations around Upper Assam in the next months.   |  1 Jan 2021 12:40 PM GMT Guwahati: The Oil India Limited (OIL) is planning to initiate a drilling and production project of Rs. 35 billion in Assam in the next months. The news was released by a senior official of the state-owned company on Th...

Udayan Hazarika (The writer can be reached at udayanhazarika@hotmail.com) The recent visit of the Union Home Minister to the State was considered of crucial importance in view of the forthcoming elections to the State Assembly. However, the visit has left no important marker in the minds of public which can be viewed as a big achievement for the party in power. The organizers perhaps had expected much more than what they have realised finally from the meeting. State Finance Minister Shri H.B....

Protestors in Tinsukia. | Special arrangement. For more than a week now, the entire populations of two Upper Assam villages – around 3,000 men, women, children, most of them belonging to the state’s Mising tribe – have been camping in Tinsukia town, next to the deputy collector’s office. They have vowed not to move till their demands are met: of being given new lives in a new place. “It is biting cold and we have been living and eating like pigs, but we are not go...

Invasion of the Coolie Catchers: ‘Tea Tribe’ Adivasis of Assam Abducted and damned When Kali Murmu left his hut for the forest with a bow and quiver in hand to pluck some fruits, he hardly knew it would be his last day in Pakur. The year was 1837, when the trade war over Chinese tea raged dangerously with England, America, France, Spain and Netherlands flexing their muscles against each other. In Europe, tea then was rich men’s status symbol and poor men’s dream. Kali, a 21-year old Sa...

For candidates and alliances, Assam Congress conducts a public survey SECTIONS Share Synopsis The party is in a dilemma over a formal tie up with AIUDF as one section of party leaders feels an alliance would hamper the partys performance in Upper Assam while the other favours a grand alliance having the Badruddin Ajmalled outfit a part of it, if the Congress has to take on the ruling BJP-led front. Agencies AICC general secretary in-charge of Assam Jitendra Singh recently said no decision has b...

Assam forest ranger caught red-handed while taking bribe of Rs 60,000 Lakheswar Das, the accused Forest Ranger had demanded Rs 60,000 as a bribe to release the dumper of Sahabul Islam, which was carrying illegal sand.   |  24 Dec 2020 8:30 AM GMT Guwahati: Assam Forest Department Ranger was caught red-handed while taking bribe in Bamunigaon in Chaygaon under Kamrup district of Assam. Lakheswar Das, the Assam Forest Ranger in question was caught after the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) had c...

Assam Assembly Election 2021: BJP to win more than 100 seats -Himanta Biswa Sarma The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is concentrating on winning more and more seats in the upcoming 2021 elections, said Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma.   |  21 Dec 2020 9:29 AM GMT Guwahati: Assam Finance, Education, Health and PWD Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma said that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies will win more than 100 seats in the upcoming Assam Assembly Elections 2021. Speaking further on this, Mini...

Picture used for representational purpose only GUWAHATI: By 2021, residents of Guwahati will have the option of piped cooking gas through the city gas distribution network being set up by Purba Bharati Gas Private Ltd, a joint venture of three public sector units — Assam Gas Company Ltd (AGCL), Oil India Limited (OIL) and GAIL Gas Ltd. Chairman of Duliajan Numaligarh Pipeline Limited (DNPL) Rupam Goswami, while announcing the company’s financial report card, said apart from gas from the fi...

Guwahati to get piped gas supply by next year SECTIONS Share Synopsis Rupam Goswami,Chairman of Duliajan Numaligarh pipeline Limited (DNPL), said that the work to bring the gas line from Numaligarh in Upper Assam to Nagaon, is on. “The gas line is expected to start supply by next year in Guwahati,” he said. Getty Images The National Gas Grid Pipeline (Urja Ganga Project) was originally planned for extension from Jagadishpur in UP, to Haldia in WB. GUWAHATI: Guwahati, Northeast Indias financ...

Assam Congress MLA Ajanta Neog. (Photo: Facebook) GUWAHATI: The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee has removed its MLA Ajanta Neog from an important post of the partys organisation, two days after she met chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal and North-East Democratic Alliance convenor Himanta Biswa Sarma. The move came amid speculations that the four-time MLA from Golaghat constituency and former state minister may join the BJP. Neog was removed from the post of district Congress committee preside...