Bijoy Shankar

Four litterateurs from the state have won laurels from the Sahitya Akademi for their works in Assamese and Bodo languages.

Once termed "frivolous" by publishers, Assamese science fiction and fantasy books are slowly picking up at the ongoing book fair, as similar books by authors from abroad continue to do brisk business.

A day after a National Highways Authority of India official was heckled by ruffians with alleged links to Trinamool Congress, a divisional engineer from the state power department was allegedly roughed up and abused by men connected to the ruling party on Friday.

Police officers in Jorhat are maintaining an unholy nexus with different criminals for vested interests. As a result, crime cases in the cultural capital of the state is fast growing, said All Assam Students' Union (Aasu), Jorhat district unit

Responding to a call by the All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) and 30 other indigenous organisations, men and women from all walks of life staged a sit-in demonstration across the state against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) on Monday.

Rupa had gone to the local park with her grandchildren. There, she had an altercation with neighbour Gita Mullick, a CPM worker.