In a major legal development against the child marriage in Assam, a district court in Morigaon has delivered a historic verdict by sentencing one man to life imprisonment while another has received a 20-year jail term in a child marriage case.
The Chief Minister of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma, inaugurated the country's largest Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awas Yojana in the Naharkatia area of Dibrugarh.
Two persons were caught after around 1317 kg of ganja was seized from a vehicle near the Churaibari police watch post in Assam's Karimganj district near the Tripura border on Tuesday.
"Projects worth Rs 23,000 crore will be inaugurated and lay the foundation stone under the Vikas Yatra across the state which was launched on February 29," Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
"If Lalu Prasad says that PM Modi is not a Hindu, this means that Lalu Prasad must have forgotten whatever knowledge he had about Hindu culture. This may be because he has been an anti-Hindu for such a long time. He has forgotten the definition of a Hindu...," Sarma said speaking to reporter
As a part of Bikash Yatra, Assam Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday inaugurated, laid foundations and performed bhumi pujan of projects worth Rs 1,208 crore in Kamrup (M) district in different programmes held across the district.
Assam Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday unveiled the expanded dairy plant of West Assam Milk Producers' Cooperative Union Ltd. popularly known as Purabi Dairy at an inauguration event organised at its premises in Panjabari, Guwahati.
The Chief Minister also inaugurated the renovated State of Art Blood Centre at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), inaugurated an extended emergency department in GMCH and initiated the process of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) to one lakh (IHH) beneficiaries for the construction of
Sarma, while coming down heavily on Congress, which he was earlier associated with, said that the party is 'not only the enemy of development, Congress is also the biggest enemy of India's civilization'.
Indian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to UNESCO, Vishal Sharma, visited the historic site of Charaideo Moidams in Assam on Friday and appreciated the site being nominated by India for UNESCO's World Heritage List.