As part of the Assam Integrated River Basin Management Programme (AIRBMP), Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) is going to convert 30 schools being used as flood shelters in Baksa, Barpeta, Sonitpur, Biswanath, Lakhimpur, Golaghat, Dibrugarh, Sivasagar, Majuli.
An Agniveer pre-recruitment screening camp for an eligibility check of Adivasi and Tea Garden Community youths was conducted at Rangapara Army Cantt in Sonitpur district on Sunday.
According to the District Forest Officer (DFO), Pirai Sudhan, four people, including two forest officials, were killed in a wild elephant attack at Dhiraimajuli in the Barsala constituency of Sonitpur district.
More than 71.64 percent of voters in five parliamentary constituencies of Assam - Sonitpur, Lakhimpur, Kaziranga, Dibrugarh and Jorhat, came out to exercise their franchise in the first phase of polls on Friday.
The Election Commission has set up 150 polling stations in Sonitpur district under the Sonitpur parliamentary constituency and the women polling personnel on Thursday left to the women stations to conduct the first phase of polls to be held on April 19.
With nearly 350 voters, the family of the late Ron Bahadur Thapa of Phuloguri Nepali Paam in Assam's Sonitpur district is one of the largest that to exercise their franchise in Assam during the opening phase of polling for the Lok Sabha, on April 19.
Rongali Bihu, also known as Bohag Bihu, is one of the most important festivals celebrated in the Indian state of Assam, particularly by the Assamese people. It marks the beginning of the Assamese New Year and usually falls in mid-April.
Ahead of the crucial Lok Sabha elections, Aam Aadmi party leader Atishi conducted a rally in Assam on Thursday and firmly asserted that the party will open its account in the northeastern state.
The tea garden workers in Sonitpur Lok Sabha constituency in Assam's Biswanath district demanded to resolve their long-pending grievances while alleging that political parties are 'using' them as a vote bank at the time of elections.