Just last year, when he was undergoing an open heart surgery at a Mumbai hospital, Assam CM Tarun Gogoi, 74, was said to be losing his grip on both his health and politics.
Zia Haq reports.
Doomdooma, in Assam's Tinsukia district, 515 km east of Guwahati, symbolised the state's economic boom until the 1950s. Some of Asia's largest tea estates around this town of some 20,000 people yield the best of beverages.
Rahul Karmakar writes.
Top priorityThe number of women MLAs in the 126-member 13th Assam assembly will be 15, two more than in the outgoing House, with five of them making it to the House for the first time.
The Congress' decisive victory in Assam has overshadowed a near-clean sweep by
crorepatis.
Rahul Karmakar reports.
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi will chair the last Cabinet meeting of the outgoing government here this evening and is likely to meet governor J B Patnaik on Monday to stake claim to form the third consecutive Congress government in the state.
It apparently pays to be the son of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s landlady. Rahul Karmakar reports.
A month after shaking up India's political core, social activist Anna Hazare has now targeted the country's fringes – the Northeast – for his anti-graft crusade.
Friday was to have been social activist Anna Hazare's day. But co-activist Swami Agnivesh stole his thunder by getting under chief minister Tarun Gogoi's skin.
Fifteen years after he walked into a police station with a severed head and blood dripping sword in his hand, Mahendra Nath Das is now all set to be sent to the gallows with his mercy petition rejected by President Pratibha Patil.
Set to retain power for the third consecutive term, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday said bringing all insurgents groups, including the ULFA, to the negotiating table would be his main priority to ensure lasting peace in the state.
Assam school girl Anubhuti Gohain Boruah has been awarded the 'Humans in Space Symposium' Youth Art Competition Award organised by NASA-Johnson Space Centre, USA.
The overall percentage of voting in both the phases of Assam assembly poll was 76.03% with the just-concluded second phase of polls recording 78.6% turnout.
The administration in Mizoram’s Lunglei town has invoked Section 144 of the criminal penal code, but against dogs.
The Tawang helicopter crash of Tuesday, which killed 17 fliers, was waiting to happen, so reveal letters written by the Arunachal Pradesh government to Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited (PHHL).
The city administration has allegedly blocked social activist Anna Hazare’s proposed public rally at the behest of a “scam-tainted” Assam minister.