Jayanta Deka

Commercial flight operations from Pasighat in East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh will begin from May 21. The inaugural Alliance Air flight from Guwahati will land at the Pasighat airport at 12.20 pm and will take off for Guwahati at 2 pm. The 1 hour 20 minutes flight from Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in […]

Our love for cars and bikes are often well documented. And then there are people who hit the like button to the pictures of huge ‘foreign’ trucks; and there are others who love to click buses. Yes, regular passenger buses! While as a child playing with bus-toys was one thing, for this school teacher, buses […]

Arunachal Pradesh is home to many tribes with distinctive customs and traditions. They speak their own dialects while Hindi and Assamese are the languages of communication between them. With such varied people staying together, the need for documenting the rich heritage of Arunachal Pradesh is widely felt. With the onslaught of Hindi and English, and […]

As the Indian football season takes a break, the official fan club of NorthEast United FC, the Highlander Brigade, is hosting series of events to keep the fans engaged. The Highlander Brigade, who were seen following the NorthEast United FC this season, in-spite of a lackluster performance by the John Abraham-owned Indian Super League side, […]

The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) on Monday announced its partnership with Tezpur University for awarding excellence in education. In an interaction with the media in Guwahati, ICSI president Makarand Lele stated that the institute will provide signature award to the BCom (H) topper of the Tezpur University under the integrated MCom program. […]

For this teenager from Silchar in Assam, YouTube has doubled up as a recreational and profession tool. Deso Barman, a 10th grade student of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Silchar has chosen YouTube to express himself and voice out opinion on various social issues. Since starting as a teenager uploading his thoughts, Deso has been able to gather […]

For these two families in Darrang district of Assam, the last three years have been a toiling period. When Salima Parbin, a resident of Beelpar in Dalgaon, gave birth to her son at Mangaldai District Hospital on March 11, 2015, she wasn’t sure if the baby she brought home was actually hers. Salima had to […]

As many as 59 per cent of the candidates for the February 27 Nagaland Assembly elections have declared themselves as crorepatis. The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), along with Nagaland Election Watch, analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 193 out of 196 candidates for the assembly elections and found that the average asset per candidate is […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Advantage Assam Global Investors Summit 2018 in presence of a strong gathering of top business leaders at the Sarusajai Stadium complex in Guwahati on Saturday. Addressing the gathering, the prime minister said that Assam is ready for global investments. “Assam is gearing up to welcome investors. We are happy […]

Leading airline SpiceJet is exploring options to start flight services between Guwahati and ASEAN countries, especially Thailand. Participating in the Advantage Assam Global Investors Summit, SpiceJet CMD Ajay Singh informed that the airline is exploring options to start services to the ASEAN countries from Guwahati. “We are willing to start services to Thailand and other […]