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ONGC gets green nod for Rs 3,500 cr onshore exploration project in Assam

The Union Environment Ministry has given green clearance to ONGC, the country's largest oil and gas exploration and production company, after taking into account the recommendations of a green panel

Days after arrest, NIA raids activist Akhil Gogoi's residence in Guwahati

Akhil Gogoi is an active leader of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti which is a peasant organization based in Assam

Anti-CAA protests: Assam at peace, curfew suspended from Dibrugarh

Mobile internet services were restored on Friday in Assam after nine days of its suspension while broadband services had resumed on December 18.

CAA: With internet shut, city walls, 'gamochas' become scrolls of protests

On the walls next to Md Tyabullah Road, some slogans painted by protesters are very strong like 'Modi = Hitler' or 'India is Not N-Korea'.

Anti-CAA protests: Life without internet and social media in Guwahati

The good old deck of cards is back in vogue in many households in the city whose people have been living without mobile internet since December 11 evening

CAA protest: Guwahati curfew to be lifted tomorrow; internet to be restored

The decisions were taken at a law and order review meeting by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.

BJP-ally AGP to move SC for revocation of amended Citizenship Act

Sources said a delegation of the AGP, led by Das, would leave for Delhi in the evening to file the plea in the apex court

Citizenship Act: Agitators say protesting as Assamese, not Hindu or Muslim

The massive protests across the state against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), now an Act, are currently also led by the AASU, which has asserted that it will be unrelenting in its battle.

Citizenship Act: AASU, artists' forum hint at floating political party

The AASU president accused AGP of "betraying" the people of the state and said the Congress was also "equally bad".

Citizenship law protests: Curfew eased in Guwahati from 9 am to 4 pm

Long queues were seen outside shops at several places, including Dispur, Uzan Bazar, Chandmari, Silpukhuri and Zoo Road

Students group starts 6-hour Nagaland shutdown against Citizenship Act

Clearance of Citizenship Bill triggered widespread protests in eastern state of Assam, as protesters said it would convert thousands of illegal immigrants into legal residents.

Violence threatens Assam energy economy; oil fields, gas supply impacted

Supply to refineries, chemical and fertiliser industries in the region may be affected

Citizenship Act: People store basics, potato sold at Rs 80 a kg in Guwahati

Some local news channels reported that the curfew has been relaxed from 6 am to 1 pm in Guwahati, but an Assam Police spokesperson later said there was no such order.

CAB protests: Will NESO chief join mainstream politics as Northeast boils?

One of the major concerns for the student body has been the influx of people from Bangladesh

UN human rights' body calls Citizenship Act 'fundamentally discriminatory'

At least two persons died due to bullet injuries on Thursday after police opened fire on protesters in Guwahati, capital of Assam.

Citizenship Bill: Parliamentary panel delays Assam visit over protests

Guwahati has been the epicentre of violent protests over the newly amended law, which provides for granting citizenship to non-Muslim persecuted minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Citizenship Bill protests LIVE: Shinzo Abe postpones visit to Guwahati

President Ram Nath Kovind gives assent to Citizenship Amendment Bill as thousands of troops brace for another day of protests in the Northeast.

Abe says he'll visit India as reports say he'll cancel after Assam violence

Abe was earlier scheduled to begin his visit on Sunday and had been slated to meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Assam.

Three killed in police firing as CAB protests flare across the Northeast

Two Bangladeshi ministers cancel visit to India; uncertainty over Guwahati hosting Shinzo Abe in India-Japan summit on December 15

Govt must consider creating, leveraging Brand North East: World Bank report

The report called for reorienting northeast region's supply base to serve the changing global demand