No ban on Benarasi silk products: Phukan

GUWAHATI, May 11 President Pranab Mukherjee will visit Assam on May 13 which will be his first visit to the State after assuming office of the President. Mukherjee will confer the Asom Ratna Award for the year 2012 posthumously on Mamoni Raisom ...

Spadework for APL's integrated project complete Correspondent NAMRUP, June 3 The Assam Petrochemicals Ltd (APL) here under Dibrugarh district in Assam, is a State Government venture PSU, conceived and implemented with natural gas as feed stock for ...

GUWAHATI, May 13 - The ideals of Srimanta Sankaradeva are still relevant. We have to rekindle his teachings. This was the observation made by President Pranab Mukherjee here this afternoon, while giving away the 2008 Srimanta Sankaradeva Award and ...

GUWAHATI, April 27 Voluntary organisation Save Guwahati Build Guwahati (SGBG) has urged the State Government to extend financial assistance to the weavers and other people engaged in the textile industry of Sualkuchi. In a memorandum to Handloom ...

Guwahati, April 25: Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi today urged all women to come forward and participate actively in different fields and empower themselves. He said dependency only thwarts the process of empowerment. Gogoi was speaking at the ...

Guwahati, April 24: The All India Mahila Congress plans to open special cells for women in the state. The Assam Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee will be responsible to open and run these cells in every district, said the president of the committee, ...

GUWAHATI, March 22 - In an apparent admission of the State Government's failure to do the needful to bring back (even for temporary display) the famed Brindabani Bastra woven by saint Srimanta Sankaradev from the British Museum, Minister for Cultural Affairs ...