Assam
Capital: Dispur
Breaking in Assam
Bomb threat emails hit Mumbai and Pune civic offices, and the searches find nothing
An email naming Mumbai's mayor office, a bank, a court, Amitabh Bachchan's Jalsa bungalow, Mahalaxmi Racecourse and the airport set off searches on Thursday morning. Pune Municipal Corporation received its own threat soon after. Nothing suspicious was found.
Arrogance of power: Rohit Pawar takes on Fadnavis as the NCP merger formula takes shape
Rohit Pawar accused Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis of "arrogance" and of running a politics of blackmail over the NCP merger question. In the party, the formula under discussion gives Sharad Pawar the president post and Sunetra Pawar the working president post.
No eye on Gokul: Fadnavis says the amendment only unties a legal knot
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis defended amending the cooperative societies law, saying the government needed to end a statutory deadlock over the Gokul dairy chairmanship. Congress leader Satej Patil is going ahead with a November 9 protest, calling the move a trampling of the farmers' mandate.
Cancer bills fall from Monday: 137 drugs cut, some by 96%, ₹3,502 crore saved a year
Revised prices for 137 anti-cancer drugs take effect on Monday after the NPPA capped trade margins at 30% of the maximum retail price. Seventy-six companies have cut prices on 1,225 formulations, with 600 brands down more than half and the steepest cut at 96.45%. Estimated annual savings: ₹3,502.31 crore.
Ten thousand flagged land deals later, Telangana CID picks up four over the Dharani portal
Telangana's CID has searched the homes and offices of suspects in the alleged Dharani land records scandal and arrested at least four people, including a Bhu Bharati portal operator. The case turns on three acres in Kollur village, mutated in another man's name.
BREAKINGRs 81.5 crore in two days, and Netflix already has the papers: Suriya's Scene is on a run
Scene, the Tamil crime thriller with Suriya, Nazriya Nazim and Naslen, has grossed Rs 81.5 crore worldwide in two days. Reports say Netflix has bought the digital rights for Rs 88 crore, though no streaming date has been announced.
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Draft voter rolls out today in 13 states and 3 UTs; one month to challenge a deletion
The Election Commission's Special Summary Revision begins on Thursday, with draft electoral rolls published in 13 states and three Union Territories and claims and objections open till 11 December. Uttar Pradesh's draft roll has been pushed to 17 November. Final rolls for all these states are due on 4 January 2027.
A Taj at Mumbai's T2 and a Ginger in Lucknow: Adani and IHCL line up eight airport hotels
Adani Airport Holdings and Indian Hotels Company have signed a multi-hotel operating agreement for eight hotels with more than 2,000 rooms in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Guwahati. The properties will run under the Taj, Vivanta, Gateway and Ginger brands, mostly within three to four years.
Operation Trident: 38 raids across three states, 18 arrests and 1,424 bank accounts frozen
Home Minister Amit Shah announced on Sunday that 38 teams raided 38 locations across Assam, Mizoram and Manipur on October 23, arresting 18 people and freezing 1,424 bank accounts. The government said the operation uncovered about Rs 100 crore in hawala transactions, attached properties worth Rs 17.82 crore and seized 500 detonators. Shah said the network ran drugs through the India-Myanmar-Bangladesh corridor.
Over 638 hectares cleared of encroachment, says CM Sarma as Assam vows to protect its interests
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said encroachment on more than 638 hectares of land in three districts has been cleared in eviction drives in the past few days. He asserted the government would work to secure the state's interests. Separately, over a hundred people formed a human chain for justice in singer Zubeen Garg's death.
638 hectares cleared: Assam CM says eviction drive will secure state land
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said encroachment on more than 638 hectares in three districts has been cleared in eviction drives over the past few days, and that the government will keep working to secure the state's interests.
Over 638 hectares of encroached land cleared, says CM Sarma
The Assam government has cleared more than 638 hectares of encroached land in eviction drives in Golaghat, Hojai and Nagaon districts, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said, describing the operations as the 'Rudra Roop' of his administration. Around 1,000 families were evicted.
Zubeen Garg case: Raijor Dal leaders among 150-plus detained in Dispur
Raijor Dal and KMSS leaders were among more than 150 people detained as police broke up a planned human chain outside the Assam secretariat in Dispur, demanding a transparent probe into the death of singer Zubeen Garg after courts granted bail to key accused. The government said it will challenge the bail orders in the Supreme Court.