Assam government is getting ready to reopen educational institutions in the state from September 1 but the ultimate decision will depend on the Union Home Ministry, said Assam Education and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the stone was detected during an ultrasonography conducted on him after he complained of extreme stomach pain.
The Assam government has decided to allow inter-district movement for three days from April 25 subject to the Ministry of Home Affairs guidelines.
While addressing the media over the COVID-19 situation in Assam, the BJP leader assured that the state government has decided to conduct free coronavirus tests for news reporters at Guwahati Medical College on April 25.
Assam Health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday hinted towards extending lockdown in the state. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati, Sarma said, "If the lockdown is lifted by April 14 or 20, we will face challenges."
Sarma said that Centre has provided with a list of 547 people to Assam government on Tuesday. Out 547, 134 were in the Nizamuddin area but not in Tablighi Jamaat. He added that 68 people had stayed back in Delhi and 4 of them tested positive in the National Capital itself.
The coronavirus tests of all of 456 suspects will take place on Wednesday
The second test of a four-and-a-half-year-old girl in Assam, who had initially tested positive for coronavirus, has tuned out to be negative, state Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday.
Presenting the last full budget of the maiden BJP-led government in Assam, Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday proposed a series of cash incentives to public, including a Rs 10,000 annual sop to 27 lakh poor families and free rice to 58 lakh households ahead of the state assembly elections due next year.
The Assam government on Tuesday said it will bring a new legislation to stop transfer of teachers in the first 10 years of service. Announcing the plan during the Question Hour, Assam Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the bill will be introduced during the later part of the ongoing Budget session of the Assembly.
Announcing the decision, education minister Himanta Biswa Sharma said that it is not the government's job to teach religion, religious scriptures and Arabic and other languages for religious purposes.
Assam Minister and BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma has said that the state government will register a case against the main organizer of Shaheen Bagh protest in Delhi, Sharjeel who said that Assam should be cut off from the rest of India.
Taking a dig at Deepika Padukone over her participation in JNU vigil, Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said actors were in the habit of visiting disturbed areas to create controversies and get free publicity before the release of their films.
Arundhati Gold Scheme update: If marriage is on your cards then government of this state has good news for the brides. The Assam government is set to start the Arundhati gold scheme by January 2020 for the registered newly married couples.
"We are not happy with the National Register of Citizens (NRC) that has been released. If there is no national NRC then we have to have a fresh NRC or revision of it. We don't accept the NRC which was published," Assam Minister and BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
"Names of many Indian citizens who migrated from Bangladesh as refugees prior to 1971 have not been included in the NRC because authorities refused to accept refugee certificates," Sarma said in the micro blogging site.
When protest broke out against the Centre's plan to bring the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, (CAB) -- dubbed to be against the interest of the indigenous people of the region -- many political commentators believed that it would mar the BJP's chances in the general elections in the North East.
The convoy of West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh was allegedly attacked by Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers days before the sixth round of polling in West Bengal.
The state does not need any such agitation which creates only regressive atmosphere, the senior BJP leader said.
Former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta had committed the first blunder by signing the Assam Accord and the party made the second ''historic blunder'' by not extending support to the Bill, Sarma said.
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