Himanta Biswa Sarma
- Delhi
SC declines Sisodia’s plea quashing Assam CM’s defamation case
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a plea by Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, seeking to quash defamation proceedings against him initiated by Assam Chief Minister Himanta…
- India
‘Refrain from making such statements’: Assam CM tells Ajmal over remarks on Hindus
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday told AIUDF chief and Lok Sabha MP Badruddin Ajmal to refrain from making any statements that attack the modesty of women. Ajmal had…
- India
BJP against Muslim men having multiple wives: Himanta
Morigaon: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said his party was against men from the Muslim community having multiple wives. Launching a scathing attack on Lok Sabha MP Badruddin Ajmal,…
- Politics
‘Himanta Biswa Sarma has secret ties with Badruddin Ajmal’
Guwahati: Assam Congress president Bhupen Borah on Tuesday alleged that All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief Badruddin Ajmal has secret ties with Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. According to Borah, “this…
- India
Projects worth 40,000 cr to be launched in Assam in next two months
Guwahati: As a part of the Assam government’s initiative to launch a slew of development projects, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of as many…
- India
Vaishnavite monasteries’ land under encroachment in Assam: CM Sarma
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed that as per an interim report submitted, an aggregate of 7,504 bighas (1,898 hectares) of land belonging to 303 Satras (Vaishnavite monasteries) are under…
- India
Abandon false narratives, rewrite our history: Amit Shah to historians
Union Home minister Amit Shah on Friday asked historians to rewrite history in the ‘Indian context’ and has assured them that the government will support them. “As a history student, I frequently…
- India
Rahul looks like Saddam Hussein, says Sarma; Cong terms him ‘petty troll’
Ahmedabad: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has claimed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is looking like “Saddam Hussein”, the former Iraqi dictator, drawing a sharp rebuke from the Congress which dubbed the…
- News
Firing incident: Assam police could have shown more restraint, says CM Sarma
Guwahati: Reacting to violence that claimed six lives in a village along the Assam-Meghalaya border, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said that police could have shown more restraint before…
- India
Assam CM Himanta raises Mehrauli killing issue, demands law against ‘Love Jihad’
New Delhi: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday demanded a stringent law against “Love Jihad” as he raised the issue of the gruesome Mehrauli killing while campaigning for the municipal…
- India
Assam CM says Mehrauli killing a case of ‘love jihad’
Ahmedabad: Assam Chief Minister and BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma has said the horrific murder of Shraddha Walkar allegedly by her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala is a case of “love jihad”. He…
- India
AFSPA may be withdrawn from more places in Assam, says Sarma
Guwahati: The Assam government is considering withdrawing Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA) from at least two more locations in the state, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday. At a…
- India
Amid row, museum set up by Muslims sealed in Assam’s Goalpara
Guwahati: Amid the controversy around the setting up of private “Miya Museum” in Assam’s Goalpara, the district administration sealed the museum on Tuesday soon after Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma raised questions…