The Ramon Magsaysay Award is considered one of Asia's highest honours and is given to individuals or organisations that have made outstanding contributions to society.
This pivotal assembly signifies a promising step towards achieving harmonious resolutions among the communities that inhabit the border territories of West Karbi Anglong, Assam, as well as the border regions of West Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya.
The Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Jorhat covers 21 sq. km and is a key habitat for the Western Hoolock Gibbon. It’s home to around 125 gibbons, organised into over two dozen family groups. It stands as India’s sole protected area named after a primate species.
The flood situation has been grim in Assam after 17 districts were affected after Brahmaputra river rises due to the incessant rain in upper streams areas for the last couple of days.
A senior Assam journalist was arrested on Friday in Assam's Hailakandi district for allegedly referring to Mahatma Gandhi as "a spy of British" and later released on bail.
Following the Gauhati High Court acquitting all six convicts in the 2004 bomb blast in Assam's Dhemaji, the Assam government has asked the DGP to study the judgement.
Chairman of the Regional Committee for West Khasi Hills, Paul Lyngdoh, on Friday informed that the regional committees of both Assam and Meghalaya will be meeting in Shillong on August 28.
