Kathmandu, Apr 6: Indian Ambassador Naveen Srivastava paid a courtesy call on Nepal's newly-appointed Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal on Monday and discussed various aspects...
New Delhi, Apr 6: Multiple agencies rushed to Ramjas and Miranda House colleges of the Delhi University after the institutions received bomb threat e-mails...
Jorhat, Apr 6: The stakes are high, but the campaign is dignified in Assam's Jorhat assembly constituency where state Congress president Gaurav Gogoi and...
Bhabanipur-Sorbhog (Assam), Apr 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that while his government has carried out Operation Sindoor on terror camps in...
Nagaon (Assam), Apr 6: Hours after Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma denied Congress allegations regarding his wife allegedly holding multiple passports and properties...
Aizawl, Apr 6: Mizoram Presbyterian Church (Synod) has called upon its local churches to step in and facilitate health insurance enrollment for underprivileged members,...
Assam and the Peril of Populist Pledges
By Dipak Kurmi
The enduring cynicism surrounding democratic exercises is perhaps best captured by the Soviet statesman Nikita Khrushchev,...