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An estimated 12.36 per cent of over 74 lakh voters exercised their franchise in the first two hours of polling Tuesday in four Lok Sabha seats of Assam.

Out of the 115 Lok Sabha seats going to polls in the third phase, over 30 constituencies spread across Assam, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and West Bengal have substantial Muslim population.

The Bongaigaon district administration in Assam has developed an exclusive mobile phone application to motivate voters, especially first-time electors, to exercise their franchise in the Lok Sabha polls.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday released a list of 36 candidates for Lok Sabha candidates in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Maharashtra and Odisha ahead of the general elections.

A BJP panchayat president in Assam has been shot dead and another party worker critically injured by unidentified gunmen in Cachar district ahead of the three-phase Lok Sabha polls in the state next month, police said.

Veteran Congress leader Tarun Gogoi Thursday said the party will benefit from the anti-Citizenship Bill sentiment in Assam after the AGP’s “betrayal”, and it hoped to win at least 10 of the 14 seats in the state in the Lok Sabha polls.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Election Commission to furnish the data on addition and deletion of voters from electoral rolls in Assam, as revised in January 2017, 2018 and 2019.

It seems kidnapping is a growing business in the state. Every day, at least 27 boys and girls fall victim to kidnappers.

Hindustan Oil Exploration Corporation (HOEC) said, it has been awarded the contract of exploring Umatara field in Assam in consortium with Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOC).

The toll in the Assam hooch tragedy increased to 80 on Saturday while over 310 others were undergoing treatment in hospitals. So far 45 people have died in Jorhat Medical College Hospital