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Guwahati: Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW),
Sarbananda Sonowal
launched a sharp attack on the Congress, alleging that the party had ‘betrayed and weakened Assam,’ while crediting
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
with restoring security, stability and rapid development across the state.
Addressing public meetings Sonowal said Assam’s transformation from a state once marked by fear and instability to one witnessing unprecedented infrastructure growth reflects a decisive shift in governance.
Sonowal was also present with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the CM of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma during the launch of the Emergency Landing Facility (ELF) at Moran earlier.
‘Congress kept Assam weak for decades. From encouraging illegal infiltration to imposing the IMDT Act on the people of Assam, their policies undermined the rights and security of Indian citizens. Today, because the IMDT Act was repealed and due to the firm resolve of Prime Minister Modi ji and the Home Minister, every Indian citizen in Assam feels secure,’ Sonowal said.
The Lok Sabha MP from Dibrugarh Sonowal said peace and security have laid the foundation for what he described as a historic phase of development.
Sonowal also joined PM Modi during the inauguration and dedication of the
Kumar Bhaskar Varma Setu
across the Brahmaputra in Guwahati, connecting the city with North Guwahati and enhancing ease of living for citizens. Sonowal said the bridge is ‘a symbol of aspirations and connectivity in a confident Assam.’
Sonowal also highlighted, ‘Today, with the launch of the National Data Centre for the Northeast, the commencement of the academic session at IIM Guwahati and the flagging off of electric buses to promote sustainable urban mobility by Modi ji, shows the intent and the evidence of a coordinated push toward a modern, connected and future-ready state.’
‘From IMDT Act to neglected infrastructure, the journey of Assam before PM Modi ji tells a clear story. Where there was neglect, there is now nation-building. Where there were corruption and mis-governance, there is now transparency and development. Let it be known that Congress betrayed Assam, PM Modi ji reclaimed our honour, our due right, our due growth and our social security,’ Sonowal said.
‘There was a time when people were hesitant to come to Assam. Today, investors, institutions and industries are looking at Assam with confidence. This is the peace dividend under Prime Minister Modi’s leadership,’ Sonowal underscored.
Sonowal alleged that corruption and appeasement politics under the Congress had pushed Assam backward for years. ‘The people of India have placed their trust in PM Modi ji because he listens to the voice of the people. He understood the anguish of the Assamese people and worked to restore dignity, security and opportunity. Under his able leadership, Assam is going to elect BJP back to power allowing sustained growth and momentum of the state,’ Sonowal said.
Sonowal called upon the party workers to get ready for the forthcoming elections and reiterated BJP’s guiding principle, ‘For us, the nation comes first, the party second and the individual last. We must work with honesty and dedication and prove through our conduct that we are a value-based political movement.’ He added that while accelerating development, the government remains committed to preserving Assam’s heritage and cultural identity.
‘Assam is no longer defined by instability. It is defined by infrastructure, confidence and growth. Under Prime Minister Modi ji’s leadership, the Northeast is emerging as a key driver of New India,’ Sonowal said.

In June 2017, in one of those strange turns of life, I found myself at a dinner in a palazzo in Turin, Italy, sitting next to Jeff Bezos. We had both been invited to speak at a conference convened by an Italian billionaire to discuss the future of newspapers, I as the editor of HuffPost and Bezos as the owner of The Washington Post, which he had bought four years earlier. I was surprised and, I’ll confess, a little delighted to find myself alongside the man of the hour. Bezos had cut quite a figure at the conference — offering a passionate case for plowing more resources into the heart and soul of the newspaper he pledged to rebuild. ‘What they needed was a little bit of runway and the encouragement to experiment, and to stop shrinking,’ he said of The Post’s newsroom. ‘You can’t shrink your way into relevance.’ Under his ownership, the paper had added about 140 reporters and rounded the corner to profitability on the back of its journalists’ verve in breaking big stories. This was music to my ears. It had been an especially bruising month for the industry, and hundreds of journalists had lost their jobs. I had been asked to slash the staff of HuffPost, which I had joined six months earlier, as part of a cost-cutting exercise tied to our parent company’s acquisition of Yahoo. For reasons I could scarcely understand, the deal required laying off 39 journalists, along with more than 2,000 other employees. Yet here was one of the richest and most celebrated business titans in the world urging the opposite course. As we dug into our sumptuous meal in an ancient hall filled with media grandees, I made a nervous, self-deprecating crack about being a cynical wretch out of place amid the splendor. Bezos quickly corrected me. Great journalists, he said, were not cynical. They were skeptical, as they should be. I offered up a sheepish grin, charmed to hear him echo the credo of my earliest, most grizzled newsroom mentors. Maybe, I thought, this guy was worth trusting. Turns out the joke was on me, and on journalism. Last week The Washington Post laid off nearly half its staff — according to a recent accounting from the newsroom’s guild — removing brave foreign correspondents, axing its celebrated sports section, gutting its metro reporting staff and more. The cuts, the paper’s leaders said, were aimed at stemming losses and enticing Bezos to keep investing. The paper was, in other words, attempting to shrink its way into relevance — not with its audience but with its unfathomably wealthy, highly distracted owner, whose fortune has more than doubled in the nine years since I met him. Its newly unemployed journalists, by contrast, face a bleak job market, as their colleagues and friends pass a digital tin cup to raise money to support them. This wanton destruction took me back to that encounter with Bezos. Why, I wondered, had I trusted him? Trust is an elusive quality nowadays, seemingly vanishing from public life. That disappearance is particularly acute in news media, as new research this week from Pew underscored. An analysis of polling found that 57 percent of Americans ‘express low confidence in journalists to act in the best interests of the public.’ On its face, this looks like an existential problem for journalism. What good is reporting the news if people don’t trust it? Restoring trust, everyone tends to agree, is a worthy goal. But in an age of digital platforms, algorithmic filtering and declining media literacy, there is no simple recipe

Rawalpindi, Feb 13 (UNI) Pakistan’s Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry on Friday pledged “zero negligence” on the caring of PTI founder and former PM Imran Khan’s alleged near-blindness, stating that the former premier would be taken wherever he chooses for the best medical treatment, to cure his ailing sight, alleged to be operational at little more than 15 per cent.
Speaking to reporters outside Parliament, Chaudhry added that the incarcerated ex-premier would be taken “Wherever he wants to go for a check-up, he will be taken. If he wants to go to Al-Shifa Eye Trust, he will be taken there. If the Chief Justice recommends a doctor, he will be taken there.”
The remarks came a day after a two-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, headed by Chief Justice Yahya Afridi, was informed by PTI counsel Advocate Salman Safdar that Khan had been left with only “15 per cent vision” in his right eye, prompting massive criticism from the political opposition, which has accused the authorities in Adiala Jail of neglecting medical care.
Chaudhry urging restraint, acknowledged the matter is highly “sensitive” nature and slammed what he described as attempts to politicise the issue.
“Misrepresenting facts is completely unfair,” he said, while promising that eye specialists and “super-specialists” would examine the former premier and that “every possible treatment available” would be ensured.
Reacting to protests and criticism, the minister said that the government had not received any complaint from anywhere including Khan’s family in this regard so far, he said recalling visit by family members to the jail in December or during the medical board examination on Dec. 9, or when the Toshakhana verdict was announced on December 20.
According to the minister, a doctor had recommended on January 16 that Khan be shifted to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) for an eye check-up. However, he claimed the transfer did not take place “at the request of PTI, not the jail authorities or the government”.
Following a medical procedure on January 24, doctors issued a report, he added, contrasting it with what he described as a subsequent “report by the lawyer”.
Amid alleged worsening of the situation, the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the formation of a medical team to examine Khan’s eye condition and directed that he be allowed to speak with his children. Both the medical examination and the phone calls are scheduled to be completed before February 16. UNI ANV KK

BEIJING, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) — In a few days, the Spring Festival will bathe cities and villages in the warm glow of red lanterns. Across China, hundreds of millions will gather at home to mark the traditional new year with rituals that stretch back centuries. Across airports and border points, the sound of rolling suitcases has become constant as travelers stream in to follow one of this year’s most talked-about travel trends: Spring Festival in China. People are eager to throw themselves into the rich tapestry of this UNESCO-listed form of heritage — pasting red couplets on doorways, folding dumplings by hand, wandering lantern-lit temple fairs, and watching dragon and lion dances wind their way through bustling streets. The fascination seems to be building from the ground up. On Instagram and TikTok, Gen Z users in countries such as the United States and Australia are experimenting with what they see as Chinese wellness routines: drinking hot water, trying out Baduanjin qigong, or padding around the house in slippers. Many playfully describe themselves as “becoming Chinese,” saying they are feeling “Chinese,” or that they’ve arrived at “a very Chinese time” in their lives. These accounts represent the latest turn in a broader positive shift in how China is perceived globally. Earlier indications included a flood of raw travel vlogs on YouTube after visa rules sharply eased in 2023, a sudden rush to the Chinese Xiaohongshu social media platform when a U.S. TikTok ban looked imminent in early 2025, and a growing international appetite for Chinese games, animation and design. Taken together, these occurrences paint a picture of a rare Chinese moment, when the world is looking past the stock imagery of pandas, kung fu and the Great Wall to encounter a China that is diverse, relatable and increasingly confident in its own skin. What makes this fascination particularly striking is its texture and spontaneity. International attention has crept from consumer brands — electric cars, DJI drones and Huawei devices — to travel, social media, and now the details of daily life: how people eat, relax and stay healthy. And none of this has been orchestrated. Compared to the staged spectacle of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, today’s engagement flows from lived experiences, chance encounters and the natural draw of cultural events like the Spring Festival. This is soft power at its most authentic, and all the more potent because it doesn’t preach. Influence becomes real when curiosity evolves into voluntary emulation. Post-pandemic visa relaxations have acted as a clear catalyst, sparking a wave of inbound tourism. Real-time, unfiltered exchanges on Xiaohongshu have chipped away at old stereotypes of backwardness, smog or faceless uniformity. A flourishing domestic cultural economy has also contributed, producing an outpouring of creativity that resonates internationally. Examples include hit video game “Black Myth: Wukong” and “Ne Zha 2,” the animated blockbuster featuring a defiant boy-god from Chinese mythology. However, to explain away this energy as little more than aesthetics, online trends or algorithmic amplification would miss the deeper dynamics. At its core is a recognition of China’s transformation over the past decades: a sustained path of rapid development, effective governance and social stability that appears increasingly distinctive in an era of global uncertainty. This trajectory is visible in the images and stories circulating online: sleek infrastructure, cyberpunk skylines, cashless payments and electric vehicles that can at times feel surreal. Creators repeatedly describe their experiences as “hyper-modern,” “futuristic” or “like living in 2050.” Beyond the cities, white wind turbines stretch across plains, solar farms glint under the desert sun, lush mountains and clear rivers frame stunning natural diversity, and ancient

Global Business Summit 2026 Live Updates: This year’s edition of the ET NOW Global Business Summit (GBS) 2026 reflects the scale, speed and significance of the transformations reshaping global economies. From rapid technological acceleration and geopolitical realignments to sustainability imperatives and evolving governance frameworks, the summit will examine the forces defining the next decade.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will grace Day 1 of the summit, setting the tone for discussions.
Other key Indian leaders attending include:
Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce and Industry
Chirag Paswan, Union Minister of Food Processing Industries
Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister of Maharashtra
The global and industry representation on Day 1 includes:
Ann E. Harrison, Economist and Former Dean, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Madhusudan Kela, Founder, MK Ventures
Sir Martin Sorrell, Chairman, S4 Capital PLC and Founder, WPP plc
Namit Malhotra, Founder and Global CEO, Prime Focus Limited and DNEG
Ranil Manohara Salgado, Senior Resident Representative, IMF
Sebastian Eckardt, Regional Practice Director (Prosperity), South Asia Region, World Bank
Vikrant Shrotriya, Corporate Vice President and Managing Director, Novo Nordisk India
Prashant Tandon, Co-founder & CEO, Tata 1mg
Arpita Vinay, Senior Managing Director & CEO, Spark Capital PWM
Praveena Rai, MD & CEO, MCX
Nishant Arya, Vice Chairman & MD, JBM Group
Tuhin Kanta Pandey, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India
Kunal Bahl, Co-founder, Snapdeal; Titan Capital; AceVector Group
Greg Zeluck, Partner & Co-Head, Asia Buyout, Carlyle
Dr. Vivek Lall, Chief Executive, General Atomics Global Corporation
Kishore Moorjani, CEO, Alternatives, Private Funds, CapitaLand Investment
Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO, Women’s World Banking
Mike Jatania, CEO & Chairman, The Body Shop; Co-founder, Aurea
Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Vice Chairman, Bharti Enterprises
Shobana Kamineni, Executive Chairperson, Apollo Health Co & Promoter Director, Apollo Hospitals
H.M. Queen Rania Al Abdullah, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Anant Maheshwari, President & CEO (Global Regions), Honeywell
David Schwimmer, CEO, London Stock Exchange Group
Dr. Piotr Antoni Świtalski, Ambassador of Poland to India
H.E. Diana Mickevičienė, Ambassador of Lithuania to India
Dr. Ewa Suwara, Deputy Head, EU Delegation to India
H.E. Charles Michel, Former Prime Minister of Belgium and President Emeritus of the European Council

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