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Dima Hasao district, earlier called North Cachar Hills district, is an administrative district in the state of Assam, India. As of 2011, it is the least populous district of Assam.
Haflong is a town and headquarters of Dima Hasao district in the state of Assam in India. It is the only hill station in Assam.
Maibang is a town and a town area committee in Dima Hasao district in the Indian state of Assam. Maibang is also one of the three sub-divisions of Dima Hasao District. It was once the capital of the Dimasa Kachari Kingdom. There is a stone house of Dimasa king.
Assam University is a collegiate central public university located at Silchar, Assam, India. It was founded in the year 1994 by the provisions of an act enacted by the Parliament of India. The Governor of Assam is the Chief Rector and the President of India is acting as the Visitor of the university. The Chancellor is the ceremonial head of the university while the executive powers rest with the Vice-chancellor. The university has sixteen schools which offer Humanities, Languages, Environmental Sciences, Information Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, Law, Technology and Management Studies. There are 42 departments under these sixteen schools. The five districts under the jurisdiction of Assam University have 73 undergraduate colleges as on 31 March 2020. Assam University is an institutional signatory to the Global Universities Network for Innovation (GUNI), Barcelona and United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) for its commitment to educational social responsibilities.
Haflong Hindi is the lingua franca of Dima Hasao district of Assam state of India. It is a pidgin that stemmed from Hindi and includes vocabulary from several other languages, such as Assamese, Bengali, Dimasa and Zeme Naga. It is named after Haflong, which is the headquarters of Dima Hasao district.
The Cachar Express was a daily Indian Railways metre-gauge overnight express train from Lumding Junction to Silchar and vice versa, both stations are situated in the Indian state of Assam. The train was numbered as 15691 and 15692 respectively. The train service is suspended now as the route in which it used to run is now converted from metre gauge to broad gauge.
Muolhoi is a locality in Haflong Town, of the state of Assam in India. With a resident population 6500+, . The population of Muolhoi strongly reflects the different communities of the ethnic Hmar people.
National Highway 27, an East - West National highway in India that starts in Porbandar and ends in Silchar, the highway passes through the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam. NH-27 was laid and is maintained by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH). It is the second longest National Highway in India and is a part of NS-EW Corridor of NHAI.
Joy Bhadra Hagjer (1914–1973) was an Indian politician. He held many portfolios in the Assam Legislative Assembly. During the period of his demise, he was undivided Assam's Minister of Veterinary, Jails and Minority Affairs as on 18 July 1973. He belongs to the indigenous Dimasa community. He was honoured being founder president of Bodo Sahitya Sabha as its President. and there are also some colleges in the state named after him.
Rewati Chetri is an Indian model and beauty pageant titleholder. She participated in Femina Miss India 2015 where she was a finalist. She has been crowned Miss Asia at the World Miss University 2016 pageant, held in Beijing. In 2016 she participated in the Senorita India pageant, and won the title of Miss International India 2016. She represented India at Miss International 2016 held in Tokyo, Japan
Haflong Assembly constituency is one of the 126 assembly constituencies of Assam a north east state of India. Haflong is also part of Autonomous District Lok Sabha constituency. It is a reserved seat for the Scheduled tribes (ST).
Bir Bhadra Hagjer is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Assam. He has been elected in Assam Legislative Assembly election in 2016 from Haflong constituency.
Fiangpui is a locality in Haflong town, the headquarters of Dima Hasao district, in Assam, India. With a population of 2051 people as of 2011, it is home to the Biate people. Located at a distance of 2 km from the main town area, one can experience the feeling of a blend of both village and urban lives in Fiangpui.
Jamchonga Nampui was an Indian civil servant. He was an Indian Administrative Service officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre. He was the first person from Assam to be directly recruited to the IAS as well as the first Scheduled Tribe IAS officer in India when he cleared the civil services examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission in 1954. He belongs to the Biate tribe of Northeast India.
The Haflong Thrust is the most persistent of the thrusts in the 400 km long Belt of Schuppen (BoS) in the western part of Nagaland. The Belt of Schuppen forms the outermost fringe of the mobile belt of the Assam–Arakan basin and forms the most prominent morphotectonic unit of the Naga Hills, where these overthrusts form a complex pattern. The frontal thrust, conventionally known as the Naga thrust, is seen to be composed of four different thrusts. The uppermost thrust is known as the Haflong (Disang) thrust. The Naga-Disang (Haflong) Overthrust area includes besides the Naga Hills proper, a few long ranges of hills fringing the plain of Upper Assam, and a large part of the North Cachar Hills. Haflong Fault is the south-westward continuation of the Disang thrust from the Naga Hills to Haflong where the thrust becomes a narrow but complex fracture belt. Along with two major thrusts, the Haflong-Naga Thrust and Disang Thrust, studies revealed three minor thrusts in the BoS.
New Haflong railway station is a main railway station in Dima Hasao district, Assam. Its code is NHLG. It serves Haflong town. The station consists of three platforms.
The North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council (NCHAC), also known as Dima Hasao Autonomous Council, is an autonomous district council in the state of Assam in India. It was constituted under the provisions of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India to administrate the Dima Hasao district and to develop the hill people in the area. Its headquarters is in Haflong, Dima Hasao district.
Gobinda Chandra Langthasa was an Indian politician from the state of Assam. He was a member of Assam Legislative Assembly for Haflong. He was also a cabinet minister in the first Tarun Gogoi cabinet, and Deputy Chief Minister of Assam under Hiteswar Saikia.
