3 Jun 2010 - 4:24am | sankal
A Mid Term CME of Association of Surgeons of Assam was organized by the Medical Department of Guwahati Refinery on 29th May’10 wherein medical professionals from all over Assam participated...
25 Nov 2017 - 9:52am | AT Kokrajhar Bureau
A national handloom expo -2017-18,Kokrajhar is going on at the Rashmela ground in Kokrajhar. The expo was organised by BRAWFED in association with development commissioner for handlooms, ministry of...
19 Mar 2017 - 10:04pm | AT News
Security forces apprehended a cadre of NDFB from Kashiabari under Gossaigaon PS in Kokrajhar district today. The cadre Anil alias Deepjyoti Narzary. A Chinese grande was recovered from him.
10 May 2011 - 5:02pm | Paresh Baishya
Naazrana Choudhury, a fashion designer from Assam has launched a new brand “URONI” The Theme of Tradition” to promote Assamese handloom...
An International Webinar Series -2 on the Theme: "Bamboo: a potential resource for the uplifting rural economy in post-COVID pandemic situation in Northeast Inda” was held on 10th July 2020 organised by “2020 INDIA TAIWAN GLOBAL BAMBOO TECH FORUM” in association with Gauhati University, Assam and Japan Bamboo Society as Knowledge partners. This was an initiative of SABF and National Cheng Chung University, Taiwan to expand bamboo cooperation and develop the bamboo industry towards achieving the SDG of United nations globally. The Webinar was started with the welcome speech by Dr. Long-Chuan Lu, Professor, Marketing and Director, Marketing Strategy and Innovation Research Centre, National...
PEN Delhi expresses its deep concern at the intimidation that Patricia Mukhim, editor of The Shillong Times, is being subjected to for her opposition to the violence against non-tribals in Meghalaya. A complaint has been filed by Lawsohtun Dorbar Shnong, the traditional local body, with the Shillong police, against Mukhim, charging her with defaming the Khasi community and creating communal enmity between communities.
The complaint claims that the case against her is made out under sections 153A, 505 and 499 of the Indian Penal Code. The demand to initiate criminal proceedings against Patricia Mukhim was made after she wrote a post on her Facebook page about an attack on a group of...
Guwahati: BJP MLA from Hojai Shiladitya Dev will quit the ruling party on Tuesday alleging utter in discipline inside the party.
Dev told media on Sunday that utter in discipline would put the party in dire straits in the future.
"On a number of occasions, I brought many things to the notice of the party leadership. But of no avail. I feel it's better to take retirement from the party, " said Dec.
Without naming anybody he said that as of now the party has too many leaders which is why many dedicated leaders have gone nowhere.
Dev said that he has already sent a message of his decision to the state party president Ranjit Das and that he won't join any...
Guwahati : Assam chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal had a stock taking video conference with all district authorities in the time of COVID-19.
Sonowal asked Deputy Commissioners to take all possible measures to keep the killer virus at bay.
Health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his junior minister Piyush Hazarika were conspicuous by their absence from the meeting on COVID-19.
Sarma along with two senior cabinet ministers on Wednesday reviewed the situation and knockdown in Guwahati at a meeting with chief minister.
The meetings assumed significance after Indian Medical Association and All Assam Medical Students Association alleged utter mismanagement of the menace.
Guwahati: The Indian Medical Association has strongly criticized the COVID19 care and management in Assam and suggested the government to formulate measures taking the medical experts into confidence.
In a letter to health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, IMA's state unit alleged a number of anomalies in the system which why, the number of infected doctors and health workers has gone up on every passing day.
The association further questioned the government's intention on the violation of ICMR guidelines for home treatment of the asymptomic patients.
Professor S B Roy, Chairman of the Indian Institute of Bio-Social Research and Development and Manoj K Das, MD of the North East Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation (NERAMAC) are in conversation with Senior Journalist Kaveree Bamzai about how to boost the tribal economy and move past the staggering impact of the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns.
Guwahati: As many as 1200 prisoners at the Guwahati Central Jail staged sharna on Saturday demanding release of Akhil Gogoi whom the police arrested 7 months back in a number of cases.
The prisoners thronged near the jail gate and started Sharna and shouted slogans raising their demands.
The further treatened to intensify their demands if the peasant leader is not released under relevant sections of the laws.
Gogoi was jailed under NSA and later police imposed a number of sections to keep him in jail.
GENEVA (26 June 2020) – UN experts* today called on India to immediately release human rights defenders who have been arrested for protesting against changes to the nation’s citizenship laws.
“These defenders, many of them students, appear to have been arrested simply because they exercised their right to denounce and protest against the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act), and their arrest seems clearly designed to send a chilling message to India’s vibrant civil society that criticism of government policies will not be tolerated,” the experts said.
One of the most alarming cases concerns pregnant Delhi student Safoora Zargar, who was detained for over two months having allegedly been...
There is no let up in the inferno at gas well in Baghjan which caught fire on Tuesday after ten days of blow out.
Around 1600 families in 1.5 km radius have been camping at safe distance and most of them alleged to have lost their houses in the inferno.
Local residents have further alleged lost of paddy fields which won't be cultivable for the next many years.
State industry minister Chandra Mohan Patowary drew flake as he was allegedly trying to downplay the incident during his to a relief camps.
Absence petroleum minister and chief minister has further fuelled anger of the people.
"Nobody knows when the inferno would end. By then we would have to lose everything...
Aaranyak’s concern on oil leakage and fire at Baghjan in Tinsukia District Guwahati, 10 June, 2020
Aaranyak, an organization working towards biodiversity conservation in Northeast India is deeply disturbed and concerned on the fire-bursting at the oil wells at Baghjan area adjacent to important wildlife areas, Maguri-Motapung wetlands and Dibrusaikhowa National Park since yesterday afternoon. The leakage of natural gas from the oil well has been reported almost 12 days ago, however it is now evident that Oil India Limited (OIL) could not address the leakage issue for over 12 days leading to unabated fire since last afternoon.
Dibru-Saikhowa is also a Biosphere...
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