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Guwahati: Breaking his silence over the alliance with Congress to beat BJP in 2021 assembly polls, AIUDF president Badaruddin Ajmal denied any ambition for the Chief Minister’s job.
Talking to a...
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Amid massive security arrangement voters in Delhi are holding long queue in front of the polling booths on Saturday to elect their representatives in the assembly afresh.Braving a biting coldwave,...
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The Asom Gana Parishad has urged Centre’s intervention to ensure safe rescue of Onkarmal Agarwallah who is believed to have been kidnapped from Jharkhand on Tuesday.
The Opposition party on...
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It is well known that the three Gyps species of vultures in India had drastically declined by about 99% over the past two decades. BNHS-India, in association with UK-based Royal Society for the...
Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses its profound grief at the untimely demise of senior sports journalist Pranjal Hazarika, who breathed his last today (13 April 2020) morning in Jorhat.
Lived at Jorhat with his extended family, Pranjal (45) was suffering from serious liver ailments for some time. He was hospitalized last night with major complications.
Pranjal left behind his parent, wife with a son, other relatives and a host of well-wishers.
“Pranjal left all of us at a time when the human race on planet Earth is fighting against the deadly novel corona virus under full or semi lockdown,” said a press release issued by JFA president Rupam Barua and secretary...
For almost 3 weeks now, Salesian College Sonada and its Siliguri Campus have been using on-line facility for teaching-learning as well as research.
An on-line Longitudinal Study on the Attitudinal Changes to the Covid -19 lockdown both for students and faculty is into its 3rd week. The Google Form containing 20 questions is send out each week, to both students and faculty to assess attitudinal changes caused by Covid 19 related lockdown.
Using Open Source Moodle platform (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) the faculty is able to reach out to some 1,900 students in both campuses for teaching-learning activities.
Founded and developed by Martin Dougiamas in...
GUWAHATI: A huge hailstorm accompanied by thunder and lightening on Thursday night heavily disrupted normal lives in many parts of the state on Friday.
The storm started lashing the capital city of Guwhati at around 9-30 in the evening where roads were submerged with rainwaters. In the lower Assam districts of Goalpara, Barpeta also the stormed disrupted the surface communication.
Same reports are coming from Sivasagar, Jorhat, Golghat and Tinsukia and Sonitpur and Nagaon where the uprooted trees blocked many roads apart from disrupting the electricity and tele communication network. Efforts in many areas are going on to restore the telecom network and electricity but it...
Silchar: The state registered the loss of it's first COVID19 patient when Faizul Islam Borbhuyan passed away at the Silchar Medical College Hospital on Friday.
Borbhuyan, the 28th patient COVID 19 patient, who was around 65 years of age, shown some strange symptoms and was rushed to SMCH a couple of years back from Hailakandi.
According to health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, he died in the week hours since he was having some breathing problem since he was admitted to the hospital.
Notably as many as 24 patients who have tested negative a number of times might be released on Friday or Saturday.
The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) is celebrating its 70th Foundation Day on 9 April. However, the grand celebrations planned earlier are now postponed by a year in the wake of Covid-19.
“ICCR is all about cultivating an enlightened understanding of Indian culture and when the entire Global community is facing an unprecedented challenge, feeling lonely and disconnected, the message of Indian philosophy i.e. Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam or the world is a family has become more relevant than any time in the past. Even in this lockdown situation, ICCR is conducting e-tutorials in Yoga, classical dances and even Hindi and Sanskrit. We are working with a ‘show must go on...
Guwahati: The All India United Democratic Front has stood by Aminul Islam after a lower court in Nagaon jailed the party from Dhing on Tuesday.
Talking to media state party president Champak Kalita said that the party will challenge Islam's judicial custody in the appropriate court of law.
Kalita said that Islam had done no wrong and only what he said was his only apprehension and that he was arrested only because of an opposition party MLA who has been critical of the government for it's many anti people policies.
Islam was arrested after interrogation by police charging him with spreading rumour on the quarantine of some people apprehending COVID19 infection.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Assam Government and Centre asking for an affidavit on a plea to release the detention camp inmates who have already spent 2 years.
Taking up a petition on Tuesday, the country''s top court said that the issued could be settled only after considering the response from the Centre and state.
The petitioner has strongly urged the court to direct the authorities to release half of the inmates in view of the killer COVID19 outbreak which could claim their lives since they have been detained inside a room.
The state has over 750 inmates in 6 detention camps set up inside the jails.
Earlier the top court has...
Nagaon: A local court in Nagaon has sent Aminul Islam to 14 days judicial custody on Tuesday after the police arrested the AIUDF MLA for spreading false rumour on quarantine.
When the police produced the MLA from Dhing before the Chief Judicial Magistrate producing evidence against him, Islam had no convincing statement to counter it and then he was thrown to the Nagaon Central Jail.
Earlier on Monday night a team of police picked up the senior AIUDF leader to the police guest house where he was grilled for nearly 2 hours.
Islam was quizzed after he told one of his aacquintance that the isolation wards set up by the government are like the detention camps...
Nagaon: Police have arrested AIUDF MLA from Dhing Aminul Islam charging him with misleading the people in the time of COVID-19 outbreak.
A team of police men on Monday afternoon picked up the senior AIUDF MLA to the office of superintendent where he was grilled for nearly 2 hours.
According to police sources, Islam could be arrested as soon as they get green signal from the state assembly Speaker since he is a sitting MLA.
Islam was quizzed after he told one of his aacquintance that the isolation wards set up by the government are like the detention camps alleging a conspiracy to kill a section of the people. Now policemen are in the possession of all these...
Guwahati: The United Liberation Front of Asom(I) has urged the people to skip the upcoming Rongali Bihu in the time of COVID19 menace.
In a video message, a senior leader of the outfit said from an undisclosed location that the celebration of the festival might disrupt social distance which is the key mantra to keep the killer virus at bay.
He further said that the outfit was also not celebrating it's foundation day on Tuesday because of the COVID19 menace.
The outfit fighting for an independent Assam was form on April 7, 1979 at the historic Rongghar premises where thousands of army, jawans, police and paramilitary personnel apart...
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