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Keeping with the U.S.' interest in India's Look East Policy the American Center, Kolkata for the first time organized an Alumni Entrepreneurship Road Show & Mentorship Program in the city capital...
14 May 2013 - 5:26pm | AT News
President Pranab Mukherjee exhorted varsities to meet the requirements of moral challenges faced by society amid rising crimes against women.In his speech at the Convocation ceremony of Assam...
29 Jul 2012 - 9:54pm | editor
Home Minister P Chidambaram will arrive in Assam on a two visit to the violence-hit BTAD areas on Monday. Immediately after landing at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport,...
4 Jan 2018 - 8:18am | AT News
GOLAGHAT: After a brief silence, tension erupts along the Assam-Nagaland border where a gang of Naga miscreants unleashed terror at a border hamlet in Golaghat district on Wednesday. The incident...
Assam joins Viswakarma puja celebrations with a colourful festive spirit across the state on Tuesday.Puja offerings began in the morning before the idols of the Lord Viswakarma in the industrial units, factories and technical institutes. Viswakarma puja was observed in assamtimes campus where its employees and family members are offering pujas to the god of construction.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that Narendra Modi will never come as the Prime Minister. Talking to reporters, Gogoi said that BJP is focusing only on Hindu votes. He said Modi has links with the RSS and BJP does not have any authority over its decisions as everything is decided by the RSS.
Around 40,000 posts are lying vacant in different departments. These would be filled up within six months.According to Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, “the total vacancies across all the departments will be around 35,000-40,000 at present. Our plan is to fill up these vacancies in the next six months.Gogoi who addressed a press conference in Dispur on Monday said that the education department has highest number of vacancies. This is followed by the police department. Gogoi has asked the departments to give the report on the list of vacancies by September 30.
Yet another rape incident has shocked Assam. The gruesome incident took place in Karbi Anglong district where the victim is an 11-year old girl. The minor girl was raped by a neighbor before being dumped at a nearby place assuming her to be dead.The entire incident which took place in the first week of September came to light only on Sunday.According to allegations, the girl was raped by her 24-year-old neighbour Tinku Sahu after taking her to a nearby sugarcane field at Kheroni on September 6. Assuming her to be dead, he abondoned the girl who was later recovered with multiple injuries. Sahu was arrested and was sent to jail.
Security forces claimed to have killed a hardcore NDFB militant belonging to the Songbijit faction at an encounter in Kokrajhar district on Sunday. The encounter took place in the evening at Ultapani jungle under Bismuri police outpost. The militant cadres was identified as Bilifang Basumatary of Mohenpur village. He is believed to be the section commander in Bismuri. He was involved with several extortion and anti-government activities in the region. A 7.65 mm pistol, two grenade, 6 live ammunition, three empty cases, two mobile handsets were recovered from him.
An army jawan has been arrested on Sunday for alleged attempt to rape a sleeping woman inside in an air-conditioned coach of a running train on Sunday.The incident took place in the wee hours at the Guwahati-Ledo Inter City Express. The accused jawan from the 299 Field Regiment, posted at Maiballa in Sonari under Sibsagar district of Assam, was arrested at Mariani station by railway police.According to the allegation, she was sleeping in the upper berth of an AC 3-tier coach, while the jawan was sleeping in the middle, her mother in the lower berth and her brother in a side berth.The jawan also tried to prevent her from shouting by putting his hand on her mouth but she managed to raise an...
At least nine workers from Assam were killed and 11 injured when suspected militants triggered a powerful IED blast at Khoyathong in the heart of Imphal on Friday. Six others have been critically injured. The bomb exploded at 7.35 in the evening inside a camp where the labourers housed. Nine workers died on the spot. Police called it an IED planted by militants. This has forced the security forces to step up vigil in the capital city.
Bodies of two youths from Chirang district of Assam have been recovered in Andhra Pradesh two days after they left for West Bengal.Identified as Dhan Basumatary and Bishnu Narzary, their bodies were recovered at Nallore Railway station on Wednesday. Both they were accompanied by Dawa Basumatary to West Bengal who has been remaining traceless.
The lifeless naval officers from Assam, who died in the INS Sindhurakshak tragedy brought to their home on Wednesday.Naval Engineer Narottam Deuri’s body was received at the Gopinath Bardoloi International Airport at Borjhar here with honour by Navy, Army and Air force officials. Then it was sent to his home at Narayanpur in Lakhimpur by road for the last rites on Thursday.The body of the other naval personnel Petty Officer Timothy Sinha, attached to the Underwater Unit 1, was received in his native place Silchar by Cachar district administration for the last rites on Wednesday.At Borjhar, the ethnic Deuri Jatiya Sangathan and Deuri Students Union strongly protested the absence of state...
Normal life remains paralyzed in Kokrajhar on Tuesday following the 36-hours BTAD bandh beginning from 5 in the morning. Called by the Undivided Goalpara Indo-Mongolian Youth Front in protest against brutally killing of two youth including a cadre of NDFB (Songbijit faction) and an innocent youth at Audang bazaar under Karigaon police outpost, the bandh evokes full response as soon as it came into force.All financial institutions, shops and markets remained closed. Schools and colleges refused to open. Vehicles were off from the roads. The youth front appealed to the political leaders to be alert on the role played by the state government. Rahul Brahma alias B Rugung and Anjalu Brahma alias...
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