Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday said that dissidence is surviving in media only and that there is no crippling dissidence within the ruling party.
Talking to reporters in Barpeta after holding a poll rally, Gogoi said that the party in rank and file is gearing up for the polls.
According to him, Congress will be able to put up a good show in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Gogoi said called Narendra Modi a cuckoo-like season bird. He further said that BJP president Sarbananda Sonowal would face defeat at the hands of Ranee Narah.
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Guwahati, 25 October 2024 – Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Guwahati Off-Campus celebrated its 11th Convocation for the graduating class of 2024 at the Maniram Dewan Trade Centre Auditorium...
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ITANAGAR: Amid a massive security arrangement in the run up to the Republic Day, unidentified rebels exploded a powerful bomb targetting an army troop on Wednesday.The incident took place near Namsai...
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Guwahati: In connection with the abduction and recovery of the dead bodies of the CCI Manager Kailash Jha and PWD junior Engineer Ajay Kumar Deka, the City Police has arrested five persons, inlcuding...
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Trinamool BJP backed Independent candidate for 64 No. Panery LAC Bikon Deka have appealed masses to vote for Change in the constituency. Talking to Assam Times, Deka who was in fray for BJP ticket...
In yet another bizarre incident that sends shockwaves across the state, a farmer couple committed suicide in Barpeta district after poisoning their 2 children on Sunday. The incident took place in the Sarthebari area where caught in grim poverty the couple poisoned to death their children and then hanged themselves in the evening. Local residents blamed poverty which forced them to take this extreme course of action. The incident took place a month after a poor farmer took the same course of action when flood waves ravaged his crops.
Veteran author and educationist Jiban Krishna Patra passed away leaving a pall of gloom in the entire Barpeta district on Tuesday. The end came in the morning at a local hospital where he was undergoing treatment. He was 80. Patra, who came to Assam in the Sixtieth authored many books when he was working as a professor of a college.Various parties, organizations and individuals have condoled the death of the veteran author and paid their last respect to Patra.
Two minor school students died at a remote area of an Indian state of Assam when a mini bus in which they went to school plunged it a deep gorge while crossing on a narrow wooden bridge on Thursday.According to the family members, the driver was in inebriated condition as he was carrying the vehicle to the morning shift school where the incident took place halfway.Two bodies were fished out by the local residents while the injured others have been shifted to a local health centre for treatment. State disaster response force launched a vigorous search operation on the local rivulet to be completed an hour. Mob violence erupted on the spot who recovered the ill fated vehicle...
In a bizarre incident, fist of its kind in the state, a poor farmer committed suicide after flood waves repeatedly damaged his crops in Barpeta district on Sunday.The tragic incident took place at Bhawanipur area where farmer Taraf Ali committed suicide at his own house in the morning. Local residents told Assam Times that flood waters have completely ravaged his crops forcing him to take this extreme step leaving five children in the lurch. “He had his crops five months back to be washed away. Again he did it. But much to his utter disappointment, the fresh wave of flood waters again damaged it Many organizations have expressed grave concern over the incident where the...
Three persons who sustained serious injury in Barpeta lightening on Saturday are battling for life at the Gauhati Medical College Hospital.At least fifteen others have been undergoing treatment at the Barpeta Medical College Hospital who are out of danger. The boat carrying more than 50 people was caught in a storm in the middle of the river Beki where the lightening struck on it leaving seven people died on the spot.
Altogether seven people including women and children died in a lightening incident in Barpeta sending shockwaves across the state on Saturday.Amid thunder squall the lightening took place on a boat carrying at least 50 people on the river Beki in the evening where at least 21 others sustained injury.The injured are battling for life at the Barpeta Medical College Hospital. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi has expressed deep shock at the lightening incident and announced Rs 4 lakh each to the family members of those killed in the incident.
Bajali AJYCP unit felicitated 30 HS and HSLC pass outs at a function encouraging the student fraternity in the entire are on Sunday.Presided over by Mridul Talukdar, the function at Puthimari LP School was attended by Binita Bora Dev, Nagesh Baishya along with several other noted persons.
Normal train services remains disrupted for several hours in the morning on Monday following the rail blockade in Barpeta demanding a sub division. Led by BJP MLA from Sorbhog Ranjit Das, hundreds of people blocked the rails in Sorbhog in the morning demanding Sorbhog a sub division. New Delhi bound Rajdhani Express along with several other trains remained unmoved for several hours.
Children education is the key to a vibrant future of a country. All teachers engaged in children education should keep it in mind to help the country a better future. This is more or less of what scholars and educationists have told more than 250 school teachers at an ongoing training programme in Bhawanipur.Organized by the Sishu Sikhya Samity at the Sankardev Sishu Neketon the newly recruited teachers are undergoing training imparted by a group of educationists from the state and outside.From physical education to dance and music, from literature and language and social studies to science, the experts are imparting the training to the children teachers. The training programme which began...
Achyut Lahkar is 85 years old on Thursday. Various local organizations and individuals in Pathsala area on Thursday greeted the mobile theatre pioneer on his 85th birth day.AASU, AJYCP, Pathsala town committee felicitated Lahkar at a brief function organized at the Pathsala Press Club on Thursday to mark the occasion. The Assam government has yet to assist the ailing theatre personality. However, APCC local leader Sailen Kalita also met him on the occasion.
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