25 Feb 2012 - 3:28am | editor
Bangladesh would soon extradite ULFA general secretary Anup Chetia as soon as the legal process completes.
Disclosing this, Bangladesh home minister Sahara Khatun said in Delhi that Dhaka won...
10 Dec 2015 - 7:10am | Hantigiri Narzary
In a major success, security forces arrested 10 cadres of NDFB (S), National Liberation Front of Bengali (NLFB) and NSCN (IM) including sergeant major of NSCN, deputy C-in-C of NLFB, senior woman...
19 May 2011 - 2:36am | Ritupallab Saikia
The BJP candidate from Khumtai LAC, for the 2011 assembly election Dr. Mridul Kr. Dutta alleges of EVM tampering in the recently concluded polls. In a press meet held today at Golaghat, Dr. Dutta...
8 Feb 2014 - 10:34pm | Syed Miraz Ahmed
At a time when BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is extensively spreading his wings across the nation ahead of the general elections, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is also...
Despite round-the-clock vigil, rhino poaching refuses to die down in the Kaziranga National Park. Carcass of yet another rhino was found on Friday inside the world heritage site.Poachers killed another rhino in the park on Thursday night and fled with its horn. The incident took place at Arikati area inside the park under Agoratoli forest range. Forest guards found the body on Friday morning, with the horns missing.
Guwahati had a narrow escape from a huge explosion when police recovered a powerful bomb on Tuesday morning in the city.The bomb was planted inside an abandoned bag which was kept in front of the Refinery Gate in Noonmati. On spotting the suspicious object panic stricken local residents called up police in the morning. Noonmati police arrived in the spot with sniffer dogs. Bomb disposal squad arrived on the spot and defused the bomb.
Two policemen have been injured when suspected ULFA exploded a powerful grenade in Jorhat on Tuesday.The explosion took place on Friday wee hours at Kenduguri areas near the town. Two policemen on checking duty on the road sustained serious injury. They have been indentified as Kesav Gogoi and Bolin Sonowal who have been rushed to the Jorhat Medical College Hospital. Police called it a handwork of ULFA militants who struck to avoid police checking. Later police recovered some explosives from the spot.
It’s a ray of hope for farmers. Courtesy the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti. Led by Akhil Gogoi, KMSS has kickstarted a few ‘fair price’ stalls for vegetables in Guwahati pulling huge crowd. The two shops at Chandmari and RG Baruah Road Tiniali are being expanded till Ganeshguri on Tuesday after procuring the produce in bulk from farmers in Barpeta Road where they had been deprived of their due remuneration due to large-scale presence of middlemen and illegal syndicates in the trade. The stalls seems to have drawn overwhelming response from the citizens who made a beeline to the stalls to get vegetables at half the price sold in the city markets. ON Monday alone, over a hundred...
The World Bank will help Dispur improve public service delivery and governance of government departments. The government and World Bank are set to initially provide technical assistance, which will be later followed by financial assistance.The government departments that would be covered under the programmeare in the areas of business process re-engineering, digitization ofrecords, capacity building, human resource management, strengthening of institutions, and electronic service delivery adoption of innovative administrative practices.
Utpal Borpujari's documentary "Mayong: Myth/Reality" will have a special screening at the main auditorium of the India International Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi, at 6:30 pm on March 11.SynopsisOn July 15, 2011, the day Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 got released in India, we carried out an informal survey among about 200 young (and not so young) people in Guwahati, Assam, India, about whether they had heard about Mayong. Many had not heard about it, and most of those who had, did not know where it was located. Most of them knew everything about the fictional world of magic in Harry Potter, but were largely unaware that in Mayong, just 40 km off Guwahati, practice of magic –...
ULFA boss Paresh Baruah appealed to media not to call the outfit after him.In a statement sent to media on Sunday, Baruah said that the anti-talk faction is usually referred to in the media as the Paresh Baruah-led faction after the group led by Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa came overground to hold talks with the government to resolve the issue. He said that ULFA does not believe in a struggle spearheaded by a single individual.
Over 70 per cent voters cast their votes in the Algapur Assembly by-election on Sunday. The polling was peaceful.The voting which began at 8 in the morning ended at 4 in the afternoon. Polling in the constituency was held amidst tight security with 14 companies of paramilitary forces deployed. There are 12 candidates in the fray including candidates from the Congress, AGP, AIUDF and BJP besides eight Independents though the contest was expected to be direct between Congress candidate Mandira Roy and AIUDF's Mehbubul Hasan. The by-elections to Algapur was necessitated following the death of AGP MLA Sahidul Alam Choudhary on November 20 last year. The total electorate in the constituency was...
Sensation prevails in Bagsa district of Assam on Sunday a day after four teenagers were killed in Borbori area forcing police to step up operation to nab the culprits.The incident took place at Geruwa Aashram village on Saturday midnight when unidentified miscreants sprung upon the four youths with sharp weapons. Identified as Bijoy Boro, Fungfa Boro, Raju Boro, the three local youths were on the back to their homes after visiting their fiend Hemanta Narzary who was also killed by the miscreants. Police rushed to the spot and investigation is going on. But the police still remain clueless on the gruesome incident.
Nagaland government had successfully held at one pollig station at Borhollah, Gelekey on Saturday. Around 200 armed Nagas, 12 election officers were performed their duty in the No.1 polling station of 49 no. Tamlu Constituency of Lung Lang district, Nagaland. Border magistrate of Nazira Richand Ahmed, a police team lead by Ashif Ahmed, SDPO, Nazira and district administration of Sivasagar were failed to prevent the aggression.
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