Brisk polling is what undergoing in Barpeta constituency along with five others in the last and third phase of General elections on Thursday.
Heavy turn out of voters is expected in this crucial constituency where 14,24,638 voters are expected to exercise their franchise in 1906 booths which will continue till 5 in the evening.
Sitting MP and Congress candidate Ismile Hussain is facing a keen contest with AIUDF candidate Sirajuddin Ajmal while BJP candidate Chandra Mohan Patowary and his AGP rival and former party colleague Phani Bhushan Chaudhury have been enjoying no less popularity and support.
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The Assam government and its Nagaland counterpart have agreed to defuse border tension at the earliest. Both the states reached the understanding when Assam chief secretaries JS Khola and Toshi Aier...
27 Feb 2018 - 7:19am | Shajid Khan
UDALGURI,Feb 25: Experts at a recent seminar in Udalguri blamed it all on a section of land grabbing and unscrupulous people for the steep rise in the incidents of man-elephant conflict and...
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The Arunachal Pradesh government has cleared its signal to Oil India Limited for laying a 60 km pipeline to carry gas from Changlang district to Assam. According to Assam, the pipeline will run from...
12 Jun 2014 - 12:23pm | Hantigiri Narzary
The All Bodo Student Union (ABSU) allegged that the tribal and indigenous peoples in the state are depriving from all fronts of developments due to the negligence of the governments.
The...
In a heartening news, the Assamese documentary film on the country’s first female commando unit – ‘Veerangana’, was adjudged the Best Documentary at the Cochin International Short Film Awards, 2021. The results of the festival were announced on 8.2.2021. Produced and directed by Kishore Kalita, an advocate of Gauhati High Court, the documentary portrays the all-encompassing role of Veerangana in effectively and efficiently dealing with crime against women in Guwahati.
The critically acclaimed ‘Veerangana’ has participated and bagged a number of awards at various prestigious film festivals in India and abroad, most notably the Cine Making International Film Award 2020, Dhaka, Bangladesh...
In a setback for the Raijor Dal and its supporters, Supreme Court of India has rejected the bail plea of Akhil Gogoi, on Thursday. The KMSS leader and the president of the Raijor Dal moved the SC challenging the reject order passed by the Guwahati High Court. Hearing the plea earlier today, a three-judge bench of the SC comprising of Justice NV Ramana, Justice Surya Kant and Justice Aniruddha Bose denied bail to the activist.
While rejecting the plea the bench observed that granting bail to Gogoi would not be possible at this state. The SC ordered the petitioner to file an application. Representing Gogoi in the SC senior lawyer Jaydeep Gupta argued that the peasant activist was arrested...
In a horrific incident, a 40-year old man was lynched in a village of Karbi-Anglong on Sunday night.
As per reports, a mob of some villagers brutally assulted a man to death. The victim was identified as Monsing Rongpi. He was a resident of the Karashi Bey village under the Bakalia police station. The mob first took him to a football field where they tied him to a goalpost before beating him mercilessly. Due to the assult, Rongpi died at the spot, reports said. Today morning, the police reached the spot, recovered and sent the victim body for postmortem.
Later, the police filed a case and arrested five persons in connection with the incident. The arrested were identified...
Kaliabor MP Gaurav Gogoi may lead the Congress party from the front in the upcoming Assam assembly elections. Such speculation is brewing as the young MP has been seen active in public speare since yesterday, which was normally associated with other senior Congress leaders like Ripun Bora, Prodyut Bordoloi, among others.
On Sunday, when PM Narendra Modi addressed a rally in Dhekiajuli, Gaurav participated a press conference and raised some issues which are likely to take place in the Congress manifesto for the upcoming elections. Not only that he said that he hoped for a joint rally with Akhil Gogoi and Lurinjyoti Gogoi, who happen to be the presidents of the Raijor Dal and the AJP...
Guwahati: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched distribution of Rs 240 crore to over 7 lakh tea garden workers at a function in Guwahati on Saturday.
All these tea garden workers would get Rs 3,000 each in their bank accounts.
In his address state finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the government was in the process of revising the daily wage amount for the tea garden workers very soon.
Premier biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak has installed 18 km of solar powered fence to facilitate human-elephant coexistence at Nagirjuli, Baksa. This initiative will ensure food security and substantial decrease in human-elephant conflict incidents, thus directly benefiting approximately 15,000 people of 35 hamlets in 12 villages. The installation of solar-powered fences was conducted with extensive support from local communities and Forest Department, and funded by Elephant Family Foundation India.
The 18 km solar powered fence with two strands has been installed into two phases covering several villages around the Nagrijuli-Udalguri national highway. A 14 km fence was...
Guwahati : AJP and Raijor Dal will fight the upcoming assembly polls jointly. This was what the leaders of both the regional parties told media in Guwahati on Friday.
AJP president and Raijor Dal leader Bhaskar De Saikia said that they would maintain equidistance with AIUDF, Congress and BJP.
They further said that never they would have any patch up with any national party and that they would keep doors open for the regional parties.
Lyrinjyoti Gogoi and Jagadish Bhuyan called on Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi at GMCH on Thursday where both the new regional parties struck deal.
Asam Jatiya Parishad president Lurinjyoti Gogoi categorically ruled out any alliance with a national party for the upcoming Assam assembly elections.
The AJP president today called on Akhil Gogoi at the Guwahati Medical College& Hospital, where he has been undergoing treatment for last 3-4 months.
After meeting the jailed Raijor Dal leader, Gogoi spoke to media and said that the newly floated regional parities would jointly fight in the upcoming assembly election.
“We, the AJP and the Raijor Dal formed an alliance. But we will not form any alliance with any national party or communal party,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Congress formed a pre-poll alliance with five other parties...
Guwahati: AJP president Lurinjyoti Gogoi and general secretary Jagdish Bhuyan visited Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi in Guwahati on Thursday amid the speculations of the move to forge alliance to fight against BJP and Congress.
The trio met at the Guwahati Medical College in the morning where the jailed peasant leader has been undergoing treatment.
Earlier they sent feelers to each other when Raijor Dal urged AJP to jointly fight the polls to beat BJP and Congress.
Diphu: There is no breakthrough in the food poisoning case in Diphu 2 days after a BJP worker died and over 130 fell ill when they consumed packet launched served at a government function.
The food packets were rushed from Guwahati to serve the people who attended a ceremony to begin the academic session of the Diphu Medical College Hospital by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and health ministers Himanta Biswa Sarma and Piyush Hazarika.
One hour after they the people consumed the food, many people started vomiting and complained stomach ailment and were rushed to DMCH. A BJP worker died when his condition deteriorated.
Local authorities have ordered a probe. But there is no...
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