As many as sixteen people have been injured while a powerful bomb exploded in Tinsukia town at around 1 pm on Saturday. According to information, the blast took place at the busy GNB Road in front of a grocery. The injured people have been rushed to the hospital. High level police and civil officials have arrived in the spot to start operation. Meanwhile, one more crude bomb have been recovered just before a while. Details are awaited.
PermalinkSubmitted by Mousum on Sat, 08/03/2008 - 15:53
The Bangladeshi supporters have masterminded this blast. I am sure their plan is to kill the bihari labours and replace them with Bangladeshi parasites.
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Spring, the season of blooming flowers, gurgling steams, chirping is back with unbound festivity that gives the north eastern state a different look. Festivity grips the people who are well prepared...
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Daily newsletters, published by the organizers of 30th Guwahati Book Fair at Chandmari AEI field, started greeting the visitors since the second day of its inauguration on 30 December 2016. Organized...
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KOHIMA: Setting at rest all uncertainty NDPP leader Neiphu Rio took oath as Nagaland Chief Minister along with 11 legislator colleagues on Thursday.Governor PB Acharya administered the three time...
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ULFA top leader Bhimkanta Burahgohain, popularly konwn as Mama demands probe into the sensational revelations of Kamal Nath who alleged that the top ranked ULFA leaders captured in 2005 during...
World Comics India is organising a workshop for Journalism and Social Work students, facilitators and NGO activists who wish to apply the power and potential of comics to enable people to explore issues of self and society in a creative and exciting way. The two-days workshop will be held on October 23-24 in Guwahati.
The workshop fee is Rs 500 to covers material, trainers’ kit and refreshment etc. For more information, please contact 9706350743 (Amrith) or 9864059039 (Usha) or email usha.dewani7@gmail.com.
The ninth anniversary of the Krishnaguru Sakha Sewashram, Gurgaon, is being celebrated on November 4 through a non-stop 12-hours Eknaam Kirtan for universal peace and harmony. By the desire of His Holiness Sri Sri Krishnaguru mahapravu, about 1000 devotees will conduct the Akhand Eknaam Kirtan that will start at 6 in the morning and go on till evening 6pm. Eknaam Kirtan is integral to the Krishnaguru faith, the practical aspect of which is rooted in the oneness of God and community. This is manifest in it being an “Ek Naam” dharma, the essence of which lies in the meditation and chanting of the Holy Naam given by His Holiness Gurudeva. The Akhand Kirtan, also called “...
An International Conference on “Community Based Water-Resource Management in Northeast India: Lessons from a Global Context” [WATERCON-2011], will be held on January 28-30, 2011 in Guwahati. The event is organized jointly by South Asia Development Gateway and PFI Foundation, an International NGO with assistance from the Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India. For details please visit www.pfifound.org/watercon. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss strategies of water resources management, structural and non-structural measures with emphasis on a watershed based regional plan. It will be a multi-stakeholder platform to discuss some of the issues and challenges of...
A forum comprising all the electronic media persons of Guwahati was formed at the Guwahati Press Club on Sunday (10.10.10). Formed with an aim to protect the rights of media persons and encourage the spirit of Journalism, the forum has been christened ‘Electronic Media Forum Asom’. A working committee was formed in the meeting with three members each from every news channel based in Guwahati and three from national electronic media with Bimal Ghosh (RD), Pranjit Saikia and Nava Thakuria as co-ordinators. A resolution has been taken in the meeting to launch an annual award recognising outstanding stories. Entries for the first EMFA Award have to be stories that have been telecast...
Both ULFA and the government are gearing up for the proposed peace talk.As part of the spadeworks,ULFA leaders would be allowed to procure bail.The government would help the top leaders procure bail at the earliest.Three top ULFA leaders on Monday have moved the court to seek bail after they received green signal from Dispur. Senior ULFA leader Bhimkanta Burhagohain on Monday moved the court seeking bail as soon as possible. His nephew Chandan Buhagohain moved the bail plea before the Sonitpur district session court on Monday. The is expected to process the petition on Thursday next.
In a similar development,ULFA finance secretary Chitrabon Hazarika and cultural secretary Pranoti Deka...
The government is in a process to hold talk with the banned United Liberation Front of Assam. Sources have suggested that all the jailed ULFA top guns would move bail petitions in a phased manner after Durga Puja.
According to information, ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, foreign secretary Sasha Choudhury, finance secretary Chitraban Hazarika, cultural secretary Pranati Deka and political ideologue Bhimkanta Buragohain, would be moved after October 15 to pave the way for the formal talks. The government will hardly oppose the bail plea which will enable them to procure bail easily.
Notably, the bail petition of Ulfa deputy military chief Raju Barua has been already moved in the...
RTI activist Akhil Gogoi again takes on health minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma citing his huge assets of doubtful sources. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Sunday, Gogoi said the source fund of Newslive channel which is owned by his wife Riniki Bhuyan Sarma are doubtful.He said the entire fund to the tune of several crores being invested in this news channel belong to Sarma. He said Sarma shows some stakeholders and their amounts of stake. But several crores have been invested without showing anything. He further said NEDFi has issued loans to Riniki Bhuyan Sarma without properly scanning her particulars.
The names of twenty qualified child scientists of Udalguri district have been announced. The National Children's Science Congress Udalguri district session was held at Ramswarup Agarwalla Memorial English School,Udalguri on September 24. M. Banu, Inspector of Schools, Udalguri hoisted the NCSC flag at 9 am in presence of thousands of students, teachers and high ranking officials. The district session which was inaugurated by SS Meenakshi Sundaram,DC,Udalguri, was attended by distinguished scientists of the state namely - Dr. SK Choudhury, Director, ASTEC; Dr. Anil Kumar Goswami, President, Pragjyotish Amateure Astronomers Association, Guwahati; Mihir Kumar Barua, ADC,Udalguri; Babul...
Assam sounds red alert in view of the much awaited verdict on the Ayodhya by the Allahabad High Court on Friday. Security forces are taking their positions across the state apprehending any communal clash after the court verdict. Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi has already sent a set of instructions to the ministers and party MLAs to rush to ther home constituencies to closely monitor the sitution.In a similar instrction, Gogoi has asked all district administrations to remain alert to avert any communal conflict in the form of untoward incident.Notably, a Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court is set to pronounce its verdict sharply at 3-30 in the afternoon on Thursday. The Supreme...
If everything goes well, ULFA and the government will strike direct peace deal. This the clear cut indication in Dispur on Tuesday. Government interlocutor PC Halder held two rounds of closed door meets separately with Chief minister and ULFA boss Arabinda Rajkhowa in Guwahati. In the morning the former intelligence bureau chief met Rajkhowa and talked of the recent development and the possible impact in the on going process.
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