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.
8 May 2013 - 11:53am | Jayanta Kumar Das
A high level delegation of Assam Environmental NGO Forum visited JFMC (Joint Forest Management Committee) Sapangaon near Indo-Bhutan border at Bhairabkunda on May 2 recently to study and suggest its...
8 May 2011 - 12:24pm | Anup Biswas
Even after 64 years of Independence, the Jinamghat village located in Jinam Valley constituency of Dima Hasao Autonomous Council is yet to see the light of development.
The...
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The Department of Biomedical Engineering at North Eastern Hill University in Shillong is hosting a week-long Department of Science and Technology (DST) Delhi-sponsored Synergistic Training program...
26 Dec 2009 - 8:08pm | editor
ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and his military sopkesman Raju Baruah have been remanded to judicial custody after they were produced before the camp court inside the Guwahati Central jail on...
Movement of vehicles is set to remain disrupted as the functioning in petrol depots have ben thrown out of gear following the 72 hour long strike of the Assam Petroleum Mazdoor Union. According to the Union leaders, the strike began at 5 in the morning on Tuesday which will end at 5 in the morning on Thursday. The Union leaders have said the government's lackadaisical attitude have forced them to take resort to strike where the consumers would have to bear the brunt and that the government has done litle to address their demands.
In a gory incident of ragging, a TDC first year first year student was burnt alive at a college in the outskirt of the city of Guwahati on Monday. According to information, the incident took place at Dimoria College in kamrup district where a TDC first year student Nitumoni Das who hails from Morigaon was burnt alive by his senior collegaue Prafulla Das who is absconding. The entire incident took place following an altercation about a T-shirt. It is alleged that police and the college authority are trying to cover up the entire incident. Investigation is on.
Assam is throbbing with the celebration of the 83 birth day of Asom Ratna Dr Bhupen Hazarika across the state even as the Dada sahib Phalke award winning film maker is spending the day with the cancer patients undr going treatment in Mumbai along with his fans. Several organization across the state are celebrating the day with his evergreen songs whole the day where lakhs of people are wishing Dr Hazarika a happy birth day. Dr Hazarika is rapidly recovering after his recent by pass heart surgery.
Dr Hazarika in brief: Born in 1926 at Sadiya in Assam, Dr Hazarika foayed into films as a child actor in Jyoti prasad Agarwal's second film Indramalati in 1939. He wrote and sang his first song...
Inquisitiveness, curiosity n proudness filled me as I got ready to attend the 62nd Independence Day at Indian Embassy,Kuwait. As we drove to the Embassy at 6.30am to reach and be part of the flag hoisting at 7.10am ,my mind was filled with different thoughts…thoughts of the many Indenpence Day we celebrated in our motherland Assam under the shadow of Assam Bandh . My one year daughter too wake up early that day as if she understood the importance of this special day. As we approach’d the embassy my husband park’d our car atleast 1km from the embassy as there was no space as hundreds of cars were already parked. As we came near the embassy we were pleasantly surprised to...
The Assam Association, Mumbai has celebrated Sri Sri Srimanta Sankardeva Tithi on August 22 at Assam Bhawan, Vashi, Navi Mumbai and August 23 at ONGC Lower Colony, Gakuldham,Goregaon (East), Mumbai. The celebration was started with “Naam Prasang” which is performed by “Bhakats” from different parts of Mumbai and followed with the distribution of “Mah Prakhad” and “Khichidi”. The Association has grateful to the Goregaon ONGC Lower colony people for their all support. The Association has also heartily gratitude to all for success the function.
The Guwahati based journalist Nava Thakuria has been elected as one of the Assistant General Secretaries of World Water Forum of Journalists (WWFJ), when the senior Bangladeshi environment journalist Quamrul Islam Chowdhury was re-elected as the General Secretary of the international forum for the year 2009-2012. The British environment journalist Alex Kirby was elected as the Chairman and the Pakistani journalist Zaigham Khan as the Vice Chairman of the organization, the head office of which is based in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka.
The new committee was formed during the 5th meeting of WWFJ held at the National Press Club, Dhaka during during the first week of September, 2009. The...
While Sony Pix is celebrating the pleasant autumn warmth with August Rush, Bangalore’s premiere music institute “Eastern Fare Music Foundation” ornamented the season with an enchanting musical offering of its own on 14th August, 09. The concert “Euphony, An autumn serenade” in collaboration with Furtados Music (India) Pvt. Ltd. marked the completion of 6 successful months of the Koramangala branch of Eastern Fare Music Institute and truly lived up to its name, with students and teachers exhibiting amazing musical ability.
It was indeed inspiring to see the performers’ ages range from tots to teenaged heavy metal rockers to 50+ retro music lovers. While the youngest artist for the...
The Gauhati High court has admitted a public interest litigation from the opposition Asom Gana Parishad for reopening the sensational Manabenda Sarma murder case.
The petition was moved by Sotea MLA Padma Hazarika and was admitted by the court of acting chief justice Ranjan Gogoi. Notably, Assam health and family welfare minister Himants Biswa Sama’s name has cropped up as he was allegedly involved in the case. Sarma was arrested under TADA.
It may be noted that the development has come up a few days after a former MP from Bihar Sukhdeo Paswan moved a writ petition seeking to withdraw his petition seeking reopening of the same case where the minister’s name was involved....
Normal life remains heavily disrupted in Sivasagar district of upper Assam on Tuesday following a 12 hour bandh-call by the Brihottor Asomiya Yuva Manch. The 12 hour bandh began at 5 in the morning and ended at 5 in the afternoon called in protest against the government’s failure to tackle of encephalitis in the district where over 50 persons were killed in the district. Government and private offices, schools and colleges and business establishments remained closed where all vehicles are off from the streets. Meanwhile, there some reports of stray incidents of violence in the morning where several vehicles were damaged by the bandh supporters were in a bid to make the bandh a...
In a big blow to the Assam Public Service Commission, the Gauhati High Court on Tuesday stays the list of the successful candidates in the combined competitive examination conducted by the Commission in 2007. The court order came as a division bench of High Court comprising acting Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Biplob Kumar Sarma was hearing the petition of a group of candidates who alleged gross anomalies and corruption in the examination.
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