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.
5 Nov 2007 - 5:52am | pbaruah
Pakistan set a target of 240 for the Team India while it elected to bat at the First ODI series in Guwahati which is going on at the Nehru Stadium amid an elaborate security arrangement. The men...
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The North East United FC played yet another goalless draw with Pune City FC at the packed Indira Gandhi Stadium in Sarusajai on Saturday evening. Despite best efforts both the teams remained...
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Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in his address on the second day of Anti Trafficking-in-Persons Conclave 3: Moving Forward organized by the American Center, Kolkata and Impulse NGO Network at NEDFi House...
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Assam Photo Journalists Association is organizing a day long photography workshop for school children on August 19 to mark the World Photography Day and also to increase the interest of...
Bokakhat MLA Jiten Gogoi was arrested again on Friday in connection with three more fresh cases. Gogoi was granted bail by a local court recently after he was remanded to judicial custody. He as arrested charging him with assaulting a forest officer on duty at the Kazianga National Park. He is expected to be produced before the court very soon. Details are awaited.
Japanese encephalitis have claimed several lives in upper Assam. According to information, at least 17 people, including children, have died due to Japanese encephalitis in Sivasagar district some this month. More than 50 others have been under going treatment at the Asam Medical College Hospital in Dibrugarh. The disease was spreading in Amguri, Geleki, Demow and Khelua areas of the district, which is encephalitis prone. A high-level expert team has meanwhile visited the areas to take stock of the situation. The killer disease is also creating panic in Dibrugarh and Dhemaji districts of upper Assam.
Jim Ankan Deka, becomes the first Assamese to open a music institution and a production house in Bangalore, India. Eastern Fare Music Foundation had its origination in 2007. Presently the foundation has six institutions and two recording studios. While Jim is the proprietor, two of his friends Mr Anand PM from Kerala and Miss Parmita Borah from Assam help him in running the show. So far the institution has over 400 students with six full and part time teachers. They teach mainly Guitar, Keyboard and Piano in Western Classical Style. Their students sit for Trinity exams. Jim Ankan Deka is the son of the celebrated Assamese litterateur and economist Late Bhabananda Deka and poet Nalini...
A three week long residential multi skill and leadership development programme was launched by Chief Minister of Assam Sri Tarun Gogoi at a brief and solemn function held at the State Museum Auditorium on 10th July, 2009 at 11 am. The programme is being organized jointly by the newly established IGNOU Institute of Vocational Education and Training , Shillong , in collaboration with North East Girl Students Association (NEGSA) , North East Development Finance Corporation Limited(NEDFI) and sponsored by Oil India Limited. Altogether 90 participants from various parts of the NE region are participating in the event , who have been provided to and fro traveling expense and free...
Children from flood affected families take meal at a relief camp in Sivasagar district of on July 12. The flood situation all over the state has been critical since the beginning of July as the water level of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries are still flowing above the danger level. The current wave of flood in the past week has left about 400,000 people displaced in over 500 villages in the four districts of Assam. Two children died in the last 24 hours in the district. PHOTO: UB PHOTOS.
The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) said a section fake ULFA activists are on an extortion spree in the state. In a statement release on Wednesday, the banned insurget outfit’s finance secretary Chitrabon Hazarika disclosed that since 2002, he has not signed any letter demanding money from any individual and organizations.
A major orgy of violence was averted in North Cachar hills distirct on Wedneday when altogether seven Naga miscreants have been arrested during a joint operation by army and police in Mahur area. According to information, the miscreants who were apprehended at a tiny hamlet Impai were coming to strike in the area with a huge cache of arms and ammunition. Investigations are in progress. It may be recalled that over 25 persons were killed and more than 250 houses were set on fire during the last two months in the orgy of violence in the hills district where the Zeme Naga and Dimasa people were worst affected.
Three persons were killed, over 35 others have been injured when a passenger bus fell on a bridge in Burhaparah on the way to Jorhat on Wednesday morning. According to information, three persons including the driver died on the spot and the injured ones have been rushed to the Jakhalabandha hospital. A few of the seriously injured persons have been rushed to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital. The reason of the accident, however, has yet to be ascertained. Investigations are on.
In the continuing orgy of ethnic violence, unidentified armed miscreants shot dead a farmer and injured his minor son in N.C. Hills district on Tuesday. According to information, the incident took place in the morning when unidentified gunmen fired on a group of farmers at Daotuhaja near Maibong killing the farmer and injuring his seven-year-old son. The incident took pace ten hours after a Dimasa woman and her child were killed by suspected Zeme-Naga miscreants in Natunwari village, during the day-long bandh called by several organisations to protest the clashes between the two tribes.
Mr Tarun Gogoi,Hon’ble Chief Minister of Assam Dispur, Guwahati, Assam.
Hon’ble Chief Minister Sir,
It is understood from newspaper reports that the Congress government under you is proposing to scrap customary practices in the state and a bill in this matter is being introduced in the current budget session. In this regard, I on behalf of the tribal communities in Assam in general and the hill people of Karbi Anglong and NC Hills in particular, would like to express my strong opposition to any such dangerous move which is designed to destroy the unique customs and practices of these tribal communities. The Assam government by its proposal to do away with the customs and...
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