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.
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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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With a moderate turn out, the second and last phase of Lok Sabha polls ended peacefully on Thursday. The polling began at around 7 in the morning to end at 4 in the afternoon. The polling started with a dull note due to a bad weather but later as the weather improved the weather improved voters lined to exercise their franchise. Guwahati: In Guwahati Congress candidate Captain Robin Bordoloi cast his vote in the morning at the Gorkha LP School in Paltanbazar. Bordoloi accompanied by his wife Geeta Bordoloi, younger brother Bolin Bordoloi and daughter Ashima Bordoloi, arrived in the polling station at around 9-30 this morning and lined up for voting. Guwahati NCP candidate Akshay Rajkhowa...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur cast their votes at a polling station under Guwahati Lok Sabha on Dispur on Thursday.PM Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur arrived in Guwahati at around 11 in the morning and left for the city by a helicopter. They cast their votes at the polling booth number 156 at Dispur Government High School to exercise their franchise at around 11:40am amidst tight security.While Singh, who is elected to the Rajya Sabha from Assam, had the voter serial number of 726, Kaur's name was placed next, at 727. Singh and his wife then headed back to the helipad for the airport to board their special flight back to Delhi. The prime minister did...
Moderate polling is reported in altogether eleven Lok Sabha constituencies in Assam after voting began at 7 in the morning. Barring a few stray incidents, polling is by and large peaceful. The turn out is said to be low during the early hours in most of these constituencies due to drizzle from early in the morning. Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is casting his vote at the Dispur HS School. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has also cast his vote in Jorhat. There are reports of technical snags in some parts of the state.
Bigyan Jeuti, an Assamese science magazine published by Assam Science Society since 1962, has appointed science writer, activist, media and agriculture expert Mowsam Hazarika as Editor for the period 2009–2011. Interested contributors are requested to send science based write-ups for publication in the magazine in Assamese to: Editor, Bigyan Jeuti , Assam Science Society, Lamb Road, Latasil, Guwahati-781001, Assam. Email : mowsam2000@yahoo.co.in.
Amid tight security voting negins in Assam in its 11 Lok Sabha constituencies on Thursday. The voting began at around 7 in the morning to decide on the fate of altogether 127 candidates in the second phase of polling. Dhubri has 10 candidates, Kokrajhar 3, Barpeta 14, Gauhati 12, Mangaldoi 13, Tezpur 15, Nagaon 13, Kaliabor 8, Jorhat 8, Dibrugarh 10, Lakhimpur 15.
Assam is all set for the second and final phase of Lok Sabha voting on Thursday in 11 of the 14 Parliamentary constituencies. According to information, polling officials along with materials have already reached their respective polling centres. Elections are set to be held in Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Kaliabor, Nagaon, Tezpur, Lakhimpur, Guwahati, Mangaldoi, Barpeta, Dhubri and Kokrajhar.The state went to the first phase of polling in three seats...Silchar, Karimganj and Autonomous District in Assam April 16 with heavy polling recorded. An estimated 14.73 million voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the second phase in which 121 candidates are in the fray.The ruling Congress party...
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Assam Election Watch (AEW), an organization monitoring the 2009 election candidates, has come out with the analysis of contesting candidates during phase I and II of the elections.
AEW looked at 155 candidates out of 158 total contesting candidates in 14 constituencies of Assam. Mr. Milon Singha and Mr. Soleman Khandeker independent candidate from Karimganj and Dhubri constituency respectively could not be analyzed as in place of their affidavit some other persons’ affidavits are found in the election commission’s database. On the other hand Mr. Jiten Sundi’s affidavit could not be incorporated in the analysis because of some technical problem.
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Aayushi Nimodia of Bokakhat has been invited by the visiting President Pratibha Patil. Ayushi met the President at Guwahati recently on her visit to Assam few days back.The reason for this that Aayushi sent a letter with these points, which impressed the President: 1. To solve the problem of flood during the rainy season and to protect soil erosion caused by the mighty river to the Kaziranga National Park by taking appropriate measures at war-footing.2. To establish a Woman's University in Assam.3. To arrange protection for all people to attend public functions like Independence Day.We wish Aayushi all the success :)
The electioneering for the remaining eleven Lok Sabha seats ends on Tuesday at 4 in the afternoon 48 hours before the commencement of the second phase of polling on Thursday.Speeches from fiery to fervent in the poll rallies are coming to an end as soon as the clock strikes at 4 in the afternoon. A host of national leaders has campaigned in the state for their party leaders. Congress sent Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi along with Pranab Mukherjee and others.BJP's prime ministerial candidate L K Advani alongwith Sushma Swaraj, Narendra Modi, Dr Najma Heptulla campaigned for AGP and BJP. CPM politburo member Brinda karat and CPI leader A B Bardhan campaigned for...
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