Guwahati is holding a round table on piloting initiatives for the protection of environment and natural resources on Thursday. Organized by the Assam Times Foundation in the city, the round table started with introduction by its managing trustee Babul Gogoi. The meet is expected to go a long way to try to evolve a clear cut and people friendly policy and technology to extract natural resources.
NEW DELHI: The Aam Admi Party is gearing up to contest in the upcoming assembly polls in three north eastern states in March this year. Talking to Assam Times, senior AAP leaders in New Delhi say the central leaders have been receiving good feedback from the state leaders and workers alike from the poll bound states of Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura. "We are given to understand that our party has good prospect in Meghalaya where BJP is trying to wrest power from Congress. We are in constant touch with the state leadership these days," said a senior AAP leader who refused to be named. He said," we are contemplating to contest in all seats in Meghalaya and Nagaland apart from in at least...
GUWAHATI: Braving a pinching cold wave millions of people are soaked in the joy of Magh Bihu festivity with feasting and merry making on Saturday night. People of all walks of life celebrated Uruka to be dominated with community feasting and bonfire on Saturday night a couple of hours before the Bihu where the folks are busy with preparing Meji, a wooden or bamboo structure to be lit up early in the morning to mark the puja offering to the fire god. Apart from feasting and bon fire, people in the rural areas thronged the open fields to hold cultural function with folk songs in the open fire sides. "Our pomp and gaiety has disallowed the cold wave to grip further. Whole night we are...
GUWAHATI: The United Liberation Front of Asom (I) has urged the people to endorse the age old and indigenous culture and tradition to help the Assamese stand tall as a nation. In a statement released on the eve of Magh Bihu, ULFA(I) chairman Abhijet Asom said since the festival is directly agriculture based, the peasants should adopt the indigenous seeds instead of the imported hybreed seeds. He said instead of the imported culture the people should promote the local and indigenous language and culture in the annual festival of feasting and merry making.
Kokrajhar: A six member team of the Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) has started probing the murder of Lafikul Islam Ahmed in Kokrajhar four months after the sensational case struck the state. Led by CBI SP attached to special crime branch Upendra Kumar Agarwal, the CBI team based in Kolkata arrived in Kokrajhar on Thursday and visited at the spot at Titaguri Bazar and rushed at Salakati SBI branch office. The CBI team which is camping at the Kokrajhar Circuit House and has been extracting inputs for the probe. The investigation agency has already questioned some eye witness apart from interacting with the police officials. They interrogated the owner of the JK Trader...
MARGHERITA: The much-hyped fresh lease of life in the country's surface communication sector has been proved a futile one if one travels on the Margherita-Pengree Road. The local residents reposed faith on the Sarbananda Sonowal Government who promised to uplift the road condition. Accordingly, a huge portion ofthe road was repaired. But within a short spell of five months the entire portion has become non motorable and the local residents here blame the poor quality of materials used in it. Margherita MLA Bhaskar Sharma opened the road after the repairing and maintenance works were over on May 6, 2017. But the entire vital road repaired under the Assam Road Maintenance...
Kokrajhar: Kokrajhar along with other BTAD districts are reeling under severe cold as the mercury level has gone down, down and down. The day marked nearly 9 degree Celsius early in the morning forcing the people to resort to sit along the fireside. Dense fogs have compounded the situation. 'This year saw heavy cold mercury since past few days.The cold wave is becoming due to imbalance of environment', said a local resident in Kokrajhar.
Namrup: Many women entrepreneurs in Namrup claimed to have been benefitted as they attended an income generating workshop which concluded on Friday. Talking to www.assamtimes.org Institution of Engineers India-Upper Assam Local centre who organized it said the skill development workshop evoked huge response in Namrup. The workshop imparted training on cutting, tailoring and fashion designing held under the Namrup Town Committee under Chairmanship of Neetu Sonowal Buragohain. Chandrama Baruah noted Northeast fashion designer said, "through this skill development workshop on tailoring every women skills are produced in a new way with their self repect earning ." Rima...
KOKRAJHAR: The police have arrested Budhiram Hembrom a month after he allegedly killed Gohai Murmu in Dhordhora village near Kachugaon in Kokrajhar district. According to police, Hembrom is the prime accused in the sensational murder case registered in Kachugaon PS case no. 65/2017 u/s 302 IPC r/w Sec. 27 Arms Act) in the intervening night of 12 December. He was arrested from his house and the countrymade rifle used in the murder was seized from his possession. He confessed to have killed Gohai Murmu on being hired by Som Murmu(22), the nephew of the deceased Gohai Murmu of Narenguri village for Rs 60,000.00 (sixty thousand). Later,police also apprehended Som Murmu from...
MONGOLDOI:A nefarious political conspiracy is behind the recent clash between police and protesters in Dhola where two protestors were killed in police firing. This was more or less of what two ministers said in Dhola a day after the duo were on a stock taking visit to the trouble torn semi urban area in Darrang district. Porimal Suklavaidya and Rihon Daimary who visited the area on Thursday told the reporters that the entire uncident might be a conspiracy for political mileage. "This is what we think. Now we can't disclose anything. The ongoing probe will ascertain the real factors behind the incident," said the ministers after they visited the bereaved family members of the deceased...
MONGOLDOI: Life in the trouble torn Dhola is limping back to normal two days after the semi urban area in Darrang district was put under curfew to defuse tension after two people were killed in police firing as they along with nearly 2000 others clashed with police. The authorities have relaxed the curfew on Thursday afternoon in the absence of any stray incidents. Local residents came out of their homes and most of them thronged the residents of the deceased who were laid to rest amid tight security in the afternoon. Additional chief secretary MGKV Bhanu is initiating probe into thr incident of police firing to disperse a group of irate protesters who alleged custodial death of a local...
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