The explosion of seven digital meters at a city apartment created panic among its residents in the city’s Beltola area on Saturday. It all took place at around 11 in the morning at the Ranibagan Apartment Housing Society’s Tarokeswar Block No 6. Initially a boy saw some sparks at a digital meter and told his father. His father Lokesh Agarwala came down with a fire extinguishing cylinder. But he saw the fire dispersed to six other meters. Some other residents also arrived with fire extinguishers and later on the fire was extinguished. On the other hand, after information the ASEB officials reached thr apartment only an hour later. But they said blamed it all on the flawed wiring. Notably, the the Assam State Electricity Board has been claiming that digital meters are safe and that there is nothing to be worried. This has once again proved that the digital meters run the risk of fire incident at any time.
26 Nov 2013 - 10:39pm | AT News
Two dreaded NDFB-S militants are believed to have been killed at a fierce gunbattle in Kokrajhar on Tuesday. The encounter took place in the evening during a...
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The State Election Commission has declared the time schedule of Panchayat Election 2013. Poling will be held on 3 phases - 30th Janurary, 6th Feburary and 12th Feburary. Result will be declared on...
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Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi expressed grave concern over the violence along the AssamNagaland border where the miscreants from the neighbouring state killed at least 11 people on Tuesday....
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The Bodoland Territorial Council is unhappy with Rockybul Hussain after the forest minister withdrew the AFPF forces from BTAD areas following the Ultapani incident where suspected NDFB-S militants...
Poaching refuses to die down in Kaziranga. Another one-horned rhino was shot dead in the famed Kaziranga National Park on. The carcass was spotted on Tuesday morning at Burhapahar. But the poachers failed to take away the horn.
Talking to assamtimes, officials said that there were reports of firing from the Burhapahar range where forces launched an operation against the poachers. Cartridges of the AK series of rifles and 303 ammunition was recovered from the site. Meanwhile, joint operations are going on to nab the poachers.
Dudhnoi Raas Puja Committee has complete preparations to celebrate Raas festival with fifteen-day programme.People from various districts are taking part in the festival.
Bidyut Sarkar
To accelerate efforts and fight against the deadly disease HIV/AIDS, the World Aids Day was observed at Pasighat General Hospital.
To mark the event, the doctors along with staffs, health assistants, NGOs and ANM trainees took out a rally and moved around the township with slogans and banners ‘Stop AIDS, keep the promise’. It was formally flagged-off by the DC In-charge Nidhi Srivastava amid huge gathering inside the hospital campus.
The celebration is symbolically a call to enhance social protection mechanism and a symbol of solidarity and support towards the people living with HIV, stated Srivastava during the observation. She while advising the participants to renew the...
In ancient times the Hindu Society begging for mendicants and their students . The students were allowed to beg for their teacher. But they were never called beggars. They were received with highest respect and it remained tradition from age’s ago. The common house people felt lucky to receive them . But later these mendicants got greedy and degenerated and wanted to make out of begging.Now in India begging is a fashion , a compulsion, a privilege and a recreation. The number of beggars is very much larger in our country than other countries. Our heads hang down in shame when we read description of our country India given by the foreigners in a hateful manner. To westerners, India is...
A day long MATRI SAMMELAN (Mothers Meet) was held recently on 25th November 2012 at Donyi Polo Vidya Niketan School campus, Pasighat, under the aegis of Arunachal Shiksha Vikas Samiti (ASVS) the state chapter of Vidya Bharati Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Sansthan, New Delhi. The day long Sammelan was proposed for the awakening of women in every sectors of life. Around 350 delegates (mothers) from in and around the town attended the unique programme which infact is a routine function that is observed every year by the organization (ASVS).
Hosts of dignitaries, which included among others, were Ms. Nidhi Srivastava (IAS), Additional Deputy Commissioner East Siang, Dr.Yater darang, Eye Specialist...
Journalists’ Forum Assam and AIDS Prevention Society have organized a media orientation program on HIV/AIDS on November 30 at Guwahati Press Club. The program, where Dr SI Ahmed is expected to join as a resource person, will begin at 11 AM.Dr Ahmed will give an overview of the HIV infection ratio around the globe and also highlight the risk factors for the residents of Assam and northeast India. Though the annual infection to the deadly virus is decreasing because of massive publicity and public awareness program by the authority, related NGOs and the media, there is definitely risk factor, asserted the HIV/AIDS expert.Member-journalists are requested to participate in the...
Assam Human Rights Commission on Tuesday urged introduction of human rights in the syllabus of primary and secondary school and at the college level. Delivering the Second Surendra Nath Sarma memorial lecture Assam HRC Chairman Justice (Retd) Aftab Hussain Saikia said that there could be no protection of human rights if people were not adequately educated in this regard.
Bodo people on Tuesday staged demonstration in Delhi demanding a judicial probe into the recent riot in BTAD areas alleging that immigrants from the neighbouring Bangladesh have been mongering trouble in these districts.
The demand was made at a huge rally near the Parliament House by hundreds of people who staged protest under the banner of the Coordination Committee of Indigenous Tribal National Organisations.
They sought a permanent solution of the problem and made a plea for grant of statehood to Bodoland through peaceful political dialogue and granting of autonomy to all indigenous tribals of Assam under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution.
Dudhnoi Expo has started at Dudhnoi from November 20. Apart from local and Indian exhibitors, participants from various foreign countries are also taking part in the event.
Bidyut Sarkar, Dudhnoi
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