Incidents of racist attack on the north east people refuse to die down. Goons in Gurgaon assaulted two youths from Nagaland on Thursday a day after a Manipur student was beaten up by local youths in Bangore.
The fresh incident took place at Gurgaon where over ten local goons caught Awang and Chester in Sikanderpur area and mercilessly beat up with cricket bats and hockey sticks.
According to the complaint, a few youths took them to a nearby market at around 1 midnight to be beaten up. Their hairs were cut off and asked them to leave the area along with their friends. Later the duo were rushed to a nearby Civil Hospital where they have been undergoing treatment.
25 Sep 2012 - 2:57am | editor
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday ordered deployment of helicopters and mechanised boats to step up rescue and relief operations in the flood-hit areas.
Gogoi in his telephonic...
12 Mar 2012 - 3:57pm | Syed Miraz Ahmed
Writer's writing in English representing NorthEast India inspite accolades and honors has for long been trying to define their ilk. To assert their claim albeit empathetically The North East Writers...
2 Feb 2011 - 4:04am | Ritupallab Saikia
The 71st Conference of the Assam Sahitya Sabha, began today at Bhasar Uja Hemchandra Barua Khetra, Dergaon in the district of Golaghat. The entire place wore a festive look with the residents,...
27 Dec 2011 - 6:59pm | pallavibarua
On December 19, the Assam Assembly adopted an unanimous resolution urging the Central Government of India to confer the highest civilian award ‘Bharat Ratna’ on Bhupen Hazarika...
Guwahati: The United Liberation Front of Asom has warned of dire consequences for two private oil exploration firm officers whom they kidnapped two months back from Arunachal Pradesh demanding ransomed.
In a statement issued from an undisclosed location, the proscribed outfit said that since no party has come out to meet the demand during the specified time they could execute ultimate punishment for Ram Kumar and Parnab Kumar Gogoi at any moment.
The private oil exploration firm Quipp has yet to make it position clear while the government also allegedly had been least bothered.
ULFA release the disturbing statement on Friday when the family members of the duo in captivity along...
Guwahati: State BJP leadership have hunkered down in Guwahati on Friday to hammer out a slew of strategies for the upcoming Assembly polls due in April.
Attended by Narendra Singh Tomar, Jitendra Singh, Baijayanta J Panda, CM, Ranjit Das and Himanta Biswa Sarma, the meeting discussed the fate of a few party veterans and they options lying ahead to exploit the advantage.
Former Union minister Rajen Gohain and MP Ramen Deka also attended the meeting were the leadership were believed to have tried them to convince the effective poll strategies.
The due were strong contenders for tickets to contest the polls while the party leadership are indecisive on their fate.
‘One Earth One Home’, a pan-India digital movement for government and government-aided schools to develop knowledge and skills among the primary and middle school students enabling them to steer a change in their household practices and create sustainable homes. Aligned to the SDGs, the OEOH curriculum is available in 10 languages to all teachers and students on DIKSHA, One Earth One Home website and State education portals.
WWF India launched the One Earth One Home movement on 10 September 2020 to inspire children to adopt pro-...
"We have not seen any difference as the most BJP workers are either truncates of the Congress or the AGP in our assembly constituancy," said a teacher when asked her about the poll-prospect of different parties in the upcoming election in their constituency. She is from the Teok assembly constituency that falls under the Jorhat Lok Sabha constituency. She added the only ruling BJP has till now election related activities. “We have seen any countable activity of the other parties. What we have seen is BJP's enthusiastic poll-related preparations," she further said. The Teok constituency is currently under the AGP's hold. The constituency was once a strong-hold of the regional party till 1996...
Geneva/Guwahati: After the military coup in Myanmar on 1 February, the junta has now cut down internet services across the south-east Asian country from Monday seemingly to start an aggressive military action against millions of pro-democracy Burmese protesters and thus put their securities in danger, said Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), a Switzerland based media watchdog.
Local sources in Myanmar (earlier known as Burma) confirmed that the military generals have deployed armed personnel across the country as anti-coup protest-demonstrations continued to hit the streets. After arresting Nobel laurate pro-democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi along with hundred others, the military authority...
Probably, for the first time in recent history, a mandarin duck has been spoted near the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park in Assam. Eminent poet and novelist Dr. Neelakshi Chaliha Gogoi informed that the migratory bird has been sighted in the Maguri-Motapung beel situated near the park. “I think the bird has come here due to his mistake. It will attract bird and nature lovers. Now, I request all the concerned authorities to take care of the bird, ” she said.
According to experts mandarin ducks habitats in the Himalayas and North Africa. It is a beautiful coloured bird.
Bikaner, February 11: Desert Resource Center, Urmul Group, is organising Maru Manthan, the desert forum amidst the sand dunes of Bajju, Bikaner, Rajasthan. The first of its kind forum for celebrating the uniqueness and emerging dynamics of hot and cold deserts around the world, the festival will be held on 13-14 February, 2021.
Anshul Ojha, Founder Director, Desert Research Center said, “As a festival, Maru Manthan will facilitate a space where desert communities, academics, civil society groups, policy makers and media gatekeepers will get together to share their experiences and celebrate their cultures. The festival, as a shared forum, will advance dialogue on innovations and...
In a heartening news, the Assamese documentary film on the country’s first female commando unit – ‘Veerangana’, was adjudged the Best Documentary at the Cochin International Short Film Awards, 2021. The results of the festival were announced on 8.2.2021. Produced and directed by Kishore Kalita, an advocate of Gauhati High Court, the documentary portrays the all-encompassing role of Veerangana in effectively and efficiently dealing with crime against women in Guwahati.
The critically acclaimed ‘Veerangana’ has participated and bagged a number of awards at various prestigious film festivals in India and abroad, most notably the Cine Making International Film Award 2020, Dhaka, Bangladesh...
In a setback for the Raijor Dal and its supporters, Supreme Court of India has rejected the bail plea of Akhil Gogoi, on Thursday. The KMSS leader and the president of the Raijor Dal moved the SC challenging the reject order passed by the Guwahati High Court. Hearing the plea earlier today, a three-judge bench of the SC comprising of Justice NV Ramana, Justice Surya Kant and Justice Aniruddha Bose denied bail to the activist.
While rejecting the plea the bench observed that granting bail to Gogoi would not be possible at this state. The SC ordered the petitioner to file an application. Representing Gogoi in the SC senior lawyer Jaydeep Gupta argued that the peasant activist was arrested...
In a horrific incident, a 40-year old man was lynched in a village of Karbi-Anglong on Sunday night.
As per reports, a mob of some villagers brutally assulted a man to death. The victim was identified as Monsing Rongpi. He was a resident of the Karashi Bey village under the Bakalia police station. The mob first took him to a football field where they tied him to a goalpost before beating him mercilessly. Due to the assult, Rongpi died at the spot, reports said. Today morning, the police reached the spot, recovered and sent the victim body for postmortem.
Later, the police filed a case and arrested five persons in connection with the incident. The arrested were identified...
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