Indira Gandhi Stadium at Sarusajai in Guwahati breaks into a sea of humanity on Saturday hours before the ISL match where North East United FC takes on FC Pune city.
The match begins at 7 in the evening. But the stadium started teeming with football fans from 1 in the afternoon. Thousands of fans had to remain upset after they failed to procure ticket for the match on Saturday. On line bookings closed a couple of days back. Open sale also closed in the morning.
Dissidence seems to have resurfaced in AGP when a section of the regional party leaders are dead opposed to a slew of move by the BJP-led government. Sources told Assam Times that the regional party is not at all satisfied with the recent decisions to pave the way for auctioning the marginal oil fields and according the refugee status to the Hindu Bangladeshi nationals. Former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta and his loyalists are have opposed the move whole party president Atul Bora who is a minister in the Sonowal cabinet is believed to have been giving his party’s tacit support to the moves. Bora claims support of at least 7 legislators while Mahanta has been enjoying the support...
Guwahati police on Friday have arrested three persons including a women hours after they kidnapped a minor girl from the city on Thursday. A group of senior police officials has been interrogating the trio to extract more information on the kidnapping network. They are believed to have confessed a growing network with NDFB-S to make money. The incident took place near Dispur where a house maid along with a minor girl went traceless from 12 noon. Policemen deployed in the search operation tracked down the entire gang in the outskirt of the city in the wee hours. The minor girl was safely rescued and the three of the entire gang of seven criminals have been caught. Identified as Rumi Das,...
The Border Security Force (BSF) personnel on 25 August apprehended four cattle smugglers from the Indo-Bangladesh border area. Days back, the BSF troops under Guwahati frontier seized a large number of cattle heads meant for smuggling to Bangladesh from the same Dhubri international border locality. “The cattle smugglers were identified as Rahim Ali (age 39 years), Jahikul Islam (57), Muktadul Hassan (33) and Sahidul Islam (24). All of them hail from Mankachar in South Salmara district of Assam. The BSF troop caught them red-handed while they were trying to smuggle the cattle to Bangladesh. They were already handed over to the local police,” said a statement issued by the Guwahati based...
Amid hectic lobbying in New Delhi for ministerial berth, Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal is preparing to expand his cabinet in a day or two. Sonowal is believed to have prepared a list. But it has yet to be approved by the party high command. Sources told Assam Times that Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma has been trying to ensure berth for his own men. But many senior BJP and RSS leaders in Guwahati are dead opposed to Dr Sarma’s move. Sonowal, who is in Delhi to attend the BJP Chief Ministers’ Conference is expected to get this list approved by Saturday. On the other hand, many senior party legislators have been camping in the capital city to do lobby for ministerial berth. AGP and BPF...
ULFA-I has come down heavily on Dr Dhrubajyoti Bora alleging that the Asom Sahitya Sabha president has downplayed Assam and its people when he addressed a recent meeting in Nagaon. In a statement, the outfit’s central publicity secretary Aronodoi Dohotia said that his comment from the chair of the state’s top largest literary organization has undermined the Assamese. ULFA-I questioned Dr Bora’s intention to assimilate the Indian culture with the age old and unique Assamese culture. Further, the proscribed outfit has brought a bribery allegation of Rs 25 lakh against Dr Bora to ensure his son’s admission at a premier medical college in West Bengal after he was not qualified in Assam...
Nature conservation organisations like Wildflowers, CCER and Deopahar Researve Demand Committee hails the latest order of National Green Tribunal (NGT) on demolition of a wall blocking an elephant corridor near the Kaziranga National Park. On last Wednesday the tribunal asked the Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NFL), a public sector company, to demolish a 2.2 kilometre long wall blocking the elephant corridor within one month. The NGT proposed that the township of refinery ‘cannot be allowed’ as it comes in a “No Development Zone”. The green tribunal has also imposed a fine of Rs. 25 lakh for destroying forest and levelling a hill for the refinery. Hailing the NGT order, Chandan Kumar...
Reputed human rights activist, author and scholar from Manipur, Ms Binalakshmi Nepram will attend the Meet the Press program of Guwahati Press Club on Friday. The interactive session will begin at 3 pm. The outspoken leader of Control Arms Foundation of India, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network and Northeast India Women Initiative for Peace has travelled to different parts of the globe with her logic & dreams. GPC member-journalists are invited for the program to be held at the press club auditorium.
ULFA-I has brushed aside the allegations of demanding money or the safe release of Kuldeep Moran whom they kidnapped last month.Sources told Assam Talks that the outfit is believed to have kidnapped the powerful BJP leader’s son for acting an agent of the security forces involved in the counter insurgency operations. Security forces have been fanning along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border to trace down Kuldeep who was kidnapped on August 1 from Arunachal Pradesh. But his parents and close associate BJP MLA Bolin Chetia have been maintaining stoic silence on whether they paid anything to the proscribed outfit or not. The Assam Government has already taken the help of Arunachal...
Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) strongly condemns the murder of a senior journalist based in Junagadh of Gujarat and asked the authority to nab the perpetrators and deliver justice to the victim family. The forum expressed shocks that the miscreants had entered to the bureau office of Gujarati newspaper 'Jai Hind', where Kishore Dave was working on Monday night and stabbed him to death. Dave, 53, was reportedly alone at the bureau office of the Rajkot based newspaper at that moment and he died on the spot. There was no security camera in the one-room office, where an office assistant found Dave’s body lying on the floor. “We have lost now four journalists this year (nine since Jan 2015)....
ULFA-I has demanded Rs 1 crore as ransom from a BJP leader in Tinsukia district to ensure safe release of his son they kidnapped early this month. In a video message to BJP MLA from Sadiya Balin Chetia, ULFA-I members asked Tinsukia district top BJP leader Ratneswar Maran to receive the amount from Chetia saying that Kuldeep has been working for Chetia for long. ULFA released the video footage of Kuldeep in their custody 15 days after ULFA sent a demand notice to the BJP MLA who took up the case with Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. In the video message Kuldeep requested his family members, BJP MLA and Chief minister Sonowal to ensure his safe release.
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