The Assam government starts distributing the Anundoram Barooah Award to the first and high second division holder HSLC examinees from Tuesday. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi gave away the award to the recipients at a function in Khanapara in the morning.
In his address, Gogoi advised the students to take a vital lead to dress the society afresh with innovative mind and idea which, he hoped, would pay dividend in near future.
Education minister Pradyut Bordoloi, parliamentary secretary for education Rekibudin Ahmed were prominent among those who attended the function.
Comprising a certificate and a laptop, the award would be given away to altogether 40,800 first and high second division holder HSLC examinees in 2014 across the state.
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A college student died and 4 others injured when a four wheeler rammed into a motorcycle in the outskirt of Guwahati on Wednesday. The incident took place at Campo in Boko where one of the biker...
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Dreaded NDFB-S militant B Bidai was believed to have a narrow escape when security forces raided a remote village in Chirang district on Sunday.Acting on a tip off, police and CRPF jawans conducted a...
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GUWAHATI: Good news for traders and tour operators from Assam. Courtesy Kazakhastan. The central Asian country on Wednesday evinced keen interest to receive these people in Almaty to explore the...
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A local court in Guwahati remanded Anjali Das Thakuria to CBI custody for 24 hours on Tuesday a day after the country's premier investigation agency arrested assistant with the regional passport...
Guwahati: Police team probing the sub inspector recruitment scam arrested one of the main accused PK Dutta on Tuesday. The retired DIG was arrested from along Indo-Nepal border early in the morning.
Dutta, who played the key role along with a circle of BJP leaders is being brought to Guwahati.
Dutta, who took cash from candidates, managed to procure the question papers and facilities these candidates hold mock trials in his hotels in Guwahati.
Dutta, went missing when police started investigation.
According to highly placed sources, Dutta was in touch with top police and civil officials and BJP leaders who mounted pressure on him to surrender and Dutta...
Guwahati: After days of will-they-wont-they, AIUDF has finalized the decision to forge alliance with Congress to put BJP on the edge in 2021 assembly polls.
Of course, CPI, CPM would also be the parter of the Congress-led grand opposition alliance.
The proposal for joining the alliance got the seal of approval as the party core committee leaders met in Guwahati in presence of party president Badaruddin Ajmal on Monday.
According to party leader Aminul Islam, an alliance is an urgent need to keep BJP away from power. The party informally held a rounds of deliberations at the instance of Ajmal who cleared proposal.
As of now, the party is contemplating to...
Guwahati: Altogether 70 local organizations who have been dead opposed to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 floated a new regional political party with a vow to whitewash BJP and it's allies in the 2021 assembly polls.
Named as Raijor Dal( Peoples'Party), it was announced at a largely attended ceremony presided over by award winning film maker Jahnu Barua, who also is one of the leaders of Sangyukta Anchalik Dallas.
In his opening speech, Barua said that the various regional parties should remain united to save the state and it's people from the edge.
"We have seen the unity of these organization which needs to be galvanized into a force...
Guwahati: Caught in a grim controversy, state BJP has suspended Dibon Deka a day after police arrested the party leader in connection with the police recruitment scam.
In a statement issued in Guwahati on Thursday, the party made it clear that nobody would be spared and that Deka has been suspended for 6 years.
Deka's suspension assumes significance at a time when party leaders denied him to be a party member. Party president said Deka was not a party member even after the party fielded him in 2021 in Barkhetri.
Hemanta Biswa Sarma also said that he has not seen Deka in party office for the last 6 years.
Deka, one of main accused...
Lots of people have condoled the death of noted children-literateur of Assam Gagan Chandra Adhikari, who contributed tremendously in the field. Adhikari passed away on Wednessday night creating a void in the children-literature of the state.
Chief Minister Sarabananda Sonowal and Assam BJP president Ranjit Kumar Dass along with several others expressed grief at the passing away of the writer.
In the decades of 70 and 80 of the last century, Adhikari penned some tremendously popular children-stories that have occupied a permanent place in the minds of many.
Pallabi Bora, a former professor of the Guwahati University said, “ He was the star of the children-literature of the state. He...
Guwahati : In a high voltage drama Dibon Deka surrendered before police a week after he was let off in connection with the recent police recruitment scam.
According to information, the BJP leader surrendered before Pattacharkuchi police station to be immediately whisked away by a team of Guwahati police led by additional DGP GP Singh.
Guwahati: Dibon Deka, a BJP leader from Nalbari who is said to be one of the main accused in the police recruitment scam is likely to surrender before police.
According to sources, Deka, who is on the run after he was let off by CID is learnt to have been talking to a few lawyers seeking legal help.
In his social media status Deka claimed the involvement of a circle of top police officers and feared threat on his life.
Guwahati: State Congress staged dharna in Dispur on Wednesday demanding Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal’s resignation alleging his involvement in the recent test for recruitment of police sub inspector.
State party president Ripun Bora alleged involvement of Chief Minister’s Officer on Special Duty Ranjit Majumdar in the entire scam. Bora further dared the government to institute a judicial probe into it.
On the other hand, AIUDF also demanded CBI probe into the entire scam where question papers meant for police sub inspector recruitment test went viral on social media on September 20.
WWF-India Assam State Office in partnership with Elementary Education, Govt. of Assam had organized a virtual One Earth One Home State Training & Orientation Programme reently. Archita Baruah Bhattacharyya, Coordinator, WWF India AAPSO conducted the Training & Orientation Programme where more than 600 participants from Education department, Govt. of Assam, SCERT, DIETs, SSA, DEE, DEEOs, IS, DMCs, SEBA, DPOs,BEEOs, BMCs, Principals & Educators took part from all districts of Assam. Smti. Anuja Bhuyan, Deputy Secretary - Dept. of Elementary Education with her encouraging words appreciated efforts of WWF India, appealed the educators and officials to...
Age is just a number for those who are young with their minds and thoughts. Giridhar Mahanta, Father of Bollywood actor Urmila Mahanta is one of those personalities.
He turns 75th today. But at this age his energy and passion can beat any young. During the Covid lockdown Giridhar Mahanta , a retired Government Senior Officer as well as renown social worker has been kept himself busy with his pen to express his feelings through poetic words.
Mahanta wrote poems and took inspiration from his surroundings that gets expressed in the form of poem. He has been associated with Axom Sahitya Sabha for many years.
His daughter Urmila Mahanta...
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