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National Santhal Liberation Army’s role suspected in the Gossaigaon shoot out where three construction workers were killed on Wednesday.The militant outfit is believed to have attacked the bridge...
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HOJAI: Police have arrested two youths in Hojai a couple of days after the duo along with another allegedly raped a minor girl in Murajhar. Identified as Md Muyub Uddin (20) and Md Babul (Babu Ahmed...
20 Jun 2014 - 10:30pm | AT News
A section of AICC leaders is understood to have devised a mechanism to end dissidence in CLP by changing chief minister. They are averse to allow Tarun Gogoi to continue as chief minister. But...
30 Nov 2017 - 11:54pm | AT News Dimapur
Nagaland chief minister TR Zeliang have wished the people on the occasion of the statehood day. In a message issued here on Thursday, Zeliang said,”The second President of India Dr. S...
Dhemaji: Prime Minister Narendra Modi dropped hint of the announcement of poll schedule for Assam along with West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry by the first week of March.
Addressing a crowded rally in Silapothar in the north Assam district of Dhemaji on Monday, Modi said that last time the country’s poll panel announced the poll schedule on March 4 and that’s why, it was his guess that the Commission will do it this time by the first week of March.
Opening a slew of government projects, the Prime Minister said that what the north Assam has received since 2014 was never since Independence.
Reiterating the various development initiatives, Modi said,” Bogibeel Bridge...
Guwahati: In a move that brings ray of respite for two kidnapped officials of a private oil exploration firm, ULFA-I has reserved it's decision of extreme steps in view of the mounting pressure from many sides.
Confirming this self styled military head of the proscribed outfit Paresh Barua said as he was talking to a section of journalists over phone in Guwahati on Sunday.
Barua, the fugitive rebel leader told the journalists that they reserved the extreme steps in view of the appeal from the people of all sections.
He however said that extreme step always may not suggest capital punishments as has been interpretated by many media houses.
The...
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...
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