Thowra MLA Sushanta Buragohain gets home department a week after he took oath as parliamentary secretary. Rupjyoti Kurmi was given power portfolio while his counterpart in health department is Dr Rumi Nath. Aarti Kachair gets social welfare department while kamalakha Purkayastha will look after the water resources.
The chief minister has given animal husbandry department to Sanjay Raj Subba. Manika Bora will look after the revenue department while Hemanta Talukdar will be the parliamentary secretary for agriculture.
PermalinkSubmitted by SANDEEP LANGTHASA on Wed, 23/09/2015 - 12:02
This is a ploy of Congress government giving portfolios before the Assembly elections. It means that Congress is giving a chance to its MLA to loot the money as much as possible before the elections so that they can cover up the bank balance as Congress is going to lose the upcoming election in Assam.
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After the Pink-headed Duck and the King Vulture, the magnifient White-bellied Heron (WBH) in Assam is all set to go the Dodo way. The absence or disappearance of the White bellied Heron is a matter...
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A Leadership Training Programme for youths, organised by Foundation for Social Transformation- enabling North East India, was successfully held on 20th and 21st May, at Bosco Reach Out in Guwahati....
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SERS Public School organised a career cum motivational talk at its school premises on 15th September. It was organized to sensitise students on various career options and also how to be successful...
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Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi tabled a vote of account on the floor of the House on Thursday.Gogoi, who holds the finance portfolio, has proposed a Rs 28,467 cr in the vote of account from April 1 to...
Decks are clear for Board of Secondary Education, Assam to announce the results of the High School Leaving Certificate and the Assam High Madrassa Examinations on Friday.The results will be available to the respective schools around 12 noon. The centres would be able to collect the results from Inspectors of Schools. Results are being dispatched in sealed covers to all the district headquarters. The centre in-charge will collect their respective results in the morning on Friday at 12 o’clock they will open the sealed envelopes. The results would also be available on the websites – www.resultassam.nic.in, www.indiaresults.com, www.examtec.com, www.myresultplus.com, online.assam.gov.in, www....
Maoist activists are spreading in the nook and corner of Guwahati. Jalukbari police on Thursday claimed to have intercepted a lady Maoist cadre in the city in the wee hours. Identified as Kabita Rabha, the women cadre was arrested from Udalbakra area in the city. A CD along with some incriminating document were seized from her possession.
A beefed up security in Guwahati is of no use when bombs are found in the hear of the city.Police recovered an IED at Lalmati area hours after Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and President Pranab Mukherjee left the city. Basistha police recovered the powerful IED from a vehicle after it was noticed by a passer by.
Protest over the NHPC-owned mega dams in Gurukamukh seems to have escalated further when KMSS blocked 14 trucks carrying turbines halfway.KMSS activists sent these trucks back to Guwahati on Wednesday night from Amoni in Nagaon district on way to Gerukamukh via Tezpur.
Police team probing the chit fund scam continues to grill Candan Das a day after the Jeevan Surakhsa boss was brought to Guwahati.Das is facing a number of cases n Guwahati and many other parts of the state. The owner of a chit fund company was arrested from Barasaton Tuesday night on charges of swindling investors' money. Das along with his wife Sangeeta Das were held in a joint raid conducted by officials of CID and that of Barasat police station.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday filed his nomination for a fifth consecutive term in the Rajya Sabha from Assam even as he draws media ire for refusing to speak to the waiting reporters in Dispur.
Later he came forwards and talked to the reporters for a minute only thanking the people for continuously electing him to the Rajya Sabha for all these years.
He arrived at the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in the morning and headed straight for the state assembly to file his papers.
His win would be comfortable as the ruling Congress and its allies have 94 legislators in the 126-member assembly.
President Pranab Mukherjee exhorted varsities to meet the requirements of moral challenges faced by society amid rising crimes against women.In his speech at the Convocation ceremony of Assam University in Silchar, Mukherjee expressed serious concerns over the inadequacies in the education sector.According to the President,“it underscores the need for society to introspect and find ways to arrest the moral decline."He said,” "if our country has to continue on its path of higher growth, then the relentless pursuit of higher educational standards is an indispensable requirement for its achievement."
The United Liberation Front of Asom has strongly criticized Sankadev Award for Sharmila Tagore a day after the film personality received the coveted award from president Pranab Mukherjee.In an e-mail statement, the banned insurgent outfit alleged that Tagore has hardly any contribution to Assamese language literature. According to ULFA, it has belittled the saint. ULFA further asked Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to explain the reasons for selecting Tagore’s name and to made the names of the panel members public.
President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Asom Ratna Award for 2012 to writer Mamoni Raisom Goswami posthumously and Srimanta Shankardev Award for the year 2008 to actress Sharmila Tagore in Guwahati on Monday.Dr Goswami’s brother received the award while the actress received the prestigious Sankardev award at a glittering ceremony in the afternoon at the Machkhowa. Then the President left for Pandu and attended the closing ceremony of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Pandu College at Guwahati, and the annual convocation of Assam University at Silchar on Tuesday. Earlier, Mukherjee landed at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport at 12-30 noon to be...
Utter sensation prevails in Titabor where a six-year-old girl was allegedly raped in a tea garden. According to the FIR filed on the complaint of the girl's father, she was called out of her house in the labour lines of Rongdoi tea estate on Sunday by the accused. The victim’s father and locals have claimed that the incident took place due to the presence of illegal country liquor shops which attract miscreants to the area.
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