Senior most Gauhati High Court judge Justice Tinlianthang Vaiphei will take overas the Chief Justice on October 21. Assam GovernorPBAcharya will administer Vaiphei the oath of office and secrecy at a function in the Raj Bhawan on that day.
President Pranab Mukherjee appointed him to replace acting Chief Justice Kazarian Srecdhar Rao who is retiring on that day.
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Guwahati: AJP president Lurinjyoti Gogoi and general secretary Jagdish Bhuyan visited Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi in Guwahati on Thursday amid the speculations of the move to forge alliance to fight against BJP and Congress.
The trio met at the Guwahati Medical College in the morning where the jailed peasant leader has been undergoing treatment.
Earlier they sent feelers to each other when Raijor Dal urged AJP to jointly fight the polls to beat BJP and Congress.
Diphu: There is no breakthrough in the food poisoning case in Diphu 2 days after a BJP worker died and over 130 fell ill when they consumed packet launched served at a government function.
The food packets were rushed from Guwahati to serve the people who attended a ceremony to begin the academic session of the Diphu Medical College Hospital by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and health ministers Himanta Biswa Sarma and Piyush Hazarika.
One hour after they the people consumed the food, many people started vomiting and complained stomach ailment and were rushed to DMCH. A BJP worker died when his condition deteriorated.
Local authorities have ordered a probe. But there is no...
As the days nearing to the next Assam assembly elections, the ruling BJP-led alliance has been increasing their organizational activites across the state. Despite the Congress-AIUDF alliance creating speed breaker for the ruling party, yet their election strategists like minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and others are seen unrelenting to boost the morale of the party workers. Political analysts believe that the saffron party has acquired significant presence in the upper Assam districts like Golaghat, Jorhat, Sivasagar, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia etc. Contrary to this, the opposition parties are keeping snail pace in the most upper Assam districts so far as the election is concerned. However, in the...
New Delhi: AICC leadership in New Delhi discussed a slew strategies to fight the upcoming Assam Assembly polls with a few state leaders. Presided over by state in charge Jitendra Singh, the meeting further discussed in detail the possibility of electoral benefit out of the alliance with AIUDF, CPI, CPM and CPIM.
The state leadership further apprised the high command of the grievances of a section of sitting MLAs who are dead opposed to the alliance with AIUDF. State president Ripun Bora, leader of Opposition Debabarata Saikia, MPs Gaurav Gogoi, Pradyut Bordoloi, and MLA Rockybul Hussian attended a series of meetings at the Congress headquarters.
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Senior Congress leader and MP Gaurav Gogoi today claimed that the Grand Old party-led alliance will win atleast one seat more than the ruling NDA in the upcoming Assam assembly elections. Interacting with media, the Kaliabor MP said that the people are now fed up with the policies of the BJP. “ People are becoming disenchanted with the BJP. We will form the next government,” he added.
Meanwhile, the BJP-led NDA has set a goal of winning 100+seats in the next state assembly elections out of the total 126. Earlier today Congress Legislative Party leader Debabrata Saikia also claimed that the Congress-led alliance form the next government in Assam.
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In a major setback for the Congress, which has been struggling hard to regain strength since 2014, has today lost two of its prominent faces in Assam.
Sitting MLA of Badarpur, Jamaluddin Ahmed and former MLA of Dergaon Aroti Kachari Hazarika passed away. The Dergaon politican was 59.
The two leaders' deaths were mourned by many including APCC president Ripun Bora, former minister Bismita Gogoi, among others.
Noted Assamese linguist and former Cotton College professor Dr. Ramesh Pathak is no more.
The professor has passed away today after a brief illness. His death is mourned by many. Born in Tihu, Nalbari Dr. Pathak has made tremendous contribution in the field of the Assamese linguistic by penning a number of books.
A few years ago, he was bestowed with the Sahityacharrya Award by the Asam Sahitya Sabha.
“Cinema Cinema, a new book by eminent cultural journalist Utpal Mena was released on Tuesday at a function organised at Studio Dreams, Guwahati.
Popular singer Tarali Sarma and some other distinguished person graced the occasion. Journalist Mena, who once contribued to the popular Assamese monthly magazine as a reporter from Mumbai has penned this book out of his long time practical experience. In the function he said about his experience as a cultural journalist.
This book is about Indian cinema and a number of film stars. Mena also worked in different Assamese dailies over a one and half decades.
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