Much to a major boost for Congress in rank and file in Assam, Prashant Kishore has agreed to help the ruling party in the assembly polls March next year.
The brain behind the grand alliance in Bihar, who held a round of informal talks with Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi recently, left New Delhi for Guwahati on Thursday afternoon.
Sources told Assam Times in New Delhi that the poll Chanakya will hunker down with Tarun Gogoi and Rahul Gandhi on Friday to finalise the pre poll strategy when the Congress vice president will on a two days visit to the state on Friday.
"Gogoi recently talked to Prashant at the instance of Rahulji who agreed, in principle, to help Gogoi retain the power in Dispur," said a senior AICC leader.
Notably, former Chief Minister and AGP leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta met Kishore in the capital on Tuesday evening and discuss the strategy an anti-Congress and anti-BJP wave in Assam. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar helped Mahanta met the poll strategist at the Bihar Bhawan in the evening.
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Police arrested a hardcore NDFB cadre after a heavy exchange of firing in Dhemaji district on Wednesday.
The fierce encounter took place in the afternoon during a search operation by the...
Guwahati: BJP government and party are simultaneously gearing up for 2021 assembly polls.
After CM's principal secretary Sanjay Lohia's transfer to New Delhi a major bureaucratic reshuffle is on the card as part of preparations for the assembly polls.
Same it is in the case of the party. Hours after state president Ranjit Das and organizational secretary Phanin Sarma met BJP president JP Nadda in New Delhi on Monday, joint organizational secretary Geethartha Goswami was removed from the stint.
There is no specific reason cited in the letter which Goswami received from the leadership.
Moreover, the state leadership has moved the central leadership to get...
Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) mourned the untimely demise of former journalist Dhanjit Kakati after a prolonged illness on 25 July 2020. Recognized as a dedicated social activist, Kakati used to work for a number of newspapers with full commitments to the medium. Kakati, 65, left behind his wife, a daughter, a host of relatives and well-wishers.
“Dhanjit Kakati actively participated in various citizens’ meets, which were organized by JFA in different occasions. His observations to various perennial problems of Guwahati including the flash-flood, social security, sustainable urban development, etc were appreciated by everyone and those were treated as valuable inputs to the...
Guwahati: A central draft allegedly framed to legalize the industries and factories in the economy sensitive areas is set to run into a hail of protest in Assam and other north eastern states.
Drafted as Environment Impact Assessment 2020, by the ministry of forest and environment, the draft has watered down the existing rules to set up big, medium and small scale industries on the basis of an assessment.
All Assam Students Union and KMSS along with many other organizations have vociferously opposed the move.
"Only Assam and other north eastern states will have to bear the brunt. But we won't allow anybody to loot our resources," said AASU general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi...
Golaghat: AGP leader and former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta held a closed-door meeting with former Bokakhat independent MLA Jiten Gogoi on Saturday amid speculations of a ventricle split in the regional party before 2021 assembly polls.
Accompanied by local AGP Balobhadra Tamuly, Mahanta visited the rebel turned party less politician at the latter's residence in Bokakhat where they held a closed-door meeting for more than one hour.
According to sources, Gogoi agreed to contest the polls independently to ensure the defeat of minister and AGP president Atul Bora who is known to be Mahanta's main rival in the regional party.
Both Mahanta and Gogoi said...
The website www.fridaysforfure.in was blocked citing UAPA which launched a campaign to protest against the Ministry of Environment’s Draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2020.
The notification was issued on March 23, 2020.
Activists alleged that the draft EIA 2020 will dilute the existing green laws favouring business.
After Delhi High Court's order, the initial deadline of June 11, 2020 for the consultation process of this draft was extended to 11 August, 2020.
What is the online campaign on the Draft EIA 2020?
Subject: Request to Withdraw Draft EIA 2020 in the interest of Environmental and Public Welfare
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Tinsukia: Yet another devastating explosion has rocked the Baghjan based gas and oil well which caught fire 60 days back that ravaged over 2000 families.
Wednesday's explosion took place at 2 in the afternoon when a team of foreign experts was trying to cap the inferno.
Around five foreign experts engaged in the operation sustained serious injury who were rushed to the Assam Medical College in Dibrugarh where they have been battling to survive.Baghjan burns again.#Savebaghjan pic.twitter.com/Mxg42vlYCN— Amlan Jyoti Gogoi (@AmlanJy34498868) July 22, 2020
Guwahati: The Guwahati police claimed to have arrested Deepjyoti Gogoi from Sivasagar charging him maligning the image of the government by sharing a fake page of display where CM Sarbananda Sonowal was shown to have appealed to the people to donate for the Flood Victims.
City police commissioner MP Gupta said that he was arrested under cyber law sections before being produced before the which remanded him to judicial custody for 14 days.
Photo: from Facebook Profile page
Guwahati: A local court in Guwahati on Tuesday jailed a student a day after the Sivasagar police arrested him for making "objectionable" remarks against the government in social media which has gone viral.
Identified as Deepjyoti Gogoi, a police team led by SP Amitabh Sinha picked up the Gauhati University student and rushed him to Guwahati where CID criminal branch arrested him under a few Sections.
Then he was produced before a local court in the afternoon which sent him to the Guwahati Central Jail.
Gogoi was under the scanner after he took lead in a number of anti CAA protests in the city last year.
Very recently he recited a poem in YouTube against the government...
Guwahati: COVID19 might have killed 50 people in Assam apart from infecting 20,000 others.
But the killer virus gives field day for a group of contractors, suppliers, and government officers.
This was what Assam Public Works has said.
In a letter to chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, APW president Aabhijit Sarma has elaborated a number of allegations to probe that it's an occasion to make money for a section of people.
But is it possible without any political patronage?
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Guwahati: After 20 days of Lockdown to keep COVID19 at bay, the authorities in the city of Guwahati are beginning to unlock phase I from Monday.
According to chief secretary Kumar Sanjay Krishna, the shops will open only on one side of the road from Monday to Friday.
Hotels and restaurants have been restricted from opening in this phase. However, the restaurants would be able to do home delivery.
All government and private offices, banks and NBFCs would be operating with 30 per cent staff.
Cab services will be operating from morning to evening. But the private vehicles have been restricted for the next 15 days.
According to the health minister, the...
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