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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World Environment Day was observed by Assam Higher Secondary Education Council Assam in its office premises at Bamunimaidam, Guwahati on Wednesday.
A seminar on 'Conservation of Water' was held to mark the occasion. Secretary, AHSEC, Kamal Jyoti Gogoi moderated the proceedings.
Advisors to AHSEC Satyen Gogoi (rtd IGP Assam), Dr Dipankar Chakravarty, Controller of Examinations Pankaj Borthakur also spoke on the occasion.
Environment journalist and conservationist Mubina Akhtar highlighted the threats posed by climate change and various other anthropogenic factors that has led to severe water crisis with reference to the Brahmaputra Valley.
She appealed the AHSEC...
World Environment Day was observed by students and faculties of Radiant International School, Sonapur in Kamrup District in collaboration with Kaziranga Wildlife Society with the message ' Plant more trees, fight Air Pollution'.
A plantation programme was carried on in the school premises followed by interaction with the young students.
Journalist Chandan Kumar Duarah, Padum Borthakur, Mubina Akhtar and Anup Sarma - office -bearers of Kaziranga Wildlife Society, Shabori Purkayastha, principal of Radiant Int School highlighted the need to protect the environment by every individual.
Sushil Tamuly and S Roychoudhury CMD and Director respectively of the school also took...
Guwahati: Assam’s premier health care institute, Barthakur Clinic organized a media OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club on 1 June 2019, where practicing physician Dr Jury Das was available for free consultations to the participants. Nurse Lucy Songbai from the city based hospital helped over 30 scribes to get their blood pressure checked in the camp.
Next media OPD clinic for the benefit of working journalists along with their families will be conducted by a newly launched super specialty healthcare institute Excelcare Hospitals on 8 June at the press club premises.
The tenth Manash Borah Memorial North East Inter Institutional Debating Competition was concluded successfully on 31 May 2019 at Pragjyoti ITA, Machkhowa, Guwahati. More than twenty teams from across the state participated in the hard fought competition. The Competition is sponsored by the Manash Borah Memorial Trust (MBMT) and is organized by Old Boys Association, Sainik School Goalpara (OBASSG), the apex body of the alumni of Sainik School Goalpara, a premier residential school of the region. Manash Borah was an alumnus of SSG and was very instrumental in the formation of OBASSG. It is noteworthy that the Competition has completed a decade of glorious organization (2010-2019).
The...
Guwahati: One of the oldest nursing homes of Assam, Barthakur Clinic will conduct the next media OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club on 1 June 2019 for the benefit of its member-journalists.
The participants will get the opportunity to consult with experienced doctors from the city based hospital and also blood pressures checked in the camp (between 3.30 pm and 5 pm).
In yet another deadly attack Naga rebels killed 2 soldiers in Mon district on Saturday.
The incident took place at Tobu in Mon district of Nagaland at 1.45 in the afternoon where 2 Assam Rifles jawans died on the spot and 3 others sustained serious injury.
According to reports, as the soldiers reached Tobu the rebels were hiding on the roadside lobbed a powerful grenade at the vehicle and this was followed by indiscriminate firing.
The rebels fled from the spot before the arrival of army, police and para military forces. The injured have been shifted to the hospital.
A massive combing operation is in progress to apprehend the rebels.
The incident took place hardly a...
Guwahati: The ruling BJP is taking huge lead in the state where Congress is talking initial lead only in 2 seats.
AIUDF is leading in Dhubri and Karimganj while AGP is leading in Barpeta. BJP is leading in Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Nagaon, Diphu, Lakhimpur, Tezpur, Mangaldoi and Silchar.
Congress is leading in Kaliabor and Guwahati while AGP is taking a comfortable lead in Barpeta.
Itanagar: At least 10 people including an assembly poll candidates from NPP were believed to have died when suspected NSCN(K) rebels exploded a powerful bomb in Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh on Monday.
The incident took place around 11.30 when Khonsa West MLA and BJP candidate Tirang Aboh accompanied by his personnel assistant and security guards were on a trip. As Aboh and his convoy reach Birdoria area the Naga rebels who were waiting on the roadside ambushed the team where the entire team members were said to have died.
Security forces reached the spit and cordoned off the entire area to nab the culprits.
The NPP is extremely shocked and saddened by the news of the...
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