A book penned by an Assamese technocrat turned writer AK Pathak was released at Guwahati Press Club on 28 January 2016. Eminent Assameseauthor and former Asom Sahitya Sabha president LN Bora released the book titled Mizo Tawng Made Easy, where the writer made an effort to make Mizo language understandable for a non-Mizo reader. Bora also pointed out that the primary language of Mizoram should be announced as a modern Indian language.
Anchored by Ms Alaka, the meeting was also addressed by writer Pu Pathak AK, journalist Nava Thakuria, resident commissioner of Mizoram House in Guwahati Lian Sang Zuala Chhakchhuak with the field secretary Rev H Lalhming Mawia.
GUWAHATI: An uneasy situation prevails in the Ledo a day after a gang of Naga rebels unless terror at a coal mining forcing the authority to step in with adequate force. The epicentre is Kaliori in Tikok, a remote area along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border where a group of armed Naga rebels stormed into the area and struck terror by setting afire a dumper belonging to NE Coal. Then they started blank firing terrorizing around 100 employees belonging to Coal India Limited and NE Coal who were trapped inside the area till early in the morning. Later, Ledo police and para military forces reached the spot and help the trapped employees come out. But by then the rebels...
GUWAHATI: Normal life comes to a grinding halt on Wednesday following the 12 hour statewide Assam bandh call by the Tribal Coordination Committee, a conglomeration of many tribal bodies who are dead opposed to the ongoing eviction drive at the Amchang wildlife sanctuary. Roads, mostly, are remaining deserted with no vehicles plying from early in the morning. Shops and markets, schools and colleges, banks and offices are not opening under the impact of the bandh. A section of the schools is holding examinations after the bandh supporters have announced exemption. The bandh is total in Guwahati since the massive eviction drive is going on in the outskirt of the city. However,...
GUWAHATI:The massive eviction drive resumes in Amchang wildlife sanctuary has resumed for the third consecutive day on Wednesday. A huge team of forest department and district administration has arrived in thr spot with elephants and excavators and started evicting the illegal structure which include industries and factories set up in the area. "We think by today we would not be able to complete the drive. We have high court instruction to evict these illegal settlers since today we are evicting the factories and industries and the government would definitely do the needful to rehabilitate them. Please allow us to discharge our duty," said a senior forest officials as he faced the wrath...
KOKRAJHAR: Bodo retired ACS officer Rahila Brahma received the prestigious Padma Kalita Memorial Award at a function in Kokrajhar on Tuesday. She received the award from award winning prolific writer Anjali Basumatary in presence of many distinguished personalities.
GUWAHATI:The United Liberation Front of Asom(ULFA-I) reiterated sovereignty and independence for Assam alleging decade old injustice, negligence by the mainland people.In a statement issued on the eve of the Protest Day on Tuesday, the rebel outfit's chairman Abhijit Asom raised a slew of examples suggesting the Centre's step motherly treatment to Assam and its people. He lashed out at the state's political class for concentrating only on the electoral fates. He said the mainland manners, customs and cultures have been engulfing the unique culture of Assam and its people adding that if it goes unchecked these Assamese wont last long as a nation. On November in 1991, the Centre imposed...
KOHIMA:Nagaland chief minister TR Zeliang has urged the investors to set up bamboo processing plant in the state in view of the plenty of raw materials. In his address at the governing body meeting of the Nagaland Bamboo Development Authority, Zeliang said the north eastern state has huge potential for bamboo processing plants since 11 districts have registered good growth in bamboo plantation. He said sending bamboo outside the state wont be viable since it is costly to transport the raw material from the remote areas. Hence, setting up bamboo plants in the state would be an ideal and lucrative initiative.
GUWAHATI:A local court in the city of Guwahati rejected the bail petitions moved by the KMSS leaders a day after police arrested them for allegedly disrupting the ongoing eviction drive in the Amchang Wildlife sanctuary. Identified as Bedanta Laskar, Dharya Konwar and Gopi Saikia were produced before the chief judicial magistrate on Tuesday who remanded the trio to the jail.Notably, police arrested them on Monday as they staged protest against the eviction drive along with the illegal settlers who were evicted. Police have charged them with trying to fuel the protest by the evicted people. For the second consecutive day, police conducted a raid at the KMSS office on Tuesday.
GUWAHATI: Congress leader and former chief minister Tarun Gogoi strongly criticized the BJP led Assam government alleging in human eviction drive in Amchang wildlife sanctuary, Lakhimpur and Karbi Anglong. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Tuesday, Gogoi said the Sonowal government failed to convince the High Court to buy more time to rehabilitate the settlers before evicting these people who are, mostly, the flood and erosion hit Mising people. Gogoi said,"the ruthless eviction drive has exposed the BJP which came to power with a vow to safeguard the interest of the indigenous people. But only to be rendered homeless. We demand measures to compensate these hapless people." "...
NEW DELHI:Hundreds of people from three organizations from BTAD areas have staged dharna in Delhi on Tuesday reviving the Bodoland demand. With banners, festoons and play cards, the ABSU, NDFB-P and PJCMB leaders and workers thronged the Ramlila Ground in the capital where they staged the dharna for nearly two hours raising the seperate statehood demand. ABSU president Pramod Boro said,"before the last general polls BJP assured us of separate statehood. After the polls the BJP-led government at the Centre has done precious little to show their sincerity. But we won't sit idle. We will intensify the stir." "This is our only demand which is not new. But the government has not taken up it...
GUWAHATI: Stung by widespread criticism and simmering anger of the landless lot, chief minister Sarbanand Sonowal orders early steps to rehabilitate those evicted in the Amchang wildlife sanctuary, Lakhimpur and Karbi Anglong. According to sources, Sonowal asked forest minister Pramila Rani Brahma and her cabinet Naba Kumar Doley to ensure early steps to rehabilitate these people.
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