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.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has directed the Assam government to provide the audio-visual tape details of the speech of Subudh Biswas which struck huge controversy in the public meeting. Hearing a bail petition on Thursday, a division bench of L Nageswar Rao and Justice SA Bodbe sought the details from the Assam government by November 20 when the court will hear the bail plea. Subash Biswas' council told thr court that even after his arrest the people who have been probing the case have yet to file the charge sheet against him and he is still languish in jail. h He was arrested alleging in inflamatory speech before a section participants clashed with the local AASU activists...
Despite stringent measures and stepped up vigil rhino poaching refuses to die down in Kaziranga where the poachers have killed five pride of Assam during the last five days. The poachers have killed yet another rhino on Thursday. The animal was killed for rhino on Thursday at Kohora range in the morning and the hornless carcass was discovered in the evening. This is the fourth rhino pinching case in the world heritage site during the last five days
Two more officers have surrendered before police who have stepped up the crackdown against the accused officers in the APSC scam while police have arrested another in this connection whom the court have sent to police custody for 14 days. Kamal Debbath, Dilip Kalita have surrendered before the police on Thursday while Jyotirmoy Nath has been arrested from Karimganj. A special court on Thursday evening remanded the trio to 14 days police custody for interrogation. With this, the police team probing the nefarious scam have arrested altogether 18 officers while operation is going on to arrest three ACS officers namely Rajarshi Sen Deka, Gitali Doley and Sunayana Aideu who have gone...
A P KALITA, NAMRUP After lying in a shamble for a couple of years Dhodar Ali gets a major facelift in Namrup. Local legislator Naren Sonowal laid the foundation stone of the repair project at a brief function in APL Main Gate on Thursday. In his speech, Sonowal said the historic road connection Golaghat to Dibrugarh will be the lifeline of the state's economy. He said the ₹71lakh project would be a huge boost in the road network for Namrup, where the people have been bearing the brunt of the dilapidated condition.
NEW DELHI: The uncertainty over the draft of national registrar of citizens refuses to due down if the project nodal officer's report before the Supreme Court is to be believed. Nodal officer of the entire ongoing exercise Pratik Hajela told the apex court bench comprising Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice F Nariman that 123 crore documents are still lying for verification. If it so happens then there is simply no chance of the much awaited NRC draft by December 31. Earlier, the nodal officer told the court that only 48 lakh forms were to be verified and out of these 17 lakh doubtful where could be kept aside for verification later.
There is no trace of the three ACS officers who have gone underground to evade police arrest in connection with the APSC scam where 17 ACS, APS, employment officer and labourer inspectors have been arrested. Named as Rajarshi Sen Deka, Sun Ayana Aideu, Gulati Doley, have gone missing hours before the police launched the massive crackdown against 25 officers who bribed APSC chairman Rakesh Paul to ensure selection in APS, ACS and allied services in 2013 combined competitive examination. Apart from bribery, they resorted to forgery in the answer scripts which were confirmed in the forensic laboratory report. Deka, is the former Congress minister Nilomoni Sen Deka's son while...
A special court in Guwahati on Thursday sent Ranjit Gogoi to jail three days after the publicity director was arrested by the chief minister's vigilance cell probing the ₹30 crore advertisement scam. Ranjit Gigoi is learnt to have made many startling revelations hefore the investigators who have been interrogating him since he was sent to police remand in connection with ₹30 crore advertisement scam during the erstwhile Congress government. Since the investigators did not seek Gogoi's custodial interrogation again, the special sent him to jail in the evening. The special court in Guwahati on Tuesday remanded Gogoi to three days police custody to interrogate him in...
An Assam Police Service officer who was wanted in connection with the APSC scam has surrendered before the investigation officers in Guwahati hours after 15 others were arrested. Identified as Dilip Kalita, the assistant commandant with 5th Assam Police Battalion in Haflong surrendered before police In Guwahati on Wednesday evening who was later arrested. With this, the special investigation team set up to probe the huge scam has arrested 16 officers while efforts are on to nab nine others who have gone underground. When produced, fourteen of these ACS and APS officers were sent to police remand where the investigators have been interrogating them at the Kahilipara...
A boomtime for bee keeping awaits Sivasagar district. At least 50 farmers participated a training on commercial Bee Keeping on Wednesday. The training was organized under RKVY where Bakul Saikia, Nodal officer,Honeybee, under Directorate Horticulture & Food Processing , Assam and prominent Bee Keeper of Assam Lilacharan Dutta narrated the tips of commercial bee keeping. Dutta dwelt at length the artificial insemination of beekeeping for developing Queen also. He said that for commercial cultivation of Bee we should go for Melifera Bee which is economically viable. Saikia explain about developing entrepreneurship mentality of our young and anyone can adopt Bee Keeping as a profession as...
A special court in Guwahati has remanded 12 ACS, APS and allied service officers to 14 days police custody hours after they were arrested charging them with resorting to forgery in the state civil service examination. The special court listened to the police who sought them in their remand to probe into the serious charges against them. “Since the charges are serious in nature. We want their custodial interrogation. The court accordingly agreed as we produced all the 12 arrested officers before it,” said a police officer who refused to be named. Except one of them, all these civil and police officers were arrested in the wee hours on Wednesday from different placed...
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