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.
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...
Nagaland chief minister TR Zeliang hoped that the Centre would do the needful to solve the decade old Naga problem before the upcoming assembly polls. Zeliang said it to Ram Madhab when the BJP National Secretary and North East in-charge visited him at his official residence in Kohima on Wednesday. The chief minister welcomed the BJP leader with a Naga shawl and a memento in presence of MP Neiphiu Rio, Home Minister Y. Patton and Parliamentary Secretary Pohwang Konyak and others. The people in the restive north eastern state want the political issue to be solved before the assembly polls due early next year.
The top investigating officers of the chief minister's vigilance cell have been interrogating Ranjit Gogoi on Wednesday where some stunning revelations are believed to have surfaced in the multi crore advertisement scam. Those probing the scam started grilling the publicity director from 9 in the morning which continued for nearly 8 hours. Gogoi is believed to have named a powerful political circle in Dispur along with a few advertisement agencies. Then he was sent to Dispur police station for the night. He would be produced before the special court in Guwahati on Thursday. Gogoi was arrested on Wednesday after police questioned him for nearly four...
Along with other parts of the country, the Assam Congress in rank and file have gone all out against the NDA government at the Centre on one year of demonetization. Congress leaders and activists took out a huge protest in the capital city of Guwahati slamming prime minister Narendra Modi and his government for allowing the common people to suffer because of demonetization. The party speakers said with demonetization, Modi has safeguarded the interest of his own people and failed to crack the whip on the money makers. “If really it targetted the black money then these notes have gone. RBI had made it clear that 90% old notes have come back. Is it the way Modi is...
Police have arrested yet another ACS grade 1 junior officer wanted in connection with the job for cash scam has surrendered before police hours after police nabbed altogether 12 others. Identified as Daithun Basumatary, he rushed to the Assam Police Battalion headquarters in Kahilipara where hd surrendered before the investigating officers. Police have been intensifying search operations against the remaining accused including the relative of Union minister Rajen Gohain. The ACS grade 1 junior officers include Pallabika Sarma Chaudhury, Dipak Khanikar, Debojit Bora, Himangsu Chaudhury and Anirudh Roy.
A 3.6 magnitude earthquake jolted Assam on Wednesday. But the people in the north eastern state, mostly, failed to feel it. According to a seismological Centre, originated in Nagaon, the tremor jolted the central parts of the state at 1. 15 midnight.
The police team probing the APSC job selection scam has arrested altogether 4 ACS grade 1( junior ) officers and 4 deputy police superintendents along with three officers charging them with resorting to forgery in the state civil service examination. All these civil and police officers were arrested in the wee hours on Wednesday from different placed and were taken to Guwahati for custodial interrogation. “They are being interrogated. We are preparing to produce them before the special court seeking police remand. Beyond that we can't divulge anything,” said a police officer in the capital city. All of these officers appeared in the hand written test conducted...
A local lower court in Guwahati remanded Ranjit Gogoi to three days police custody after police probing the ₹30 crore ad scam arrested the publicity and public relations director alleging his involvement in it. Gogoi was arrested after marathon interrogation by a team of top ranked police officers who did not received satisfactory reply and wanted his custodial interrogation. After medical check up in the evening, Gogoi, the Janasanyog director wad brought before the court asking for five days police remand. The court sent him to police remand for only three days. “Interrogation is going on. That’s all. Beyond that we can't divulge anything in detail,” said a police...
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