In yet another major incident that strikes statewide anger, the HS examination question paper in the subject of Biology is now available in the open market ahead of the examination.
The piece of a handwritten question paper has gone viral through social media on Sunday evening where the examination was scheduled for Tuesday.
Apart from instituting an enquiry, the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council has rescheduled the examination to March 19.
Kokrajhar: Normal government transport services remained paralyzed in BTAD areas on Thursday when the employees of the Bodoland Transport Services started an indefinite strike raising a slew of demands. With banners and play cards, hundreds of employees from Bodoland transport department staged sit in demanding steps to regularise their jobs, hike in salaries. The employees slammed the transport department for not taking any measures to meet their long standing demands of the emoloyees. They said the strike will continue until and unless the demands are accepted for needful steps.
GUWAHATI: The Gauhati High Court on Thursday has asked all district authorities to set up fast tract court to deal with the incidents of sexual misconduct against women. The court issued orders to the district session courts a day after chief minister Sarbanabda Sonowal in a letter to the chief Justice urged him to fast track these cases to expedite the Justice delivery system. Sonowal, who held video conference with DCs and SPs to speed up the charge sheet filing process in the courts to firmly deal with the guilty.
NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency probing the terror funding cases in Nagaland is preparing to quiz former chief minister TR Zeliang on Saturday. According to sources, NIA has issued a summon to the Nagaland Opposition leader and his secretary to reach its headquarters based in New Delhi at 10 in the morning. Zeliang claimed to have received a summon in the name of NIA a couple of weeks back and sought time to appear before it in view of the assembly session which concluded on Monday.
GUWAHATI: A special court in Guwahati on Wednesday sent six officers to 14 days police remand after they were arrested in connection with the APSC scam. Special judge before whom they were produced allowed the investigating police officers to take them in their demand for investigation. Amid tight security the investigators have been quizzing at Special Branch headquarters at Kahilipara. Crackdown is still on for a few others who are on the run. In the second huge crackdown against the officers in question, the Dibrugarh police probing the APSC scam on Wednesday caught Bajali Circle officer Joydev Mahanta from Panbazar area in Guwahati. Hours before it, the police...
GUWAHATI: The second huge crackdown against the officers in question in the APSC scam gathers steam as the police have caught yet another ACS officer in Guwahati hours after arresting five others. The police have arrested ACS officer Joydev Mahanta from Panbazar area in Guwahati in the afternoon hours after they picked up five others from different places in this connection. They include Nalbari tax inspector Barnali Devi, Mancachar based IRBN DSP Kaushik Kalita, Dhakuwakhana Circle officer Rhituraj Gogoi, Majuli assistant employment officer S Sarkar and Rangiya excise inspector Abhisekh Borbora. All they appeared in the handwriting test conducted by the investigators two months...
NEW DELHI: Assam Congress MPs staged protest in New Delhi on Tuesday alleging the BJP-led government’s move to cancel the recognition of Assam Women University in Jorhat. Led by state Congress president and Rajya Sabha MP Ripun Bora, the MPs stood in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statute at the Sansad Bhawan premises in the morning where they raised voice of protest against the move. They said the Sonowal government in Assam has been trying to downgrade the varsity to a technical institute much to the utter disappointment of hundreds of girl students who have been pursuing various courses there. They asked the Centre not to disrupt the varsity’s status and immediate measures to uplift it....
GUWAHATI: Yet another officer has been arrested in connection with the nefarious APSC scam while four others are expected to meet the same fate at any moment The Assam police team probing the multi crore scam has arrested Nalbari tax inspector Barnali Devi from her residents in the morning hours after four others were held from different places. They were arrested two months after they faced handwriting test in Guwahati for forensic confirmation. In the second major crackdown in this nefarious scam, the police have arrested the Mancachar based IRBN DSP Kaushik Kalita, Dhakuwakhana Circle officer Rhituraj Gogoi, Majuli assistant employment officer S Sarkar and Rangiya excise...
NEW DELHI: A decomposed body of a girl from Meghalaya strikes no less sensation at a busy area in New Delhi on Wednesday. Identified with the help her Aadhar Card, the body of the girl was recovered from a flat in Munrika area in the capital city in the wee hours. She was working with a call centre. Police have registered a case to be investigated to ascertain the reason of her death.
GUWAHATI: The Assam police team probing the APSC scam has arrested four other officers on Wednesday two months after they faced handwriting test in Guwahati for forensic confirmation. In the second major crackdown in this nefarious scam, the police have arrested the Mancachar based IRBN DSP Kaushik Kalita, Dhakuwakhana Circle officer Rhituraj Gogoi, Majuli assistant employment officer S Sarkar and Rangiya excise inspector A Borbora. They would be produced before a special court in the afternoon seeking them in police remand. “We can't disclose anything now. On the basis of forensic report we are proceeding. More officers who ensured recruitment this way would be arrested,”said a senior...
NEW DELHI: The speakers at a national convention in New Delhi on Tuesday strongly opposed the ongoing process to update NRC alleging it an attempt to drive out from the state nearly 50 lakh linguistic minority people. Organized by Human Protection and Organization at the Press Club of India in the afternoon, PRASENJIT Biswas said the linguistic minority people are being harressed in the north eastern state in the name of NRC. He further said by the next couple of months in Assam around 50 lakh linguistic minority people would be tendered homeless in the name of an updated NRC. Another speaker George Becker, however, heaped huge praise on the people of Assam saying they are decent lot...
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