Two Assamese books were released in a glittering function held at a city hall on 15 May 2016, where audience from different walks of life graced the occasion.
The chief editor of Niyamia Barta, an Assamese daily, and also a celebratedwriter Phanindra Kumar Debchoudhury, a motivation worker Dr Minati Barthakur and journalist Nava Thakuria officially released both the books.
Published by Maram Kumar on behalf of Maramland, the first book tiled Kalam is a collection of various articles. The author of the book is Dr Birendra Nath Patgiri, who is a dentist by profession and social worker turned writer by passion.
The second book is a translated piece titled Maadhukari Geetanjali, where nonagenarian Sunanda Patgiri took the pain to go for translation. He was also present on the occasion to bless everyone there.
An AASU delegation net chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Tuesday in New Delhi a day before the tripartite talks on the implementation of the Assam Accord. Sonowal, who has been camping in the capital met the five member student delegation at the Assam Bhawan where they discussed the main agenda of the talks on Wednesday with Union home minister Rajnath Singh in the chair. Led by adviser Dr Samujjal Bhattacharya, the team is set to demand the time bound implementation of the historic Accord. Adviser and educationist Basants Deka, president Dipankar Nath and general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi were present in the meeting with Sonowal. The move to amend the Indian Citizenship Bill, 1955...
Chief minister Sarbanabda Sonowal on Tuesday assured a delegation of six ethnic groups of sympathetic consideration of their demand for ST status a day after they openly raised doubt over the government intention. Sonowal who met the delegation at the Assam Bhawan in the morning assured the delegation that the state and centre will keep the promises by according ST status. The delegation representing the six ethnic groups Ahom, Koch, Chutia, Muttock, Adivasi and Moran were unhappy on Monday after attending the tripartite meeting presided over by union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju which remained inconclusive. The much awaited status report id expected to reach the...
Amid an attempt to settle the vexed Bodoland issue through negotiation, an independent non Boro MP from BTAD area have dared the government to hold plebiscite to ascertain the veracity of the decade old demands. Addressing a press conference just before the tripartite talks in New Delhi to discuss the demand, MP Naba Kumar Sarania said most of the people will vote against the separate Bodoland. He accused the Centre of trying to divide Assam where the Assamese as a nation will have to pay heavy price only because of the government mistake. Sarania represents BTAD areas in Parliament alleged that the Centre and state governments have never been taking him into confidence when they...
Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal is meeting prime minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah to get the seal of approval in the cabinet expansion move. According to senior BJP leaders in New Delhi those looking after the north eastern affairs of the party have forwarded the list to Amit Shah, who is expected to sign the papers in presence of Modi. Modi had yet to finalise the time to meet Sonowal in view of his tight schedule on Monday. At any moment, Modi is expected to meet Sonowal and Himanta Biswa Sarma, who has been camping in the capital with bye chief minister. Just before the final touch, Sonowal gad called up AGP leaders Atul Bora and Keshab Mahanta asking the...
The Saturday evening OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club was conducted by four senior Homeopathic physicians namely Dr SK Das, Dr Susanta Malakar, Dr Gayatri Dutta Barua and Dr Ramanand Gupta. The camp witnessed over 35 participants who also took the opportunity to check their blood pressure and sugar in the camp. Open for the members of the press club along with their dependants, the camp was assisted by Manish Bhattacharya. The next OPD (29 April) will be conducted by Dr Debajit Basumatary (Medicine) from Dispur Hospitals. Similarly, the 6 May clinic will be graced by Apollo Chennai Hospital’s senior gynecologist Dr A Vinutha. She will also deliver a talk on various women related ailments...
Despite round-the-click vigil, the poachers in Kaziranga struck again for horn in the national park. Forest guards the famed abode of one horn rhinos found a carcass of the one horn animal in the Agoratoli range on Saturday. The animal was believed to gave been killed two or three years back and took away the horn. This the third rhino poaching case in the world heritage site this year.
Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal attended a crucial meeting of the BJP chief ministers in New Delhi on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah have suggested the party chief ministers a slew of measures to woo the people three years ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. The chief ministers apprised Modi and Shah of the measures of their government and assured the duo of more measures in the forms of schemes to benefit the people. The meeting further discussed in detail the country’ overall political scenario briefed by the chief ministers. Sonowal arrived in the capital on Friday night on a three days programmes to the national capital.
The Dibrugah police on Saturday arrested a youth a day after he threaten to kill Zubeen Garg who was arriving his hone town and performed for nearly three hours. Identified as Tultul Baglary, he was caught in Barbarua area in the morning and was brought to the police station for interrogation which is going on. A Facebook status warning that the singer would be shot dead from a point blank range went viral in the evening forcing the district authority to step up security in the function were the most popular singer was performing. He received the death threat hardly a week after he stepped down from a stage in Guwahati for disallowing to perform in Hindi.
Zubeen Garg received death threat in social media when the most popular singer was performing in Dibrugarh on Friday. A Facebook status warning that the singer would be shot dead from a point blank range went viral in the evening forcing the district authority to step up security in the function were the most popular singer was performing. The threat was posted in the facebook by some Kai Khaplang alias Tultul Baglary who threatened to shot dead the dinger from.10 metre away from him.. He received the death threat hardly a week after he stepped down from a stage in Guwahati for disallowing to perform in Hindi.
In a bizarre show of shock and anger hundreds of Karbi youths representing 24 organization staged an unprecedented naked protest alleging lack of response to the demands they gave been raising for years. The protectors thronged in hundreds in Diphu, put off their shirts and trousers and took out a huge procession across the district headquarter town leaving the authorities in a catch 22 situation. Talking to Assam Times, the protestors said their demands ate old. But the government has not been responding to these at all. “For the last several years we have been demanding an updated voter list. The current list has names of thousands of outsiders and non tribal people who have been...
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