The mortal remains of Anjan Dutta were consigned to flames on Friday a day after the APCC president died of cardiac arrest in New Delhi. After last respect to the lifeless former minister in Guwahati and Sivasagar, Dutta’s body was taken to Gaurisagar where he was cremated with full state honour in the afternoon. Former Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and forest minister Pramila Rani Brahma, MP Ripun Bora were prominent among those who were present at the cremation ground. Before that thousands of bereaved Congress men received Dutta’s body at the Jorhat Airport in the morning and was taken to Sivasagar to facilitate his fans to pay their last respect in Sivasagar town and his birth place Gayan gaon.
Dutta died of cardiac ailment on Thursday morning at the All India Institute of Medical Science a couple of weeks after he was rushed to it. The party in rank and file have condoled his death and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family members.
Kokrajhar: There is no point of waiting for somebody. These people have no other options but to act. Yes, we are talking to the local residents of Souraodakha area in Dotma and Kachugaon in Kokrajhar district. For the last several months the need of a bridge over the river Hel left lots of inconvenience to them. Now they are busy with the construction of a bamboo bridge. More than one hundred villagers from around 15 villages joined hands to build out the bridge at the initiatives of the Serfanguri Unit Committee of the All Bodo Students Union( ABSU). They have been demanding an RCC bridge for the last couple of years. But of no avail. They kept waiting. Now they have found it...
MARGHERITA: Mamta Banerjee continues to draw flak in the nook and corner of the state three days after the West Bengal Chief Minister’s inflammable speech against NRC in Assam. Political parties, various organizations and individuals have slammed her who warned her not to proceed further. Student organisations in Margherita have also thrashed her alleging an attempt to strike communal tension in the north eastern state. Talking to www.assamtimes.org, AJYCP Tinsukia president Surajit Moran and general secretary Kanchan Bora said Banerjee has no knowledge and that she should immediately be arrested. Another AJYCP leader Pranjal Pratim Neog said the Supreme Court was monitoring...
UDALGURI: Despite stepped up counter insurgency operations, group of rebels has been moving in the BTAD areas. Security forces deployed in Udalguri district have apprehended three NDFB-S rebels during a combing operation in Mazbat area on Thursday. Acting on a tip off, 14th Dogra Regiment jawans along their counterparts of Cobra 210 Battalion conducted a raid at a remote village where Gwmsar Daimary,Bwhwisat Basumatary and Ashish Daimary along with Anjalu Kachari Brahma, a were held. A 9mm pistol with magazine and 3 rounds live ammunition, 7.65 mm pistol with magazine and 05 rounds live ammunition,two grenades and a Maruti Zen Estilo car were recovered...
NAMRUP: The local residents in Namrup rescued a stranger in dire strait on Friday who is now battling for life at the Assam Medical College in Dibrugarh. Ramesh Murmu, a local resident discovered the unidentified person at the railway station premises in the morning and passed the information to the railway police. Then a local pharmacist offered him primary treatment before sending him to the state dispensary. Then finally he was rushed to the Assam Medical College Hospital for better treatment. Local residents and the police men were quite disappointed with the 108 officials who, initially refused to render service to the stranger patient.
GUWAHATI:A mild 4.0 intensity earthquake has shaken Assam and it's neighbouring north eastern states striking no less panic among the people on Friday. Originated in Karbi Anglong district, the tremor was felt at 12.40 noon forcing the people in the high rise buildings to the open space. The panic stricken Guwahati denizens in the flats and towers started coming down gearing a massive quake. There is no report of any casualty so far in the quake.
GUWAHATI: Traditional Assamese Bihuwan or drape along with lemon and smoked rice(kumol chaul) might get the GI tag. Courtesy Assam Agricultural University (AAU) which is working overnight to ensure it. GI is granted by the GI Registry Office based in Chennai, established under the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration & Protection) Act, 1999 that came into force with effect from September 15, 2003. The varsity did no less help muga silk, Assam (orthodox) tea, Karbi Anglong ginger and Tezpur litchi are the other products procure the rare tah. AAU director Dr GN Hazarika said that the university has undertaken an initiative to offer its expertise to organisations seeking GI...
HOJAI:Altogether 21 teams from different state have joined the National Sub Junior Hockey Championship which begins in Hojai on Friday. The participating teams started polling matches from early in the morning since chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal is formally opening the clash in the afternoon. Talking to www.assamtimes.org, the Hojai Sports Association officials who have organized the event said all participating teams have arrived in the venue. They said all players are getting adequate accommodation to put up wonderful performance in the tourney which Hojai hosts for the first time.
GUWAHATI: Trouble brews for Mamata Banerjee a day after the West Bengal Chief Minister called the updated NRC in Assam a conspiracy against the Bangla speaking people.The Gauhati police have booked Banerjee when TN Das, a lawyer based in Guwahati moved the Latashil police station with a complaint against her. In his FIR, Das said that her inflammatory speech at the public meeting in Birbhum might create communal riot in Assam where the people of different castes, creeds and religious have been living peacefully for decades.Acting on the FIR, the police booked the chief minister under the Section 153-A of the Indian Penal Code.Banerjee in her speech said she won't tolerate the conspiracy of...
NEW DELHI: A soon to be convened tripartite talks over the Assam Accord is expected to clear the citizenship controversy. This was what the impression of Dr Samujjal Bhattacharya after the AASU adviser along with Dipankar Nath and Lurinjyoti Gogoi called on Union home minister Rajnath Singh in the capital on Thursday. The three member AASU delegation has warned Singh that they were not prepared to compromise the implementation of the Assam Accord and the cut off date for detecting and deporting the Bangladeshi immigrants. The AASU team told the reporters here that they have made it plain before the home minister that they won't allow the Centre to proceed with the Citizenship (Amendment...
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Rajnath Singh said no Indian living in Assam would be left out in the updated NRC in Assam. Replying to Saugata Roy of Trinamool Congress in Parliament on Thursday, Singh said process is on to update NRC in the north eastern state under the direct supervision of the Supreme Court. Singh was responding to Roy who alleged that NRC is a conspiracy in Assam against the Bangla speaking people in the state. His party chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asked her MPs to go all out against NRC in Parliament. She in her address in a public rally in Birbhum called it a conspiracy to drive out the Bangla speaking lots and said that if...
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