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.
Four persons died when a truck full of logs carrying them slipped into a ditch in Kamrup district bordering Meghalaya on Tuesday. The shocking accident took place at Hahim in Boko where the logs fell on the four persons as soon as the truck met with the mishap. All of them died on the spot. According to the local residents, the truck which was full of smuggled logs fell into the drain after the driver lost control over it. Local residents and police rushed to the spot and took Sn hour to extricate the bodies. Police have registered a case to investigate it.
A three day special Assam assembly session from Monday will pass the Assam Goods Services Tax, 2017 to open a new leaf in the country’ tax regime. Apart from it, the government is expected to table six other bills which include the Assam College Employees (Provincialization) Amendment Bill, the Assam Appropriation Bill (No VI), the Assam Taxation (specified land) (Amendment) Bill, the Plantation Labour (Amendment) Bill, the Payment of Bonus (Assam Amendment) Bill, the Assam Board of Revenue (Amendment) Bill. The session will end on Thursday and the authorities will allow the news and current affairs channels to live telecast the entire assembly proceedings.
Amid an escalating cut off year controversy the Assam Congress has written to the Centre in support of 1971 as the cut off year to detect and deport the Bangladeshi immigrants from the state. In a memorandum sent to Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday, APCC president Ripun Bora and Opposition leader Debobrata Saikia said the party would not demand 1951 as the cut off year. Bora and Saikia said,”the Section 6A of the Indian Citizenship Act, 1955 prescribed March 25, 1971 as the cut off year for detection and deportation of the foreigners in the state of Assam.” They said the Assam Accord with March 25, 1971 as the cut off year has been accepted by all sections of the society...
It was in 2005 when Sarbanabda Sonowal drew huge applause across Assam for getting IMD(T) Act scrapped by the Supreme Court. But the same person today contradicts what he told the same court more than a decade ago as Assam Chief Minister. This was more or less of what Upamanyu Hazarika said in New Delhi on Friday a day after the Sonowal government made its submission before the top court on the growing issue on the cut off year to detect and deport the illegal Bangladeshi supporters from Assam. The convener of the Prabojon Virodhi Manch, an organization fighting against the alleged unabeted influx from across the Indo-Bangladesh border, thrashed the BJP -led central and state...
Kaziranga activists, Pranab Doley and Soneswar Narah from Jeepal Krishak Shramik Sangha (JKSS) have been granted bail on Friday. They were arrested by Bokakhat police on April 24 against a case filed on April 19 charging obstruction of public servants from discharging their duty and threatening to burn down a forest office. They were granted bail on Thursday, but arrested again in another case filed on April 24 on similar charges.
Senior gynecologist from Apollo Chennai Hospital Dr A Vinutha will be available for free healthcare consultations to the lady member-journalists of Guwahati Press Club along with the spouses (and daughters) of other members tomorrow at the club premises. The health camp, organized under the series of weekly ‘Evening with a Doctor’ programs, will begin at 4 pm of 6 May 2017 and continue till 6 pm. Prior to it, the experienced gynecologist will also deliver a talk on various women related ailments and their preventions at the club auditorium. Organized by the city based Apollo Hospitals Information Center, the talk will start at 3 pm on Saturday. The last evening OPD clinic at the press...
As many as five UDLF rebels are believed to have sustained injury when they were caught in a gun battle with security forces along Assam-Meghalaya border on Friday. The encounter took place at Damchera where a group of rebels targetted the CRPF jawans who were on patrolling duty at midnight. A few of the rebels are learnt to have injured in the half Sn hour long encounter which ended as soon as they vanished in the dense jungle. Security forces are looking holding joint operation in search of the injured rebels along the interstate border areas.
A Hindi speaking person and his daughter sustained injury when suspected Ulfa -i rebels replied a grenade in Tinsukia district on Thursday. The grenade exploded in Kakopothar area in the evening where Joginder Sinh abd Hus daughter Reenky sustained injury. Security forced arrived in the spot who have corfoned off s huge area to launch an operation in search of the Ulfa rebels who ate believed to have exploded it Hot under and his daughter have been rushed to the hospital.
A special court in Guwahati on Wednesday remanded three ACS officers to police custody for 14 days hours after they the trio were arrested from different places in connection with the job for cash scam in the Assam Public Service Commission. Identified as Bhaskarjyoti Dev Sharma, the circle officer of Helem in Biswanath Chariali, Amit Sarma, the circle officer Sipahjar and circle officer from Nalbari Bhaskar Dutta were produced before the court seeking 14 days remand which the court allowed. Police, probing the scam confirmed the allegations against the trio acting on the forensic report of their answer scripts. Then they got administrative nod for action against them.
Amid the escalating controversy over the cut off year to detect and deport the immigrants from Assam former chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday came in strong support of 1971. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati Gogoi the demand to review the cut off year might trigger fresh violence in the state which nobody wants. “Nearly thirty years have passed since the Accord was signed with 1971 as the cut off year. The growing demand for a change after so many years would trigger violence afresh. Let the Accord be implemented in letter and spirit,” said Gogoi. Taking a dig at his predecessor PK Mahanta, Gogoi said how he was put on pressure by the Centre to accept 1971. “Yes, I admit...
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