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.
The on going process to update the National Register of Citizens reaches its crucial stage. From next week the forms would be available for all. In some areas, the officials would drop the forms at the door steps.Senior officials deployed in the operation told Assam Times that the forms would be available free of cost for all citizens. They can fill up the form in English, Assamese and Bengali. The NRC Seva Kendras, mostly, have already received the forms for distribution. The form is accompanied by a sheet of papers containing the guidelines to fill up the form. The form can also be downloaded. Each of the families would get one form each. But additional form is required if case the...
Yet another vital clue on rampant rhino poaching in Kaziranga surfaces when police interrogated three poachers after being captured in Jorhat on Wednesday. Policemen tracing the development told Assam Times that some sensational revelations have come to light in the confessional statements of the poachers who were caught following an encounter with forest guards where a poacher was killed. Forest guards claimed to have recovered two rhino horns from their possession. Interrogation is going on to extract more revelations. The encounter took place in the wee hours when forest guards came to see three poachers in Burapahar range were searching near the National Highway 37.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday slammed both Delhi and Dispur for failing to stop influx from across the Indo-Bangla border. The apex court further appointed an officer to physically verify the border fencing works. A division bench comprising Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice R F Nariman straightly rejected the affidavits explaining a slew of measures to check influx of illegal Bangladesh nationals into the northeastern state through the porous Indo-Bangla border.Then the duo asked senior advocate Upamanyu Hazarika to physically verify the fencing and security across the Indo-Bangla border running through Assam and file a final report by June 30. The home ministry will have to pay Rs 5...
Majuli, the abode of Vaishnavite culture is throbbing with the preparations to welcome a new head of the Garhmurh monastery. The focus of attraction is Prabin Goswami who is all set to assume the charge of the monastery in the largest river island on the planet. The monastery premises is being given a fresh look. A new entrance point is being prepared to welcome the new head of the monastery. The managing committee officials are busy with the grand event where it would get a new head to run the monastery slated for May 31. But who is he who will succeed Haridev Goswami?“He is none other than Prabin Goswami of Narayanpur who is all set to assume the coveted post on that day,” monastery...
The Gossaigaon unit of People’s Co-ordination for Democratic Rights (PCDR), staged a 3 hours protest dharna infront of Gossaigaon Civil SDO office on Wednesday highlighting a slew of demands.These demands include deputation of sufficient doctors and other staffs at 100-beded Gossaigaon RNB Civil hospital, stopped of corruption and extortion, construction of more sanitation in and around the town, construction of over-bridge across NH-31 from Gossaigaon bazaar to SDO civil road, stop of the Kamrup express train at Gossaigaon hat railway station etc. Over a hundreds PDCR activists and supporters from Gossaigaon subdivision participated in the protest dharna programme .A memorandum...
A landmark judgment by the Supreme Court putting structure on the photographs of political leaders other than President, CJI and PM in government ads makes Assam proud.But how the state is connected to this judgment? The Supreme Court judge who delivered the historic verdict was none other than Justice Ranjan Gogoi who hails from Assam. The bench headed by Justice Gogoi rejected the plea of the central government that judiciary should not tread into the territory of policy decisions. Justice Gogoi said that the use of photographs of political leaders in advertisements issued by the government and its agencies leads to a personality cult.He further also asked the central government to...
After Congress, simmering dissidence threatens to mar the prospect of Assam BJP unit hardly a year before the assembly polls.The state unit is heading for a vertical split. That too at a time when the central leadership is leaving no stone unturned to wrest power from Congress. State unit president Siddharth Bhattacharya is leading a faction which is dead opposed to Sarbananda Sonowal. The Union minister also has a circle of his loyalists who want Bhattacharya to be unseated immediately. BJP sources told Assam Times that the tussle takes place over the chief ministerial candidates in the next assembly polls early next year. “Both the factions are concentrating on a number of differences...
The process to update NRC generates no less politics in the state hardly a year before the assembly polls. After AIUDF, now its turn for GMSS and KMSS to plan huge rally in Guwahati to strike political mileage. The party is holding a huge rally in the city on May 17 to ensure that no immigrants are allowed find place in the updated NRC.The party leaders told Assam Times that a circle of political leaders has been trying to ensure the names of a section of suspected immigrants in the updated NRC."We want to tell the country that we will not tolerate if an immigrant finds place here. We are holding the rally only to make the people aware of it,” a KMSS leader told Assam Times. AIUDF has been...
Former chief secretary Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa will be the new Governor of Arunachal Pradesh. President Pranab Mukherjee signed the appointment order on Tuesday. The retired IAS officer is expected to assume the office in a day or two.
Surface communication remained heavily disrupted after a heavy storm lashed parts of the state on Tuesday. The storm hit half of the state at 5 in the evening damaging houses and uprooting many trees on the roads.
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