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RAHA: Aahotguri, a tiny place in Nagaon district hits media headlines as it is hosting buffalo fight to mark the occasion of Magh Bihu defying a Supreme Court embargo. Organizers told www.assamtimes.org that an overwhelming demand of the people from the country and abroad has forced them to host the traditional buffalo fight in the place beside the National Highway No 37 from 11 noon.   “We have no option. Last year we avoided it following the ban clamped by the apex court. But in the same breath we can’t ignore the people who have been demanding it for the last couple of months,” said an organizer who refused to be named. Dozens of foreign tourists who have been camping in the area...

GUWAHATI: Joy of Magh bihu grips millions if people in the nook and corner of the state as the annual harvest festival takes place on Sunday with offering puja to the firegod. Defying a biting cold wave, the folks in the rural, urban and semi urban areas throng the festival venues in the open fields where they lit up the wooden or bamboo structure which they call Meji. "We have this wooden Meji which we lit up at 3.30 in the morning. Our tradition allows us to lit up it only before the sunrise," said Amalesh Kalita, a local resident of Merapani in Golaghat district. The folks in rural area of Barpeta district have the tradition of the maji made of bamboo and straw they lit up chanting a...

GUWAHATI: Braving a pinching cold wave millions of people are soaked in the joy of Magh Bihu festivity with feasting and merry making on Saturday night. People of all walks of life celebrated Uruka to be dominated with community feasting and bonfire on Saturday night a couple of hours before the Bihu where the folks are busy with preparing Meji, a wooden or bamboo structure to be lit up early in the morning to mark the puja offering to the fire god. Apart from feasting and bon fire, people in the rural areas thronged the open fields to hold cultural function with folk songs in the open fire sides. "Our pomp and gaiety has disallowed the cold wave to grip further. Whole night we are...

Kokrajhar: A six member team of the Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) has started probing the murder of Lafikul Islam Ahmed in Kokrajhar four months after the sensational case struck the state. Led by CBI SP attached to special crime branch Upendra Kumar Agarwal, the CBI team based in Kolkata arrived in Kokrajhar on Thursday and visited at the spot at Titaguri Bazar and rushed at Salakati SBI branch office.   The CBI team which is camping at the Kokrajhar Circuit House and has been extracting inputs for the probe. The investigation agency has already questioned some eye witness  apart from interacting with the police officials. They interrogated the owner of the JK Trader...