The Centre has put the Assam Government on alert apprehending ULFA's massive strike during the Independence day celebrations on August 15. According to information, acting on some specific inputs that ULFA is drawing up a blue print for a massive strike during the Independence Day programme, the Centre has alerted the Dispur to be extra vigilant. According to information, the Union home ministry has told Dispur to intensify security measures especially around vital installations as ULFA militants have been targeting these places in support of their demands.
The Centre further has asked Dispur to deploy adequate security personnel in all towns and Guwahati city as there have been recent strikes by the rebels in urban areas. This was discussed in detail at a meeting of Unified Command Structure held in Guwahati on recently in presence of senior officials of Army, state police, CRPF and BSF. The meeting decided to put the security agencies engaged in counter- insurgency operations on alert.
17 Sep 2011 - 12:42am | editor
The Opposition Asom Gana Parishad is all set to rush a delegation to the President seeking her intervention in the recent land swap deal with Bangladesh. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati...
1 Nov 2019 - 12:58pm | AT Kokrajhar Bureau
KOKRAJHAR: The All BTC Minority Students Union (ABMSU) has demanded proper implementation of the 6th Clause of the historic Assam Accord with letter and spirit.
ABMSU also demands clarification of...
2 Oct 2016 - 1:28pm | editor
After days of will-they-won’t-they, police have arrested Akhil Gogoi on Sunday in connection with the recent protest in Kaziranga. A group of policemen caught the KMSS leaders from his...
5 Mar 2017 - 5:36pm | AT News
The Assam Environmental NGO Forum (AENF) expresses deep concern at the propaganda launched against Kaziranga National Park by Survival International in active parleys with BBC Televisions bringing...
For the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chatra Parishad, August 4 will be a Black day. The student body is going to do it in protest against the government’s failure to rein in the stepped up activities of the fundamentalist forces in the state. According to the AJYCP general secretary Manoj Baruah, the indigenous people in Assam are living on the edge in the face of the continuing infiltration of Bangladeshi people from across the Indo-Bangla border and also the stepped up activities of the fundamentalist forces. Baruah said the government both in Delhi and Dispur have been failing to rein in these over the years.
Two people were killed in two separate incidents in Assam on Tuesday night. A Panchayat body president in Amguri in upper Assam’s Sivasagar district, Hemanta Baruah was shot dead by a few miscreants near his resident Haluwating at around 10 at night on Tuesday. Police have yet to ascertain the reason. In yet another incident, one Himanshu Das, 42 years, was killed by unidentified assailants on Tuesday evening at Kumargaon, 8 kilo metres from Sarbhog police station in Barpeta district. Some unidentified youths went to the house of Das, who was the gaonbira of the village and called him outside. When he went out, they shot him dead. The police later recovered 4 empty cartridges of AK 56...
In a response, the likes of which we have not seen in the last few decades, both the Government of Uttarakhand and the Government of India responded to 76 years old Dr. G. D. Agarwal's fast-unto-death. Retired professor of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Dr. Agarwal, was protesting planned projects on the Bhagirathi which threaten the perennial flow of the Bhagirathi and the Ganga.Both central and the state governments have suspended work on the three projects and promise the maintenance of the perennial flow of the river under all circumstances. The central government has promised review by a high level committee before any further action.Dr. Agarwal's fast prompted...
The All Assam Students Union is holding a brainstorming meeting in the city on Wednesday to cle4ar a set of strategies for launching a statewide intensified strike against the Bangladeshi infiltration.According to information, the meeting will discuss in detail the course of action to be taken to ensure an intensified action to detect and deport the illegal Bangladeshi migrants who have infiltrated from across the border to disturb the state’s demography.Talking to Assam Times on Wednesday morning, AASU leaders said they are taking serious note of the recent High Court ruling asking the government to detect and deport the Bangladeshi migrants. They have alleged that political parties...
An uneasy situation is prevails along the Assam-Nagaland border in Golaghat district as a section of people from the neighbouring Nagaland are illegally occupying a vast plot falling under the territory of Assam.Speaking to Assam Times, the villagers Dahnsiri subdivision along the Assam –Nagaland border have alleged that after B sector in the border area, now it’s the A sector in Golaghat district where some Nagaland people have started some administrative functioning. In B sector, some other people from the neighbouring state have already set up a sub division New Land. In 1991 also, some of these people set up a sub division and named it as Kohbut. Of late, the local residents...
The overall flood situation in Assam continues to remain critical on Wednesday as some more areas are reeling under the flood waters of the river Brahmaputra and its tributaries rendering as many as four lakh people homeless in seven districts. According to information, some fresh areas have been inundated in lower Assam where the river Beki was playing havoc, forcing panic stricken villagers to abandon their houses. The Brahmaputra is still flowing above the danger mark at Dibrugarh, Naemati and Dhubri while its tributaries Jia Bhorali and Puthimari were also above the red mark. The situation in the river island Majuli remains grim for the second day on Sunday as two portions of PWD road...
Artists of Madhya Pradesh performing Badhai dance at the inaugural day of the Madhya Pradesah Utsabh 2008 organised at the Srimanata Shankardeb Kalakhetra, Guwahati on 29-07-08. PHOTO: UB PHOTOS.
An uneasy situation is prevailing in Dhubri district for a string of untoward incidents that took place when All Koch Rajbanshi Students Union was running its 1000 hour economic blockade in the lower Assam district. The situation turned grave on Monday when a 609 canter was torched at Kumarganj on the Dhubri- Kachugaon Road under Gookganj police station of Dhubri district on its way to Gossaigaon by a few suspected Akrsu activists.According to information, all the passengers were asked to get down before the miscreants torched the bus by splashing kerosene oil. Passengers inside the bus ran away. Police team rushed to the spot but the vehicle was completely gutted by the then. Police and...
The over all flood situation in Assam remains critical with the flood waters of the mighty Brahmaputra and its tributaries are spilling into some more areas. Lakhs of people marooned after the breach of the Matmoira dyke in Lakhimpur district are still staying in the makeshift camps and relief and rescue operations are in progress. But the rescue operation is facing a great deal of difficulties due to lack of adequate number of boats. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday visited the flood affected areas and took stock of the situation. Talking to reporters Gogoi admitted that the government could not take precautionary measures in time.The flood waters came to ravage the area hours after...
The overall flood situation in Assam continues to remain critical on Sunday as some more areas are reeling under the flood waters of the river Brahmaputra and its tributaries rendering as many as four lakh people homeless in seven districts. According to information, some fresh areas have been inundated in lower Assam where the river Beki was playing havoc, forcing panic stricken villagers to abandon their houses. The Brahmaputra is still flowing above the danger mark at Dibrugarh, Naemati and Dhubri while its tributaries Jia Bhorali and Puthimari were also above the red mark. The situation in the river island Majuli remains grim for the second day on Sunday as two portions of PWD road at...
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