Today is September 8, 2008. Assam is celebrating the 83rd birth day of music legendary music maestro Dr Bhupen Hazarika albeit the birthday boy is in Mumbai. Birthday wishes are pouring in for the pride of Assam and Dada Saheb Phalke award winning singer. Several organization on Monday are celebrating the day across the state.
A special screening of a documentary film on the life and works of, produced by Surjya Hazarika was held at the auditorium of the Assam Handloom and Textiles department office on Sunday. The documentary film titled Bihangam Drishtit Dr Bhupen Hazarika throws light on the life and works of the Phalke awardee. Many eventful moments of Dr Hazarika’s life have been covered in the film. The English version if the film titled Dr Bhupen Hazarika: A Living Legend was screened at the St Adrews Hall of London south Gate in July last and won accolades from the viewers.
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The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the government and chairperson of the 59th National Film Awards on a plea seeking quashing the decision of the jury for not accepting the nomination of an Assamese film for the awards.
The court issued notice to the information and broadcasting ministry and Rohini Hattangadi, chairperson and jury, Hiren Bora, jury of the 59th National Film Awards, and the Central Board of Film Certification.
A division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw sought from all the respondents the reason for not treating the film as an Assamese film.
The petitioner said that inspite of the certification received from the CBFC to...
Assam is fully prepared to welcome prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh who is on a visit to Guwahati on Friday.
Dr Singh is set to land at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport at 10-30 in the morning on Wednesday. He would straightly leave for the Nehru stadium by a helicopter. Then he would attend a function at the B Barooah Cancer Institute.
The Prime Minister will inaugurate the physical facility of the state-of-the-art Linear Accelerator with Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) and SRS/SRT, commissioned with grants-in-aid from NEC and Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).
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Security forces apprehended four hardcore GNLA militants in Goalpara district bordering Meghalaya on Wednesday.
They were picked up from Krishnai area during a combing operation by police and Army’s Nineth Sikhla regiment. Acting on a tip off that four GNLA militants were hiding in the area, joint team of police and army launched the operation where they were picked up. They have been identified as Ravi Sangma, Limcheng Marak, Nareswar Rabha and Rakjen Marak. Police seized two handmade revolvers and two motorcycle from their possession.
Apprehending ULFA strike in the run up to Prime Minister’s visit, the Northeast Frontier Railway has cancelled eleven trains and rescheduled four others from Wednedsay.
According to NF Railway, the trains will remain cancelled till April 20 and these include UP and DN Kolongpar passenger running betwen Guwahati and Moirabari,
UP and DN Guwahati-Silghat town passenger, UP and DN Chaparmukh-Silghat town passenger, UP and DN Tinsukia-Lumding passenger, Simaluguri-Dibrugarh-Simaluguri passenger, Tinsukia-Dangri passenger, Mariani-Jorhat-Mariani passenger and Kamakhya-Dhubri passenger.
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The ministerial panel set up to deal with agitation against the Lower Subansiri hydel power project submitted its report before chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday.
Led by the panel chairman and power minister Pradyut Bordoloi, the group of minister called on Gogoi at his official residence in Koinadhora where the final report was submitted.
The panel was set up at the height of the simmering protest against the NHPC-owned big dam at Gerukamukh along Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.
One person was killed and four others were injured when a speeding passenger train hit them in the outskirts of Guwahati on Tuesday.
The incident took place near Thakurbari in Chandrapur area at around 10-30 in the morning. The deceased and the injured were all employees of the Northeast Frontier Railway. Some trackmen were working on the two railway tracks in the area when two trains passed by simultaneously and the Nagaon-bound Kolongpar Express hit the workers.
The injured people have been rushed to the Railway Hospital in Maligaon and the condition of two of them is stated to be serious.
Assam Police constable Abhijit Baruah on Tuesday officially entered in the Guinness World Records as the longest barefoot runner three months after he ran 156.2 km in 24 hours.
The 20 year old Baruah, who hails from Jorhat scripted the history on January 30 this year when he started his run at 3.56 p.m. and ended it at 3.56 p.m. the following day. On May 28 last year, Abhijit -- also a black belt in karate and kickboxing -- had run 150 km in 26 hours and 31 minutes and entered his name in the Limca Book of Records. The Assam government announced an award of Rs.2 lakh to Abhijit, and the cheque for the amount was handed over to him by Congress MLA from Jorhat constituency Rana Goswami...
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