Guwahati: A young couple Raj Kumar Choudhury and Priti Choudhury commited suicide in Ganeshguri Chariali at Sinha Lodge on Sunday night as they were unable to stay together as Priti was married to another person. The couple committed suicide together and left behind a note donating their dead body to the GuwahatiMunicipalityCorporationHospitalRaj Kumar Choudhurys father is a Mouzadar in Ghagrapar in Nalbari and he himself was an active Congress worker. Priti Choudhurt and he had known each other for a long time but she was married to another person and hence due to peer and family pressures they could not come together.
Priti had come to Guwahati on 14th April 2007 for Athmangala and ever since they have been staying together in Sinha Lodge after Priti ran away with Raj.They have been staying together till the tragic incident occurred on Sunday.
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Workers have been seen cleaning potatoes on 21-05-2008 that will be sent to the local market soon which were produced as a part of AASU and Assam Unnati Sabha initiative at Barpeta. Photo by UB Photos
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Two people have been arrested by police and seized some flash of fox from their possession in the city’s kamakhya Railway station on Wednesday night. According to information, acting on some specific top off that two persons were coming by the Bohagi Train with some flash from Kendukona area, leaders of the non governmental organisation People For Animal Sangita Goswami and others informed it to police and were waiting for the train to arrive in the station. At around 10 pm, the train arrived in the station and police caught these two people red handed with flash. These two poachers were later taken to the Maligaon based GRP post. Taking to reporters, these two accused poachers have...
On the second day of training of about hundred citizens who are preparing to go into the villages f Miyaganj Block of Unnao District to conduct social audit of the NREGS, the DM Rajshekhar addressed a gathering of citizens of this Block. He said that he would not tolerate any discrepancy in muster rolls as well as measurement books.A number of officials and people responsible for implementation of this scheme believe that only one of the two documents can be prepared honestly, the other will have to be manipulated to fit the first. He said that NREGS had tremendous potential to transform the rural landscape and standard of living of rural poor but equally there was enough possibility for...
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