Sonapur : One person has been killed and many injured when one bus and one truck collided at 8 pm on Tuesday at Sonapur near Guwahati in NH 37.
The person who has been killed has been identified as Dhal Chetri, Age 35 years. Many of the injured are in critical conditions and have been admitted to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital.
The critically injured people are Arun Vaidya of Sapekhati, Prakash Choudhury ( location unknown) . Sajad Ahmed of Bokakhat, Pranjit Dutta of Birubari in Guwahati, Daulat Singh and Mrs Pabitri Singh of Nepal.
PermalinkSubmitted by abhijit singha on Sun, 24/02/2008 - 11:13
This incident only reinforces our belief that value of life in India and Assam in particular is dismally low, our roads are unsafe , our drivers are bereft of responsibilities, our vehicles are unfit.... who do we turn to then to help us undergo a safe journey
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Good news for Assam. Come March 2011. Dipak Jain will take over as the Dean of leading international business school INSEAD. The Dean Emeritus at Northwestern University's prestigious Kellogg School of Management, would look for opportunities to build INSEAD programmes in China and India as the business school focuses on growing its global presence and attracting more students from the developing countries.
He would be introduced at INSEAD's Leadership Summit Asia 2010 to be held on November 12 in Singapore and will assume his duties as Dean in March 2011.
A graduate of Gauhati University, did his PhD in marketing from the University of Texas at Dallas.
After months of politcal confabulation, the opposition AGP formally has decided to snap its poll pact with BJP. The decision was cleared on Monday as the party was holding its general council meet in Guwahati.Presided over by Chandramohan Patowary, the meeting discussed some major poll issues to approach the people thereof.Former opposition leader and inister Brindabon Goswami was conspicuous by his absence from this general body meeting. The regional party further discussed the ganasongyug yatra and tremendous response thereof in upper Assam.
Former Congress MP Mani Kumar Subba's newphew Ajoyraj Subba is back to home after 14 days after suspected ULFA militants kidnapped him at gunpoint from Bordubi. Subba owns a small tea estate arrived in his Tinsukia based residene on Monday midnight. He is understood to have released from Tirap area in Arunachal Pradesh. But Subba is not aware of what took place as after he was kidnapped by a few youths at gunpoint from Bordubi Chariali a few days back. He was freed 12 hour after the Gorkha Students Union enforced upper Assam bandh demanding his immediate relase. Initially, it was suspected to be a handiwork of ULFA. But the banned insurgent outfit is yet to clear its position.
A 12 hour district wide bandh disrupted Golaghat the entire district on Saturday. The bandh which began at 6 in the morning was total and full. Barring a few stray incidents, the bandh was by and large peaceful. Four persons have been injured when a section of local business businessmen clashed with police personnel at Merapani in the morning. The bandh was called by Asomia Yuva Manch in protest against the recent lathicharge on protesting students by Nagaland police. Roads remanied bare and schools, colleges, offices, business and banks remained closed under the impact of the bandh. AASU observes black day on Saturday across the state demanding action against guilty policemen from...
People of ward no. 6 of Nazira town, Sivasagar district have captured one Anil Mahali (50) on Friday, when he tried to molest a 5 years old girl. Later the accused was handed over to the police.
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Condemning the police lathicharge Naga Students Federation has asserted that such attitude towards the peaceful demonstrators was totally an act of disrespect.
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Delhi A'chik Youth Association is organising a Garo Food Festival on Sunday, September 26 (12 noon onwards) at Meghalaya House, 9 Aurangzeb Road, New Delhi. Mouth watering, finger licking, exotic food will be served. Some of the popular Garo dishes on the menu are Do'o kapa, Wak kapa, Wak meameseng, Wak galda gisi pura, Wak laisak pura, Na'tok kapa, Na'kam chutney, Bandal kapa, Bika kapa, Chicken masala, Mutton masala and Mix Veg. Entertainment is promised free of cost. Limited food will be served therefore, early arrival is suggested to get a complete taste of the Garo Hills.
For details, please contact:
Benny A SangmaPresident, DAYA9 Aurangzeb RoadNew Delhi-11
Phone: 9818380554...
Making and end to all prevaiing controversy and confusion, the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee has left it over to Congress president Sonia Gandhi. A resolution to this effect adopted on Sunday was passed on Wednesday before it was sent to Sonia Gandhi. Sources said the party high command is averse to change the president in view of the upcoming polls. This has paved the way for Bhubneswar Kalita to reain the chair.
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