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
31 Mar 2009 - 11:52pm | Juthika Das
MP of Barpeta Loksabha Constituency Abul Fazal Golam Osmani breathed his last today at about 12pm at AIIMS, New Delhi. Mentionable that during last two terms he remained MP from Barpeta Lok Sabha...
14 Sep 2011 - 10:37pm | editor
A lower court in Guwahati on Wednesday granted bail to former Congress MP Mani Kumar Subba in connection with a rape case registered against him. The bail was granted when the court was hearing a...
13 Feb 2008 - 4:07am | editor
It’s a tragic accident which left two people dead in Borgang area under Biswanath polic station in Darrang district last night while a bus hit them after losing its control. According to...
10 Mar 2014 - 9:20pm | SK Hasan
Veteran social worker of Nazira Sub division Md. Rekibul Hussain appointed as a state secretary of the Rajiv Gandhi Panchayati Raj Sangathan of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee ....
Thousands of skywatchers burst into an applause in several parts of Assam as the crescent sun smiled upon the capital when the eclipse reached its maximum of 100 per cent at 6:26 a.m on Wednesday morning. But in some other places along with Dibrugarh people remained upset due to a cloudy sky where a host of scientists and sky gazers including from abroad were all geared up to conduct experiments in several institutions. In Guwahati, Goreswar, Tezpur, Jorhat and Lakhimpur, sky gazers were spell bound as they came to view the beautiful diamond ring in the sky in the morning. People in several placed came out in large numbers to have a glimpse of the rare celestial event. These places include...
The 25-year-old singer popular rock singer from Assam reaches the grand finale of an international talent hunt organised by an Australian music company. According to a music company SUTASI, Joshua Queah is one of the four contestants in Soloist Category from South Asia who has made it to the finals of the programme to be held at New York and Los Angeles next month.
There are three categories in the contest--Bands, Soloists and Songwriters--with one finalist from each category selected from each region-- South East Asia, South Asia and North East Asia. The singer, whose band 'Casino Blues' had won the coveted All India DSP Black Rock-i-lution Contest in Mumbai recently, is a familiar name...
SA Re Ga Ma Pa Little Champs Little Champs, the largest talent hunt cum reality show for children is back in a new Avtar on Zee TV and is marching towards its peak in TRP. The program is aired every Friday and Saturday from 9:30 PM.
Out of over 60,000 contestants all over the country, 6 girls and 6 boys have been selected for the final rounds of this competition.
Antara Nandy is one of the final 6 girl finalist in this show and is representing Assam. Antara is 10 years of age and her home town is Guwahati (Noonmati). She was born at the Pragati Hospital, Sivasagar district of Assam. She started her education at “Budding Buds School” at Tinsukia district of Assam and...
On 18 July, 2009, Rini Kakati was presented with the prestigious "Glory of India Award" from the India International Society. The "Glory of India Award" ceremony was held at the St. James, Buckingham Gate, London. She is the first Assamese lady to receive this prestigious award.
An international organisation of global repute and influence, it represents the people of India, now nearing one billion living in India and millions more in other countries and Non-Indians of various nationalities, who support India. It espouses humanitarian causes, promotes universal brotherhood and especially works for India's development by campaigning for and mobilising NRI and foreign investment in India....
Women taking their meal under a tree after sowing paddy in their paddy field in a hot day in a village in Bongaigaon District of Assam on July 21.
Photo: UB PHOTOS.
A huge cache of arms and amminuion were seized during a joint operation by army and police from Mohanbari area at a from forest on Monday. According to information, acting on a tip-off, the team seized the explosives along with five gelatin sticks, a grenade, a pistol, 55 live cartridges of AK-47 assault rifle, five battle fatigues and a map of the airport from Tingkhong area. The arms, kept buried in a polythene bag, are suspected to belong to the ULFA's elite strike force 28th battalion. Police suspect that the proscribed ULFA had plans to blow up the airport, one of the busiest in the Northeast, on the insurgent outfit's 'Martyrs' Day' on July 28.
Two hardcore NDFB rebel was killed another captured at an encounter in Guwahati on Monday. According to information, the encounter took place at 2-30 in the afternoon at Moragaon area in Guwahati when police launched an operation in the area. The captured terrorist was injured and was rushed to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital for treatment.
The deceased was identified as Bathan Narzary, a dreded sergeant majoe of the Bodo insurgent outfit. Two other cadres, however, managed to escape from the spot. The encounter took place when normal life came to a grinding halt on Monday as the 12 hour bandh call given by the outfit's Ranjan Daimary faction alleging the killing of altogether 56...
Three suspected NSCN rebels were killed in an encounter with a joint force of the Army and police in Lakhimpur district of Assam on Monday. The incident took place in the morning at Harmoti area border Arunachal Pradesh. According to information, acting on a tip off a joint team of polic and army launched an operation in the area and thus the encounter came up. Arms were also recovered from them after the encounter in midnight. The insurgents exchanged fire with the security forces at Harmoti before they were killed on the spot. Three 9-mm pistols - two US-made and a Chinese one - three magazines, eight live rounds of ammunition and two mobile sets were recovered from the slain ultras....
The Journalists’ Forum of Northeast India (JFNI) has strongly condemned the attitude of militants of the region, who have been trying to dictate the media for many years. Referring to the present conflict between a section of militants and the media persons of Manipur, the regional forum has extended its full support to the decisions adopted by the All Manipur Working Journalists’ Union (AMWJU).
Mentionable that, the AMWJU decided to ‘not to publish’ any newspaper in the State on July 17 as a mark of protest against a militant outfit, which issued a press release to the newspaper houses to get it published in full-form (meaning without editing). The JFNI also...
AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi says only the infusion of fresh blood would make the Congress party more vibrant. Addressing a function at the Rajiv Bhawan on Saturday, he says the youth Congress would get more members across the country. The meeting was addressed by PCC chief Bhubneswar Kalita and Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.Thereafter, he left for the youth Congress summit at the Sarusajai and is scheduld to address it before leaving for new Delhi. Earlier, Gandhi arrived at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport at 8 in the morning by an Indigo flight amnd was received by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi , APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita along with other senior party leaders...
Comments
Pages
Add new comment