The death toll in Assam’s serial blasts has gone up to 77 on Friday with 11 more people succumbing to their injuries overnight.
Confirming this official sources here said eight people died in Guwahati, which now alone accounts for 41 deaths. Three others succumbed to their injuries in Barpeta taking the toll there to 15.
Our Kokrajhar correspondent informs that the death toll in Kokrajhar remained at 21.
Although its is widely believed to be the handiwok of the HuJi terrorists along with other jehadi outfits, police do not rule out the hand of ULFA behind the serial blasts.
Home ministry sources said some northeast groups having "external linkages could have done it an apparent reference to HuJI.
Assam police sources here also suspect involvement of the Bangladesh-based HuJi militants.
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A grand bike rally was carried out in support of Independent candidate Urkhao Gwra Brahma backed by ABSU, BPPF, UDPF, NDFB (P) and PJACBM on Monday in Kokrajhar district.The rally was flagged off by...
Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) has welcomed the initiative of Assam government to launch a satellite television channel. The forum expects that the proposed channel would help disseminating the relevant information of various government schemes and welfare programmes for the benefit of the common people of the region.
Mentionable is that the State government led by Tarun Gogoi has declared about its proposed television channel that expected to go on air by January 2013. The concrete idea got shaped following a high level meeting at Dispur on May 19 ,2012 where the chief minister Tarun Gogoi discussed about the project with his cabinet colleges Himanta Biswa Sarma (health...
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi gave away the appointment letters to 26000 TET successful candidates at a function in Guwahati on Sunday. In his address, the chief minister said that the government was committed to providing jobs to the eligible persons and on its policy the government had recruited 26,100 eligible youths for the teachers post.
Education and Health Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarmah said that the government is prepared to recruit 29,000 teachers in September. Parliamentary Secretary of Education Department Rekibuddin Ahmed, former Assam Education Minister Gautam Bora and other officials of the state education department were also present at the occasion.
Among the 26,100...
The general election of All Guwahati Achik Students' Association (AGASA) has been conducted on May 1, 2012 at Meghalaya House, Guwahati. The election was presided by outgoing President Saljagringrang R.Marak with opening address by the same. In his address to the members gathered, he urged the students to get well prepared by working hard during their stay at Guwahati as students and make themselves selfless citizens of A'chik A'song to build a peaceful and developed place to live in harmony with all the people. The newly elected members comprises of:
1. President- Sengbasal Sangma.2. Vice-President- Henkyll. R. Marak.1. General Secretary- Dosim A. Sangma.2....
An uneasy situation is prevailing in Lampih on Saturday when police resorted to lathicharge on a section of people for resisting an anti-encroachment drive. The incident took place when police personnel had gone to the spot to demolish a building constructed by alleged encroachers from the West Garo Hills district of neighbouring Meghalaya. The encroachers allegedly tried to prevent the police from carrying out the demolition work. Then police resorted to lathicharge to disperse the crowd. Nobody was injured in the lathicharge, locals alleged some people sustained injuries though their numbers are yet to be ascertained.
The situation in the area was now under control though tension...
The Assam government owned TV channel would go on air in January 2013. It would focus on sectors like agriculture, education, health and tourism. The decision was taken when Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi met his senior cabinet members and other senior state government officials in Guwahati. Gogoi, who recently announced the decision said that the channel would focus on the state’s vital sectors with a progressive turn to the mindset of the youth of Assam.
The meeting discussed issues related to organizational structure of the channel, besides acquisition of technical knowhow and recruitment of human resources. Representatives of SRSG Broadcast Private Ltd made a presentation on issues...
Dibrugarh University authorities will install CCTV cameras in the examination halls when it will conducting the Combined Entrance Examination for medical and engineering students. For the first time, the varsity has taken steps to check cheating and unfair means during examination.
The examination will be held in Guwahati, Silchar, Nalbari, Lakhimpur, Tezpur, Nagaon, Jorhat, Dibrugarh and Bongaigaon in 27 venues and for the first time, CCTV has been installed in the exam centres. A video recording would also be done, which would be monitored constantly. This is basically to stop students from resorting to unfair means during examinations.
Students were earlier allowed to carry their...
The Government Railway Police nabbed a human trafficker and rescued eight girls from her clutches in Guwahati on Saturday. According to GRP, eight girls were rescued from the Guwahati railway station and the woman trying to take the girls away from Assam was arrested. The girls were told that they would be given jobs in some spice factories in Kerala. The woman had brought the girls to Guwahati from Jonai in Dhemaji district of Assam.
The same woman had previously taken some other girls away from the remote areas of the district to unknown destinations by giving them hopes of employment. Those girls have, however, never returned to their families. Investigation is on to find out more...
The All Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union on Saturday demanded steps to resolve the decade old inter-state boundary problem with Assam. Addressing a press conference in Itanagar, AAPSU president Takam Tatung said that it won’t be a daunting task to amicable resolve the issue while both Dispur and Itanagar have Congress governments. He said that the issue is a purely a political one that that needs a political approach. AAPSU had sponsored a 24 hour state-wide shut down on Friday demanding early solution to the boundary problem.
Peasant leader Akhil Gogoi is on an indefinite hunger strike in Guwahati from Saturday alleging inhuman torture on mega dam activists in Lakhimpur district. The KMSS leader who has been spearheading the protest against the NHPC-owned mega dam in Gurukamukh started his indefinite hunger strike at Dighalipukhri from Saturday morning. At least seven organizations have supported Gogoi on Saturday demanding immediate release of 27 anti mega dam activists detained by police in Lakhimpur. Along with Akhil's hunger strike, activists of nine organisations, including Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) in Lakhimpur, Nagaon and Sonitpur districts will also prevent movement of construction material for...
Centre’s peace interlocutor PC Haldar discussed NDFB’s proposed peace process with NDFB chairman Ranjan Daimary on Saturday. Immediately after landing in Guwahati, the former intelligence bureau director straightly left for the Guwahati Central Jail where he had a close door meet with Daimary. The deadlock over the proposed peace process dominated the discussion between Haldar and the NDFB chairman.
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