Guwahati: As President of India, Ram Nath Kovind sets to visit Myanmar next week, an Assam based patriotic citizens’ forum appeals to the Head of the State for pursuing his counterpart in NayPyiTaw to preserve all monuments relating to India’s glorious freedom struggle including the INA (Azad Hind Fauj) headquarter in Yangon (formerly Rangoon) city.
It may be noted that President Kovind will arrive in the southeast Asian country on 10 December next with a five-day visit schedule. He is expected to visit NayPyiTaw as well as Yangon and meet with his host President U Win Myint and State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi. Several issues are on card for discussions and bilateral agreements are expected to be signed during the President’s visit to the neighbouring country.
“Myanmar (earlier Burma) played an important role in India’s freedom movement where many legendary Indian leaders either took shelter or imprisoned there by the British colonial administration,” said Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA), in a statement adding that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose later shifted the Indian National Army’s head quarter to Rangoon and fought against the imperialist forces with its 40,000 valiant soldiers from the soil of Burma.
The forum of nationalists expressed apprehensions that rampant construction activities in various parts of Myanmar might have destroyed most of the historical ruins including the INA building in Yangon. So the PPFA urges President Kovind to discuss specially with Nobel laureate Suu Kyi, whose father General Aung San was a close friend of Netaji Subhas, for her personal initiative to preserve those Indian heritages scattered in Brahmadesh.
DUDHNOI: A local court in Dudhnoi granted bail to Akhil Gogoi three days after the police arrested him in a case and brought him from Dibrugarh. The Chief Judicial Magistrate on Tuesday heard his bail plea and granted it refusing to read the police who arrested him. Gogoi would be released on Wednesday from the Central Jail where he was sent on Sunday. Hundreds of KMSS leaders and workers thronged the court premises as the court was hearing the bail plea in the morning. Minutes after they got to know the court order granting the bail they shouted slogans against the BJP-led government alleging a conspiracy to gag the voice of protest. Many KMSS leaders and workers from far flung areas...
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MARGHERITA: Ten days after ULFA-I kidnapped him at gunpoint, Arunav Phukan has reached his home in Jagun unhurt on Monday morning. A team of security force, relatives have brought him back his parents hours after he was left at Joyrampur in Arunachal Pradesh in the morning. Initially, he called up his mother and confirmed his release who wad in touch with police. Policemen received him and toom him to a local hospital in Arunachal Pradesh for check up. Then he was brought to Jagun police station for some formality and the sent to his parents. Talking to the reporters who were waiting outside his residents, Arunav said he was kept comfortably and was not tortured. A group of 6/7 rebels...
KOKRAJHAR: Pomp and gaiety erupted in Kokrajhar as the BTAD district headquarters observed Christmas on Monday along with rest of the planet. A day after the mid night carols, the focus of the on Monday was the special prayer at Donbosco Church and Kokrajhar Baptist Church where both Christians and non Christians alike attended the prayers for divine intervention to restore global peace. Forest minister Pramilarani Brahma and a Lankan national attended the open prayer at the Don Bosco premises Bro Jesurajan Mark, the Sri Lankan student who is pursuing a course in Don Bosco University in Tepesia said,"I am immensely delighted to have attended the prayer with so decent and discipline...
HOJAI:Hojai town is gearing up to host the Eighth National Sub-Junior Hockey(Men) tournament from January 5. Addressing a press conference in the town on Monday, Hojai District Sports Association Secretary Kamal Dutta said the playgrounds are being dressed afresh to make it a hassle-free event.He said chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal will open the tournament at a function on January 5,2018 in presence of Union minister Rajen Gohain along with dozens of ministers, MPs and ministers.According to Dutta, twenty states have already confirmed their participation in the tournament which is ending on January 14.
MARGHERITA: The United Liberation Front of Asom (I) on Sunday released Arunav Phukan 10 days after they kidnapped the businessman from Khandubasti in Arunachal Pradesh. Arunav, the son of a leading business man in Tinsukia has been freed at Joyrampur along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border at noon from where he called up his mother in Jagun. A team of Tinsukia police is on the way to Joirampur to take stock of his condition whom the rebel outfit kidnapped at gunpoint as he was on the way to visit his father's stone quarry. Security forces were fanning thr dense jungle along the interstate border in search of Arunav after he was kidnapped by s group of 6...
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