Three Assam MPs namely Sarbananda Sonowal, Dr Arun Sarma and Rajen Gohain were asked by Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chaterjee to go out of the House on Thursday as they were sticking to the protest alleging government silence on Assam situation.
As home minister P Chidambaram was reading out his statement on the Mumbai terror attack, Assam AGP MPs flashed festoons demanding discussion on Assam situation saying the House cannot ignore the volatile law and order situation in the state. The two AGP MPs Dr Arun Sarma and Sarbananda Sonowal were joined by BJP MP Rajen Gohain who said there is no mention of Assam situation in the home minister’s statement.
Speaker Somnath Chatterjee asked the MP trio to remain calm but they failed to make it. Amid their protest home minister P Chidambaram announced that the House will have a separate discussion on the situation in Assam.
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One died and eleven others have been left injured at an accidental blast at an aluminum factory in Lahwal in Dibrugarh district. According to information, the blast took place at around 12-15 but the reason has yet to be ascertained. The injured people have been rushed to the Assam medical College Hospital, Dibrugarh but the one grievously injured died on the way. Investigation is going on.
MP from Dibrugarh Sarbananda Sonowal has demanded Centre’s intervention to check poachings of rhinos in the Kaziranga National Park. In a statement released here, he expressed grave concern over the continuing poaching cases and demanded immediate intervention of environment minister S Raghupathi saying the Assam government has been failing to protect the Kaziranga National Park. Mr Sonowal observed that that the state forest department is busy in mudslinging instead of taking steps to check poachings in the national park.
Hundreds of AASU activists are staging demonstrations on Thursday in front of the Kaziranga National Park alleging the park authorities’ failure to protect the rhinos and other animals from poachings which have been a regular features these days. They, further demand forest minister Rockybul Hussain’s resignation saying he has no moral right at a time when a good number of rhinos have been killed during his regime.
Participants at the protest rally against kidnapping, killing and anti-social activities to the business community in Dimapur organized by Dimapur Naga Student's Union (DNSU) at Dimapur on 07-02-08. Recently kidnapping for ransom to the business community of the state commercial hub has been increasing by some unidentified gunmen where state administration also could not trace. Pix by UB Photos.
“My father Sir Keith Cantlie served in the Indian Civil Service from 1910 till his retirement in 1947. So, in a way I consider myself daughter of Assam, a land of outstanding natural beauty with distant views of the snow and Himalayas” With her disarming smile simple down to earth and smiling manner the bespectacled Dr. Audrey Cantlie welcomes you with a big smile at her door at Oxford street as if somebody of her own. She has an emotional bond for Assam and the Assamese people. I still remember the day I met her sometime in September, 1998 at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, London) I introduce myself as an Assamese I could see the sparkle in her eyes: said to me...
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It was a handful of Assamese families, who were residents of the national capital just after India attained its Independence, who got together to form “ASOM SANGHA”, an informal organization basically meant to be a platform to occasionally get together on social occasions and help one another to keep in touch with their home state. At that time, there were hardly about a dozen Assamese families in New Delhi. The first president was Mahendra Mohan Choudhury, who later became the Chief Minister of Assam, and the general secretary was Debendra Pal Das. It’s been 60 years since then, and the NCR region’s Assamese population that includes permanent residents,...
Two Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) militants have been killed in an encounter with Army in the Nambor Reserve Forest in Golaghat district in Assam on Thursday. According to information, the militants were caught in a fierce fighting with the 66 Field Regiment jawans in the Forest areas. An AK-56 rifle and a grenade were recovered from the slain militants. Security forces are continuing operations in the area. The militants have yet to be identified.
Situation still is remaining tense in Barama following the killing of Bodo leader Babul Swargiary by unidentified miscreants on Sunday. According to information, Bharat Ramchiari, a leader of the BPPF youth wing and a loyalist of Hagrama Mohilary, was behind the incident. The Bodoland Peace Forum president Bhraman Baglari alleged that Ramchiary had killed Swargiari.
The Reliance Communications has received government nod to provide CDMA services under the existing Unified Access Service Licences in the entire north eastern region. The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has granted in-principle permission to its subsidiary Reliance Telecom in this regard, RComm said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. The RTL would offer CDMA services also in addition to its existing GSM services in Assam and Northeast service areas.
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