One person was injured when a minor blast took place in the city's Birubari area in the afternoon on Thursday. According to information, the bomb was planted inside a dustbin which exploded at around 2-45 in the afternoon.The injured person was waiting near the dustbin. Top ranked police officials rushed to the spot and investigation is on. The injury is said to be a minor one. Police say it an IED and that it's a handiwork of ULFA to terrorise the people on the new year's day.
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Nido Tania will get justice. This was what the plain pledge of Narendra Modi who addressed a huge rally in Pasighat on Saturday.He said that racial attacked would be stopped at any cost not only in...
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Rural agricultural marketing in North East India is still unorganised and in a poor state though the wheel of time has changed the overall marketing scnerio with trendy adsvertisings.
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Canada based Human Concern International Sunday sponsored scholarships for 51 students in Assam to pursue MBBS. The scholarships were awarded in a program organized by Markaz-ul-Ma’arif, a voluntary...
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Three striking communities have rejected Union minister P R Kyndiah's offer for talks on December 18 in New Dehi saying it is only to buy more time to let the panchayat poll hold.After the Koch...
One person was seriously injured in yet another blast that took place in Sonari in Sivasagar district on Sunday midnight. According to information, the blast rocked in front of the Sonari Rajiv Bhawan at 11-45 midnight and the injured person is suspected to be the one who carried the bomb. This was followed by another blast in Sivasagar district’s Gaurisagar area. But no casualty has been reported in the incident. No outfit has so far claimed the responsibility of these blasts. The serial bombings on ULFA’s Military Day and also just a day after the killing of two ULFA cadres during joint operation in North Lakhimpur district are significant. But the banned insurgent outfit has...
Four people died and more than fifty injured while a powerful blast rocked a Mising cultural festival in Jonai in Upper Assam on Saturday midnight. Although ULFA is believed to be behind the incident the banned insurgent outfit refuted the charge saying a section of the people has been trying to slap bad name on them.There was big flutter at the blast site while three people namely Kabita Sonowal, Somesh Sutradhar, Shahjahan Ali dead. The severely injured people numbering more than fifteen have been rushed to the Assam Medical College Hospital and Bina Pegu died on the way to the AMCH by boat.Top ranked police official arrived on the spot and began relief and rescue operations. Other...
Two ULFA militants were left killed at a joint encounter of police and army in Silikhapukhuri area of North Lakhimpur district early in the morning today. Acting on a tip off, police and Army's Bihar Regiment conducted a raid in the area at 4-30 in the morning. Two of the three ULFA militants died on the spot while the remaining one managed to flee from the spot. Later, 2 pistols have been recovered from the dead ULFA militants. In yet another incident last night, a police team from Kakotibari had a narrow escape while a powerful blast rattled Timon Sarupathar gaon in Sivasagar district at 10-30 on Friday evening minutes after a police vehicle passed the spot. No casualty has been reported...
A 12-hour BTAD bandh call by the Rabiram faction of the BPPF is paralyzing the normal life in the BTAD area onSaturday. All markets, shops, offices, educational institutions and banks are remaining closed. Vehicles are also remaining off the roads with only a few moving on National Highway 31(c) with police escort. All markets, shops, offices, educational institutions and banks remained closed while vehicles remained off the roads with only a few moving on National Highway 31(c) with police escort, the sources said.The curfew was imposed in areas falling in the Runikata police station area and under Bengtol police outpost.The camp along the Indo-Bhutan border was dismantled as the militant...
Assam Pradesh Congress Committee president Bhubneswar Kalita, BPPF(H) leader Biswajit Doimary and Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) general secretary and former Union minister Birendra Prasad Baishya are set to win uncontested in the March 26 Rajya Sabha polls in Assam. The entire development is emerging clear on Saturday. The Congress high command has cleared the name of Kalita following a signature campaign led by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi. The regional AGP also in a formal sitting participated by president Brindabon Goswami, Opposition leader Chandra Mohan Patowary and vice president Phani Bhushan Chaudhory announced Birendra Prasad Baishya s as its candidate for the Rajya Sabha polls. Baishya...
Dr Samujjal Bhattacharjya Adviser AASU, addressing a national seminar at the Constitution Club, New Delhi organised by Assam Sahitya Sabha on the topic of Judgement on IMDT Act and implementation of Assam Accord on 14-03-08. Pix by UB Photos.
Zubeen Garg of Ya Ali fame performing during the launch of Sky Chef Fine Dining, a multi cuisine restaurent at Sivasagar, Assam on 12-03-2008 night. Pix by UB Photos.
A powerful blast that rocked Doomdooma town just before a while has left one person dead and several injured. According to information, the blast took place at around 4:20 pm in the afternoon at the Daily Bazaar. The injured people have been rushed to the nearby Doomdooma Civil Hospital. High level police and civil officials have reached the spot and cordoned off the area.
The Border Security Force has handed over a list of some camps set up by the north eastern outfits on the soil of Bangladesh during the day one sitting of its meeting with the Bangladesh Rifles which begins in Shillong on Tuesday. According to information, BSF list has 141 camps of insurgent groups mostly from the North East operating in Bangladesh. The list now in BDR's hand also names 116 rebel leaders and some sympathizers submitted. The prominent insurgent outfit from the north east include ULFA, NSCN(IM), HNLC, PLA, NLFT and UNLF. To name a few top rebel leaders are ULFA c-in-c Paresh Barua, ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and HNLC general secretary Cheristerfield Thangkhiew. During...
A vast area measuring nearly 90,000 hectares belonging to Assam is being illegally occupied by the the neighbouring Nagaland, Mozoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya.According to information, Nagaland tops the list occupying an area measuring 66,241.69 hectares which belongs to Assam. Nagaland is followed by Arunachal Pradesh in 13,184.88 hectares. Next comes Meghalaya which has been illegal encroached an area measuring 5,873.92 hectares. Mizoram is also not lagging behind. The neighbouring state has been occupying altogether 1,986 hectares of land of Assam.What is more startling is that there has been encroachment in reserve forest areas in Sonitpur and North Lakhimpur districts by...
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