Padma Shri Dr. Birendranath Datta inaugurated the Alcheringa' 09, the cultural festival of Indian Institute of Technology ( IIT ) Guwahati on January 29 at IIT Guwahati auditorium.
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The Assam government on Saturday made it plain and simple that under no circumstances it will acquire agricultural land for industrial purpose. But in the same breath, it clarified plans to...
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A Day-long interaction programme of farmers’-scientist was organised by the Krishi Vigyan Kendra(KVK), Nagaon at Pramila on January 7, a remote village in the west of Nagaon near Kampur. The...
7 Sep 2013 - 12:17am | Syed Miraz Ahmed
Several environmentally ‘unfriendly’ projects in Assam and other Northeast Indian States are being touted as sustainable, receiving funds under the United Nation’s Clean Development Mechanism,...
22 Jan 2021 - 9:46am | AT News
Two innovative food processors namely a ‘Solar Drier’ and an ‘Electrical Smoker’ developed jointly by Assam down town University (AdtU) and North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation...
The boundary wall of the recently launched Mega Food Park at Nathkuchi (near Tihu under Nalbari district) collapsed. The newly constructed 150 meter of boundary wall of the park, which is first of its king in Northeast India, broke down last week. It is expected to create employment for nearly 30,000 people.Mentionable that, the Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi laid the foundation stone of the food park in February. The aim of the food park is to provide the basic facilities and common infrastructure to stimulate investment in the food processing sector.The project has been funded by the Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries with other sector participation like Assam Industrial...
Four person died, 15 others sustained injury as a bus was falling into a deep gorge in Kokrajhar on Wednesday. According to information, the incident took place at around 1 in the afternoon when the Dhubri bound Bus bearing No AS-16-0714 was falling into a deep gorge near a new RCC bridge at Narabari-Daokibari road under Kokrajhar Police station.Eyewitnesses here say, the bus carried overload passengers and approached the newly constructed bridge while it slipped into mud.Local residents of the area and police rushed to the spot and rushed the injured persons to the Rup Nath Brahma civil hospital in Kokrajhar.
One person died and atleast sixteen others injured when ULFA made powerful blast at Lalganesh area in Guwahati on Tuesday.According to information, the incident took place at around 5-30 in the afternoon near Shankar Hotel and the bomb was planted at a motorcycle which exploded to leave one dead and ten others injured. The injured were shifted to the Guwahati medical College Hospital.The blast rocked the area an hour before Union minister Pranab Mukherjee was to attend a function in the evening. Minutes after the incident, top ranked police and civil officials rushed to the spot and investigation is on. Some of the injured persons have been identified as Narayan Dutta, Bubu Gogoi, Raju Bora...
.Continuing the war of words, Congress has ridiculed the Asom Gana Parishad saying it had sold its regionalism to the BJP. Addressing the reporters, Congress spokesman Himanta Biswa Sarma said after its seat-sharing understanding with BJP, the AGP has surrendered its regionalism to BJP and that during the last assembly poll the AGP manifesto was based on core regionalism. In their earlier manifesto the AGP had said the people were their high command and that they had no bosses. He further said the AGP had earlier focused on price rise, but this time is silent on it. The health minister also said the AGP was critical of all other parties save the minority-dominated AUDF.
Over 50 rebels alid down thier arms before the Army in upper Assam's Tinsukia district on Tuesday. According to information, of these 44 rebels beloning to ULFA while other from NSCN and ANLA.The ULFA had four were rebels who surrendered on Tuesday before the GOC of 2nd Mountain division Maj Gen B S Sachar in the presence of Tinsukia superintendent of police Diganta Bora.Additional deputy commissioners of Tinsukia and Dibrugarh Vivekananda Phukan and Akashdeep were also present at the brief function. They further deposited a huge cache of arms and ammunition which include 44 pistols, five guns, one machine gun and huge quantities of assorted ammunition.In his address, Maj Gen Sachar...
An education institute is a place for nurturing the future of a society. Being one of the prominent institutes of the nation, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) has been working towards this goal in several ways. The students of IITG have been involved in various efforts like zero illiteracy zone campaign,distribution of used clothes,blood donation camps, visit to orphanages in Guwahati city , popularization of Gandhian philosophy,efforts towards e-governance ,mentoring of students from Kendiya Vidyalaya (KV), IIT Guwahati etc. to contribute towards the societal development of the nation in general and of the region in particular. "The zero illiteracy campaign was started in...
A day after Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi accused AGP and BJP of fielding chargesheeted candidate in the polls, he has dared both the parties to proof that he received Rs 21 crore from Kolkata tea lobby. He further threatened to file a defamation suit against AGP and BJP.In yet another development, the regional party has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission alleging violation of model code of conduct. Talking to reporters, party general secretary Atul Bora said,"Gogoi has violated model code forcing us to lodge a complaint with EC against him."Both the parties have alleged that Congress has issued job cards to some persons who have not actually worked with NREGA.
The grassroot level AGP workers are not comfortable in the poll alliance with BJP. This was on display as the party was holding its general House meeting in Guwahati on Sunday.Several leaders in the district told Assam times, that they are leery of success in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in view of uncomfortable reputation of BJP in many places.The meeting was convened to make the grass root leaders prepared to face the pre poll situation.The meeting adopted a set of resolution stressing infiltration, unemployment, flood problems et al.Sources said the party convened the meting fearing that the grassroot activists might not cooperate during the campaigning process.
Assam's noted astrologer Amal Das, popularly known as Kero Young was arrested on Sunday by police four days after income tax officials conducted a raid at his residence and business establishments in Guwahati.According to information, the astrologer was absconding following his implications in tax evasion cases.Moreover, he was implicated under a few stringent wildlife Acts after the skins and bones of wild animals were recovered by forest officials from his business establishments during the income tax raid before it was sealed.
Several organizations staged a sit-in demonstration in Kaziranga demanding action against Jiten Gogoi and Kushal Duori for the recent incident of attack on forest officials of the Kaziranga National Park.The leaders of these NGOs in strike alleged government silence despite a week has passed after police registered against the militant turned political leaders charging them with assaulting the forest officials at Konhora on March 17.These NOGs include Aaranyak, EcoSystems-India, WWF-India, Dolphin Foundation, Early Birds.Notably, two FIRs were lodged at the Bokakhat Police Station in Golaghat against the MLA duo under Case No. 42/91 Under Sections 147, 148, 149, 447, 353 and 427 Indian...
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