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.
27 Mar 2014 - 3:08pm | AT News
Only Congress can ensure peace and development in Assam. That’s why, Congress should be voted afresh. This was more or less of what Rahul Gandhi said when he was addressing a huge poll rally in...
5 Apr 2014 - 10:04am | AT News
Mani Kumar Subba would be flown to Delhi on Saturday two days after the Tezpur independent candidate was rushed to GNRC in Guwahati following complaint of heart ailment.Sources told Assam Times that...
6 Feb 2015 - 12:25pm | AT News
One after another blasts seem to have kept Barak valley in eerie silence. Security forces have not been able to break the mystery behind the explosions which took place within hardly a week.Yet...
23 Sep 2014 - 10:34am | AT News
HC order to RBI In yet another landmark order, Gauhati High Court has asked the RBI, Sebi and Registrar of Companies to furnish details about deposit-collecting companies operating in Assam.
Farmer Field Schools (FFS) is a unique way to educate farmers and is an effective platform for sharing of experiences and collectively solving agriculture related problems. The first FFS were designed and managed by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Indonesia in 1989. Since then more than two million farmers across Asia have participated in this type of learning. During the 1970s it became increasingly apparent that pest resistance and resurgence caused by the indiscriminate use of insecticides posed an immediate threat to the gains of the Green Revolution. At the same time, new researches demonstrated the viability of biological control of major rice pests.However, gaps still...
The Sixth North East Trade Expo-2009 is underway in Delhi which is drawing huge crowd. Organized jointly by DONER and National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC), the event was inaugurated by DONER Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar on Tuesday. In his address, the minister said India is hopeful of resolving the problems of transit and access in North East after the taking over of a new government in Bangladesh headed by Sheikh Hasina Wajed. He said as the new government in Bangladesh has won with a landslide victory, we hope some of these problems of transit, trade and access will be substantially resolved. The 11-day exhibition will conclude on February 6, which is showcasing products like...
Yet another NBCC top ranked officer in CBI dragnet. The country's premier investigating agency has arrested NBCC assistant general manager P K Mittal from Shillong in connection to the scam in the construction of Assam's road and bridges. The vital lead was received from the confessional statement of B C Dhiman, who was caught red handed by CBI recently while he was allegedly trying to bribe one of its officials in Guwahati.According to information, four more officers of the Central government undertaking would be arrested in this connection. Notably, CBI has been probing onto the allegations of a scam in the construction of road and bridges by the National Building Construction...
Assam on Wednesday rushed an eighteen member delegation to visit the Prime Minister at the All India Institute of Medical Science to wish him quick recovery. Headed by Assam Assembly Speaker Tanka Bahadur Rai, the delegatiopm will further call on Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and External Affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee to pressure them to expedite the border sealing work.Notably, Assam Assembly in its recent winter session, decided raise the issue before the Centre. The team has 8 MLAs of Gautam Roy, Rockybul Hussain along with other opposition leader Chandramohan Patowary.
National award winning journalist Amarjyoti Borah has been named Global Leader of the future by InWent, an international organization working on issues of capacity building and development worldwide.Every year Inwent picks people from across the world who acts responsibly and could be a global leader in their field; they may be lawyers, journalists or professors and may be living in Peru, Ghana or Turkey. They select people who have made a mark in their field. This year they have named Amarjyoti Borah as Global Leader of the Future; for his coverage of many of the environmental issues of the North East of India. Other people selected by InWent in the previous years includes Scientist Juvy...
There is report of flag hosting in Udalguri district of lower Assam where Pakistani flag were spotted during the ten day long communal clash in the first week of October last year.Thousands of people came out to the streets on Monday morning and rushed to the Ikorabari and Sonaripur and the adjoining areas where they hoisted the national tricolour. Talking to reporters, the people said they want to pass a strong message to those who hoisted Pakistani flags during the clash. "We are Indian and we will be Indian. We are not afraid of any external forces," said one Ananda Das who was one of those more than eleven thousand people who thronged at this exceptional function.On the other...
In a fitting reply to the threats issued by militants from foreign soil, Guwahatians came out into the open on Monday to celebrate the Republic Day in various neighbourhoods.Hoisting the National Tricolour in Guwahati Press Club premises, eminent litterateur-journalist Nirupama Borgohain said this celebration of the Day aptly represents the indomitable spirit of a free nation, before which all diktats melt away and which we have to nourish in our mind. Earlier, speaking before the more than one hundred journalists and other citizens who gathered on the Press Club campus for the solemn occasion, senior journalists Rupam Baruah and Ajit Patowary explained the significance of the Day and...
Assam Governor Shiv Charan Mathur says the militant outfits harboured by the external forces are mongering trouble in Assam. Unfurling the national tricolour at the Latasheel Playground on Monday morning Mathur said its time to firmly deal with the these elements.He said the peace process initiated by the government has started paying handsome dividends and that 648 misguided youths have come back to the national mainstream.According to Mathur, his government is in the process of strengthening the police force to give more teeth to the anti-insurgency drive across the state.Citing the progress in the implementation of the Assam Accord, the governor said the process of updating the national...
Defying the militant diktat and a chill Assam joined the 60th Republic Day celebrations on Monday. Assam Governor SC Mathur unfurled the national tricolour and took salute of the army, police and para military forces at the central function in Guwahati's Latasheel Playground. In his address, the governor made a clarion call to the militant outfits operating in the state to eschew the path of violence and to come forward for talk. Four separatist groups in Assam, Manipur and Tripura have announced a 17-hour general strike from 1am to 6pm on Monday to enforce the boycott call. The militant outfit that called for a boycott of the Republic Day celebrations include the outlawed United Liberation...
As we start the year of 'social aggregation and syndication' (as 2009 has already been dubbed) Web 2.0 gurus Seth Godin and Brian Solis are talking up how your ‘digital identity’ defines who you are in the online world.
Godin asserts that two major factors influence the way we perceive people through their online incarnations:
* On the web, people are judged almost entirely by their actions – usually by what they write.
* Online interactions are largely expected to be intentional. On purpose. Planned. People assume you did stuff for a reason.
I don’t doubt that both those points are true. What they make me wonder though is whether non-profit...
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