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.
4 Oct 2011 - 10:59pm | Jayanta Kumar Das
On the occasion of 57th Wildlife Week,Forest and Police observed “Elephant Day” at Hatigarh in Udalguri district on October 1.It needs mention that first week of October has been...
27 Apr 2014 - 11:53am | Jayanta Kumar Das
The peaceful conduct of the recent LS poll in Udalguri district under Mangaldai HPC has been appreciated by all. The district has been infested heavily with violence,extortion etc and there had been...
21 Jan 2018 - 6:31pm | AT News
GUWAHATI: RSS is born and brought up purely for social cause and it wants to spread its culture and vision among millions of the people living in this country. This was more or less of what Mohan...
23 Aug 2012 - 4:21pm | editor
Peeved at Pradeep Kumar Brahma’s arrest in connection with BTAD violence, BPF on Thursdy threatened to withdraw support from the Tarun Gogoi government. BPF leaders have alleged that Brahma is...
The United Liberation Front of Asom is funding a god amount in the upcoming Bangladesh general election. According to Indian intelligence inputs, the banned outfit was funding in the general elections in Bangladesh to come closer to the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami league. ULFA has recently convened a meeting in an undisclosed location near Hawraghat in Mymeinsing district where they finalised the decision to fund a huge Rs 2.5 crore in favour for the Awami League. The ULFA leadership stayed in Bangladesh for more than 15 years at thanks to the favour of the power-that-be in the country. Details are awaited.
Surface communication on the Sivasagar-Nazira road was left heavily disrupted as hundreds of people are blocking the road alleging lackadaisical attitude of the government. Thousands of vehicles are remaining stranded on the road and thereby disrupting normal life in the area.
In yet another major embarrassment for police, infamous drugs mafia Pakhi Miyan has escaped from the Guwahati Medical College Hospital at the dead of the night on Sunday where he was undergoing treatment citing some major health complaints after he was arrested a few months ago. He was captured by West Bengal police. Later he was rushed to Guwahati for probing some more cases pending against him including the murder of revenue intelligence officer Tarun Duta in Guwahati. Details are awaited.
Noted litterateur Rong Bong Terang has been elected the new president of Asom Sahitya Sabha on Sunday. The announcement to this effect was made by the state’s largest literary body came up at the Bhgawati Prasad Baruah Bhawan in Guwahati after the counting of votes sent by the district bodies ended. Kanak Chandra Sarma will be vice president while Dr Paramananda Rajbanshi has been elected as the secretary of the literary body. Terang is a litterateur whose epoch Rong Milir Hanhi sent him into the acme of glory. Contemporary social life in the state is very much there in his literary works . Jak Heruwa Pakhi is all about the ethnic frenzy between Karbis and the Kukis. The Assam...
A nine member CBI team on Sunday visited the blast sites in Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon and Barpeta Road as part of the initial probe into the October 30 serial bombing. Led by DIG P Kamraj, the CBI team has already visited the blast sites in the city of Guwahati.
The team visited all the three blast sites in Kokrajhar where 20 died and 60 others injured. They visited Kokrajhar municipality office premises and saw the heap of mangled vehicles in the blast. Later they left for Barpeta Road and Bongaigaon,
Two persons died in Bongaigaon while 12 died in Barpeta Road. As soon as they arrived in Barpeta Road at around 1-35 in the afternoon, they visited the blast sites at Torkari Bazar and...
25 years old Mr. Shravan Kumar becomes very happy when he sees his growing agriculture fields. He did his post-graduation and Bachelor of Education form Gorakhpur. He says proudly, 'I love doing farming in my village rather than doing a job in the city. This way I can sustain myself and my 12 family members and also save about 8000 rupees annually.' He owns merely one acre of land, which is often troubled by floods. In this small piece of land he produces more than 20 varieties of crops. His village Laxmipur in Maharajganj district is in the Rohini River Basin and situated just 100 meters away from this river. This village faces heavy floods every year and almost all the crops are washed...
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi says the work on the national register of citizens in Assam is nearing an end.Addressing press conference in Dispur on Saturday, Gogoi said the state government is waiting for the Centre’s nod to upgrade the modalities. According to him, the process of NRC scanning and data entry is completing and that the the standard operating procedure would be sent to the Centre after the state cabinet approval.The Chief Minister alleged that the neighbouring countries like Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar have been aiding and abetting the terrorist outfits to foment trouble in the state. He said in his visit to Delhi, he called on Prime minister Manmohan Singh, home...
A view of match between SSU (Imphal, Manipur) and 2nd ASRF(Assam) during the 60th All India Independence Cup Football Tournament at Nurul Amin Stadium, Nagaon on 20th Dec.2008, Saturday.The tournament started on 18th Dec.2008 which was inaugurated by Premadhar Sharma, Prominent Football player of Assam. The opening ceremony was also graced by Forest and Tourism Minister of Assam Rakibul Hussain.Photo: Simanta Talukdar, Nagaon.
There is report of firing when as the local people clashed with a group of surrendered ULFA rebels in Namrup in upper Assam's Dibrugarh district. Also, a motorcycle is reportedly being set on fire by an angry mob. The irate mod further set a SULFA camp afire. Situation is simmering.
The Central Bureau of Investigation begins its probe into the October 30 serial blast in Assam along with the cases of communal violence in its Udalguri and Darrang districts in the first week of October.According to information, led by DIG P Kamraj, the team is set to visit the violence hit areas including Bongaigaon,Kokrajhar, Barpeta Road along with the riot hot areas of the two lower Assam districts. .It may be noted that CBI has taken over probe as the state government-constituted Special Investigation Team failed to bring any clues.Earlier on Thursday, notification to this effect was issued by the Centre after the state government requested for a probe by the agency to go into the...
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