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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Meghalaya Police have picked up 4 Army personnel based in Assam belonging to the Rajput Regiment charging them with assaulting a government employee. They have been handed over to the military police...
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A woman committed suicide by lying before a moving train in Kokrajhar on Thursday.Identified as Jaya Saki, the 40 year old woman committed suicide on the rail track near the Gauranga bridge in the...
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Assam DGP Khagen Sarma on Tuesday gave hint of an increasing interest of ISIS in the state. Talking to reporters in Guwahati, Sarma said people having internet access have been anxious to know ISIS...
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IIT Roorkee, in collaboration with astronomers from India, Japan, and Europe, has made a significant breakthrough in the study of gravitational waves. An international team of astronomers has...
The AGP unification process hits yet another roadblock with the party finding it difficult to comply with the terms and conditions of its breakaway group AGP(P).The differences cropped up when the unification panel members a few AGP(P) leaders in Dispur which failed to resolve it.The first one problem came up when AGP included members of PLP and TGP in the steering committee forcing the AGP(P) members to protest their non-inclusion. Prafulla Kr Mahanta-led AGP (P) has demanded 35 members in the central executive, 7 members in steering committee, 15 members in every district committee and also in Mahila Parishad and Yuva Parishad.The new demand put AGP in a fix and it forced the party...
The Journalists' Forum, Assam has strongly condemned the killing of Jagjit Saikia, a Kokrajhar based scribe, who was associated with a vernacular Assamese daily, Amar Asom. The forum also demanded prompt and appropriate actions from Assam government to book the culprits for stringent punishments.Meanwhile, The Journalists' Action Committee, Assam has decided to organize a protest meet on November 25 (Tuesday) at Guwahati Press Club. In a press statement, JAC revealed that Assam has lost 16 journalists since 1991, all of them were targeted by miscreants and banned armed groups.Saikia, 30 was shot at by miscreants on Saturday noon in Kokrajhar town. He was taken to Rupnath Brahma hospital,...
Some unidentified miscreants shot dead a journalist in the heart of the Kokrajhar town on Saturday afternoon. The journalist, Jagjit Saikia, was working as a correspondent of the Amar Asom, a vernacular daily published from Guwahati.According to eyewitness , some unidentified miscreants attacked Saikia when he was standing in front of his office at the Brahma Complex in the heart of the Kokrajhar town. A grievously injured Saikia was rushed to the Rupnath Brahma Civil Hospital but he was declared brought dead.After the incident , the miscreants fled from the scene. Later, police arrived on the spot and started operation to nab the culprits. The miscreants have yet to be ascertained but...
A major tragic incident was averted in Rangiya on Saturday noon when a powerful plastic bomb was recovered near wholesale market. According to information, an anonymous caller rang up the Army's 107 engineering regiment around 6.30 am saying that a bomb was planted in the market.An operation was launched by the Army with the help of police and the improvised explosive devise was recovered from inside a water pipe near the storeroom of the water resource department, Borolia division adjacent to the market.The bomb is believed to have targeted for Sunday market where thousands of buyers and sellers converge from the district and neighbouring Baksa district, besides bordering areas of Bhutan,...
The controversy hovering over the arrest of ULFA cadre Ram Singh alias Mintu Biragohain is over. Its more a surrender and less an arrest. He was Ram Singh, who himself virtually admitted that it as a high voltage drama of his arrest.Till a few month he was leading several strikes by ULFA. But recently he was said to have been apprehended during a joint operation by police and army. He is plain and simple that he had hardly any role in ULFA.But till the other day, he was behind a string of devastating strikes by ULFA.Not only that. For the last several months, a massive extortion drive was on in Sivasagar district. This unleashed a reign of terror among a section of businessmen. The...
Once again the recent encounter between army and ULFA in Baihata Chariali has mired in controversy. The ULFA cadre killed in Wednesday night encounter with police in Hindu Moujuli village has been identified as Corporal Mridul Deka alias Mukut Deka, whom Police earlier claimed to have arrested.According to information, Mridul is a resident of Ghoradag gaon under Harisinga police station in Udalguri district.According to some specific information, the ULFA cadre was arrested by police from Guwahati’s Fancy Bazar area on November 19 and then he had his Reliance mobile no 98645-85318. He was picked up from Fancy Bazar in the evening, as he was in the city for medical treatment. This...
A 13th Assam Police Battalion jawan shot dead his colleague before killing himself at Lilabari camp in Lakhimpur distict on Thursday midnight. The reason has yet to be ascertained.The incident took place on Thursday midnight at the 13th Assam Police Battalion. After the dinner, all the jawans went to sleep at their barracks. Jawan Arun Saikia who hails from Chutiabari in the same district shot dead his colleague Palash Baruah with his Nine MM pistol while the latter was sleeping. As there was flutter inside the barrack following the death of Palash, Arun shot himself dead with the same pistol. It is learnt that both the bachelors were closed to each other. Palash was a resident of Dholpur...
The Diabetes Summit for South East Asia is being organized in Chennai from 28th to 30th November 2008, by the World Diabetes Foundation ( WDF) , in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), South East Asia Regional office (SEARO), the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Bank.The aim of this summit is to serve as a forum where key stakeholders, in the area of non communicable diseases (primarily diabetes), can interact with key opinion leaders, international media and WDF partners, with a view to encourage policy makers to prioritize prevention, care and treatment of diabetes in the developing world in a sustainable manner.Diabetes is one of the fastest...
The ULFA militant killed in the encounter at Hindumoujili gaon near Baihata Chariali has been identified as Corporal Mridul Deka alias Mukut Deka. The ULFA cadre was killed in an encounter with Kamrup Police. Mridul hailed from Ghorardakh gaon under Harisinga police station in Udalguri dist.
Assam’s agri-business sector is set to receive a face lift. Courtesy NEDFi. The region’s finance body is coming up with a new scheme which could be a giant leap towards making the state’s economy a healthy and wealthy.According to information, with a view to exploring the state’s untapped potential, NEDFi is inaugurating a new scheme Initiative for Development of Entrepreneurs in Agriculture or IDEA. It aims at making available the supplementary sources of input supply and service to help commercialization of agriculture.IDEA is expected to provide gainful employment opportunities in the agri-business sector in the region. Besides there will financial assistance to...
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