Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has offered to quit politics if the pro-talk ULFA rebels could show the evidence that they helped Congress come to power. Addressing a press conference in Dispur on Thursday, Gogoi said he and his party needed no help from ULFA and other terrorist outfits to come to the hot seat. Gogoi found it strange and said ULFA boycotted the elections but now they claimed thier help. "I would quit politics if they can prove what they claim," said the Chief Minister. The Chief Minister further said a Rs 2100 crore fiscal deficit awaits Assam due to the global melt down. But in the same breath, he denied any closure of job opportunities.
PermalinkSubmitted by Milind on Sat, 28/02/2009 - 05:30
This is not surprising et all. The congress party is like that only. It supports illegal settlement of crores of Bangladesis & mass conversions to christianity as they are ready vote bank for them. Shame on indians who repeatedly choose traitors to rule themselves. shame!
13 Sep 2010 - 4:23pm | Jayanta Kumar Das
The National Children's Science Congress (NCSC) Udalguri district congress will be held at Ramswarup Agarwalla Memorial English Scool,Udalguri on September 24 with day long programme.Students and...
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An uproar in the Assam Legislative Assembly Budget session has forced Assam Governor Ajoy Kumar Singh to cut short his address opening the session at 9 in the morning on Monday. As the Governor...
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Hojai: Amid pomp and gaiety of Durga Puja Celebrations Bajrang Dal Hojai Unit comes up with a Service Centre at New Market in Hojai.On Wednesday morning around 11 am this Service centre...
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The Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC), Bokakhat, earned Rs 30,03,155 in the year 2007, an increase of Rs 4,93,849 than the previous year. In the year 2006, the station got the third best...
Forest cover in Northeast is declining compared to 2009 assesment, according to the India State of Forest Report released today by Environment Ministry. Decline in Forest cover of the region is particularly due to prevailing practice of shifting cultivation in this region.
"In comparison to the 2009 assessment, after taking into account the interpretational changes, there is a decrease of 367 square km in country’s forest cover. 15 states have registered aggregate increase of 5000sqkm in their forest cover with Punjab leading with increase of 100sqkm.," secretary in Ministry of Environment...
Assam Government has requested the Central Government to revive the Brahmaputra Board to prevent floods and erosion. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Railway minister Dinesh Prasad Trivedi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi in this regard.
Gogoi met Prime Minister for 20 minutes at the North Block office on Tuesday and asked him for additional funds for the State.
"There are several plans. I have asked the Prime Minister for Duranto Train from Guwahati to Mumbai and Guwahati to Chennai in the next Rail Budget. We have also asked for moderisation of Guwahati, Jorhat, Dibrugarh and Bongaingaon railway stations," he said after meeting the Prime Minister...
Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) has condemned the unprovoked attack by a section of students of Cotton College on some journalists on duty today (Monday) in Panbazar locality. The EMFA urges the authorities (both the Cotton College and Assam Police) to take legal actions against those guilty students at the earliest. Mentionable that photo journalist Anupam Nath, who represents Associated Press, had some arguments with two Cottonians at noon as he was riding his vehicle in front of RKB Hostel of Cotton College. The incident turned ugly as the two students started abusing the photo journalist with slang languages. Later another group of students (around 25/30) rushed to the spot and...
Three persons of a family were burnt to death following a gas cylinder explosion in Sonitpur district on Sunday. The gas cylinder exploded on Sunday afternoon at Darwanpatty area in Tezpur town killing a woman, a 15-month-old girl child and a youth while the owner of the house, Ashutosh Ghosh, was severely burnt.
Ghosh's wife Archana Ghosh, daughter and another relative Bapon Ghosh died in the fire while he was admitted to Kanaklata Civil Hospital. Moreover, 6houses were gutted in the fire.
A husband killed his wife before surrendering at a sub divisional magistrate’s court on Saturday.The incident took place in Hojai at around 12 noon when Bhuban Das beheaded his wife Phulmoti Das with a sharp dao inside a tea stall in the court premises. He later surrendered before the court. Both Bhuban and Phulmoti came to the court a few days after Phulmoti registered a case against her husband.
Altogether eight people were killed and several others have been injured at a tragic a road mishap in Nagaon district on Saturday.
The mishap took place when a Tata magic carrying a group of youth Congress activist lost control when the vehicle arrived in Chakarigaon in the district at around 12 noon. Five died on the spot while three succumbed to injuries on the way to hospital. The injured activists have been rushed to the hospital.
Central excise department seized a huge amount of Saras from the Luhit Express in Guwahati on Saturday.
The narcotic materials worth Rs 25 lakh were brought to Guwahati from an undisclosed place for sale. Nobody has so far been arrested.
Ningrula Harmony Ground turns breaks into a sea of humanity as the Asom Sahitya Sabha is holding it 7th Special Annual Session at Ledo. The second and third day also drew large crowds of visitors and literary enthusiasts.
Book fair, exhibition, poet summit and seminars pulled no less crowd from morning to evening not to speak of the glittering cultural functions at night.
NE PPC director Deben Basumatari, Rong Bong Terang, Yesse Dorje Thongse, Kangkonese litterateur Damodar Mouz and Bengali litterateur Suchandra Bhattachajee are prominent among the guests who attended the session.
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The entire Surajkund Mela turns into a mini Assam where the state’s rich cultural heritage is on display.
The event this time focuses Assam to establish its beautiful potential to uplift the tourism sector. The state seems to have tapped the opportunity as this fair is visited by a large number of visitors from different parts of India and the world. Meira Kumar on Tuesday appreciated Assam’s culture when she was visiting the function with Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.
Stages are set to hoist the Guwahati International Film Festival from Sunday in Guwahati. The event is set to end on February 11. It is expected to provide movie lovers an opportunity to watch critically-acclaimed films from across the globe.
Organizers in Guwahati said that the films from France, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Canada, Norway, Germany, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey and Iran would be screened in the festival being organized in association with the Assam State Film (Finance and Development) Corporation.
The screening would take place at Rabindra Bhawan, Gauhati University, IIT-Guwahati.
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