Guwahati: The Karbi Autonomous Council has decided to prohibit land rights to any new settlers with an immediate effect. Principal Secretary of Karbi Anglong Autonomous District Council issued an order regarding this ban a few days’ back.
Sale, transfer of ownership in any means including gift, lease, permission to use, mortgage or to bond out any lands owned by non tribals in Karbi Anglong to any non tribal was banned by this (No: KSC/REVENUE/LRD/306/2003-04/6645(a), Dated 13 July, 2007) order under any circumstances.
By this order Karbi Anglong Autonomous District Council has categorically denied land rights to all non-tribal people, who have been living there since the formation of erstwhile Mikir Pahar district (presently Karbi Anglong) in 1951-52.
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An escalating protest against the arrest of Akhil Gogoi under the National Security Act has reached New Delhi when hundreds of people from the north eastern civil society staged dharma in the...
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It seems some quarters are angry at the absence of Assam tableaux in the Republic Day parade 2008 at New Delhi. Even the CM has ordered an enquiry into the entire episode.It is an open fact that the...
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Six AGP leaders are holding talks with BJP president Rajnath Singh in New Delhi to clear the list of the candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.The meeting started at around 7-40 on Saturday...
In a sigh of relief businessman Tinku Babaj is back to his home on Friday a day after he was kidnapped from Dimow. According to information, Bajaj returned to his home safely at around 9-30 at night. On Thursday night, a group of armed miscreants kidnapped him from Dimow.
Karnataka deputy chief minister R Ashoka is arriving in Guwahati on Saturday on a goodwill mission. Ashoka, who also holds the home portfolio would be accompanied by DGP Lalrokhuma Pachua along with a few other dignitaries. He is scheduled to meet Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday to discuss at length the pertinent issues and their probable solutions. He will interact with those who have returned from Karnataka as a part of the mass exodus after addressing a press conference in the evening.
Dispur is all set to hand over seven more cases to CBI for investigation registered against arrested BPF MLA Pradeep Brahma. Brahma has been named in seven cases after witnesses complained that he was leading the rioting mob holding AK-47 rifle. The investigating agency is likely to arrest some more people, including a few prominent persons, who were involved in the violence. The MLA was charged under IPC sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting armed with deadly weapons, 149 (unlawful assembly), 436 (mischief by fire or explosive substance), 427 (causing damage), 379 (theft) and 506 (criminal intimidation).
Pradeep Kumar Brahma has been admitted to the Kokrajhar Civil Hospital after he complained of discomfort and is undergoing treatment. Notably, MLA Pradeep Brahma, who represents the West Kokrajhar, was arrested on Thursday wee hours.
The Bodoland Peoples’ Front on Friday called off its indefinite bandh called after the arrest of Pradip Brahma. This has forced the authorities to lift curfew clamped immediately after the arrest. The indefinite curfew, imposed since 5 AM on Thursday was lifted by Kokrajhar district administration from 4 PM to 9 PM to allow people to buy their essentials. There is still restriction on assembly of five or more people at a spot.
August is a month that I miss Deta the most. Although he passed away in the month of July, I always find myself thinking about him more frequently at this time of the year. However, that’s not to say, I sit down weeping and feeling sad on that day; if anything, I like to celebrate in style. Of course, he had his ways to let me know that he is enjoying the day with me too...in style.
Sadly, in life, there is only one set of parents and they don’t live forever. The more you can give or/and can spend time with them, the better you feel within. Ailing health didn’t stop Deta from his work obligations. One minute he was in the hospital. The next you would catch him attending...
A joint delegation from Assam Association Mumbai and Manipuri Association called on joint commissioner of police in Mumbai Rajnish Sheth and Maharashtra DGP Sanjay Dayal and his additional Satyapal Singh on Wednesday and submitted a memorandum on behalf of entire north east people residing in Mumbai in the evening. Mumbai Assam Association General Secretary Dipen Rajkonwar, member Mafiul Ahmed and two more Naga and Manipuri Representative had attended the meeting.
The memorandum reads: In view of the large scale migration of people of North East origin from Mumbai, Pune, Karjat, Nashik and other places in Maharashtra, we tried to persuade people not to go back to their native homes....
Surface communication from Assam to the rest of the country remains cut off when thousands of BPF workers blocked railway track and highways leading to the state from Wednesday morning on protest against the arrest of West Kokrajhar MLA Pradip Brahma. The agitators who blocked all trains and vehicles demanded immediate release of Brahma and arrest of Dhubri MP Badruddin Ajmal. Shouting anti-government slogans, the protestors alleged that it was Baddrudiin who brought infiltrators from Bangladesh and fueled communal tension leading to riots and also provided arms and ammunitions to the Bangaldeshis. Curfew has been reimposed in the three districts of Bodoland Territorial Administered...
One more youth from Assam was found dead in West Bengal on Thursday. The body of Zakir Hussain was found near a railway station in Birbhum. Zakir hails from Hailakandi district. With this, the number of deaths of Assamese youths outside the state has gone up to 10.
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