A major ULFA attack awaitsd Assam before the Black Day on November 27. According to highly placed sources, a group of top ULFA rebels have managed to sneak into Assam to strike in some vital plances on November 27. These hardcore rebels recently sneaked into the state from Myanmar, Bhutan and Nagaland to carry out blasts in protest against the first army operation against the outfit on that date in 1991. The target is said to be the oil refineries. They include Bosa Singh, Pinku Phukan, Upen Borgohain, Bimal Kalita, Sadin Rai, Rajanikanta Singh, Pulak Bharali, Hitesh Rai and Akon Moran.
the fear comes true with the strike begins on Sunday at Nalbari ! Before 'black day' more such casualities can happen in any parts of Assam making Govt. claim of ULFA under control totally false !
23 Jan 2017 - 11:37pm | AT News
Anwesha Saha and Sabir Islam, both students of Gauhati Medical College & Hospital (GMCH), won Daring Debates 2017 competition held in Guwahati on Monday, January 23. Held at GMCH campus...
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Guwahati: Thirteen suspected ISI agents were arrested by Army in Assam’s North Cachar district on Friday. Four of whom were Hindus while others are Muslim.According to information, acting on...
21 Feb 2017 - 6:23pm | AT Kokrajhar Bureau
A national seminar on the topic of economic insects of NE India thrust on recent advances in Vanya Silks has started with two-day programme scheduled at Science College auditorium in Kokrajhar...
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At least eight people have been injured when a section All Bodo Students' Union activist clashed with a group of Non-Bodo Protection Forum workers during band calls on Thursday. The ABSU had blocked...
Assam is set to get a separate set of rules for construction of buildings in Guwahati city.Disclosing this, chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday said that the soon to be formulated Guwahati Building Construction (Regulation) Bylaws, 2012, aims at ensuring that buildings adhere to environmental norms to promote a planned growth.Participating in a meeting with officials of the state government and Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority, the chief minister said that a set of new norms are required to make Guwahati a better and planned city.He also asked concerned officials to promote a "green policy" with regard to construction of new residential and commercial complexes.Gogoi, however,...
A special court in Guwahati has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to institute a fresh probe into the PC Ram killing case.
The order was issued on Friday a day after the son of the FCI executive director moved the court alleging that the charge-sheet filed in the case was incomplete. Ram’s son in his petition raised doubts over CBI’s sincerity alleging that the investigation has failed to unearth the truth and that no one has been named in the charge-sheet.
The court on Friday asked the CBI to probe the case afresh. PC Ram, the FCI executive director for the north eastern region was kidnapped in lower Assam and was killed in cross-fire with security forces in the outskirt of...
The National Green Tribunal has asked the ministry of environment and forests to step up action against the unauthorized industrial units operating in the No Development Zone around the Kaziranga National Park in Assam. The Tribunal, however, asked the ministry to obtain its prior permission before taking any coercive action against three tea processing units operating within the No Development Zone near Numaligarh Refinery near the Kaziranga park, which is home to the largest population of one-horned rhinoceros. A tribunal bench asked the ministry to take action against other industries in the No-Development-Zone. The tribunal had earlier restrained the ministry from granting any fresh...
Security forces arrested five UNLF militants from Jorabat area in the city on Friday. The militants were travelling in a car from Aizawl in Mizoram to Guwahati when the police and CRPF personnel intercepted them. Another UNLF cadre was picked up from Paltan Bazar area in the city on the basis of confessional statements of an arrested person.The arrested militants were identified as Warren alias Hitler, Waikhom Robinson, Samjet Sabam Laiteng, Lallawmpuia Champai and Moirangtham Joy alias Robin, the police said.According to police, the arrest suggest that Guwahati has become a gateway to the insurgent elements in North eastern region.
Train services on Friday remained heavily affected with several trains, including the New Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express, detained following the indefinite rail blockade called from by the All-Assam Bodo Joint Action Committee for Bodoland movement.Thousands of picketers squatted on rail tracks at Bhatkuchi near Rangiya station, Kokrajhar and Gossaigaon since 5 in the morning demanding Bodoland.The Rajdhani Express was detained at Rangiya. The other affected trains include Brahmaputra Mail, North East Express, Kamrup Express, Saraighat Express and Manas-Rhino Passenger.
Incessant rainfall for the last couple of days have resulted in the a rise of water levels in the river Brahmaputra and its tributaries, inundating vast tracts of farmlands and villages in several districts.The river Brahmaputra and its tributaries are flowing above the danger level submerge many areas in Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Kamrup (Rural), Udalguri, Dhemaji and Dhubri.The worst affected villages are Dadhia, Sarisuti, Tengabari, Karomi and Mohmora at Chabua under Dibrugarh district with vast tracts of paddy fields inundated in flood water.Flash floods at the Telijan river has created havoc in around 15 villages in Jonai sub-division with hundreds of hectares of farm land submerged under...
Gulshan Grover is busy with film shooting in Assam to work with an Assamese political leader. He is Mohibul Hoque's whose '18.11--a code of secrecy has reached a crucial stage'.The 18:11 was Hoque's, second venture after he made his debut in 2003 with an Assamese feature film- 'Juman Suman'.Apart from the bollywood film maker Grover, the film also features Prem Chopra, Asrani and Mukesh Tiwari with Sunidhi Chauhan, Udit Narayan and Kunal Ganjawala lending their voices for the film which is a suspense thriller.
Asom Gana Parishad president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta on Thursday charged Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi with resorting to blatant lies on the annual play outlay for 2012-2013 recently fixed in New Delhi. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati Mahanta, the two time former Chief Minister said that the amount is meager compared to many other states. He further alleged gross misappropriation of planning commission funds during the Tarun Gogoi tenure. The regional party further has written to petroleum minister S Jaipal Reddy demanding an inquiry into the LPG crisis that grips Assam.
Asom Gana Parishad on Thursday backed NCP leader PA Sangma in the presidential polls slated for July. Talking to reporter in Guwahati on Thursday, party president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta said that they would back a tribal from the north east as President.
Mahanta, the two time former Assam chief minister told reporters that no formal decision has been taken and that the picture would emerge when the poll notification would be issued. AGP has one member in Lok Sabha and two in Rajya Sabha, besides 10 MLAs in Assam assembly.
Police on Thursday arrested a KLO member charging him with kidnapping and murdering Gadapani Pathak last month. The KLO leader was identified as Putul Ray from Aagomoni area who allegedly killed the agriculture department superintendent engineer in Boitamari on May 2 when he was travelling with an executive engineer Faizur Islam.
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