For the first time on Monday the Assam government admitted that dreaded terrorist and DHD-J chief Niranjan Hojai is absconding. This was confirmed by Assam forest minister Rockybul Hussain as he was replying to a set of questionnaires on the floor of the House on Monday. After laying down arms and ammunition Niranjan was rushed to a designated camp in the district. The minister said he would be arrested as soon as he is spotted.
1 Feb 2014 - 10:01am | AT News
The indefinite economic blockade in Sonitpur and Dhemaji districts seems to have land Arunachal Pradesh in huge trouble.The neighbouring state seems to have been heading for yet period of crippling...
16 Dec 2007 - 11:48am | editor
The Assam BJP leaders have said only the Congress party was politicizing the current situation in the state and not the other parties. Addressing a press conference on Sunday, senior BJP leader Barki...
17 Mar 2009 - 1:00am | editor
The Southern part of India is full of temples with their age old tradition of patronizing various forms of performing arts, particularly dance and music. Among them, Chidambaram temple ,Brihadeswar...
1 Mar 2013 - 5:45pm | AT News
A fresh orgy of violence marred the 100 hour long BTAD bandh which started from Friday morning crippling normal life in the entire area.Peoples' Joint Action Committee for Bodoland Movement called...
Imphal: Assam Rifles has been directed by the Gauhati High Court to pay Rs 3.5 Lakhs as compensation to the family of Athkokpam Purnima Singh who died in police custody in September 2001. The petition was moved by Bandana Devi, wife of Athkokpam Purnima Singh. Assam Police has been directed by the Imphal Bench of the High Court to pay the amount in three months.
Guwahati: There are 32 Foreigners’ Tribunals in the State and they have managed to detect only 54 illegal Bangladeshis nationals while disposing of 545 cases in the past five months. And all the infiltrators are not traceable now. In a tripartite talk, between AASU, the State Government and the Central Government, the State officials have conveyed this to AASU. “This speaks volumes about the sincerity and commitment of the Central & the State Government in dealing with Bangladeshi influx that has changed the State’s demography, endangering the very existence of the indigenous people. We are having a farce in the name of Bangladeshi deportation,” conveyed AASU leaders...
Guwahati : Assam police confirms the death of Phul Chand Ram alongwith two militants at a cross fire between ULFA and police that rocked Changsari near Guwahati on the wee hours of Thursday much to embarrassment of the Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi who assured the family of needful action to crack the impasse. Senior police officials say the kidnapped FCI official died following a heavy exchange of firing between ULFA militants and a police team led by western range deputy inspector general of police G P Singh which had to take support of Army while the raid was conducted at the house of Govind Deka of Changsari in Kamrup district. They say acting on secret information that a group of ULFA...
Guwahati : Army Personel alongwith the Assam Police have apprehended two people including the president of the Darrang district of MASS, and recovered five kgs of RDX, five PTD switches and eight grenades from the Baihata Chariali area in Rangiya on Wednesday evening. According to information, MASS General Secretary of Darrang unit Shyamal Sarma and Bipul Deka, a contractor of Mangaldai, were on the way to Guwahati on a Tata Sumo when they were apprehended. Interrogation is going on at Jalukbari police station
Guwahati : A fierce fighting between ULFA and security forces near the city on the wee hours on Thursday left two ultras and the kidnapped FCI officer P C Ram dead.Reliable sources here say acting on secret inputs that a group of dreaded ULFA leaders were halting at Burka near Changsari with the kidnapped FCI executive director, the police aided by the Army, raided the house of Govinda Deka of Panitema gaon at around 8-30 evening on Wednesday.The heavy exchange of firing that rocked the entire area continued till 2.00 am on Thursday.Post that the police have recovered two bullet riddled bodies of ULFA leaders alongwith a person who was around 52/55 years from inside the house.The ultras...
Assam Sahitya Sabha’s Chief Secretary, Dr. Pradip Bhuyan was recently Honoured by the Dergaon Sahitya Sabha Committee at their office- Chandra Nath Khound Bhawan on 8th July, 2007. The meeting was presided over by Dergaon Sahitya Sabha’s Vice President Mr. Manik Chandra Doley. Those present in the occasion included Secretary Sanjay Hazarika, Golaghat Sahitya Sabha’s ex-secretary Mrs. Tulika Devi, district representative Munnin Ch. Baruah and many other famous personalities of Dergaon. Mr. Chandra accepted to be present at the occasion and felicitate Dr. Bhuyan. He was also honoured by the Batiporiya Sahitya Sabha on the same day.
The old and famous Civil Hospital of Jorhat “JONONAYAK DEBESWAR SARMA AOSAMORIK CHIKITCHALAY” is on its way to establish a new record. According to an inter-country survey by the Health department of the Central Government, Jorhat Civil Hospital has recorded the highest number of Birth-Rates in entire India. C.O.R.T, a branch of the Central Government has provided statistics to prove these facts. According to the survey, in the year 2005-06, the number of home born babies was 6775, at dispensaries 1943 and at Hospitals 5164. That meant that the total number of babies born in the Hospital was only 7107. But in the year 2006-07, number of home born babies reduced to 5561 and the...
A 17-month-old toddler in Assam happily devours the locally available scorching Bhut Jolokia, recognized by the Guinness World Records as the hottest chilli on earth. The parents of Jayanta Lahan of Romai village in Dibrugarh say the child gleefully munches a handful of Bhut Jolokia, the world's hottest chilli, without batting an eyelid. 'Yesterday (Monday), he ate some 50 Bhut Jolokias in about three to four hours without showing any signs of tears or burning sensation in his stomach,' the child's father Ritul| The child, nicknamed Johnny, became hooked onto chillies when he was just about eight-months-old.
The All Assam Students Union (AASU) has withdrawn from the economic blockade of Nagaland that they had taken up jointly with the AJYCP, the All Adivasi Students Union and the Gorkha Association. AASU Adviser Dr Sammujal Bhattacharya and President Sankar Prasad Rai have communicated at a press conference that they have decided to withdraw from the blockade based on humanitarian ground as this was affecting the common people of Nagaland. It is learnt that the North East Students Union (NSO) and the Naga Students Federation (NSF) had also requested AASU to withdraw from the strike Meanwhile the other organisations are continuing with the strike and have intimated that they are unclear on what...
Tinsukia: There were reports of gunfire along the Assam Arunachal Border in the Sadiya Shantipur area and around 10 people have been injured. The trouble started following a case of physical assault of a local citizen by miscreants of the neighbouring state. The local residents in the Assam side had blocked the surface communication route routinely used by the neighbouring hill tribals while travelling through Assam. The situation is reported to be under control and the injured have been shifted for medical attention.
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