Sensation prevails in Golaghat district of upper Assam when Nagaland policemen thrashed a group of school girls on Wednesday. The incident took place at around 9 in the morning as the policemen beat up some school goers at Thuramukh under Golaghat police station. Altogether 50 students, mostly girls, have been injured in the incident. Fifteen of these injured students have been rushed to the Kushal Konwar Civil Hospital. Jayanti Gogoi and Latumoni Bhuyan have been seriously injured.
29 Oct 2009 - 6:01am | gpnarua
Ranjan Das, Managing Director of SAP INDIA LTD is no more ! He was 42 years old and considered, by many Corporate Gurus, as the ‘Wizard of the Business Management”. His passing away has...
24 Dec 2014 - 7:54pm | AT News
Union home minister Rajnath Singh is on a stock taking visit to Assam on Wednesday a day after NDFB-S militants mowed down at least 68 people in Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts to retaliate the...
25 Feb 2014 - 3:05pm | AT News
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday came down heavily on BJP accusing the party of disrespecting the sentiments of the people.In his address at a rally in Guwahati, Gandhi said that Congress is...
28 May 2011 - 10:34pm | AT News
Jagoran –Forum of Concerned Citizens, Guwahati is organising a sit and demonstration in favour of Jan Lokpal Bill on 29th May from 11 am to 2 pm at Prashanti Udyan at Dighalipukhuri area in...
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 specific inputs, the Army arrested the agents from different parts of the Haflong. Most of these arrested people hail from Rajasthan.They have been identified as Lakshmi Narayan Sarma (Rajasthan), Md Islam (Rajasthan), Md Isan Sheikh, (Rajasthan), Md Rekibuddin (Rajasthan), Mahabir Sarma (Rajasthan), Bajrang Sheikh (Rajasthan), Abdul Khaleq (Karimganj, Asom), Zakir Hussain (Karimganj), Abdul Salam (Karimganj), Naresh Sarma (Karimganj), Meijul Lashkar (Karimganj), Abdul Talukdar (Karimganj) and...
HCL Infosystems Ltd plans to open up around hundred new HCL Career Development Centres (HCL CDC) designed to fine tune skills of technology workers, including employees of corporate houses. This effort is part of the company's drive to part-bridge the demand supply mismatch of trained workforce, which is widening by the day. The accent of these centres would be to train engineers in diverse skills helping them handle the entire spectrum of business. The other primary objective of these Centres would be for retraining of work force in the Corporate Sectors which is being looked at by most major companies to meet new technology challenges.
Our Guwahati Correspondent : Over 1.5 lakh people in seven districts of Assam have been affected in the first wave of floods with the Brahmaputra, Barak and their tributaries flowing above danger levels.People in flood-hit Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Sibsagar, Dibrugarh, Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi districts have taken shelter on national highways, officials said, adding the BSF has been engaged in rescue operations.Nearly 84 villages in Karimganj with a population of 42,386 have been inundated with water over-crossing a dyke.In Cachar district, flood waters entered some parts of Silchar town as a dyke breached in Roypur. Three relief camps have been set up in the affected area, the officials...
Our special correspondent Guwahati : A full scale fratricidal clash may rock Assam if the words of surrendered ULFA leaders are any indication.In a statement released here on Wednesday evening, some SULFA leaders have warned the ULFA to abstain from killing their colleagues like Rinku Chaudhory to avoid consequences.Signed by Sunil Nath, Jugal Kishor Mahanta, Saurabh Gogoi, Rosevelt Rabha, Mridul Phukan, Sailen Dutta Konwar, Amal Das and Pratap Das, the statement further urged the government to ensure security to the surrendered ULFA cadres. The ULFA has claimed responsibility for killing their former colleague Rinku Chaudhory. Hira Sarania (ULFA spokesman) has confirmed that he has been...
The “Bir Chilari Award” for the year 2006 was awarded this year to the former Chief Minister of Assam, Late Sarat Ch Sinha on 16th of June, 07 at Rabindra Bhawan, Guwahati . The award was accepted with thanks by his wife. Sarat Ch Sinha was on outstanding figure in political circles nationally as well. He was formerly a congressman who later formed the Congress (S) with Sharad Pawar.
Guwahati: The recent killing of Rinku Chaudhory forces the city police to step up a close watch on the Guwahati based surrendered ULFA leaders even as the banned outfit is reportedly changes its cadres. According to information, the police administration will maintain strict vigil on the city areas where the SULFA leaders reside. They will also monitor the movements of the people in and around the SULFA members in the city. Moreover, the police gets ready to make a survey on the rented houses to identify if there is any ULFA people reside with false identity. According to apprehension, more ULFA activists are there in the city’s rented houses to step up attack in the form of...
Our special correspondent from Guwahati : It was a tragic day for the Barman family. Jatin Barman,a resident of Guwahati has stabbed his wife, Bina Barman to death in the middle of the city at Ganeshguri before hanging himself at their residence. Unconfirmed reports state that a property dispute is the reason for the murder. Onlookers were shocked on seeing the body which has been almost slit into two. The couple is survived by their three college going children.
We talk about global warming. But nobody who is in Guwahati can believe this now. Guwahati is flooded and in all the main areas like the GNB road, Zoo Road, Maligaon, Santipur etc. The most important aspect of the floods in Guwahati is that it rained only for some time and the entire city was brought to its knees. And this is just the beginning of the monsoons. Traffic crawled throughout the day and school children and office goers had a tough time. Residents are crying hoarse complaining about the apathy of the Government in dealing with the scenario. Montu Talukday a resident of Silpukhuri commented “This is a regular occurrence every year and I have to fold my trousers and...
New Delhi: We all remember it. The moms and the aita’s used to talk about it in the kitchen. “Bhut jolokia or 'ghost chillies' of Tezpur figure has found a mention in the Time Magazine's latest issue as the world's hottest chilli. The magazine's cover story that takes a look at the culinary specialities and peculiarities around the world has zeroed in on the burnt orange pods, developed in a military laboratory in Tezpur, as packing the deadliest punch. The article on 'Global Warming' notes that the bhut jolokia, also called the Naga chilli, carries the sort of heat that one normally would find only in the hottest chilli sauces made from pure pepper...
At a time when the world is reeling under the consequences of global warming how can Assam be spared? Global Warming is contributing to the decrease of level of rainfall in Northeast in a big way commented a few leading scientists while speaking to our correspondents. The scientists on conditions of annonymity said that they have been ringing the alarm bells but till date it has fallen in deaf ears and the Goverments of Northeast are yet to take any concrete measures to prevent this. The Northeast is known for its torrential rains where earlier Cherrapunjee, in Meghalaya had the primacy of place as recording the worlds highest rainfall and now this stature has shifted to Mawsynram again in...
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