Assam Association, Delhi is organising this year's Magh Bihu on January 15 at Central Secretariat playground, opposite Nehru Park (Near The Ashoka hotel). The event will start at 9:30am. Assamese lunch will be served at around 1:30 noon. Food coupons will be sold at the venue. There will be various categories of competitions for children and women. All are welcome to the event.
7 Feb 2016 - 10:29pm | Shajid Khan
The golden jubilee celebration of Jhargaon MV School held at Jhargaon in Udalguri district on Sunday with fanfare and gaiety. The inauguration of the newly-constructed main gate of the...
19 May 2012 - 3:47am | editor
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday claimed to have brought the insurgent outfits under control. But in the same breath, he said that a set of clear cut strategies is needed to firmly deal...
29 Dec 2008 - 11:43am | editor
Body of a rhino was recovered at Chemeri Chapori in Golaghat district on Sunday morning . Local residents say the body was exhumed after the local residents saw a heap of soil on a rhino body. Forest...
31 Dec 2011 - 1:54pm | editor
Properties worth several lakh have been reduced to ashes when a devastating fire broke out in Sivasagar on Saturday.
The incident took place in the evening at Station Chariali in the heart...
For the second day, the rapid response team are carrying out poultry culling in some parts of Kokrajhar and Dhubri district. The culling is going on in an area of 5 kilometer having as many as 90,000 poultry. Officials here say these will be culled as per the instructions from the Centre. The areas falling in this 5 kilometer area are Kochugaon block in Kokrajhar district, Agomoni block in Dhubri district. As many as 35,000 poultry are there in Dhubri district while Kokrajhar district has 54,000 which are to be culled soon. Altogether 2,200 poultry have been culled in Dhubri o0n Monday while the number of culled poultry in Kokrajhar district is 448. Speaking to Assam Times, poultry owners...
A brimful cup of misery awaits the tea garden labourers working at the Dumor Dalong Tea Estate where lock out has entered eight day on Monday. The deadlock came up following the clash among a section of Congress workers for panchayat poll ticket. A big clash for a small matter which has forced the lock out of the Doomar Dalong Tea Estate in Moran under Dibrugarh district. Initially, it’s all about the Congress ticket for the panchayat polls which divided labourers into two groups. The people of both groups clashed with each other. The entire scenario took a grim turn when the tea garden authority had a secret deal with one of the labourers where parts of their salaries were forcibly...
From Babul Gogoi, New DelhiAssam will get Rs 5011 crore for the year 2008-09. It was finalized here on Monday at a meeting between Planning Commission, Deputy Chairman Shri Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister of Assam Tarun Kumar Gogoi.According to official confirmation, the Annual Plan size has been agreed at Rs.5011 crores. This includes special plan assistance of Rs.250 crores for identified projects of the State, of this, Rs.20 crores will be earmarked for development of Majuli Island. The special plan assistance release will be conditional upon Assam providing fully for its share of Centrally sponsored schemes.Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Mr. Ahluwalia complimented the...
Children enjoying some light moments with populer singer-music director Manas Robin during the 12th biennial conference of All Assam Moina Parijat, the biggest childrens' body of Assam at Sivasagar on 04-02-2008. Picture byUB Photos
It’s a big revelation that the Adivasi militants outfit ANLA funded the AASAA to hold the rally that turn violent in the city’s Beltola area on November 24. The startling revelation came up before the Justice Manisana Singh while the arrested AASAA vice president Rafel Kujur deposed before it recently. According to the Kujur received Rs 20,000 in cash at a Paltanbazar hotel in the evening on November 23. The amount was paid to hold the rally. Notably, the police arrested Kujur alleging nexus with the ANLA. The entire probe is taking a new turn with this revelation. There is no doubt about it.
Tension still prevails in Manderdisa a day after the death of people when Black Widow tribal militants opened indiscriminate fire in the North Cachar village. Three people have been left injured in the strike. The militants set ablaze five houses in the incident. According to information, the militants arrived in the village and woke up villagers who were sleeping and started firing; killing two persons and leaving three injured. The militants further later set on fire five houses. The deceased were were all Adivasi daily wage workers.The reason for the killings was not immediately known.
Womens as well as girls in numbers took out a rally shouting the slogans of death ULFA cadre Bidur Gohain at his adya shradha in Fhutahula, Fhulampur village in Dibrugarh on 03-02-08. Pix by UB photos.
Living legends duo Dada Saheb Falke award winner legend singer Bhupen Hazarika and Writer and Jnanapith award winner Mamoni Roysom Goswami seen during an interaction at the inaugural function of the Newly Built Sixmile campus of GNRC (Guwahati Neurological Research Centre) at Sixmile, Guwahati on 03-02-08. Pix by UB Photos
Aman King is the younger son of Omar Luther King and Roma King. He is incidentally the grandson of Maulana M. Tayyebulla who was a Minister in the Bardoloi Cabinet in the late forties and early fifties and was thereafter unanimously elected (unopposed) to the Upper House of Indian Parliament for two terms (12 years). Aman, a software developer, used to work for a product engineering company in Delhi called GlobalLogic, and is now working for another company called ThoughtWorks in Pune. The King (Junior) claimed his Queen, Arpita (nee Mirani) on January 12, 2008 and the two became one. Aman’s better-half holds a high executive post in Satyam at Pune.
The Asom Gana Parishad will formulate a set of strategies fore the Lok Sabha polls in the light of the panchayat poll results. Disclosing this at a press conference at the party headquarters, Mr Goswami said the result was encouraging and it will help the party ensure victory in the Lok Sabha polls. He maintained that despite rigging the ruling party could not to show expected performance. The president further alleged that the ruling party with the help of a section of vote counting officials ensured the defeat of AGP candidate.
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