CPIM general secretary Prakash Karat says that his party would raise the multi crore scam in NC Hills of Assam in parliament. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Monday, Karat said siphonning off money meant for poor people is a grave and an unpardonable crime and that the guilty persons deserve punishment. Karat along with top party leaders held a brainstorming meet to formulate strategy for the upcoming assembly polls in Assam.
PermalinkSubmitted by kemprai on Tue, 01/02/2011 - 19:35
There is no positive outcome in the district after scam issue and all the political leaders are busy in making an image for the upcoming election with the in the name of scam issue.
The district name should be totally named as DIMA HASAO in every article as suggested...as it is officially accepted in the gazzated offices in the state.
24 Jun 2010 - 4:46am | editor
The Centre on Wednesday smartly passed the buck on to the state government after the SJA delegation camping in Delhi met P Chidambaram in the evening. The Union home minister said the state...
1 Mar 2009 - 3:49am | shariefzamanborah
MAJONI a scheme for the girl child under the Assam Bikash Yojuana of Government of Assam was launched yesterday(27-02-09)in Sivasagar by Pranab Gogoi, Hon'ble Minister, Sericulture, Handloom...
29 Sep 2007 - 3:19am | Rituparna Goswami Pande
The paeans had not yet subsided regarding the communal and ethnic unity and harmony that the Indian Idol finalists had brought about in the states of Sikim and Meghalaya and the northeast for that...
13 Nov 2017 - 5:11pm | Mithun Baruah
The Tinsukia district administration has evicted eight families of suspected Bangladesh settlers from a remote hamlet in Ledo on Monday a day after a group of former ULFA rebels set on fire a hut...
Sensation prevails on the busy Guwahati-Shillong road following bomb scare that forces senior police and civil officials to rush to Ganeshguri. According to eyewitness, two doubtful youths were seen trying to plant a bomb under the Ganeshguri Flyover but managed to flee as soon as they saw policemen on the spot. Security forces cordoned off the entire spot and carried out a search operation nearly half an hour. No one has so far been arrested.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has alleged a nefarious KMSS-Maoist nexus to monger more trouble in the state. Addressing a press conference a week after the Dispur clash, Gogoi said he would go by the probe report. The Maoists are working in Assam in the guise of a section of peasant organization activists. He further announced Rs 3 lakh each of those who were killed in the Dispur clash. He said he would not allow any organization or leader to violate the law.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi faces flak minutes after he alleged KMSS-Maoist link. Reacting sharply to the Chief Minister’s allegation on Tuesday, the peasant body president Raju Baruah said they have not even an...
‘Shreemoyee’ Asomiya Mahila Samiti (SAMS) on Monday, felicitated the Assamese students of Mumbai who have secured 85% and above in the 10th and 12th board examinations of the academic year 2010-11 as a gesture of encouragement, at Assam Bhawan, Vashi. The function was presided by SAMS president Bina Saikia. The students rewarded belonged to the Maharashtra Board, C.B.S.E and also ICSE. Assamese columnist and poet Neeti Baruah who is also a retired lecturer was the Chief Guest and the guest of honour was Dr. Abani Chandra Goswami, a scientist who retired as the Head of the Department of Chemistry from Jorhat Institute of Science...
Noted Gandhian Anna Hazare's civil society group seeks immediate release of two Akhil Gogoi who was arrestred by poliucxe on Friday. He further has demanded an apology from the Assam government for arresting the KMSS leader. The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti leader were arrested from the Guwahati Press Club premises on Friday for allegedly inciting violence earlier in the week in Dispur.
In a statement issued in Delhi, Hazae’s NGO IAC said, "India Against Corruption, strongly condemns such high-handed, brutal and undemocratic actions by the government and requests all citizens to join hands to oppose the government's grave misconduct."
My mind towards Assamese Literature was literally like an Axanto Electron. (The electron is a subatomic particle carrying a negative electric charge. It has no known components or substructure. Therefore, the electron is generally thought to be an elementary particle.) Coming from an English medium school I hadn’t read anything Assamese apart from my course work all my life. SKC is responsible for turning it around. Quite late in life, I asked my friend Aporaj to suggest me an Assamese book to read. Prompt came the answer. Suran Medhi’s work. I was like... Who? And why would you suggest reading his books.
Now Aporaj being a calm and composed poet friend as well as an...
NDFB’s pro talks faction threatens to pull out of the peace process if the Centre fails to halt operation against their cadres. In a press statement sent to media on Saturday, the outfit’s assistant secretary B. Khwlw Khwlw alleged that peace process and crackdown can’t go together. He said for the last several years, they have lost many cadres in the name of encounters by the security forces. The alleged that the peace process was merely a trap. He further charged the Assam government with trying derail the peace process. “Our General Secretary N. Dinthigwra was killed cold blooded along with his body guard B. Bwhwitha after he was caught from the house he was...
Guwahati Press Club has expressed its anguish at the arrest of RTI activist Akhil Gogoi from its campus on June 24 at around 2.50 pm. It has already sent a protest letter to the Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, stated in a release issued by press club secretary Nava Thakuria. It may be mentioned that Gogoi had booked the space in the Press Club auditorium from 3 pm (to 5 pm) for a press conference. He arrived at the Press Club premises by 2.10 pm and had some food in the canteen. For some reasons, best known to Gogoi only, he rushed to the auditorium by 2.30 pm and abruptly started his press conference. Most of the reporters were even outside the auditorium at that moment. Then arrived a few...
Finally, police have arrested KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi in connection with the Dispur police firing on Wednesday. Gogoi was picked up by police from his Nizorapara based residence an hour before a press conference he was scheduled to addressed.
Police on Thursday lodged complaint against Gogoi and his associates charging them with damaging properties worth crores of rupees and fomenting trouble where 4 persons were killed around 35 including 15 police men have been injured. A section of KMSS protesters set on fire three police vehicles and 5 ASTC owned passenger buses.
The Centre on Thursday has extended the term of ceasefire with NDFB by months. This was followed by a meeting of home ministry officials with a delegation of the Bodo insurgent outfit Govinda Basumatary in Delhi on Thursday. The meeting was attended by state home secretary Jishnu Baruah and home ministry joint secretary attached to north east Sambhu Singh.
Dispur police steps into arrest KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi in connection with the Dispur clash that left 3 killed and over 30 injured. Dispur police station alone has registered altogether 8 cases against Gogoi and KMSS president Kamal Medhi charging them with damaging properties worth Rs 1.50 crore. Dispur police officer in charge Manik Kalita has lodged the 4 complaints against Gogoi while ASTC also filed 3 FIRs alleging that Gogoi and his organization has damaged 3 buses on Wednesday. Gogoi is likely to be arrested at any time. Several police officers including senior superintendent of police Dipak Chaudhury, DSP Longnit Teron have been injured in the clash.
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