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.
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Police claimed to have averted a major string of strikes by ULFA on the eve of the Independence Day after recovering around seven bombs from Guwahati on Friday.
According to information, six powerful bombs have been recovered from a hill near Basistha bordering Meghalaya at around 10 in the morning during a joint operation by police and army.
before that a huge cache of arms and ammunition were recovered from Sadiya which were believed to have been kept ready to explode during the Independence Day celebrations. Investigations are in progress.
There isa no let up in the over all flood situation in Assam where surface communication still remains disrupted in the worst hit Lakhimpur and Dhemaji district. The situation took a grim turn on Thursday when the floodwater breached National Highway 52 at three places and the rail line at two places after the incessant rain for the past few days. The district administration, however, is on a drive to evacuated the affected people to safer places. More than 100 villages in Dhemaji were inundated while in Lakhimpur district, the Kakoi river burst its banks at three places, affecting ten villages.
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There is more disturbing news. An ULFA team is at work in Guwahati to strike in the city during the Independence Day salted dor Saturday. This has forced police to gear up to dela with this hardcore team of women ULFA cadres. What is more disturbing is that the women cadres are bomb experts who are joined by their counterparts in NDFB. These cadres have managed to sneak in to the city a few days back.
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Addressing a press conference in Guwahati in Wednesday, AASU leaders said only this will over the years, the government has been failing to deal with influx of Bangladeshi immigrants, border problem, along with some other burning issues. AASU general secretary Tapan Kumar Gogoi said Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi have been failing to do the needful.
A group of ULFA cadres is waiting along the Assam- Nagaland border to monger trouble in upper Assam in the run up to the Independence Day. These are what the inputs available with the intelligence agencies forcing the authorities to go for a beefed up security measures in these areas.
According to information, a group of militants had entered Nagaland from Myanmar and were trying to enter Assam to cause disturbances ahead of the Independence Day.
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