In the last asssembly election, the Asom Gana Parished was unable to get a single seat in upper Assam along with other 12 district of Assam. Under Golaghat district - Sarupather, Bokakhat, Khumtai and Golaghat LACs are captured by the INC. It is mentionalbe that the Golaghat is the birth place of AGP. In Jorhat district all 6 LACs are own by the congress. In Sivasagar all 6 LACs, in Dibrugar 6 out of total 7 LACs and in Tinsukia district 4 out of 5 LACs were gone to the Congress Party. In entire Upper Assam only Dibrugar and Dumduma LAC own by the opposition BJP. AGP lost in Sarupather, Khumtai, Dergaon, Amguri, Tingkhang, which were in their hand after the Assembly election of 2006. In entire upper Assam AGP faild to show its existance in any constituency.
2 Sep 2007 - 3:54pm | pbaruah
Guwahati: Indian Idol finalist Amit Paul is arriving in the cirty on Monday seeking more support that could help him to steal the show. According to information, Paul is all set to call on Zubin...
8 Feb 2010 - 10:21pm | trishnalineog
The 81st meeting of the Co-ordination Committee of All IIT Employees Unions and Associations was held in IIT Guwahati during 5th to 7 th Feb. All the seven IIT have participated in the meeting and...
22 Feb 2008 - 1:26pm | editor
Property worth one crore has been left ravaged while a 12 hour long devastating fire that broke out on Thursday midnight at a goodwon in Jorhat town. Eyewitness say the fire broke out at the ground...
17 May 2015 - 6:08am | editor
A Guwahati based organization takes on Chief minister and APSC alleging bribe in the examination held to select the candidates for ACS, APS and allied services. The officials of the Peoples'...
The government has claimed to be spending huge amount of money for development of the Assam-Nagaland border areas. But the real development is far away. People in the remote area of Gelakey border areas are living in a deplorable condition; Lahdoigarh, Sunapur, Borhollah, Singibill etc. of Gelakey border areas under Nazira sub-division are facing a lot of problems due to the lack of proper road, bridge, water, electricity etc. The so called Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme is not able to reach these areas till today.Nagaland has already occupied over 1000 Bighas of forest land of Assam. They have set-up one polling station at Borhollah in their recently held general election....
A number of illegal wine shops are seen in operation at Simaluguri Railway Station and its nearby areas. The concencerned authorities are not taking any action against the sellers so far. This inaction is also contributing to growing number of anti-social elements in this area.
The state convention of All India Youth Federation will be held at Tai Cultural Developnent Centre of Sivasagar on March 23-24, 2013. Central vice-president of AIYF Tapash Singha, former MP Durpod Borgohain, former central secretary of AIYF Pinkumoni Dutta, former state vice president of AIYE etc. will participate in the convention.
One leopard was killed by villagers at Sunapur, Gelakey in the Assam-Nagaland border area on March 11 evening. The leopard attacked a lady injuring serseriously.
Public protest is going on at Nazira against a person of Gargaon trying to buid a private road through the historic Bajgarh of Gargaon. Bajgarh is situated in the east side of Karang Ghar, which was the capital palace of the Ahom Kingdom. Several organisations condemned this and demanded for proper inquiry.
Cyclist of Nazia Anil Mahanta is attemping to enter Guinness World Record of short lapes 660 meter in cycling in 48 hours on the bank of the Barbaruah Tank, Nazira. This has started from last March 8. Several hundrads people has been gathering at the venue to encourage and witness the historic cycling events.The programme is organise by the Nazira Cycling Association in association with the civil administration of Nazira.
Sivasagar district unit of AASU staged a dharna in front of the ONGC's main gate of Nazira on Thursday, demanding early establishment of much awaited Rs.100 crore multi-speciality hospital at Sivasagar. Over 1500 AASU activist from different parts of Sivasagar district were taking part in the dharna. ONGC declared to establish a super-speciality hospital at Sivasagar 3 years back. Sivasagar district administration has already discussed with the ONGCL regarding this project and offered land.
A team of the Excise offocials of Nazira raided in different parts of Nazira sub-division on Wednesday, including Charaihojia, Deopani, Athkhel, Aideobari and Deoghoria village and seized over 2500 litres of local wine, 5 liters foreign wine, 30 liter DPL and 6 nos. wine processing machines. In this connection 5 persons were arrested.
Eight persons were seriouly injured when a Sivasagar-Nazira bound bus fell in to deep paddy field at Kujibali Hanhchara, near Nazira at around 4 pm on Tuesday. The accident occurred when a speedy truck trying to overtake the bus.
Kuch Rajbanshi Sonmiloni Nazira observed Cherarai Divas at Sundarpukhuri, Nazira with a day-long programme on February 25. In this connection a colourfull cultural processin and a public meeting were organised. Tapan Gogoi, Central general secretary of AASU, Social worker Mukul Chetia etc. were participated in the event as guest of honour.
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