An unhealthy competition for breaking news seems to have raised doubts on the overall credibility of media these days. This was more or less of what Ranjeet Sekhar Mushahary said when he was opening a satellite news channel in Guwahati on Saturday in Guwahati. Set up under the petronage of Jivan Surakhya Group, the bilingual satellite news channel is being manned by a team of journalists under the leadership of Manjit Mahanta and Pranjal Phukan.
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Education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is facing no less ire after the HSLC faux pas where many examination centres received Assamese and social science question papers instead if mathematics. AASU...
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Irate villagers of Dharmajuli village near Suklai ransacked the office of the Bornadi Wildlife Sanctuary on September 4,causing damage to its property. According to information,a lone wild elephant...
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A disturbing news indeed suggesting the decade long to check erosion in Majuli. The largest river island on this planet has reduced it size over 28 per cent in 2013from 733.79 sq km in 1940.This was...
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Barpeta is gearing up for a free and fair Lok Sabha polls in the third and final phase slated for Thursday.Voting in this crucial constituency is taking place at over 1900 booths from 7 in the...
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has asked the Centre to ensure that any dam related activities by China in Tibet do not cause ecological problems in the state.Gogoi said in Guwahati on Sunday that if the problems could be addressed, then communities residing in the catchment areas of the river would benefit.According to Gogoi, the state government is committed to holding elections to the Mising Autonomous Council and said the Council has been established for the welfare of Mising community.
y at Bishwanath Ghat last night, turned turtle near Panibharal area of Bishwanath Chariali town in the morning, killing four on the spot.Among the 26 injured, 16 were admitted to Bishwanath Chariali Civil Hospital but 13 of them were referred to Tezpur Kanaklata Civil Hospital after their condition became critical.The dead have been identified as 45-year Durga Chetry, 20-year old Krishna Chetry, 18-year old Gopal Chetry and 12-year-old Pinky Sarma. The vehicle, which was overloaded and speeding, turned turtle four times before rolling down the side of the road.
Guwahati Press Club expresses its gratitude to all the individuals and organizations who have so far contributed to facilitate the medical treatment of journalist Safar Ahmed, who is associated with Sakalbela, a Bengali daily published from Guwahati by Saradha group.Although, the health condition of the ailing journalist has shown slight improvement, he continues to be critical. His stomach is partially damaged and swelling of brain was reported by the attending doctors, which included New Delhi-based physician Dr SC Sharma of Gangaram Hospitals, who visited Safar today.Safar Ahmed’s medical treatment will require more funds and we hereby request sensitive donors to hand over the financial...
Over 500 people have been undergoing critical treatment at different hospitals in Guwahati after consuming food served as Prasad on Friday’s Saraswati Puja in Dimoria area of Kamrup. This has forced the Kamrup metro district administration to order an inquiry into the incident.GMCH alone has 140 children from three schools in Durung, Koraiguri who were rushed to it following complaints of stomach pain and vomiting. They fell ill after they consumed grams and khichri. On Saturday morning, the patients were admitted to the 30-bed Khetri Hospital andSonapur Primary Health Centre from where a section of children in critical condition were referred to Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH)....
Over 50 people have fallen ill in Kamrup district of Assam after consuming Prasad on Friday. The patients, mostly, students and their guardians in the outskirt of Guwahati city have been rushed to the hospital as they complained of stomach ailment after consuming Prasad at a Saraswati puja function in Sonapur. Over 20 seriously ailing people have been rushed to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital.
An independent panchayat candidate allegedly committed suicide on Friday after losing an election in Assam's Kamrup (Rural) district. Mintu Das contested from 114 Ganmou village panchayat in Sualkuchi and lost the elections, the results for which were announced on Friday night. A depressed Das later hanged himself in his house.
Unidentified miscreants kidnapped an engineer of Power Grid Corporation from Baksa district on Saturday even as security forces are on rescue operation. The engineer, Santhala Taidy Raju, was abducted by a group of four armed men from the Power Grid Corporation's camp at Dhekipota under Goreshwar police station near the Indo-Bhutan border.Raju, who hails from Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, was staying in the remote camp with some other company workers. He was forced at gunpoint to go along with the gunmen, who had come in two motorcycles and reportedly taken towards the Bhutan border.
In yet another blow for anti-talk ULFA, four hardcore militants, including a senior leader before police in Tinsukia district.Among the militants who laid down their arms is senior ULFA leader Rahendra Moran alias Guli Asom, who was responsible for the outfit's extortion related activities in the upper Assam districts. He was involved in a number of incidents of extortion from various businessmen and political leaders.The others who surrendered are Parikshit Moran, Champak Hazarika and Kushal Buragohain. The ultras handed over one AK-47 assault rifle, two 9 mm pistols, eight bottle grenades, four Chinese made hand grenades and other assorted weapons.
The state government has set up 20 relief camps in Goalpara district for people affected in the violence. As many as 17,949 people have taken shelter in those camps. The ethnic RHJAC is demanding the Autonomous Council polls ahead of the panchayat hustings as the village and panchayat committees will undermine the authority of the Council.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday claimed to have restored normalcy in trouble-torn Goalpara district is now peaceful and the displaced people will be rehabilitated soon.Gogoi said that the situation in Rabha-Hasong area is now peaceful. The situation in the district, which is the nerve centre of the Rabha Hasong Joint Action Committee (RHJAC) opposed to the panchayat polls, had turned violent on February 12 panchayat election day with 20 people killed in police firing, arson and clashes.
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