The United Liberation Front of Assam has given a private petroleum 45 days ultimatum to quit Assam. In an e-mail statement, ULFA publicity wing leader Arunodoy Dohotia alleged that the Shivani Oil and Gas Exploration Services Private Limited must quit Assam by one and a half month. He alleged that the private oil exploration company has been exploiting Assam's fabulous natural resources safeguarded by the Union Government. Dohotia further threaten armed action against the private oil company if it fails to quit Assam.
Can the ULFA send Quit Assam notice to Bangladeshis????
Tell us ULFA publicity wing leader Arunodoy Dohotia...can you threaten armed action against the Bangladeshis capturing 20 districts of Assam?
14 Dec 2015 - 9:42am | Marbang Ezing
Commissioner of Health and Family Welfare Department, Bolung Siram had a whirl-wind tour to interior and remote locations of Siang and East Siang districts from Dec-7 to 12 last. During this...
7 Aug 2011 - 7:20pm | Hamidul Gani
A 55 year old person was trampled to death by a wild tusker at a Village near Dudhnoi in Goalpara district in the early morning of Saturday. After damaging the house the elephant attacked Jogesh Nath...
12 Jul 2017 - 7:42pm | Saidul Khan
A faculty from North Eastern Hill University (Nehu) today made an endeavour to brand Meghalaya and other Northeastern states of India as an “unexplored tourist destination”. Speaking as...
8 Apr 2014 - 9:50am | Babul Gogoi
Spring is back. Tender leaves have dressed the trees afresh. Season flowers start blooming brightly. The rivers are set to regain their strength because of the rain that lashes parts of the state....
Tengapukhuri out-post under Mathurapur Police station has arrested one Minu Ali, the conductor of a 709 mini bus (AS01-F-5007) on molestation charges on Wednesday. The complaint was filled by Lakhsmipriya Duwora Borgohain of Gorgaon Sunpura Gohain Gaon, Pallabi Konwar, Mamoni Barua, Malabika Hatimuria, resident of Rohdoi Pukhuri, Pator Gaon - all are student of Dol Bagan Higher Secondary School, traveled in the bus to their school.
The NGO, Jeuti (Unnatir Ek Yatra), under their project, Grammya Arthik Sashalata Mancha, organised a week long workshop at Singhdwar Community Auditorium. In this workshop they trained the participants to make items from the Jute, Water Hyacinth and un-used materials. The NGO also help their trainees for loan and marketing of their products. Nearly 150 trainees attened in this workshop.
Like the other communities of the world, the tai-ahom community of assam observe one of their harvest festival as Ai-Jong-Lao. In tai language Ai-jong-lao means the welcoming the wealth. The Tai-Ahom villagers of Bokota-Japihojia of Sivasagar district observed this festival after a gap of seven years with traditional rituals.
In tai language, two "Mehenga" i.e. Thapona is established with bamboo ,bannana tree and Tokow (a kind of palm). In these "Mehenga's all the ceremonial offerings of Tai-Ahom like. luk-lao,i.e.rice bear, honey, pig,goat,kai,i.e. cook,nook-pet,i.e.duck are offered to please the "God of Wealth".The rituals are performed according to Molung i.e. pandit. The individual...
Sensation prevails in Golaghat district of upper Assam when Nagaland policemen thrashed a group of school girls on Wednesday. The incident took place at around 9 in the morning as the policemen beat up some school goers at Thuramukh under Golaghat police station. Altogether 50 students, mostly girls, have been injured in the incident. Fifteen of these injured students have been rushed to the Kushal Konwar Civil Hospital. Jayanti Gogoi and Latumoni Bhuyan have been seriously injured.
Abahoni Limited of Bangladesh lift the presitgious Bordoloi Trophy at the end of a thrlling clash with 3 Star Club from Nepal on Wednesday in Guwahati. The 3 Star Club, Nepal was defeated by 3-0 gaols at the Nehru Stadium in the evening. The thrilling match was enjoyed by several thousands of football fans. The Nepal team has entered the final in their Bordoloi Trophy debut, while, Abahoni have played on earlier edition of the trophy. On the way to the final, 3 Star drew their quarterfinal matches to enter the semifinals. In the semifinals, the club defeated Assam Regimental Centre, Shillong 4-3 in the tie-breaker. The Abahoni drew one match and defeated ASEB in their quarterfinal league...
Assam's overall flood situation remains grim on Wednesday with Brahmaputra flowing above the danger leevl affecting atleast five lakh people.
According to the Central Water Commission, the Brahmaputra is crossed danger level at Guwahati, Goalpara, Sibsagar, Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Nimatighat, Naharkatia and Tezpur.
This wave have affected 11 districts where vast tracks of farm land and a large number of human habitations have been submerged in Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, Morigaon, Sonitpur, Dhubri, Goalpara and Barpeta.
The wave of floods has so far claimed two lives in two separate incidents in lower Assam.
The marooned people have no option but to...
Suspected United Liberation Front of Asom has kidnapped nephew of former Congress MP Manikumar Subba from Tinsukia district of Assam on Wednesday. According to information, a few youths kidnapped Ajoy Raj Subba at gun point from Bordubi in the morning. The incident took place at Bordubi Chariali Subba was on his way back to his residence from his tea estate.
Top ranked police and civil officials rushed to the spot. But the things are remaining clueless. No outfit has owned up the responsibility. Notably, ULFA has been unleashing terror among a section tea garden owners by serving extortion notices for the last couple of years.
Meanwhile, All Assam Gorkha Students' Unionon Wednesday...
On an unusually rainy afternoon of an unusually long monsoon in Delhi’s beautiful Jawaharlal Nehru campus, a very unusual concert unfolded. What the state government of Manipur did not do and the central government in Delhi would not do was done by a young man, Ronid Chingambam, with a guitar in his hand and poetry on his lips.
Since May 1, 2010 and the terrible standoff between the Nagas in the hills and the Meiteis in the valley of Imphal which led to terrible hardships for the Meiteis and deaths and violence for the Nagas in the state of Manipur, the only attempt to bring the communities together was by a group of young Meitei revolutionary poets called Burning Voices, led by...
A mild tremor has shaken parts of Guwahati and its neighbouring lower Assam districts on Saturday. As the mild quake struck at around at 12-33 pm, a section of the panic stricken residents in the city started coming out of their houses. According to US Geological Research center,the intensity of the earthquake is 4.8 in the Richter scale. There is however no report of any casualty.
After one and a half months of absence, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is back in Guwahati. Gogoi arrived in the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport on Friday afternoon where he was greeted by a huge crowd. According to information, he is scheduled to resume work in a day or two. Gogoi reached New Delhi where he met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi after being discharged from the Asian Heart Institute in Mumbai where he underwent bypass surgery.
His cabinet colleagues were present at the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Airport here as Gogoi's flight landed at around 2 pm. Welcome committees comprising Congress workers and cultural troupes lined...
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