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The magazine Friends is a sincere effort by the Non residents of Assam towards the upliftment of the Students and youths of the North East India. It contains articles on career guidance, education, travel and tourism, volunteering and Social entrepreneurism. Chief Editor Mr. Ankur Bora from Dallas, Texas, USA sincerely desires that students and the youth of the North East India will benefit from this journal as the motto of this journal is –To inform, to inspire and to instill. It is also expected that the parents will gift this magazine to their children as a valuable resource for career development and for their future personal and professional growth.
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After egg, betel leaf, fish and meat, now it’s the cartel of cashew nuts that makes the fruit more dearer for common people these days. Some sensational revelations have come out during the investigation by the Assam Times. A part of the cartel has been remaining active in Fancy Bazar area where Shanti Lal, Manoj Moore and Sunil Bothra have already stopped the rush of cashew nuts from outside. Cashew nuts procured from Mancachar are available in the Guwahati markets these days. The trio have been running this cartel under the patronage of a powerful circle of people in Dispur which is why, these people have been maintaining a studied silence on the allegations of this dirty deal in...
JINTUL TALKUDAR, BAKSA: An uneasy calm grips Chirang and Sorbhog on Monday two days after suspected NDFB-S militants in Baksa district killed four local lemon traders from Barpeta. From Monday morning security forces are on round-the-clock vigil to thwart any attempt to monger ethnic frenzy in the BTAD areas in the wake of the attack on the minority traders. Curfew has been relaxed. But only to be clamped again towards the evening. The angry non-Bodo people in Barpeta district have threatened to launch a massive protest against the incident where four lemon traders were killed after being kidnapped on the way from a market at Labdangpar along the Barpeta-Baksa inter district...
The Baksa district administration keeps army on stand-by in view of escalating tension after security forces recovered three more bodies from the Beki River on Sunday. The police resorted to blank firing to disperse a mob for holding a protest against the Baksa killing by violating the indefinite curfew in Salbari sub-division and Anand Bazar area in the afternoon. The family members and local resident in Barpeta district refused to conduct the last rites demanding Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s visit. This has forced the police to fire in the air to disperse the mob ignoring the curfew at Anand Bazar area. A stunned government has already replaced the Baksa Superintendent of Police...
DoNER minister VK Singh said that knowledge is a key resource for achieving economic growth and social development. In his address at the IIT-Guwahati convocation ceremony on Sunday, the former army chief said that the knowledge revolution has restructured manufacturing processes, redistributed markets, redefined relations among nations and refined methods of governance. Singh maintained that the country should focus more on innovation to make it a centre of industrial activities instead of just becoming a mere destination of outsourcing. “The country needed to devote its energy to the manufacturing sector with efficient and robust processing techniques,” he said adding that there was an...
JINTUL TALUKDAR, BAKSA: Security forces on Sunday have recovered the remaining bodies of the lemon traders two days after they were kidnapped by suspected NDFB-S militants in Baksa district. Army and police spotted the bodies with the help of local residents at the Beki river in the afternoon raising fear of a fresh string of ethnic clashes. All the bodies bore the injury marks in the heads. NDFB-S has denied involvement. But police suspect that Bodo militants are behind this violence but no arrests have yet been made. The army has been deployed to Baksa and a curfew is in place.
In a most shocking incident, a former bureaucrat died after he slipped from a moving train in West Bengal on Saturday. The incident took place near Shamuktala station in the neighbouring state where retired Water Resources Department secretary Dilip Kumar Chetia was killed after he fell from the Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express. According to eyewitness, Chetia fell from the train as he was standing at the door of the moving train. His son Hrisiraj Chetia identified the body on Sunday at the Alipurduar District Hospital where the body was taken for post mortem.
The ongoing drive to evict the illegal settlers in the water bodies has received a major boost when the authorities have deployed more machines to demolish the concrete structures and huts on Sunday. According to information, the additional machines have been deployed in the eviction drive on the National Highway No 37 from Jalukbari to Khanapara on Sunday. More excavators are expected to be deployed in a day or two to dredge the Bharalu, Basistha, Bahini and Silsako rivers. The eviction team on Friday used excavators to clear over 700 metres of drains between the river Basistha Chariali and Koinadhara.
NDFB-S militants have vehemently denied the allegations of their involvement in the Baksa incident where four traders were believed to have been killed on Friday evening. In a statement, the anti-talk faction of the Bodo insurgent outfit blamed it all on the on going crisis within the Congress legislative body. Publicity secretary NE Esara said that the government has been using the Muslims and the Bodos for safety and security of their political purpose.
Angry minority organizations in BTAD areas have blamed dissidence within the Congress legislative body for the Baksa incident where four lemon traders were believed to have been killed on Friday. Talking to Assam Times in Chirang after blocking the National Highway No 31 in the protest against the incident on Friday, AAMSU leaders said that Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, his trusted minister Rockybul Hussain and dissident leader Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma cannot ensure safety and security for the minorities. ABMSU also blame it all on the dissidence within the Congress legislators for the ongoing incident in Baska.
The vociferous protest against the big dams at Gerukamukh has hardly reached the Centre. DoNER minister VK Singh has made it plain and simple on Saturday the protest against the 2,000 MW lower Subansiri hydroelectric power project were never justified. Singh, who is on a two days visit to Guwahati on Saturday said that the power project will help the entire north eastern region tide over the power crisis. He said that there are is propaganda at work against the projects. But in the same breath his own assessment is that it was not going to cause any danger. The DoNER minister said the people were ill informed about the benefits of the project. According to him, that was why, it was...
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