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To succeed in this competitive global environment, every student needs to have high motivation, ambition and perseverance to face the various challenges that they face. To do so, they require lot of positive attitude and inspiration from peers. Parents in this age are looking for resources, books and journals that would inspire their children to have ambition and a global outlook to excel in their chosen field of study.


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.


The editorial board of Friends is looking for writers (in English) , it will be a paid engagement. Please write to Ankur Bora at ankurbora@hotmail.com .

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We are very happy to know the positive move by our friends there.This will of course benefit the deserving students of NE

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Amid the height of dissidence, the ministers and MLAs camping in New Delhi to lobby  for Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi have left the capital on Sunday. The senior ministers including Rockybul Hussain, Pradyut Bodoloi, Nilomoni Sen Deka left the national capital after Gogoi asked them to go back to Guwahati. Gogoi in a statement which is available to Assam Times made it clear that he had not invited anybody to New Delhi to lobby on his behalf. 
The stages are set. The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council is all set to announce the results of the HS examinations  on May 30. The council told Assam Times that the results of the examination conducted in February and March thus year would be available for the 2,60,000 candidates acorss the state at 10 in the morning. The results for arts, science and commerce streams would be available on www.ahsec.org from 10 in the morning. This is apart from the result booklets to be available for the schools and colleges in the district and sub divisional headquarters.    Notbly, the Board of Secondary Education, Assam will annunce the results of HSLC examinations on Wednesday...
Racial discrimination towards the north east people refuses to die down in New Delhi where the students from the region have been bearing the brunt. In yet another case of racial discrimination in the capital, goons in New Delhi assaulted a Nagaland student at a court premises. The incident took place on Friday evening when the Naga student moved the Tis Hazari Court in protest against an incident on Thursday where a Naga girl was beaten up by the goons at a metro station in the capital. The North East Students association in New Delhi will chalk out a series of agitation to protest the recurrence of the incidents.
A sensational revelation seems to have generated no less heat within the Assam Congress these days. That too in the time of deepening dissidence within the Congress legislative body. Trouble seems to have brewed for a former Union minister who is believed to have been harbouring dissident activities in the state. The former union minister is one among the twenty political leaders who are accused of holding account in foreign bank. His name figures in a list submitted before the Supreme Court by senior leader Ram Jethmalani who charged him with stashing Rs 3,025 crores in foreign country. The development assumes significance at a time when dissidence has paralyzed the Tarun Gogoi cabinet...
Four persons were killed at a tragic road mishap in Nagaon on Saturday. The accident took place when a vehicle carrying four persons collided its head on an ASTC passenger bus at Amguri in Kaliabor on the National Highway No 37 where the four passengers inside the Indica car were killed on the spot. They were identified as Prachurya Phukan, Latu Kalita, Mrinal Saikia.
A soon to be convened Congress legislature party meet will deal with the deepening dissidance drama within the party.             According to sources, AICC is all set to send an observer this week to read the pulse of the dissident MLAs and minister.               Sources said that the party high command has asked senior leader Motilal Vora as central observer with a hope that he would restore stability in the Congress legislature party.                   This has forced the dissident lots remain silent till the CLP meet in Guwahati.
The Asom Gana Parishad's top officials have resigned en masse. All leaders and officials of the regional party in the central committe resigned owning moral responsibility for the party's deplorable defeats in the recent Lok Sabha polls where the party couldnot open its account. Top leaders told Assam Times that the party would hold a huge convention soon to elect new leaders.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi asked chief minister Tarun Gogoi to continue when the latter sought her permissiom to quit the office on Thursday.       Top AICC sources told Assam Times that Gandhi refused to read the letter after Gogoi handed over it to her.                  Gandhi was believed to have told Gogoi that he was required in both the party and the state.                Gogoi tendered his resignation owning moral responsibility for the party's defeat in the recent Lok Sabha poll where the ruling party managed to get only 3 seats out of 14.
Finally chief minister Tarun Gogoi put in his papers when he met Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi on Thursday.           After holding a series of crucial meetings with Rahul Gandhi, Dr CP Joshi and Ahmed Patel, Gogoi meet the party president and tendered his resignation owning moral responsiblity for the party's defeat in the Lok Sabha.          The senior Congress leaders asked Gogoi not to resign.
Congress high command is aware of the paralyzing dissident activities in the time of polls.     According to top sources, senior Congress leaders are convinced of the dissident activities that paralyzed the party's poll prospects.            The party high command is set to give Gogoi a free hand to firmly deal with the dissidents.