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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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Three polling officials sustained injury when KPLT militants targeted three buses carrying them to Diphu on Tuesday.The incident took place at Howraghat in the evening when the three buses carrying Electronic voting machines and officials from Nagaon and Tezpur.KPLT militants who were hiding on the roadside started indiscriminate firing at the buses as soon as they arrived in the in Rongpi Tiniali.Minutes after the attack, the militants managed to vanish from the spot. Security forces arrived in the spot and launched combing operation to nab the militants.Normal life remains heavily disrupted in the entire hills district under the impact of the 100 hour long bandh by the Karbi militant...
Eights persons died and over ten others have taken ill after they consumed mushroom in five parts of Dibrugarh, Tinsukia and Sivasagar district on Tuesday.All they were rushed to the Assam Medical College Hospital in Dibrugarh three days back.The deceased were identified as Aarti Buragohain and Rupali Gogoi from Digboi, Anjali Durga and Leba Sashi from Namdang in Margherita, Dulima Majhi, Satu Kormakar and Manjuri Goria from Moran in Sivasagar district. Apart from the over ten others, including 3 of a family, have been undergoing treatment at the AMCH.Relatives of the victims from Margherita told Assam Times that they collected mushroom from the nearby jungles.They were taken ill...
Three persons have been injured and properties worth several lakhs have been destroyed when a huge storm lashes the Rangia and Chaygaon in the outskirt of Guwahati on Tuesday.The storm lashed Chayagaon at around 4 in the evening where over 100 houses were damaged, hundreds of trees were uprooted along with telephone and electric posts disrupting surface transport communication.The worst affected area is Bamungaon where a women sustained injury as her houses collapsed under the impact of the storm.Nearly 100 houses collapsed when yet another storm hit hardly Rangia where normal life remained disrupted for several hours.Vita roads and bridges remained blocked after the storm uprooted trees,...
A warlike situation seems to have been simmering in Geleky in Sivasagar district bordering Nagaland forcing the authorities to deploy security forces on Tuesday.The situation tended to take a volatile turn on Tuesday morning when a section of civil officials from Nagaland accompanied by police arrived in the Singibeel area and tried to set up polling booths.Local residents in large number come out to resist the move. But they failed to do it.When the information was passed to the authorities, the Sivasagar district administration officials rushed to the spot and halted the move.Additional SSB, IRB and CRPF companies have been deployed to man the area where the Nagaland government is trying...
Will the ruling Congress in Assam be able to put up wonderful performance in the Lok Sabha polls? What awaits Tarun Gogoi if Congress fails to fare well this time? These are the questions that strike the party in rank and file.Springing surprise, the chief minister himself reacted. Talking to reporters in Guwahati a day after the first phase of Lok Sabha polls, Gogoi said that he would not be able to retain the chief ministership if Congress candidates fail to win the polls.“That’s why, I am sparing no pain to ensure the victory of all my candidates these days,” said Gogoi in a lighter vein.Gogoi, however, said that he enjoys faith of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and that nobody inside the...
Silchar is gearing up for Rahul Gandhi’s visit on Wednesday. During his three hours visit, the Congress vice president will hold a rally in the town.Senior party leaders told Assam Times that Gandhi is scheduled to land at the Silchar airport at 10-30 in the morning and would leave straightly for the Rajiv Gandhi Sports Complex where he would hold the rally at 11 in the morning to campaign for the Silchar Congress candidate Sushmita Dev.Chief minister Tarun Gogoi, APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita, minister Gautom Roy along with other senior party leaders are scheduled to attend the rally.
“I am confident. We will get all the seats where the Lok Sabha polls held on Monday,” this was what chief minister Tarun Gogoi said a day after the first phase of Lok Sabha polls passed off peacefully in Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Koliabor, Lakhimpur and Tezpur.He said that he and his party were leaving no stone unturned to put up a wonderful show in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls.He said that the party’s vote share would go up this time because of the huge turn out in the first phase of polling. “I am confident. Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi have reposed faith on me. We will win. That’s all I can say today.”
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday strongly criticized BJP’s poll manifesto saying that the north east gets raw deal in the papers released on Monday.He said that the party has not strong commitment on the main issues confronting on Assam and its neighbouring north eastern region.“We have done wonderful job. Is Modi trying to hijack the credit?,” Gogoi told reporters at a press conference in Guwahati on Monday.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday questioned BJP’s delay in the release of the party’s poll manifesto on the date of the first phase of Lok Sabha polls on Monday.Addressing a press conference in Guwahati, Gogoi said that the opposition party was resorting to delaying tactic in the release of the poll manifesto.“The person who has failed to release even the poll manifesto in time how he would rule the country,” that’s what Gogoi told the reporters.He further said that prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi enjoys the veneration of a semi-God among the BJP leaders and workers.
Mani Kumar Subba’s condition refuses to improve on Monday two days after he was admitted to the Medanta Medicity Hospital in Gurgaon.Doctors attending on the Tezpur independent candidate on Monday conducted a major surgery. But the three time Congress MP in Tezpur is still on ventilation support.Subba was admitted to GNRC in Dispur on Friday following complaint of stork and high blood pressure at his home in Lakhimpur.
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