AANLA to go on uniliteral ceasefire from Sept 1

In the HSLC examination results declared Friday Pronami Kaushik of Golaghat Jatiya Vidyala has brought glory to the district by securing 7th position. She is the daughter of Ashok Borthakur and Nirmali Borthakur. Her total mark is 562 and she secured letter marks in all the subjects. “I want to enroll myself in the Arts stream and aspires to be an IAS officer in the future.” Pronami told Assamtimes.

After winning the coveted 2nd runners up position in Lonely Planet magazine’s Emerging Destinations In India recently, Arunachal Pradesh, the natures’ favourite play spot on earth makes its foray into the world tourism scenario and earns a rare distinction for itself by making it to the BBC’s Lonely Planet Traveller magazine’s “Top 21 under-the-radar destinations of the world”. The list which exclusively featured the less explored and unconventional tourist destinations of the world was released on 9th May, is being compiled by Rory Goulding, editorial assistant at Lonely Planet Traveller magazine. It is to be noted that Kiso Valley in Japan and Southeastern Anatolia in Turkey are the only...

A section of candidates who has submitted their original documents for verification against the vacant posts of provincialised lower primary and upper primary schools has been allegedly submitted false caste certificates along with their application. This serious allegation has been leveled by All Assam Tribal Sangha, Golaghat unit. In a press release, Punaram Thengal and Debananda Pegu, the president and secretary of the organization respectively, had pointed their finger that some TET qualified candidates belonging to General caste bearing surname such as Kalita, Chetia, Gogoi, Dutta, Dey, Paul, Ali etc. had submitted false caste documents of Schedule Tribes (Hills and Plains) which are...

A never seen before incident in the democratic election process occurred at Golaghat during the first phase of Panchayat Poll when the Election Observer started counting the ballots just after two hours since the commencement of polling. This unbelievable happening was occurred at No. 21 Chetia Gaon LP School polling station under Khumati LAC. It all started  when Bubul Dutta, the 2nd Polling Officer, in an act of sheer irresponsibility distributed more than the required ballot papers to the voters and when some of the voters reported the same to the Presiding Officer of the polling station, he stopped the polling instantly. It is to be added that the 2nd Polling Officer...