Assam on Monday received Dr Bhupen Hazarika’s body with all tears two days after the noted singer and lyricist passed away in Mumbai.
The entire state gears up to cremate him at the Gauhati University premises on Tuesday. The government revoked the decision to cremate him on the Brahmaputra river bank in Fancybazar in view of the popular demand to cremate him at the varsity campus.
Before that Assam Governor J B Patnaik and Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi received the lifeless body at a coffin at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport at 11-20 in the morning in presence of lakhs of his fans who rushed to Barjhar to get a glimpse of his body.
The coffin stopped at Dharapur for last respect for a while and then it stopped at the Gauhati University premises received by thousands of varsity students and ex students who were eagerly waiting with tearful eyes.
After one and a half hour, it was rushed to Dihgalipukhuri and the Cotton College Premises. It was then rushed to the Nizarapar residence in the city. Later, it was taken to the Judges’ Field to help the fans pay him last respect. Meanwhile, the Judges’ Field is teeming with lakhs of people who are paying last respect to the legend. The coffin would stay till 1 in the afternoon on Tuesday. Then the final journey would began at 1 in the afternoon and the mortal remains would be consigned to flames at the Gauhati varsity campus on Tuesday afternoon. His US-based son Tez is scheduled to arrive in Guwahati on Tuesday morning to perform the last rites.
decision was taken in view of the mounting pressure from Dr Hazarika’s family members, All Assam Students Union, varsity authorities along with many other organizations. All they refused to agree with the government’s decision to cremate the legendary singer by the Brahmaputra river bank. Notably, the cabinet on Monday evening decided to cremate him at the Sankardev Udyan in Fancybazar. But later, it was shifted to the Gauhati university premises.
A lower court in Guwahati on Friday sent Ranjit Das to jail a day after he severed his wife's head and surrendered before a police station in Guwahati. Ranjeet who resides at Bikrampur in Japorigog chopped off his wife’s head walked to police station with the severed head and a blood-stained machete was caught by Central Reserve Police Force jawans in Ganeshguri Point and drove him to Dispur police station.
The police said that Ranjeet had confessed to have killed his wife during interrogation. He would be produced before the magistrate again on Monday. Amiya was a health department worker under the National Rural Health Mission posted at Orang in Udalguri district.
A train driver was injured when unidentified miscreants attacked a goods train in Dima Hasao district on Wednesday. According to reports, the incident took place at around 1-30 in the afternoon near Haflong when unidentified miscreants fired from the nearby hill-top at the goods train which was on its way to Silchar from Lumding. The driver suffered bullet injury in his legs and was admitted to the Haflong civil hospital. Details are awaited. Railway and police officials rushed to the area, they said adding that the identity of the insurgents was yet to be ascertained.
The entire Assam is in the grip of Durga Puja festivities. Maha Navami puja is being observed a day before the immersion of the idols. People of all walks of life young and old alike are lined up in the puja mandaps to offer Maha Navami puja from early in the morning. Prominent political leaders are also seen offering puja seeking divine help. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday visited a puja pandal in Ganeshguri a day after he wrapped up a foreign tour.
Talking to reporters, Gogoi hoped that the puja will help the state end the bloody chapter and that he would try to rein the in soaring price line to give the people some sort of respite. Replying to a question on whether he...
Two policemen have been injured and arms were looted when suspected Maoists sprang upon the 19th Assam Police Battalion. According tom information, a group of suspected Maoist cadres launched a sudden attack on the policemen namely Nitual Gogoi and Ajit Buragohain leaving seriously injured. Immediately after the incident the duo have been shifted to the Assam Medical College Hospital. Meanwhile, security forces are fanning in the entire area with a joint operation to nab the culprit. The incident is suspected to be a Maoist attack but the authorities are yet to confirm it. Details are awaited.
It was a colourful blend of young achievers from various parts of the Northeast as they gathered at the Bamboo Hall at Kisama on Monday for the first time in history under the banner “Young Leaders Connect”. In a day-long conference with about fifteen speakers, four moderators and over 200 delegates, leaders from the eight NE states came together under the theme ‘Connect, Exchange, Strengthen’ to deliberate discussions on a range of topics including “Governance as Leadership: Connecting policies with aspirations”, “Redefining Development through Social Entrepreneurship”, “The Role of North East in the growing economy of India”...
Electronic Media Forum Assam has expressed profound grief at the sudden and untimely demise of young television journalist Manideep Boro. The active journalist from Kokrajhar, who had vast experience of working for both print and electronic media in Assam, was suffering from hypertension and other ailments. Boro, 40, who worked The Telegraph, NE Television and later shifted to News Live channel, died at 5 pm of October 3 in GNRC Hospital. May his soul rest in peace, EMFA release added.
Assam is celebrating Durga puja across the state with much pomp and gaiety. Devotees are thronging in thousands to offer puja to the goddess Durga on Tuesday to end the evil dominance. Tuesday is Maha Navami where from early in the morning the devotees are visiting the pujas mandaps in different places of the state.
There seems to be an undeclared race of puja mandaps in the state where Guwahati city seems to have stole the limelight. The puja ,mandap at Laxmimandir in Beltola is teeming with visitors from morning till midnight to see the idol of goddess. Another striking feature this year there is a show to spread message of wild life.
Latasheel mandap is also pulling no less...
On the auspicious day of ‘International Day of Non- Violence’, various North East bands came together to appeal for Harmony in the North East Region at KASSA Indoor Stadium, Diphu, Assam on 2nd October 2011. The 3rd Indigenous Music Festival was organized by Abiogenesis Society, Dimapur in collaboration with North East Zone Cultural Centre, Ministry Of Culture, Government of India. The previous 1st and 2nd Indigenous Music Festival was held at Dimapur in 2007 and 2009 respectively. The bands that performed in this years festival are Ragga Muffin (Diphu), Rokrar (Diphu), Maestro ( Halflong), Jambili (Diphu) and Incipit (Nagaland) with Premson Bey taking the mic as host for the...
The death toll in the tragic mishap in the outskirt of the city has gone up to 8 with five more succumbed to injuries on Sunday night. Three persons died on the spot immediately after the Tata Sumo vehicle carrying them to Mancachar collided its head on a speeding truck at Kenduguri in Boko in the evening. All the three deceased who died on the spot were Tata Sky employees. All nine injured persons were rushed to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital where five of them died on Sunday night.
Meanwhile, a pall of gloom descended to the entire area following the incident that marred the Durga puja festivities in the area. The bodies were kept for post mortem. Investigation is on. The...
The Electronic Media Forum Assam has condemned the attack on journalists by a section of junior doctors of Assam Medical Collage, Dibrugarh last night. The forum has appealed to the authority to take stern actions against those guilty as the journalists and camera persons representing various television channels were on duty, and urged the government for adequate compensation to those injured media persons at the earliest.
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