A string of group clash that leaves twelve people dead, as many as one hundred people injured has forced the authority to clamp curfew in the city on Saturday. The condition of thirty is reported to be critical.
The violence began as soon as the Advasi people in large numbers were holding a rally demanding Scheduled Tribe status for the community.
The Adivasi protesters damaged as many as 150 vehicles while these were plying in the Beltola areas. Moreover, some of them vandalized some shops and markets in the area.
The angry people in general retaliated by attack and the clash left 5 people to death.
The city police sprung into action and dispersed the Adivasi people from the protest rally site. But another group further proceeded to the Khanapara areas and then to Ganeshguri areas to stop the city buses.
The public in general got angry with these Adivasi students leaders and retaliated with attack. As many as ten Adivasi students have fallen injured. The injured people have been rushed to the hospital.
The entire Beltola area has come under curfew from 12 noon. The over all situation has yet to be quelled.
PermalinkSubmitted by uttam borthakur on Sat, 24/11/2007 - 15:13
The news item is rather painful.
From what I gather from eye-witnesses and other sources, a protest rally of the Adivasi Assamese was resisted by police from proceeding towards Assam Assembly. The rally turned violent, whether by agent-provocateurs or in spontaneity that I do not yet know, resulting in damage to vehicles and other properties. Then a clash ensued between the protesters and the people of that area leaving several dead and more grievously injured.
Without doing a whodunit we may infer another schism that may lead to further diminishing of the people identifying themselves as Assamese. Some of the eyewitnesses ( of them few have lost their cars to the violence) have told me that the Adivasis may have damaged cars, other properties and carried out excesses, but in terms of deaths and bodily injuries they have taken the brunt. The riff raff that indulge in all kinds of mischief and anti-social activities in that area had a field day killing and maiming with glee.
It is painful, as a civil servant has put it succinctly, that these innocent people, naive to the deceit and sophistry of the privileged ones, have always suffered since the days of Mahabharata. .... whether as Ekalavya, whether as destitute of mega-dams, whether as refugees of Bodoland movement and now in the streets of Guwahati.
I listen to the news with forebodings.
PermalinkSubmitted by susar tudu on Sun, 25/11/2007 - 08:01
Yesterdays incident has really shocked me. Impartial of being a tribe I wholly condemn both side for this unfortunate event.Whatever I have came to know is from the electronic media and considering that as an apparent fact I would comment tribesmen ensued the clash. But it is also true that the local resident, most of them are non adivasis, vent their ire and a long cherished hatred attitude toward adivasis in a gory and beastly way. Unfortunately the local adminstration played the role of mute spectator. The tribesmen who had been involved in vandalism invite punishment but it is not certainly the way. It will distance people from each other. The looser will be tribal community. Rather than inviting support for the cause the incident has unfotunate event. For the God's sake, if anyone is reading this please don't let this happen again.
PermalinkSubmitted by Altaf on Tue, 27/11/2007 - 02:44
This is really very paniful and disgusting aswell.
What ever I learnt is only through the Electronic media. Its really shocking that even today we witness these barbaric acts. I believe every problem has a solution lest its a problem.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be on a day long tour to Assam on April 7.
Dr Singh confirmed it before Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday who called on him on Delhi.
Dr Singh will inaugurate the Platinum Jubilee celebrations of Assam Legislative Assembly.
The Chief Minister also called on Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and urged him not to revise the oil royalti policy fearing it would have adverse impact on the oil reach state.
Bangladesh is all set to honour music maestro Dr Bhupen Hazarika and former Chief Minister late Sarat Chandra Singha at a function in Dhaka on March 27.
The duo are among the three other figures to honoured to acknowledge their role in the independence struggle during the War of Liberation in 1971.
They would be awarded at a ceremonial reception at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on March 27. Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hand over the medals, crests and citations among the distinguished awardees.
The Coir Board-sponsored North East Expo-2012 in Guwahati is underway to boost the domestic coir market.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi inaugurated the expo at a function on Wednesday and it will conclude on March 30. This is the first time that the Coir Board is organising such an elaborate expo.
Over 1,000 agitators courted arrest on Wednesday at Boko near Rangiya when they blocked the National Highway 37 to protest against illegal encroachment of land in Assam by Meghalaya.
The agitators blocked the highway for over two hours demanding action against encroachers from Meghalaya who have allegedly built a school, a martrys' tomb and an outpost at Nampi locality in the territory belonging to Assam.
Sub Divisional Commissioner of Boko NC Basumatari rushed to the spot with a large contingent of police. The agitators were arrested from the spot and normal traffic resumed on the national highway.
A women was crushed to death by a train on Wednesday in Guwahati.
The tragic incident took at Santipur in the wee hours when she was stuck between two trains coming from different directions. She was identified as Hanupa Begum, the mother of 5 children. The family of seven has been living by the side of the railway tracks slum areas for 10 years and the husband is a rickshaw puller.
Two more special CBI court would started functioning in Assam. The government disclosed it in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office V Narayanasamy said in a written reply that total of 54 special CBI courts out of the sanctioned 71 have started functioning in the country.
While four courts are yet to get functional in Odisha, two in Assam, three in Delhi and five in Andhra Pradesh among others, the concurrence of the state government has "not" been received for one special court in Shimla in Himachal Pradesh.
Assam won two gold medals in Men and Women shot put event. in 26th Northeast Games in Mizoram. Tunlai Nurzary from the state won gold medal in women's shot put event by covering a distance of 10.29 metres. In men's shot put event, Dulu Gogoi bagged the gold medal with a throw covering 11.64 metres.
In women's football event, Tripura defeated Assam 1-0 while Mizoram thrashed Meghalaya 6-1. In men's fotball, Tripura beat Arunachal Pradesh 5-1.
In semifinal of 48-kg category of women's boxing, S Nengneihat Kom of Manipur defeated Silpa Limbu of Assam. In second semifinal, Rebecca of Mizoram defeated Rosni Busha of Meghalaya.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday claimed that the Comprehensive Cleft Care Centre at the Mahendra Mohan Choudhury Civil Hospital here in Guwahati, is the best in the world.
Addressing a function, he said that the manner in which the team has been carrying out the work on a missionary zeal, the day is not far off when Assam will become a completely cleft-free state.
The founder of Operation Smile International, Dr William P Magee, said the centre in Assam was the best among 13 such centres that Operation Smile currently runs in 13 countries across the globe.
Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) has expressed serious concern at the increasing rate of assaults on media persons in the recent past and urged the authority to take stern action against them, who are involved with the incidents. The television journalist forum also appeals to the civil society group and general populace to support the media persons to perform their duties without interferences.
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According to sources, the count of the prized animal inside the park, which has the highest density of the animal within its 36 sq km area, rose to 93 against 87 recorded in the earlier census in March 2011.
Among the 93 rhinos were 25 calves, 25 adult males and 43 females. Nine rhinos were translocated to the Manas Wildlife Sanctuary from Pabitora since January.
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