Heavy presence of security forces seems to have proved a futile effort to ensure safety and security of the people. Valuable properties worth Rs 5 lakh was looted from the Ganesh temple by thieves in Dispur on Wednesday. The incident took place in the mid night when it was raining outside. The thieves barged into the temple breaking the shutters and looted gold and silver which kept inside the almirahs. The thieves also stole an umbrella installed with the idol.
The incident came to light on Thursday morning and the temple and committee and devotees called it an utter failure of the government to ensure safety of life and properties even in Dispur. Dispur police have already registered a case.
25 Jan 2012 - 4:37am | editor
The 116th Birthday of Netaji Subhash Chandra Basu was celebrated all over the State of Assam. In Guwahati the celebration committee has awarded folk-scholar Dr. Biren Dutta, econimist and poet Dr....
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The Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) has rolled out a slew of measures to help the flood-hit people by distributing some relief materials among them. In a press statement issued in...
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In a press meet today, the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity’s Golaghat Dist. Unit has brought serious allegation against Amal Dao Chairperson of Project Implementation Committee, Bokakhat under...
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A three-day national seminar on Bhupen Hazarika has began at Guwahati on Thursday at Gauhati University. The seminar is focusing on his civilized morals and his donation to society. The seminar was...
Several persons sustained injury when security forces sprang upon then with lathis and teargas shells for the second day in Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts.
Police flogged the protesters when they refused to clear the National Highway 52 linking Arunachal Pradesh. Some of them pelted stones at the security forces.
Lakhimpur deputy commissioner Anwaruddin Choudhury talked to KMSS general secretary Akhil Gogoi to resolve the crisis. But of no avail. They said that would to sit on peaceful protest only if the security forces are restrained.
Gogoi gave three conditions -- the government hold talks with the protesters, the arrested protesters be released and those injured in the...
At least two persons dead and nine others sustained serious injuries when a roof of a hotel collapsed in Tezpur on Saturday. Several other workers have been retrieved hours after they were trapped. The tragic incident took place on Saturday evening near Mission Chariali when around 20 workers were engaged in the construction of a hotel building. A portion of the roof collapsed where two of the workers died on the spot. Thirteen others have been taken to the Tezpur Civil Hospital. Some others are still feared to be trapped inside the site.
Assam is reeling under severe cold wave along with other north eastern states even as weathermen predict more chill in the entire state. Guwahati on Saturday witnessed further dip in temperatures which is expected to last for the next couple of days. Guwahati alone recorded maximum temperature of 17.4 degree Celsius and a minimum temperature of 9.8 degree Celsius. Regional Meteorology Centre predicts more chill during the next few hours. Dense fogs have disrupted normal movement of traffic in Guwahati streets. The northeast frontier railway has also rescheduled a number of trains because of the fogfall.
A local court in Guwahati on Saturday remanded Phani Talukdar to jail a day after police arrested the land mafia from his residence. Talukdar was arrested by Dispur police alleging his involvement in a number of land grabbing cases. Notably, he was arrested by Dispur police on the basis of the FIR field by district administration.
Tension prevails in Gogamukh in Dhemaji district on Saturday when security forces were trying to collect petrol and diesel from a section of vehicles on the streets. According to allegations, the petrol and diesel thus collected would be sent to Gerukamukh which goes dry following the halt of traffic to the areas bordering Arunachal Pradesh at the height of the anti-mega dam protest. Police have reportedly rough up a few media men as they were covering the incident near the NRL petrol pump.
The Assam government is chalking out a slew of steps to uplift the state's film industry which has been ailing for the last few years.
This was what state's minister for cultural affairs Pranati Phukan said when she was holding a meeting recently with a few top filmmakers.
Attended among others by film directors Munin Barua, Manju Bora, Bani Das and noted actos Nipon Goswami and Biju Phukan, in the meeting, she expressed the willingness to solve the problems relating to the production of films and poor condition of Assamese cinema halls. Taking part in the deliberation, owner of a major chain of cinema halls in the city, Chinmoy Sarma, assured all steps will be taken to upgrade the...
The ruralelectrification scheme has been failing to percolate benefit for the poorpeople living in Assam. This was what came tolight when power minister Pradyut Bordoloi has to faced barrage of criticismand questions on the fourth day of the Assam Assembly’s winter session onThursday.As soon as the question hour began at nine in the morning, several members on thefloor raised questions on the benefit of the rural electrification schemes forthe BPL families. They said the scheme has yet to cover thousands of remote villages which have not been able to see the light of success in thescheme. In his reply power minister Pradyut Bordoloi assured said that the government would take steps...
TheSahitya Akademi Award this year goers to noted poet, translator, academician and critic late Dr KabinPhukan. The Sahitya Akademy would award Dr Phukan, noted scholar, writer andpoet would be posthumously. Dr Phukan,who was a senior Professor of English Department in Dibrugarh University, died on May 24 this year.DrPhukan, who wrote many Assamese and Englishbooks, did his PhD from Leeds University, England, received aFulbright scholar at Yale in 1983-84. He also received the Krantikal SahityaSanman.Twoothers from the north eastern region to have received the award are PremanandaMosahari for Bodoand Kshetri Bira, a novelist from Manipur. Phukanand Mosahary have been chosen for their works...
The GNRC Hospitals has recently opened the First Pain Clinic of Assam. Prof. U C Sarma, Vice Chancellor of Srimanta Sankardeva University of Health Sciences, Assam, inaugurated the clinic in the presence of medical experts and media personnel on December 17 in the city.
A two-day national seminar on Pain Management was also organized at GNRC Hospitals, Guwahati on the occasion. Titled as PAINCON 2011 the seminar was addressed by several resource persons of National repute.
The physicians say that the pain is a curse to the mankind. Conquering pain in any form has been a great challenge for the entire human race. Through indomitable spirit and constant endeavours, mankind has already...
ULFA's political ideologue Bhimakanta Buragohain died at his residence in Tinsukia district on Monday. The end came at 5-30 in the evening at his Dhola Ahom Gaon residence following a massive cardiac arrest. The bachelor who lived alone with his security guards was keeping well during the last few months.
Popularly known as Mama, he was born in 1931 at Kakopathar in Tinsukia. He was also a painter and a sculptor.
He was arrested by Bhutanese Royal Army during Operation All Clear in December 2003 and handed over to India in January 2004. He was languishing in Tezpur Central jail and later in Guwahati Central Jail before procuring bail in December last year.
ULFA chairman Rajkhowa...
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