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.
15 Aug 2008 - 2:50am | Nanda Kirati Dewan
A protest rally was organized today from the gates of Guwahati Press Club to create awareness for ban against toy weapons and violent Video games. It assumes special attention and urgency in the...
17 Jul 2012 - 3:00am | editor
Assam police have rushed a high level team to Bhubneswar to nab Amarjyoti Kalita who is understood to have been hiding in Puri. Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said the key accused was...
3 May 2012 - 12:55am | editor
Rajya Sabha member Birendra Prasad Baishya on Wednesday sought Centre’s assistance help to modernize ferries in Assam two days after around 250 people were believed to have met watery grave...
17 Jan 2008 - 8:01am | editor
The Justice Monisena Singh Commission is hearing the Beltola violence case in Dispur today. AASA leaders and several organizations and individuals are also set for appearing before the Commission....
Kamakhya Temple is all abuzz. Ambubachi Mela is set to begin from Friday. Thousands of pilgrims are pouring in the must –visit spot atop the beautiful Nilachal hill to attend the four-day religious festival. Security has been beefed up in the entire Nilachal Hills stretch with more than 500 policemen and some 150 NCC cadets have been called in for maintaining law and order at the shrine during the festival. Apart from this, paramilitary forces have also been given responsibility to carry out round-the-clock checking.
A number of Naga organizations have asked KPLT for to release two Naga workers who were taken hostage along with several others from Karbi Anglong district on June 10. In a statement, the Naga organizations including the Naga People's Movement for Human Rights, the Nagaland Contractors' and Suppliers' Union and the Angami People's Organisation, have asked the Karbi insurgent outfit to free unharmed at an earlier dtate.
They said that two Naga workers - Kelesel Kikhi and Khroviho Kikhi - from Viswema village were abducted along with others from the project site and that KPLT should adhere to human values. These organizations added that the Naga bodies believe that issues and...
As a part of the social project of Darwin School of Business (DSB), U Stan group which has done activities connection with ageing and old age organized an interactive session with the members of Amar Ghor and Kasturba Gandhi Memorial Trust. U Stan group conducted survey amongst young people in the city which reveals younger individuals are more concerned about old age people but many are not taking action for the same. Interactive session was attended by Mahadev Deka, Former Mr. Universe, Dr Anirban Choudhury, Director of DSB, Ranjan K Baruah, Social Entrepreneur, representatives from Amar Ghor and Kasturba Gandhi Memorial Trust.In his speech Mr. Mahadev deka said that passion must be there...
Three KPLT militants were killed when security forces launched an intensified operation in Karbi Anglong districts on Wednesday. The incident took place in the wee hours near Dolamara Tarapung area under Borpathar police station in the hills district. According to police, three AK-47 rifles and some ammunition were recovered from the trio. The militants were yet to be identified. Some others managed to escape.
Assam Border Minister Siddeque Ahmed on Tuesday made it plain and simple that Dispur will never tolerate any encroachment on its land by any neighbouring states. During his visit to Lakhimpur on Tuesday, he directed the district authorities to evict all encroachments.He said that the government has decided to set up nine border outposts in the district along the 158 km border with Arunachal Pradesh. The minister held a meeting with Lakhimpur deputy commissioner, superintendent of police and other senior officials of the district to discuss the recent alleged encroachments by people of Arunachal Pradesh on Assam's land and constructions there later dismantled.
The Centre-NDFB peace process is set to be expedited when the a delegation of the Bodo National Conference will sit in talks with the Centre within the next couple of days.Led by Khampha Borgayari, the BNC delegation visited NDFB chairman Ranjan Daimary inside the Guwahati Central Jail on Tuesday morning where they tried to sort out the implications hindering the peace process.Later talking to reporters, Bargayari said that they would again meet prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Union home minister P Chidambaram to mount pressure on the Centre to formally initiate the peace process.
Train services in parts of lower Assam remained paralyzed on Tuesday following an eight-hour rail blockade called by the All Assam Koch Rajbongshi Students' Union (AAKRSU).AAKRSU called the blockade demanding separate Kamatapur State and Schedule Tribe status of Koch Rajbongshis living in Assam.Hundreds of AAKRSU activists, led by its President Arun Ray, squatted at Salakati Railway crossing and railway tracks since morning with poster and banners and shouted slogans in support of their demands. There was, however, no report of any untoward incident. Northeast Frontier Railway controlled the Up Intercity and Rajya Rani Express train at Fakiragram railway station while down Rajdhani Express...
The overall flood scene remain unchanged on Tuesday. But the death toll have gone up to 8. The mighty Brahmaputra and its tributaries are flowing above the danger level. More and more areas are coming under the surging waters rendering thousands of people homeless. Incessant rainfall in catchment areas during the last week has led to a rise in the water level of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries, affecting 15 districts.Large-scale erosion was reported from Leduamukh area under Lahorighat revenue circle in Morigaon district rendering about 300 families homeless. In Barpeta district, waters of the river Kaladiya breached dykes and embankments at many places, inundating villages and...
The State Bank of India has increased its agriculture advances in Northeast India from Rs 1272 Crore in 2009-10 to Rs 1745 Crore.
This was what SBI Chairman of SBI, Pratip Chaudhuri said on his two days visit to Northeast to take stock of the bank's activity in the region. Chaudhuri met Assam chief minister, Tarun Gogoi and discussed banks activity in the state.
The credit deposit ratio (CD) of SBI in Assam has improved from 36 percent of 2010-11 to 38 percent in 2011-12. Presently Assam has a CD ratio of 39.5 percent. The number of Kisan Credit Card (KCC) disbursed by SBI has increased from 70539 to 139411 in Northeast India.
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi assured the media persons of basic minimum facilities recommended by the labour laws and statutory wage boards of the country. Gogoi who attended the Guest of the Month program of Guwahati Press Club on Monday also expressed his goodwill for the entire journalist fraternity and promised that he would do the needful for the press club as well.
The third time chief minister of Assam in northeast India, Gogoi also promised the pioneer press club a plot of land in the heart of the city. On the occasion, a power point presentation was made in front of Gogoi, where a number of pictorial slides of the proposed press club building and its spacious campus were...
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