KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi charged Congress MLA in Dharampur Nilamoni Sen Deka with masterminding the attack on him on Friday where he was injured.
In his FIR moved at the Nalbari police station, the RTI activist alleged that the attack was carried out by six youth Congress activists at the instance of Assam Agriculture and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Nilamani Sen Deka who hails from Dharmapur constituency.
Gogoi received head injury when a group of miscreants attacked him on his way to the flood-hit Punni village. Gogoi was admitted to the Nalbari Civil Hospital in a critical condition.The police have launched an investigation into the incident.
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The CPI(M) blamed it all on Dispur for failing to prevent the ethnic clashes in BTAD areas and Dhubri. The party further accused BJP of trying to give the clashes a communal colour. Talking to...
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Arunachal Pradesh governor JP Rajkhowa attended the Srimanta Sankardev birth anniversary celebration at the Kristi Kendra in Naharlagun on Saturday.In his speech, Rajkhowa said that Sankardeva was...
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PRASENJIT SAHA AGARTALA: More than ten people sustained injury when two group of political activists clashed with each other in Tripura on Wednesday. The clash took place in Matabari area in the...
The season for exhibitions begins at NEDFi-Haat with the inauguration of the annual week-long “North East Handloom & Handicraft Fair 2008” on August 21. The exhibition was inaugurated by Gyanpeeth Awardees Dr. Mamoni Roysom Goswami. The handloom and handicraft products from all the N.E. states including Sikkim are opened up for the city dwellers. The products range from the Pat-Muga items from Assam, Dry Flowers from Manipur, fine crafted artifacts from Nagaland, handloom of Arunachal Pradesh, Handmade paper items from Sikkim etc. which will be some major attractions for the collectors who appreciate products with ethnic identity. On the same occasion valedictory session was...
I travelled to Orissa a few months back and saw the huge acres of forest land lying vacant. These are preserved under forest belt and natural resources of the State. In the tourism booklets, the Assamese boast themselves of being nature lovers and so on and so forth. But the reality is that today not an inch of land is left free in Assam. Just travel along the highway. People have settled right on the road-side, a phenomenon I have not seen anywhere else. Starting from Dhuburi to Sadiya, Nagaon to Silchar, all the roadside is strewn with shops and houses haphazardly. Open pastures and forest land has become a thing of the past. Everywhere there is construction. What will happen to our...
The main Opposition Asom Gana Parishad will sit in strike demanding steps to seal the Indo-Bangla border and an updated national register of citizens. Disclosing this, party president Bindabon Goswami said the party will sit in strike from 7 in the morning on August 21. They will further send a memorandum to the president of India on that day. “We will sit in strike from 7 in the morning on August 21 and it will be concluded at 5 in the afternoon. We will send a memorandum to the President of India,” said Goswami.
Tension still runs at Rowta in Udalguri district of lower Assam two days after the sporadic incidents of violence that left one dead and twenty others injured. More than 3000 people mostly Bodos are camping at the school and college buildings in Udalguri who have left home fearing attack on Wednesday.According to information, the situation is under control but the BTAD administration is asking for more police forces to deal with the situation firmly.Notably, the clash took place on Wednesday during a 12 hour Assam bandh call by a Muslim organisation when some supporters were trying to forcibly close some shops in the area. One Ajit Rabha who was injured in the clash died on Thursday.
Two blasts have cracked Bongaigaon town in lower Assam on Saturday morning a day after the Independence Day on Friday. According to information, the first one took place at around 8-15 in the morning near a police checking point at Swahidbedi. No casualty has been reported as there was no police when it took place. This was followed by the second one five minute after it which exploded at Pagalathan at around 8-20 in the morning. Details awaited. Top ranked police and civil officials have rushed to the spot. Notably, three blasts have rocked lower Assam districts of Chirang and Dhubri on Friday before the unfurling of the national tricolour. Police say these a handiwork of ULFA where two...
Tension grips Orang area of Udalguri district on Saturday when some miscreants killed a Muslim youth in Gelabeel in the morning at around 10. According to information, the incident took place when some miscreants halted a bus which was on its way from Mangladoi to Udalguri and took out a Muslim youth and then killed in full view of the people.
As many as ten people including a police man were injured when a tear gas shell exploded in Chaygaon when police tried to disperse a group of people when they were on the way to block the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport on Friday.According to information, the incident took place in the morning when these people led by a non tribal forum were taking out a procession to the airport demanding steps to resolve their problems. As they reached in front of the Chaygaon police station, policemen tried to stop them. But by accident, the tear gas shell let off leaving several people including a police man injured.
A 12-hour down-to-dusk Nagaon bandh has been by Vishwa Hindu Parishad in protest against the violence acts during the Assam Bandh called by All Assam Minority Students’ Union (AAMSU). AAMSU called Assam Bandh on 12 August.
Guwahatians on Friday came out into the open to hoist the National Tricolour in various localities dotting the city and sent a clear message to the militants that no amount of threat can deter them from celebrating the country's Independence Day.Journalists, joined by other enthusiastic citizens, observed the day in the premises of Guwahati Press Club, where the highlight was a call by veteran journalist Dhirendra Nath Chakraborty to spread this message of defiance to every nook and corner of Assam. Hoisting the National Flag, Chakraborty presented a brief outline of the country's heroic struggle for freedom where thousands had sacrificed their lives and laid the edifice of a modern and...
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi says his government will not remain a mute spectator if some parties, organizations and individuals take laws into their own hands to detect and deport the illegal Bangladeshi migrants.Unfurling the national tricolour at the Latashil Playground in the city on Friday morning, the Chief Minister said some vested interested circles have been trying to stymie the process for resolving the illegal Bangladeshi problem. According to him, it was the duty of his government to ensure that not even a single indigenous Indian citizen is not harassed in the name of detecting and deporting the immigrants.Gogoi said the government has set up a coordination committees...
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