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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Golaghat: Upper Assam Commissioner Julie Sonowal visited Golaghat on Thursday to investigate the the liquor tragedy which claimed more than 200 people in Golaghat and Jorhat districts.
The public...
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Himujjal Jibon Sarma, a Masters in Design from IIT, Guwahati has won the prestigious Business Plan competition of Young Indian’s Guwahati Chapter – Road to Ideas with his proposition on innovations...
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The AIUDF party announced 19 names of the candidates to contest the ensuing assembly election in the state which included Kokrajhar west LAC on Thursday. Dahit Chandra Brahma has been named as...
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A Great sense of ecstasy prevailed inside the Pobitara wild Life sanctuary like never before, as the local villagers and the forest guards came forward beating Drums, and cymbals to welcome ranger...
The All Koch Rajbanshi Students Union has called for 1000-hour bandh from first of January 2008 across Assam and north Bengal in protest against the forcible entry of its striking leaders. The district administration on Wednesday rushed the AKRSU activists to the hospital citing deteriorating health while they have been striking for separate Kamatapur from sixteenth of December. They received verbal permission for hunger strike by the district administration. AKARSU president Biswajit Rai said.The proposed 1000-hour bandh is facing stiff opposition from a section of media. But the AKARSU leaders make it plain and simple that they will not reconsider it as the government did not visited...
The Opposition Asom Gana Parishad has promised to change the face of rural Assam with thrust on roads, health, drinking water, electricity, education etc if it is voted in the upcoming panchayat polls. In its panchayat poll manifesto released in the city on Wednesday, party president Brindabon Goswami said, they will ensure decentralisation of powers in the panchayat system to implement developmental schemes through rural bodies. Goswami further said education, agricultural products, village industries will also be in the party's thrust areas.Goswami observed that his party stresses overall development with decentralisation of power in federal structure. He further said with his...
The pragatisheel Asom Gana Parishad will ensure decentralisation of power in the panchayat system if the party is voted to power in the upcoming election.In the party's panchayat manifesto released in the city on Wednesday, Pragatisheel Asom Gana Parishad president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta said beside decentralisation, the regional party will ensure a strengthen financial system in the panchayati raj. The party will further constitute finance panel to make the panchayat system more powerful in financial affairs.Besides, the party's panchayat manifesto promises steps to uplift the schedule tribes and schedule castes people. Moreover, Mahanta said his party has been supporting the...
Hundreds of fish were found dead in Kacharighat last morning in mysterious circumstances. The fish’s watery grave in a pool which is separated from the Brahmaputra by a sandbar is the immersion area of local puja idols became a haunt of curious onlookers as the news of the dead fish spread.The incident came into focus after some local residents observed the dead fish in the otherwise clear water of the pool. And an equal number of sick fishes were also observed fighting for life in the shallow waters near the river bank.Members of the Pollution Control Board, Assam (PCBA) rushed to the spot and began the preliminary investigations regarding the mass deaths. Deepak Barua, Deputy...
In a tragic incident inside the Assam State Zoo on Wednesday a man died while a tiger attacked him while he was trying to capture its photograph with a mobile phone beside the cage.The tiger dissected his hand leaving him seriously injured. Later the person has been rushed to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital where he was declared brought dead.
he police has arrested the striking AKARSU activist from the city on Wednesday morning. Earlier, the ailing activists have been rushed to the hospital in view of their detoriating health condition. The activists have been staging hunger strike demanding separate Kamatapur. Various political parties, organisations and individuals have visited the protesters and expressed their solidarity. But the government has yet to address them.
The Reserve Bank of India is setting up a committee to suggest the measures to uplift the bank scenario in the north eastern region.Talking to reporters in the sidelines of a function on Tuesday, its regional director regional director Sewali Chaudhory said banking activities in this region has not been satisfactory over the years compared to other fronts of the country.Meanwhile, the Vijaya bank has a business worth Rs 3000 crore in this region.
A capacity building programme on Domestic Violence Act, 2005, was recently organised by the Integrated Rural Artisans’ Development Organisation (IRADO), a premier North East-based NGO.According to information, organisation chairperson Bonojit Talukdar explained the objective of the program saying awareness among women in general and rural artisans in particular about the Act was a must.He said domestic violence has adversely affected artisans, weavers and their productivity. Social activist and head of Nirmal Ashroy, an NGO, MR Kalsi said in the North East, violence against women has been seen.Another social activist Rupasree Bora Bordoloi said to save oneself from domestic violence,...
It’s a major embarrassment for the Assam government. The adivasi outfit ANLA has categorically denied its involvement in the Beltala violence on November 24.ANLA leader Bikash Munda said the outfit is not involved in the incident in any way.While he was taken to produce in the court, the arrested ANLA leader further pleaded his ignorance when asked whether the outfit was involved in the blast on Rajdhani Express in Golaghat district. The state government has been suspecting ANLA’s hands in the Beltala mayhem.Briefing media recently, the Assam government spokesman Himanta Biswa Sarma did not rule out adivasi outfit ANLA’s involvement in the incident.Notably, police...
The Assam unit of Bharatiya Janata Party vows to eliminate all corruption in the panchayat system if the party is voted in the upcoming panchayat polls. In its poll manifesto released in the city on Tuesday, the party promised steps to control the prices of essential commodities and also steps for overall development of the people.After its victory in the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council, the Assam BJP unit target the panchayat polls to steal the march. In its manifesto for the panchayat polls, the party promised that the party, if voted, will make an end to the on going corruptions in the implementations of the schemes for old age pension, widow pension. The party further alleged that...
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