Assam Police on Monday gilled Gauravjyoti Neog in connection with the Guwahati molestation case. According to information, off duty reporter with Newslive was summoned by Bhangagarh police station where he was grilled for several hours. The development took place hours after DGP JN Chaudhury spoke to Union home secretary RK Singh and apprised him of the breakthrough. Police have received flak for alleged delay in taking prompt action to stop crime and in arresting culprits.
Sources said Dispur apprised the Home Ministry of the fact that police was suspecting that TV journalist Gaurav Jyoti Neog might have orchestrated the molestation of the girl by instigating the mob as the prime accused Amar Jyoti Kalita, who is absconding, was reported to be his friend. If any culpability is found, they may be arrested.
23 Oct 2013 - 12:28pm | AT News
The killer dengue continues to unleash terror in the state. The latest victim is a girl in Lakhimpur. Identified as Ilora Marang, the fashion designing student in Guwahati stayed in Zoo road area...
18 Aug 2012 - 3:51am | editor
The overall situation in Rangiya is by and large normal on Friday where curfew was relaxed. According to police, security forces are maintaining a strict vigil in Rangiya, as well as other trouble-...
23 Aug 2011 - 3:11pm | editor
The performance of Udalguri students,which won third prize in the All Assam Inter district quiz on new and renewable energy held at Silpagram, Guwahati has been appreciated by people of the...
22 Apr 2011 - 8:15pm | editor
The request of the Election Commission of India to the voters to come out to vote, become 100% successful at a poling station of Gauripur Assembly Constituency, in Dhubri district.
It came to...
A hard core ULFA care who was languishing in Tura jail has committed suicide inside police-lock up on Monday afternoon. According to information, the body of the ULFA cadre Dharmen Hajong, was found when guards opened his cell on Monday afternoon. Police hoped the militants would reveal important details about the outfit's activities in the Garo Hills.The cadre belonging to ULFA's 28 Battalion strike force had hailed from Horipur area of Changlang district in Arunachal Pradesh.He was apprehended in Tura running a shop inside Tura Super Market for the last two months. Dharmen Hajong is believed to have a crucial role in planning the outfit's operations inside Arunachal Pradesh
In yet another string of Assam-Meghalaya boundary row, some villagers in Meghalaya have threaten to uproot thousands of saplings planted by Assam Forest department near near Khanduli.These villagers authorities in Jaintia Hills claim that 25 hectares now under occupied by Assam belongs Meghalaya in the district of Jaintia hills.Additional District Magistrate and the Deputy Superintendent of Police have already visited the area but the situation is tense. The villagers are setting August 15 as deadline for the administration to resolve the issue saying if it is not done, they would uproot the saplings. According to information, the district administration is all set to submit a report to...
Guwahati Press Club in association with the North East Society for the Promotion of Youth and Masses (NESPYM ) has organised a media workshop on Mother-Newborn Health Security on August 6, 2008. The workshop, to be held at press club auditorium, will begin at 1 pm.Dr Chiranjib Kakoti, honourary director of NESPYM and Dr Shabina Ahmed will attend the program as resource persons, informs Dr Alaka Bhattacharyya, executive coordinator of NESPYM.Interested journalists to attend the program are requested to contact the office of the press club.
Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chatra Parishad says they will not allow Assam to be the heaven for the illegal Bangladeshi people.The student body leaders have observed Monday as a black day demanding government action to deal with this situation firmly. AJYCP general secretary Manoj Baruah it’s right time for these Assamse to go all out against the illegal Bangladeshi people who have infiltrated into the state. He said Assam has become the heaven of the Bangladeshi people and also the fundamentalist forces.“The government machineries have been failing to firmly deal with the situation. The failure of the authorities to seal the porous Indo-Bangla border have also encouraged the problem...
A lot of people didn't understand the hurry that Manmohan Singh was in in taking the safeguards agreement to International Atomic Energy Agency and requesting the United States President to pursue the matter with Nuclear Suppliers' Group. Even those who support the Indo-US nuclear deal are perplexed by the urgency demonstrated by the government. Manmohan Singh was willing to put at stake his prime ministership, his government and the party as well as the country for the sake of the deal. He annoyed his left supporters and forced a motion of confidence which he won not in a very dignified manner.The Indian government has got the approval of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the...
The All Assam Students Union is all set to launch a statewide movement against the illegal migrants in the state. The student body leaders have urged the people to go for an economic blockade against these illegal migrants.Addressing a press conference in the city on Saturday, the student body leaders informed that they have already finalized this movement at the recent executive body meeting. The student body announced a slew of agitation activities for detecting and deporting the illegal Bangladeshis. On August 6, they will stage state demonstration in front of the cit6y based passport office. This will be followed by the hunger strike from August 14 to 15 up to the time for hoisting the...
Days after the Gauhati Huigh Court identified A Kamaruddin an a Pakistani national who fought the 1996 Assembly poll has been arrested by Nagaon police on Saturday. The arrest was made after the police received instruction from Dispur. Details are awaited.Notably, the Guwahati High Court in a recent 95 page judgment has mentioned that Mohammad Kamaruddin, a Pakistani citizen, had contested the state Assembly elections in 1996. The judgement ridiculed that that it is possible only in a place like Assam.Since the 1970s, illegal migration has been a burning issue in the state and the government has been failing to stop it.
Activists of CPI (M) took out a rally protesting against the Indo-US joint military exercises in Mizoram in the streets of Guwahati on 02-08-08. PHOTO: UB PHOTOS.
A hardcore ULFA cadre was killed at an encounter with police and army in Sivasagar district in the wee hours on Saturday.According to information, acting on a tip off, Army's 318 Field Regiment and Charaideo police launched a joint operation at Mahmora area in the upper Assam district where ULFA cadre Sonti Panika alias Ashim Panika was caught in a heavy exchange of firing and died later on the spot. Sonti is a hardcore ULFA cadre who belongs to the B company of ULFA's 28th Battalion which has not anounced unilateral ceasefire with the government. Later police recovered a revolver from the ULFA rebel. Investigation is on.In yet another incident, Basistha police have arrested two youths on...
Dear Sir, Recently it was officially declared that Assam ranks as the 'most corrupt' State in India, on the basis of 11 vital services which included 'basic services' like PDS, hospital service, school education, electricity and water supply services and 'need -based services', like land records, registration, housing service, forest, NREGS, banking service and police service (traffic and crime). I would like to forward another area where the level of corruption in Assam can be gauged ; that would be the 12th service --- selling out the State of Assam to illegal migrants from Bangladesh. There goes an Assamese saying which mentions that a fish rots from the head. So, we see that starting...
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