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.
22 Jun 2014 - 10:19pm | Mridusmita Das
Its all about a bridge that has not seen the light for the last 5 years. Much to the major inconvenience for lakhs of commuters, the project to bridge Barpeta with Mandia remains incomplete even...
10 Nov 2017 - 12:27pm | AT News
SIVASAGAR: Amid an escalating tension and controversy over the greater Nagalim a section of NSCN-K rebels has been unleashing no less terror in Sivasagar district bordering Nagaland. Security...
23 Mar 2013 - 5:13pm | Dibya J Borthakur
More than 500 inhabitants of more than six villages on Saturday at about 10.30 a.m. staged a strong protest- in-dharna at Thekeraguri near Thekeraguri Railway crossing demanding NF railway...
25 Sep 2010 - 6:07pm | editor
Altogether 19 top ULFAmen who are supposed to have been arrested in Bangladesh before being handed over to Assam police have been brought to Guwahati. According top police sources,these ULFAmen...
Eminent theatre personality of Assam Dulal Roy will attend the 'Guest of the Month' programme of Guwahati Press Club on July 4 (Friday). The programme will begin at 1 pm.The National School of Drama graduate will interact on various issues related to theatre movement in Northeast with the member-journalists during the programme. All members are requested to attend the same.
The North east region will no longer be lingering in the back stage of progress if the North East Vision 2020 is to be believed. To be released by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in the national capital on Wednesday, the document, first of its kind in the region will pave the way for a structural transformation in terms of development ensuring a GDP 12.95 per cent growth per annum from the current 7.5 per cent.Sources here say the entire document aims at bridging the yawning gap of North East with the rest of the country with 9 per cent growth riding piggyback on the investment of Rs. 70,000 to 80,000 crore each financial year which is expected to push the gross budgetary support of 10 per...
Violence scared Nagaland has turned to God for peace, desperately seeking respite from factional fights, residents of Dimapur, Nagaland’s commercial hub, organized special prayers on Sunday 08.06.08 for divine intervention. It marked the end of seven-day fasting by Naga natives of Dimapur in a bid to ensure the shower of blessing from Lord Jesus Christ. “We are sick of the killings in the past few months and it seems only divine intervention can bring peace here”,said N. Neikha of the North East India Christian Revival Church which organized the ‘peace crusade’.On 16th May 2008, the 15 armed cadres of NSCN (Unification) were killed in a fierce fight with NSCN (...
Corrupt practices by politicians are not a new phenomenon. It can be conceded that it has begun from the colonial era. But it took a wide shape in post colonial period. From the very date of freedom various development plans and programmes including Five Year plans have been implemented fruitlessly. Because more than seventy percent people even now are in abject poverty. Today it is well-realized that the fund granted against any development scheme is largely misappropriated. In this context we may cite what our former prime minister (late)Rajiv Gandhi predicts two decade ago that only 15 percent of a rupee goes for appropriation. And now is son Rahul remarks that not 15 percent only 5...
With a view to furthering the publicity of Assam’s satriya culture in the western countries, a 12-member team from Majuli is leaving for France on Monday.According to information, led by Bhabananda Borbayan, the delegation is schedule to perform satriya dance in altogether six big cities in France under the patronage of a non governmental organisation Preserver Majuli. The delegation comprises Bhabananda Barbayan, Dulal Chandra Saikia, Bhaben Bayan, Govinda Kalita, Madhav Kalita, Naren Baruah, Mukunda Saikia, Upen Bora, Niranjan Saikia, Baburam Saikia, Krishna Kumar Saikia, Sarbananda Duwari and Dr Tultul Bora. Notably, the chief of the France based NGO invited the delegation with...
Hours after the fatal blast that left seven people dead in lower Assam’s Baska district, the ULFA militants made yet another strike at a police patrol team injuring three security personnel and a civilian. According to information, the ULFA militants riding a motorcycle attacked a security patrol at village Tetelia in Nagaon district at around 8.30 evening.. The injured were shifted to a hospital.This was followed by the killing of a surrendered ULFA rebel in Mangaldoi on late Sunday.. Police suspect it to be the handiwork of ULFA. Investigation is on.On the other hand, the death toll in the Kumarikata weekly market on Sunday has mounted to 7 with the death of two more inured persons...
Altogether five people died and more than forty injured in lower Assam’s Baska district when suspected ULFA militants made a powerful strike at the Kumarikata weekly market on Sunday with a blast. According to information, the blast took pace at around 1-30 afternoon and the bomb was stripped at a bicycle which let off immediately after the militants who planted it escaped unhurt.Four persons in the market teeming with hundreds of people died on the spot while more than fifty others have been left injured. A seriously injured person died on the way to the Guwahati medical College Hospital. Twenty three injured people have been admitted in the Guwahati Medical College Hospital. Eight...
A 14-feet-long python weighing more than 50 kg was rescued from a pond in Jorhat town and handed on Saturday whuich was later handed over to the forest department.According to information, the snake was found in a small pond near the Jorhat engineering College in Kasogoral area by the local people, said forest department sources.The authorities have allowed to release the python in the nearby Kaziranga National Park.Photo: UB PHotos
A few hours after two companies of ULFA's crack unit, the banned insurgent outfit has threatened to target the minister along with a section of political leaders alleging that they have been engineering a divide in the outfit. ULFA commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah in a message emailed last evening said Tarun Gogoi was toeing the same line as that of former chief ministers Hiteswar Saikia and Prafulla Kumar Mahanta.He warned the Chief Minister to recall that these ULFA cadres had in the past made several attacks on minister Bhumidhar Barman and that Barman, survived three attacks during 1992-96 when he was an education minister in the then Congress Government of Hiteswar Saikia.An angry...
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