All Assam Students Union has warned the government not to allow the immigrants to settle in the name of rehabilitation package. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Sunday, the AASU leaders said that they would keep a close vigil on the rehabilitation works to ensure that not even a single immigrant is allowed to get the benefit.
PermalinkSubmitted by Bodo Supporter on Tue, 14/08/2012 - 23:57
Bodo must look after themselves, do not fall to sweet talk of Gogoi, Sonia or Shinde. They will butcher Bodos for vote bank. We all know about AIUDF, a terrorist organization. Ajmal gets money from ISI and Saudi Arabia to bribe Congress and help to bring more Bangladeshi to Assam. Bodo's must fight for their survival or we will be wiped out by this invasion.
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Amid an uneasy situation union home minister P Chidambaram on Friday visited the on going NHPC project at Gerukamukh in Dhemaji district bordering Arunachal Pradesh. He held a meet with the top officials and reviewed the progress. The visit assumed significance after scores injured a few days back when security forces sprang upon a huge gathering led by KMSS as they were raising protest against NHPC's big dams. Before that Chidambaram visited the Tawang monestary in the morning. The union minister arrived in Guwahati on Thursday and left for Itanagar on Friday as part of his 4day visit to the region. He is further likely to visit Indo-Bangla border to assess the situation in the wake BDR...
Assam governer JB Patnaik on Friday visited kokrajhar and reviewed the law and order situation in view of the upcoming BTAD polls. He talked to the top ranked police and civil officials who apprised him of the steps to ensure the poll a free and fair.
Authorities on Thursday have issued a non bailable warrant against Gogoi. The action is coming up after the Dhemaji district administration lodged a complaint against him alleging his role in the recent incident in front of DC office premises. Scores were injured when police and CRPF jawans sprang upon a mammoth gathering but according to the FIR a section of the people led by Akhil Gogoi pelted stones at the security forces deployed there.
A major disaster was averted when some passengers of an Assam bound passenger train managed to douse fire sparks in Kanpur on Thursday. The incident took place near Kanpur in the evening as the Rajdhani Express from New Delhi was bound for Dibrugarh. Some passengers of the train talked to the authorities as they came to see fire sparks in their compartment. They furthur tried to douse it after the train halted. Fire brigade rushed to the spot but by then the situation was brought under control. However, there was no report of any casualty.
The University of Columbia will conduct a study on the health and hygiene in in Morigaon district of Assam. Inaugurating a nursing training centre under the National Rural Health Mission on Thursday state Health Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma said experts from the university are scheduled to arrive here soon and start their study on the district's health and hygiene and also its subsequent impact and remedies. The varsity has selected two districts, one each in Assam and Uttar Pradesh, as model districts to assess the prevailing health and hygiene issues, he added.
Assam also joins the census operation which began accross the country on Thursday. A group of the Kamrup district officials deployed in census operation reached the official residence of chief minister Tarun Gogoi and kicked started the operation. Immediately after it they left for the Raj Bhawan and met Governer J B Patnaik for collecting is information.
he Assam chapter of National Union of Journalists has organized a media workshop on judicial news reporting in Guwahati Press Club on April 4. The programme is open for the selected reporters of various newspapers and news channels of the State. Justice (Retired) D.N. Choudhury will attend the function as the chief guest and deliver the keynote address and Pachugopal Baruah, the former Advocate General of Assam will preside over the inaugural function. Two senior advocates of Gauhati High Court, Arup Borbora and Mrinal Kumar Choudhury have been invited to attend the programme as resource persons.
Scores of people have been injured when police flogged a huge gathering in Dhemaji as they were protesting against a set of anti government policies. The incident took place when the people led by KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi were waiting to raise their demands before the deputy commissioner who refused to come out of his chamber. As a section of protesters tried to sneak into the office, police and para military forces sprang upon them and started beating up the people. Beside blankfiring the security personnel lobbed teargas shells to disperse the protesters. Later talking to reporters, Gogoi said the government has no moral right to continue after it tried to gag a serious protest.
The normal proceedings on the floor came to a grinding halt as the opposition members are staging dharna at the Assembly House premises demanding horse trading in the recent Rajya Sabha poll where the ruling party retained both seats. Barring the expelled AGP, BJP, AIUDF along with 3 independent MLAs were seen sitting on the floor during the question. The opposition party MLAs are demanding chief minister Tarun Gogoi alleging his role in this nefarious deal. Meanwhile, AGP, BJP and AIUDF leadership have urged the Speaker Tankabahadur Rai to disqualify the MLAs they expelled for defying party whip in the Rajya Sabha poll.
An uneasy situation is prevailing in the Cottion College campus when a girl student commit suicide on Monday. Talking to newsmen at the college campus magistrate Chinmoy Phukan confirmed that Sahanaz Rahman, a degree student in the stream of science committed suicide by hanging at a newly constructed building in the campus after she reached there to appear in the examination. Shahanaz hails from Machkhowa area. Later her body was taken for post mortem in presence of magistrate. Meanwhile a pall of gloom is descending in the entire campus following the incident. It took place hardly a month after a student committed suicide near girl hostel in the Gauhati university campus.
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