Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi says on Wednesday that his government will continue the initiatives to help the state develope on all fronts. Unfurling the national tri colour at Khanapara in the morning, Gogoi said that the development initiatives are paying dividends.
Gogoi said that the violence-hit people in the refugee camps would be taken care of. Gogoi, who unfurled the tricolour for 12th times took salute of the armed forces and NCC.
26 Jan 2012 - 5:24pm | Anup Arandhara
The result of the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) examination, held on January 10, is declared on Wednesday. Out of total 3,24,793 candidates appeared in the examination, 52,722 has succeeded. The...
18 Mar 2012 - 12:38am | Anup Biswas
Sri Nalendra Karigapsa, President, Dima Hasao DCC (I) while expressing his grave concern over the antiparty activities of a section of so called congress man appealed all the Congress members...
23 Jun 2010 - 7:30pm | editor
Mama/ Senior ULFA leader Bhimkanta Burhagohain said that C-in-C Paresh Barua is not oppose talk with the government and will not do it in future. Talking to reporters at the Tezpur court premises on...
11 Mar 2012 - 1:20pm | editor
The Manas National Park is set to get two orphaned one-horned rhinos from Kaziranga n Sunday under the International Fund for Animal Welfare-Wildlife Trust of India.
The rhinos were being...
ULFA’s Paresh Baruah faction is fully prepared to strike in Assam despite heavy presence of security forces. A group of heavily armed ULFA militants has been moving in upper Assam. These startling revelations surfaced during police interrogation on Robin Moran, who was captured during an encounter with police in Sivasagar district on Wednesday. Moran, the ULFA militant sustained bullet injury in the encounter along the Assam-Nagaland border. Three other militants managed to escape during the heavy exchange of firing with security forces. On the other hand, ULFA’s Paresh Baruah faction on Thursday alleged that the attack on the ULFA militants was a pre planned and that the...
Hundreds of Left party workers in Rongiya, Bongaigaon and Dhubri blocked trains for several hours in protest against the petrol price hike. CPI, CPM workers in large number spilled to the streets and blocked the train for several hours raising red flags in support of the country-wide bandh call to protest petrol price hike. They said that the recent petrol price hike was totally unjustified and that they would mount pressure on the government to roll back the price hike. They said that petrol price hike was a direct fallout of UPA government's neo-liberal economic policies, which are causing miseries to common people.
Normal life remains totally paralyzed in Assam following the 12 hour-long Bharat Bandh call on Thursday in protest against the petrol price hike. The situation is by and large normal and there is no report of any untoward incident from any part of the state. The bandh began from 6 in the morning across the state where roads are remaining bare with no vehicle plying. Students and teachers are absent from the schools and colleges.
Shops and markets are also remaining closed under the impact of the bandhs that came into force from 6 in the morning. There is report of very few attendance in banks and offices. Train and flight services are normal during this period. Several parties and...
The north east students are all set to launch a massive agitation from June 7 demanding a special constitutional status for the North Eastern states. To decision to launch the joint agitation under t banner of the North East Students’ Organisation was taken at a meeting of the organization in Guwahati n Wednesday.
The first phase of the agitation will be held on June 7 in Guwahati. All the leaders of these students’ bodies will converge in the gateway to the region to make the agitation programme successful. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati after the end of the NESO summit, its chairman Dr Samujjal Bhattacharya said that the general council meeting decided to launch a...
The entire state stuck in panic when astrologers predicted by a massive earthquake on Wednesday. What was more ludicrous that local a TV news channel beamed the story on its prime time show quoting astrologers who also publishes almanac Kalpurush in Assamese. The astrologers claimed possibilities of three major earthquakes, one of them was predicted on Wednesday. The specific time was predicted at 4 in the evening which passed off forcing hundreds of people came out on the streets. Even many offices and schools were closed before their schedule time when the TV channel beamed the story. But the state administration, which claimed to have set up disaster management cell, remained a silent...
Police claimed to have killed a hardcore ULFA militant at an encounter in Sibsagar district on Wednesday.Acting on specific information, a joint team of police and CRPF's Black Cobra forces launched an operation at Namsai area on Tuesday mid-night and an encounter took place early on Wednesday morning. The ULFAmilitant was killed on the spot and combing operations were on the area in search of other militants in the area.The slain militant has been identified as Rabin Moran alias Habindra Moran.
A hardcore NDFB militant was killed in Kamrup district on Wednesday. A hardcore NDFB militant who was involved in several cases of kidnappings and extortions was killed in an encounter with the police at Boko. One pistol have been seized from the slain ultra, who has been identified as Simul Boro.
A group of Congressmen attacked PAC members after it assessed some agriculture and rural development schemes in Nagaon district on Tuesday. The incident took place at the Nagaon Circuit House in the afternoon. A Congressmen team came to the circuit house to meet the PAC members. When permission was denied, the Congressmen attacked the PAC members Chirajuddin Ajmal, Gautom Bora, Prasanta Phukan, Keshab Mahanta, Binanda Saikia, Kamal Singh Narzary. After compliant lodged with DC and SP, police arrested Saiful Islam but did not take action against Nurul Huda and Manik Ali who led the Congressmen.
The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council will announce the results of the HS examination, 2012 on June 4.In a statement issued by the council on Tuesday, the council said that the results of science, arts and commerce streams would be available simultaneously at 11 in the morning in all district headquarters on that day.
On the other hand, the Board of Secondary Education, Assam will not be able to announce the HSLC results before June 10. According to sources, the examiners are still compiling the marks in different zonal centres.
Within a brief spell of one month the killer spiders have reached Guwahati. One person has been injured when two venomous spiders attacked him on Monday night. The incident of spider attack took place in Gootanagar area near Maligaon in Guwahati. According to the injured person, two big spiders were spotted in the evening and attacked him before trying to escape. Later, he was rushed to the hospital. Notably, spider terror initially struck at Sadiya where one person died and ten others are undergoing treatment after they were attacked.
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