Amid simmering violence police have arrested BPF MLA Pradeep Kumar Brahma from Kokrajhar on Wednesday night. Brahma, the BPF MLA from West Kokrajhar was picked up by a team of police from his own residence in Dotoma. He is likely to be produced in court Thursday. But the BPF workers are launching a massive protest against it in the form of National Highway 31 blockade.
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KMSS seems to have intensified protest against Akhil Gogoi after police arrested the peasant body president in connection with the Dispur self immolation case.Hundreds of KMSS activists thronged...
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Security forces apprehended a cadre of United Gorkha Peoples’ Organisation from Chetri Basti under Serfanguri PS today in Kokrajhar district. Based on a specific information, a joint...
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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...
At least eight people have been injured when a section All Bodo Students' Union activist clashed with a group of Non-Bodo Protection Forum workers during band calls on Thursday. The ABSU had blocked the NH 31 at different places of Lower Assam in support of their various demands while the Forum had called a 12-hour Assam bandh demanding non-inclusion of non-Bodos within the Bodoland Territorial Council. Activists of both groups clashed at Bhogpur area under Goreswar police station of Baksa district leading to the injuries of eight people with condition of one of the injured stated to be critical.
More than five thousand ABSU activists had blocked NH-31 at Bhetakuchi area near Rangiya and...
Former Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is all set to take over as new AGP president on Thursday.The decks for the two time former chief minister was cleared at crucial meeting of the outgoing central executive body meeting on Wednesday. Sikkim chief minister Pawan Chamling and Zoramthanga, the former chief minister of Mizoram are expected to attend the conference to be held in Guwahati on Thursday.
At least 20 persons have been injured and properties worth lakh of rupees have been ravaged when a ravaging storm lashed many parts of Assam on Wednesday midnight. The midnight storm uprooted thousands of trees, electric and telephone posts disrupting surface communication in many places. The worst-hit areas include Kokrajhar and Barpeta districts where it at least 20 people sustained injury when their houses collapsed under the impact of the storm. It would take several hours to clear the roads. The storm struck Guwahati also at on Wednesday midnight.
Normal life in Rabha Hasong dominated area areas of Assam remains crippled following a 12 hour bandh call which began at 5 in the morning on Thursday. All vehicles are off from the roads. Shops and markets, schools and colleges, banks and offices are remaining closed soon after the bandh started at 5 in the morning.
The All Assam Rabha Council called for the bandh in protest against the government’s failure to rescue two teachers who were kidnapped by suspected GNLA insurgents along the Assam-Meghalaya border in Goalpara district of Assam.
A major explosion was averted at gas pipeline in Sivasagar district when security forces defused a powerful IED on Thursday. The IED weighing 3 kg was planted at a gas pipeline in between Aaideopukhuri and Aaideobari in Sonari which was spotted by the local residents in the morning. Senior police and army officials rushed to the spot and defused it. It is suspected to be a handiwork of ULFA’s anti-talk faction.
Both Delhi and Dispur have drawn High Court’s ire after DHD(J) leaders Niranjan Hojai and Juel procured bail in two nefarious case involving crores of rupees. The country’s deputy solicitor general appeared before the Gauhati High Court on Wednesday on behalf of the attorney general in response to a summon issued in connection with two notorious cases where two DHD(J) leaders procured bail.
The court summoned attorney general to explain how top DHD(J) leaders Niranjan Hojai and Juel Garlosa procured bail from NIA where three others were denied bail. They were JK Ghose, G Daulagapu, Mausakimi and Achintya Warisa. Notably, they were charged of siphoning off a huge amount of...
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has welcomed the decision of Team Anna member Akhil Gogoi to form a political party.Talking to reporters in Guwahati on Wednesday, Gogoi said that Akhil's decision to form a political party is a welcome step. The KMSS general secretary announced that he would form a political party around 2015 or 2016.However, he had said that his party would not contest the next Assembly polls in 2016 and would only highlight issues like ill effects of big dams and for land rights to indigenous people.
Assam and Meghalaya are set to get Spices Parks to promote value addition and help farmers by reducing their dependence on middlemen. According to information, feasibility study for the park in Meghalaya is under the process of preparation by the IIM-Shillong for which the report is awaiting. The Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry will provide funding for the proposed Spices' Park. The Spices park will act as a common centre where farmers bring in their produces in bulks. Assam on the other hand, produces Bhut Jhalokia and mustard besides ginger and turmeric and is considered the gate to the North East. The region has also exported 37,38,597 MT tonne of spices, mainly fresh ginger and...
The representation received from the joint forum of Assam Tea Planters Association, North Eastern Tea Association and Bharatiya Cha Parishad has appealed for declaring tea as a national drink as it is consumed by large sections of people and this would also contribute to its brand building exercise. This was what Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya M. Scindia disclosed in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. He said that there is no fixed criteria for according national status to any particular product/commodity. A proposal to declare tea as the national drink of India was earlier examined during 2006 in consultation with the Central Ministries concerned and the States/UTs. He...
Dispur is all set to undertake the second phase of power sector reforms in the form of major initiatives to boost generation and greater efforts for privatisation. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Wednesday, power minister Pradyut Bordoloi said that the time has come to undertake the second phase of the reforms where focus would on increasinggeneration and improving transmission and distribution. Assam has a peak demand of 720 MW-780 MW. Of this only 130 MW-150 MW of power is being generated fromits own power stations, while another around 400 MW is being imported from central sector generating stations in the North East and remaining from other sources like privateproducers...
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