Sadhana Das passes away

Amid a pall of gloom the lifeless Chitra Saikia has arrived in his home on Sunday morning three days after he was killed in firing along the Indo-Pak border. At around 8 in the morning, Chitra’s body was flown to Guwahati where senior army officials paid their last respect. Then it was taken to his home in Jagi Bhakat gaon in Jagiroad where he would be cremated.Various parties, organizations and individuals have condoled the death of the army jawan and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family members.

The sexual assault of a six year old student by a hostel warden at Goko creates no less repercussion among the student fraternity Arunachal Pradesh.  Various organizations have demanded stringent punishment for the  warden who sexually assaulted the minor student. WSWWS president Marbom Bagra and general secretary Hoksum Ori have questioned the school authority for not placing female warden for the girl child at in Liitung Liimang Public school at Geku.The women wing has called for close monitoring of all schools and character antecedents of teachers engaged from outside by the education authority and district administration before such heinous crime surface in our society.

Upper Siang Deputy Remo Kamki asked a local farmer body to re-consider their ultimatum for closure of NEEPCO office at Yingkiong. Kamki asked them to refrain themselves from violent and unlawful activities against the Power developer. He said in case of any law and order problem, the Forum shall be held responsible.The affected people spearheaded by the SIFF are already opposing the proposed Hydro Electric Project and also expressed their reluctance to allow even preliminary survey and investigation. They even vehemently opposed the proposed enumeration fearing that once any preliminary assessment is allowed, the project will inevitably come up.The farmer has been dead opposed to the Hydro...

More trouble awaits Gopinath Das who is absconding after police registered a rape case against the Boko AIUDF MLA.A child right protection organization has written to Assam Assembly Speaker Pranab Kumar Gogoi for his immediate disqualification for keeping minor girls as his domestic help.Speaker Gogoi is likely to step in very soon. The organization demands his disqualification three days after police rescued yet another minor domestic help from his house in Guwahati.The Boko MLA is waiting for Gauhati High Court’s breather when it would hear his anticipatory bail plea on Monday. Das allegedly raped his minor domestic help inside his car forcing her to move police demanding justice. Under...