Three villagers died and twenty others have been injured when security forces sprang upon a group of people who prevented the PowerGrid authority from erecting a wall in Biswanath chariali on Tuesday. The incident took place at Baghmari at 5.30 in the morning when local people came out to the street opposing the wall erected secretly on Monday. Security forces opened fire at the protesters where one died on the spot and two others died on the way to the hospital. Angry mob later burnt down 4 police vehicles. Top ranked police and civil officials have arrived in the spot to contain the situation.
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According to the villagers of Harangajao in Dima Hasao District, Assam, the Company (JKM Infra Ltd.) responsible for construction of the East-West Highway corridor stretch at Harangajao village have callously jeopardised the natural irrigation of the adjacent paddy fields by blocking the natural streams(which remain small during winter, but widen many more times during the rainy season, which the construction company could not anticipate) and diverting the water flow, thereby not only depriving water to the paddy fields, but also creating an impending situation of flood in the villages.In the coming monsoon season, the torrential rainfall would be diverted to the villages flooding the village lands, since the highway construction company has already blocked many small natural streams, which used to naturally minimise the heavy flow of water during heavy rainfall.The Dima Hasao district authorities (the Council and the Deputy Commissioner’s Office) must wake up to the impending ecological disaster and force the Construction company to review their ongoing construction planning & execution, which is currently jeopardising the local terrain due to blockage of natural streams.Only this can avert the impending flood and normalise the natural flow of water in the area.Once damage is done to the ecology, it is irreplaceable and economy of the area is destroyed!JKM Infra Ltd. is playing with the lives and livelihood of poor people in Harangajao…even the roads built by them are unlikely to remain intact, due to lack of proper soling (that is firming the foundation layer of the roads)!
9 Apr 2018 - 11:11am | AT News
LAKHIMPUR: The Lakhimpur police have arrested four youths on Monday hours after they allegedly gangraped a 14 year girl in Naoboisa before dumping her on the roadside. Acting on a tip off, a team of...
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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...
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A Catholic religious group working over 90 years in northeast India is launching an ambitious project for youth development to ensure affordable quality education and skills training for young people...
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Train services on Friday remained heavily affected with several trains, including the New Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express, detained following the indefinite rail blockade called from by the All-Assam...
TEZPUR: Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has ordered an inquiry into the group clashes in Sonitpur district where 12 people sustained injury in an attack as they were taking out a bike procession in support of the Ayodhya event on Wednesday.
According to information, Sonowal has issued an order to DGP Bhaskarjyoti Mahanta to probe the incident where the miscreants set afire as many as ten bikes and vehicles. DIG (law and order) GP Singh told media that 4 cases have been registered in this connection.
Sources said that the district authorities have disallowed VHP and Bajrang Dal from taking out any procession in view of the prevailing endemic. But VHP and Bajrang Dal activists took...
Guwahati: An orgy of violence has rocked Sonitpur district where a few people sustained injury and some vehicles were burnt down on Wednesday.
The incident took place in the afternoon when a group of unidentified miscreants attacked some people as they took out a procession in support of the foundation stone laying ceremony of the Ram temple at Ayodhya.
As the procession was progressing on the road suddenly the miscreants sprang upon the participating people.
The miscreants further burnt down as many as five vehicles during the attack. Then they vanished from the spot.
Later policemen came but by then the miscreants fled.
The area has been put under...
Tezpur: After Padma Hazarika, now it's turn for Mrinal Hazarika to wage a war against the illegal settlers.
Talking to reporters in Sootea where a group of police and civil officials sustained injury at an attack by illegal settlers recently, the BJP MLA from Khomtai alleged a nefarious attempt to overpower the indigenous people.
"But how theses illegal settlers could attack police officers on eviction duty? This is because of a section pressure groups who have been aiding and abetting these people, "said Saikia.
He fully supported Padma Hazarika for his stand against the illegal settlers. He said, "Tezpur now looks different. Now rows of small huts on the National Highway...
Tezpur: A BJP legislator with a rifle on his shoulders on Thursday during a stock-taking visit to a tense site evoked no less reaction in many quarters. The legislator in question is none other than Sootea MLA Padma Hazarika who reached Chakigarh area after a group of illegal settlers attacked a joint team of police and civil officials on eviction duty.
As many as 12 people including police officers sustained injury as they tried to evict the illegal settlers before handing over the plot to a group of local entrepreneurs.
But the visit of the legislator with a rifle on his shoulders raised the eyebrows of many parties and organizations.
State Congress president Ripun Bora...
Guwahati: BJP government and party are simultaneously gearing up for 2021 assembly polls.
After CM's principal secretary Sanjay Lohia's transfer to New Delhi a major bureaucratic reshuffle is on the card as part of preparations for the assembly polls.
Same it is in the case of the party. Hours after state president Ranjit Das and organizational secretary Phanin Sarma met BJP president JP Nadda in New Delhi on Monday, joint organizational secretary Geethartha Goswami was removed from the stint.
There is no specific reason cited in the letter which Goswami received from the leadership.
Moreover, the state leadership has moved the central leadership to get...
Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) mourned the untimely demise of former journalist Dhanjit Kakati after a prolonged illness on 25 July 2020. Recognized as a dedicated social activist, Kakati used to work for a number of newspapers with full commitments to the medium. Kakati, 65, left behind his wife, a daughter, a host of relatives and well-wishers.
“Dhanjit Kakati actively participated in various citizens’ meets, which were organized by JFA in different occasions. His observations to various perennial problems of Guwahati including the flash-flood, social security, sustainable urban development, etc were appreciated by everyone and those were treated as valuable inputs to the...
Guwahati: A central draft allegedly framed to legalize the industries and factories in the economy sensitive areas is set to run into a hail of protest in Assam and other north eastern states.
Drafted as Environment Impact Assessment 2020, by the ministry of forest and environment, the draft has watered down the existing rules to set up big, medium and small scale industries on the basis of an assessment.
All Assam Students Union and KMSS along with many other organizations have vociferously opposed the move.
"Only Assam and other north eastern states will have to bear the brunt. But we won't allow anybody to loot our resources," said AASU general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi...
Golaghat: AGP leader and former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta held a closed-door meeting with former Bokakhat independent MLA Jiten Gogoi on Saturday amid speculations of a ventricle split in the regional party before 2021 assembly polls.
Accompanied by local AGP Balobhadra Tamuly, Mahanta visited the rebel turned party less politician at the latter's residence in Bokakhat where they held a closed-door meeting for more than one hour.
According to sources, Gogoi agreed to contest the polls independently to ensure the defeat of minister and AGP president Atul Bora who is known to be Mahanta's main rival in the regional party.
Both Mahanta and Gogoi said...
The website www.fridaysforfure.in was blocked citing UAPA which launched a campaign to protest against the Ministry of Environment’s Draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2020.
The notification was issued on March 23, 2020.
Activists alleged that the draft EIA 2020 will dilute the existing green laws favouring business.
After Delhi High Court's order, the initial deadline of June 11, 2020 for the consultation process of this draft was extended to 11 August, 2020.
What is the online campaign on the Draft EIA 2020?
Subject: Request to Withdraw Draft EIA 2020 in the interest of Environmental and Public Welfare
Dear Shri. Prakash Javadekar,
In March...
Tinsukia: Yet another devastating explosion has rocked the Baghjan based gas and oil well which caught fire 60 days back that ravaged over 2000 families.
Wednesday's explosion took place at 2 in the afternoon when a team of foreign experts was trying to cap the inferno.
Around five foreign experts engaged in the operation sustained serious injury who were rushed to the Assam Medical College in Dibrugarh where they have been battling to survive.Baghjan burns again.#Savebaghjan pic.twitter.com/Mxg42vlYCN— Amlan Jyoti Gogoi (@AmlanJy34498868) July 22, 2020
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