Protesting continious price hike and inflation, Sivasagar District unit of the All Tai Ahom Student Unoin (ATASU) on Tuesday burnt the effigy of Food & Civil Supplies Najrul Islam at Dhudar Ali, in front of Nazira Natiya Mandir. Moyur Borgohain, state general secretary of ATASU, Prasanta Borgohain and over 100s other ATASU activist were gathered and shouted slogans against the supply departments. Mayur Borgohain said that if the same situation would go on and the state govt. will not take any urgent action to control the inflation and price hike than the orgaisation will organised statewide protest against the state government.
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Security forces apprehended four hardcore GNLA militants in Goalpara district bordering Meghalaya on Wednesday.
They were picked up from Krishnai area during a combing operation by police and...
A huge scam in health department seems to have raised doubts over the Government’s sincerity to inject new hopes in the entire department. The scam that rocked the heavily manned department took place in the recruitment of various staff members where genuine educated unemployed have been deprived of their privileges. The scam surfaced in Nazira when the journalists moved the authorities with the help of RTI seeking the details of the recruitment process and the selected candidates. The joint director office, which deals with the recruitment process is not in a position to provide the relevant documents to justify the selection and recruitment of staffs. Even the copies of the appointment...
To resolve the burning issue of Assam-Nagaland border and reduce the tention among the people in the border areas, a harmony meeting was organised at Singibill Bazzar on Friday. The meeting was presideed by social activist Hemo gogoi, MP of Jorhat MP Kamakhya Tasa, DC of Sivasagar Narayan Kunwar, SP A.P.Tewari, SDO(C) Syed Zahid Chisty, SDPO of Nazira Rajendra Ojja, Nagaland Forest Minister P. Panchak, Ex.MLA Chami Aung, border adviser of Nagaland B. Uthi Phum. To maintain the historic harmony of Assam and Nagaland it was unanimously decided in the meeting to continue and exchange peace dialogue between the two states.
CPI leaders and activists in Nazira joined the statewide protest on Wednesday outlining the issues of price hike, inflation, Flood and erosion. Speakers in the protest meeting demanding immediate measures to mitigate the misery of the common people. In his speech, national executive member Kanak Gogoi said that the central government has been acting as an agent of the capitalists where the common people are bound to suffer. He said the decision of the central government for 100% Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) will be a threat to the Sovereignty and urged the people to resist the move.
ULFA(I) virtually scorned the security forces on Monday when the rebels in search of the sovereign Asom exploded a bomb in Charaideo when the district joined the Independence Day on Monday. The explosion took place at Pathaligarh at 8 in the morning which made a huge crater on the spot under the impact of the explosion. There was no casualty or injury.
The Nazira press club observed its silver jubilee programme on Friday. On this occasion an interaction programme was organised in the press club building, where DC of Sivasagar Narayan Kunwar, SP Anand Prakash Tewari, Nazira SDO Syed Zahid Chisty were present and they appealled to all media persons to focus and prevent all evils of the society .
Forest officials in Sivasagar district captured a leopard which has been creating a reign of terror at a tea garden area in Geleky. Acting on the complaints of the local residents in the Modi Tea Estate area, the forest officials with the help of a group of people laid a trap where the animal landed on Friday night. Then it was sent to a safe place to be rehabilitated much to a major respite for hundreds of people in the entire area who has already lost their domestic animals like cows, goats and pigs.
Freedom fighter, president of Nazira District Freedom Fighters Association and veteran Congress leader Subha Gogoi breathed his last at his residence at Mazenga on Thursday. He was 95 and survived by his wife and three sons. MLA of Nazira Debobrate Saikia, ex. Minister Hemoprobha Saikia, ex. MP Durpad Borgohain and several organisations condoled in his death.
Established in 1992, the Nazira press club, which is the common plateform of all media persons of Nazira Sub-Division will celiberate its Silver Jubilee with a day long programme on July 29. In this connection the press club will an interactive session "Antaranga Ebela". DC of Sivasagar Narayan Kunwar, SP Anand Prakash Tewari, SDO (C) Zahid Chisty will participate in the programme.
The protest over the oilfield auctioning move gathers momentum when AASU activists in large number staged mass demonstration in Nazira on Wednesday asking the government not to proceed. Led by AASU adviser Dr Samujjal Bhattacharyee along with president Dipankar Nath and General Secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi, hundreds of AASU activists Gana Satyagraha in front of the ONGC’s Assam Asset in Nazira with a voew to oppose the move tooth and nail. With banners and play cards, the protesters shouted slogans against the Modo Government who allegedly starts going back to the poll promises. The AASU leaders further said that they are well prepared to take Delhi and Dispur if the government does not drop...
The protest over the move to auction oilfields and VAT hike have refused to die down. Many activists of the Ahom Jatiya Gana Manch in Sivasagar staged a two hours dharna in protest against the tow decisions alleging that the new government keeps taking anti people policies. With banners and playcards more than 300 AJGM activists thronged the heart of the historic town and staged dharna for two hours asking the governments both in Delhi and Dispur to roll back the decision. “We won’t allow the centre to auction the oilfields to the private parties. In the same breath, why the government in Dispur has resorted to the hike in VAT at the cost of the common people. We are ready to face any...
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