Despite a chilly Wednesday, the North East Games gets underway at a colourful fuction organised at the Sarusajai Sports Complex where Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi took salute of the march pass by the eight north eastern state teams. Sports Authority of India director Ratan P Watal attended the meeting as the guest of honour. As many as 2000 sports men are participating in the event to be concluded on February 2. The inauguration of the entire event was marked by a colourful march pass participated by the eight north eastern states. Altogether 240 players are from Manipur while Meghalaya has 224 players. It is followed by 175 sportsmen from Mizoram. Nagaland had 146 players while Sikkim had 224. Tripura had 203 followed by 280 players in the the home team. In women football, the Assam beat Nagaland by 3-0 while Sikkim defeat Mizoram by 2-1 goals.
9 Jan 2008 - 12:54pm | editor
Canara Bank organised a training camp in Guwahati in collaboration with the Kahikuchi Agruculture Science Centre. Altogether thirty two women participated in the two day training camp which ended on...
15 Apr 2008 - 8:33pm | editor
Fifty new members to Rajya Sabha, including three from Assam were sworn in today by Chairman Hamid Ansari. The MPs from Assam who took the oath were Congress candidate and Assam Congress president...
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Will you believe that Tarun Gogoi is involved in the Louis Berge bribery? Without his consent how the then GMDA minister and his powerful circle of officers took bribe from the Canada based firm for...
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Despite repeated requests, the forest department has been failing to deal with the situation. This has forced the local residents to stag dharna at Paneri demanding immediate action.The angry...
The Centre is apparently finding it difficult to take a decision on extension of ceasefire with NDFB with the banned outfit is suspected to be behind the October serial blasts in Assam.The Suspension of Operations lapsed on December, 31, 2008 and even after a few rounds of talks among Home Ministry, the Assam government and NDFB, no decision has been taken so far on extending the agreement.The Centre hopes that the Union home ministry will be able to come to an arrangement and a decision will be taken very quickly. He said any such truce should followed strictly and this should be ensured.
The day two of the Assam assembly's winter session decided to depute an all party delegation to New Delhi to put pressure on the Centre to ensure the sealing of the Indo-Bangla border.Participating in the question hour, the Opposition members alleged that the government has not been doing enough to seal the porous portion of the Indo-Bangla border. In his reply, revenue minister Dr Bhumidhar Barman said the Assam government has been apprising the Centre of all these from time to time.The House decided to rush an all party delegation to Delhi to be led by the Speaker. Earlier, the House discussed the plights of the refugees in Darrang and Udalguri districts who were rendered homeless at the...
Hardcore ULFA leader and sergeant Major with the crack unit 28th Battalion Mridula Changmai has been arrested by Charaideo police in Sivasagar police on Monday. Some arms ammunition with some other incriminating documents have been recovered from her possession. Details awaited.
Guwahati Press Club has organized an interaction programme with Amrit Pritam, who has received appreciations for his work as a sound designer in Aamir Khan's latest Bollywood movie, Ghajini.Amrit, who was trained in the Jyoti Chitraban Film Institute, Guwahati, is now based in Mumbai.The young Assamese sound designer will be introduced to our members by Utpal Borpuzari, an acclaimed film critic and a senior member of our club.The programme will begin at 11.30 am tomorrow (January 6, 2009). Member-journalists are requested to attend the same.
Assam Governor Shiv Charan Mathur on Monday urged the people to extend help the government implement its plans and policies.Addressing the winter session of Assam Assembly in the morning the governor said his government is committed to implement all the plans and policies to ensure development in the state.As the governor stood up to address the House, the Opposition members raise to disrupt it alleging the government's failure on all front. The main Opposition AGP members along with other Opposition party members thus created an unruly scene on the floor.Despite repeated appeal by Speaker Tanka Bahadur Rai, the Oppsition members did not listen to him which forced the governor to conclude...
The Assam Assembly begins its winter session with the address of the Assam governor S C Mathur on Monday morning. The session is expected to be a stormy one in the wake of the strings of blast, communal riot in the lower Assam. The Opposition parties have decided to stand united to corner the government on the floor during the five-day long session.
City police have arrested one more person in connection with the 1/1 strike in Guwahati that left 6 persons dead and over 50 injured.
According to information, police arrested one Sanjiv Talukdar from Rangiya on Sunday. Sanjiv, an ULFa cadre had frequent contact with the blast mastermind Pranjal Deka of the outfit's 709 Battalion.
It is learnt that Sanjeev carried the bombs to Adabari area in the city at the instance of another 709 battalion cadre Khagen Kalita and that Panjal himself received the bombs from Sanjiv. Interrogation is on.
It may be recalled that police have already arrested nine people in this connection a day after the serial blast rocked three places in the city.
Dear Anjan Borthakur Dangoriya, I am writing this mail with more pain and deep shock at your self styled bhratri ghati comments and activities increasing day by day. Since you all people are hiding in another country with great peace and keep sending statements from the safe heaven with better life and keep killing own people for no reasons, this had alarmed we all. Every blast in Assam, you come out with a ready made excuse. We all know when its IED blast - its you - ULFA. When it is powerful RDX or Afghanistani or Talibani like heavy blast like the last one, its NDFB/BLTY/BTF/MULTA under HuJI funding by crores of rupees contract. I fear if you failed to get that contract from ISI or...
Three compartments of a goods train got damaged as militans exploded a poweful bomb on a railway track in North Cachhar district on Sunday morning. According to information, the incident took place between Maibongdisa and Harangajao stations in the hills disitct.According to Northeast Frontier railway sources, no report of injury to any person in the blast. Top ranked police officers along with railway officers have arrived on the spot. Investgation is on.
After days months of hectic political confabulations, the Opposition Asom Gana Parishad has struck seat sharing deal with the Bahratiya Janata Party for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. According to information, both the parties have finalised the deal firstly in four seats. The AGP is leaving Mongoldoi and Nagaon for the BJP and retains Dibrugarh and North Lakhimpur. Duibrugarh and Lakhimpur have AGP's sitting MPs while the Nagaon ahd Mongoldoi have BJP candidates. Senior leaders of both the parties said the deal for the remaining ten seats would soon be announced.
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