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.
4 Jun 2010 - 3:16pm | Jayanta Kumar Das
Following the footstep of Nilakshi Baishya, Daisy Bashishtha and Sahena Mirza who secured 3rd, 6th and 10th position respectively in the HS (Arts) from Darrang district under Assam Higher Secondary...
8 Jul 2009 - 1:13pm | Juthika Das
The chairperson, Assam State commission for women, Mridula Sahariya visited Bajali sub-division recently to attend in a discussion meet about various legal matters, women empowerment and to bring...
22 Apr 2014 - 7:31pm | Hantigiri Narzary
The campaigning for the candidates from political parties and independents for No. 5 Kokrajhar Lok Sabha constituency in the third phase in the state which is scheduled on April 24 is concluded by 5...
Assam’s agri-business sector is set to receive a face lift. Courtesy NEDFi. The region’s finance body is coming up with a new scheme which could be a giant leap towards making the state’s economy a healthy and wealthy.According to information, with a view to exploring the state’s untapped potential, NEDFi is inaugurating a new scheme Initiative for Development of Entrepreneurs in Agriculture or IDEA. It aims at making available the supplementary sources of input supply and service to help commercialization of agriculture.IDEA is expected to provide gainful employment opportunities in the agri-business sector in the region. Besides there will financial assistance to...
A Sivasagar court remanded dreaded ULFA leader Ram Singh to four days police custody on Thursday. According to information, soon after the end of all the legal formalities he would join the pro-talk faction.A days after he was arrested, the ULFA leader was interrogated by army at the Moran based camp of 318 Field Regiment and on Wednesday night he was handed over to police for interrogation. Earlier on Thursday, he was produced before the Deputy Commissioner.Talking to reporters on the way to the court, Ram Singh refuted the allegations of stage-managed arrest by police and army. He further said he was in no way involved in the extortion drive and in the backlash against the Hindi-speaking...
A day after the alleged stage-managed arrest of ULFA top gun Ram Singh, an ULFA militant was killed in an encounter with police on Thursday in lower Assam's Kamrup district. According to information, the decased has yet to be identified, exchanged fire with the police at Maujuli village. However, none from the security forces were injured in the encounter. A M-20 pistol and an Australian grenade were recovered from the slain ultra. The body has been sent for post-mortem.
Assam and Meghalaya on Thursday have failed to get a silver lining in the border dispute centering around Langpi. Participating in the meeting at Byrnihat, Meghalaya Chief Secretary Ranjan Chatterjee has urged his Assam Assam counterpart to withdraw the demand for Langpi saying the area belongs to them.Assam Chief Secretary P C Sarma has asked Meghalaya to stick to the findings of the Chu Chandra Committee set up by the Supreme Court. But the neighbouring state straightly rejected it. The Assam government further strongly advocated the interstate boundary demarcation by the Centre citing the meeting on June this year by the Chief Ministers in Dispur which was also rejected by the...
There is more revelation in connection with Assam serial blast. According to police, Thungri Boro and Dinesh Boro are the main culprits behind the blasts that shocked Kacharighat and Panbazar on October 30. According to police, both they parked two cars in Panbazar and Kacharigaht containing some explosive materials. Babul was the driver of the car blue coloured Alto bearing No AS )1 AE 9726 to lift Thungri and Dinesh to Rangiya from the city’s Bharalumukh area. Babul was produced before the court of Kamrup Chief Judicial magistrate Kabin Phukan as an approver. Babul was silent when he was brought to the court.Meanwhile, On the other hand, Rajiv Chainary and Mridul Basumatary on...
ULFA and NDFB have been helping Bhutan Maoist topple the Bhutanese government if the arrested rebel from the neighbouring country is to be believed. During interrogation, Tenzing G Zangpo picked up in Guwahati in connection with the serial blast told police that they are seeking help from these two main rebel outfits from Assam. According to the rebel, they are not happy with the Bhutanese government for the Operation All Clear launched to evict the rebel outfits from its soil. He revealed that they think it unjustified to have evicted the Nepalese from southern Bhutan.In his confessional statement, Tenzing told police that the plan for the explosions was hatched between August and...
The people of Rangiya has foiled the bid of a major blast when they caught red handed two bike lifters on Monday. The lifters confessed before the people that they did it to strike a blast. According to eyewitness, local resident Nasir Ahmed went to Nursery to fetch a news paper after parking the bike. Immediately after it, the youths started lifting it and left the spot. Nasib over his mobile phone informed it to his friends at Rangiya and they caught the youths red handed with the stolen bike.Both the youths have been rushed to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital after preliminary treatment from at the Rangiya Civil Hospital in view of their deteriorating health.Police have identified...
A major blast was averted in Sivasagar district as police and army recovered a huge quantity of explosive materials from Buhubar area on Sunday. These explosive materials were recovered from a rented house of one Moinuddin Haque at Bihubar area in Gelekey. These materials were recovered four days after the arrest one Niajuddin Talukdar known as the brother in law of Moinuddin.Moinuddin Haque is a driver by profession who stays. On November 12 his brother in law Niajuddin was arrested by army and police with explosives near Naginimara in Sivasagar. Then he was on his way from Ladrimby in Meghalaya to Sivasagar. On the basis of his statement the Simaluguri police and Army’s 581 Light...
A two-member team from the Union home ministry will visit the state’s Indo-Bangla border on Monday. Led by Secretary Border Management Jarnail Singh, the team will make an on the spot assessment of the Cachar-Karimganj sector before suggesting steps to check infiltration from across the Indo Bangla border.The home ministry team will further review the implementation of the Bodo Accord with the Assam government officials in Dispur. The team will assess the progress made in the probe into the October 30 serial blasts. According to reliable sources, officials will get a detail study on the NDFB activities to finalise further extension of ceasefire.
BJP says the north eastern region needs a security council to deal with the issues like infiltration and insurgency.Addressing a poll meeting in Tripura on Saturday, the party president Rajnath Singh said its the party's demand to ensure better safety and security in the region. He hoped that the security panel will be able to reduce the level of infiltration from across Bangladesh and Myanmar. He said both insurgency and infiltration problems should be firmly dealt with adding that if voted to power his party accord priority to fencing of all borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh as in the west on the Indo-Pak border.Taking a dig at the Mizo National Front led by Zoramthanga and Congress...
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