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.
17 Dec 2020 - 3:50pm | AT News
Last year when the protest against the Citizenship(Amendment) Act had reached its zenith in Assam, the then AASU general secretary, Lurinjyoti Gogoi, in a gathering announced that prevailing...
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Security forces have apprehended 6 Bangladeshi infiltrators from two separate places during the last 24 hours. BSF personnel on Friday arrested two Bangladeshi nationals Ashraful Islam and Hazrat...
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The agitation for the proposed AIIMS at Raha is set to take a violent turn if the local organizations here are to be believed. Noted citizens and many local organizations here at a meeting decided to...
11 Jun 2020 - 9:44am | AT News
Aaranyak’s concern on oil leakage and fire at Baghjan in Tinsukia District Guwahati, 10 June, 2020
Aaranyak, an organization working towards biodiversity conservation in Northeast...
More than 30 persons, including two NSCN-IM cadres, died and 40 others critically injured on Friday midnight in Karbi Anglong district while they were trying to siphon off fuel from a goods train which spilled over forming gas at Chaiding bordering Nagaland.According to information, the petrol leaked from the tanks and the highly combustible material formed gas suffocating them on Friday night. A gang operating from across the Nagaland border stopped the petrol laden goods train coming from Upper Assam at Rangapahar Siting, near Diphu, and broke open the tanks carrying the highly pressurized fuel.Fifteen bodies have been recovered on the spot while Nagaland police have claimed that they...
Governor Meghalaya Ranjit Sekhar Mooshahary receiving the “MAN OF THE YEAR 2008” by the Jnanpith awardee Dr. Mamoni Roysom Goswami at a programme organized by the ENKHONG, a Bodo Daily newspaper, on its 5th Anniversary at Srimanta Shankardeb Kalakhetra in Guwahati on 19-09-08. PHOTO: UB PHOTOS.
Three persons have been injured when they tried to prevent some miscreant from kidnapping a businessman in Barpeta in district on Thursday night.According to information, the incident took place at around 9 in the evening. A few miscreants who came on two motorcyles stopped at Majgaon under Howly police station and forcibly lifted one Surajna Mandal,a local businessman from his shop. Some local residents who came out to the streets started clamouring and some others came out to the street. Some of them tried to intercept the miscreants. The miscreants fired upon these people but the Suranjan jumped off the speeding motorcycle while the miscreants could not afford to came back. One Dwipen...
Former Asam Assembly Speaker and AGP(P) leader Ganesh Kutum passed away on Wednesday night. he was 60. The end came at around 9-30 at the International Hospital in the city of Guwahati where he was admitted a few days back. he was suffering from kidney ailment. Before that he was undergoing treatment in New Delhi. Several parties, organisations and individuals have expressed deep shock at the untimely demise of Kutum. He was elected to the Assam legislative assembly twice from Gohpur seat and in 1996 he was elcted as the Assam Assembly Speaker. When the Asom Gana Parishad was divided he join the AGP(P) led by former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta.Photo: UB Photos
The Assam Rifles on Thursday has claimed that there are no ULFA camps in Myanmar. Addressing a pres conference in Shillong Director General Assam rifles Lt Gen K S Yadava said the army of the neighbouring country is acting against the Indian rebels using its territory adding that there is substantiate amount of cooperation between the two countries on this issue Lt Gen K S Yadava added that the rebels groups were to set up temporary shelters in the country and they have been coordinating with the Myanmarese army. He said the north east Indian rebels have set up camps in the dense forests along the border and that that’s why it’s quit difficult to flush these forces.
Activists of the People for Animals (PFA), an NGO rescued two Dwarf tortoises from a resident in Guwahati and a Soft-shell tortoise from a resident in Karbi Anglong, later the Chairperson of PFA,Assam Unit Sangeeta Goswami released those endangered spices in the Dighalipukhuri in Guwahati on on 18-09-08. Photo:UB Photos.
Several persons have been injured when police resorted to lathicharge on Thursday to disperse a group of people at Bandordewa along Assam-Arunachal border while they were blocking roads. According to information, more than five thousands of people from six minority organisations were blocking the roads alleging atrocity on minority people in the name of detecting and deportation of Bangladeshi immigrants in the area. Several vehicles have also been damaged in the incident.
Altogether 20 people have been injured, three of them critically, when suspected ULFA militants exploded a powerful bomb in Bijni in Chirang district of lower Assam. According to information, the blast took place in front of the office of the Bijni Circle officer at around 10-30 in the morning. The bomb was stripped at a bicycle which left off with a huge sound that jolted the town. Top ranked police officers have rushed to the spot and investigation is going on. The injured people have been rushed to the Bongaigaon Civil Hospital. Two of them are in critical condition. Photo: UB Photos
Recently I had the privilege to hear Mr. Ajit Sahi, the Editor-at-large of Tehelka, speak on the 'Myth Of Terrorist Organisations - SIMI fictions'.His painstakingly collected and carefully analyzed information speaks of scores of innocent Indian Muslims languishing in the countries' prisons on false police accusations. He feels that it is a premeditated government (read Hindu) campaign to implicate and harass Muslim youth and demonise the Muslim community - all in the name of curbing terrorist activities. His findings indicate that in not a single case has it so far been conclusive that SIMI (Students' Islamic Movement of India) activists were involved in terrorist offences. Police have...
As a flood relief measure Early Bird's had organised a veterinary treatment cum vaccination camp at Dhekiabari village, near Burhamayang hill range, a part of Pobitora wildlife sanctuary on 14-09-2008. Two veterinarians, Rupam Bhattacharya and Anjan Chakraborty and for M.Baruah, Mayur Plaban baruah, Pulakesh Talukdar, Tridib Sarma and Sajib Das from Early Bird participated. This is 118th Wild life area camp by the organisation. The team members were delighted to see a river dolphin from a 10 meter distance playing with the swollen river water near Kajolimukh ,a meeting point of Kalong and Brahmaputra.-- Koushik Hazarika
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