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.
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Along with other parts of the state, the people in Namrup paid tribute to the October 30 serial blast victims with shock and anger. Led by local AASU unit, the people remembered the...
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In yet another bizarre incident that leaves everybody surprise, a full grown leopard was killed after it attacked two villagers in Golaghat district on Wednesday. The incident took place in the...
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MARGHERITA: The Nagorik Surakhya Samity in Margherita on Friday staged a 10 hour hunger strike demanding immediate steps to repair the National Highway No 38 which has been languishing in dire...
Despite repeated denial of the presence of ULFA Chief Paresh Baruah on the soil of Bangladesh, of late, it has once again come to light that the most wanted rebel leader I very much there. This startling revelation has come up from a hardcore ULFA terrorist Bokul Roy who surrendered before the Border Security Force yesterday. According to information, it was Paresh Baruah who has recently addressed the cadres in Bangladesh on April 7 last when the outfit was observing its Raising Day. Bokul has admitted the presence of nine terrorist camps in Sidepur district of Bangladesh under the direct patronage of the Bangladesh government. Notably, Bangladesh have been repeatedly denying the presence...
Players of Vasco Sports Club (White) and Indian Bank (Red) seen in action during inaugural match of the ONGC 2nd Division League 2008 organised jointly by All Indian Football Federation (AIFF) and the Assam Football Association (AFA) at Nehru stadium, Guwahati on 18-04-08. Pix by UB Photos.
Mr. Abhijit Barooah, main promoter and Managing Director of Premier Cryogenics Ltd. receiving the Dainik Purvoday Excellence Award 2007 from Governor of Assam Lt. Gen. Rtd. Ajai Singh at the 3rd Anniversary of Hindi Purvoday and the inauguration of an Assamese Weekly Axomiya Purvoday at Pragjyoti ITA centre, Machkhowa, Guwahati on 18-04-08 evening. Photo by UB Photos.
Group of kids in Assamese traditional attire to perform husori at the neighborhood on the occasion Rongali Bihu festival at Bihpuria, Lakhimpur on 17th April 2008. Photos: UB Photos.
A 12 hour bandh is disrupting normal life in upper Assam’s Sivasagar district from 6 in the morning on Friday. Called by a few organizations to protest the recent killing of a civilian in Moran, the bandh has thrown normal life out of gear. All educational and financial institutions and offices are remaining closed. Vehicles are off from the streets. The district administration has beefed up security arrangement in view of the bandh call.Notably, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has ordered a high level pobe into the killing of civilian Dulen Baruah during a raid by CRPF recently in Moran’s Rangali Himpora gaon. According to information, additional chief secretary will probe...
It was 13th April, 2008, a hot sunny April afternoon. In spite of that, as soon as the evening approached, people from Assam as well as the well-wishers of Assam, currently staying in the millennium city of Gurgaon and also people from the National Capital Region of Delhi started congregating at the HUDA Community Hall at Sector-46, Gurgaon to celebrate the most cherished festival of Assam i.e. 'Rongali Bihu'. As soon as the Chief Guest of the evening, Honorable Justice of Supreme Court of India Dr. Mukundakam Sharma along with his better half arrived, the cultural evening started with lighting of lamp by the chief guest. He along with Shri Binoy Sharma, Ex-CMD of Oil India Limited was...
Since its inception Nature's Beckon has been working with dedication for the protection of the wildlife of Assam as well as for their conservation. The organization has persistently worked to prevent poaching of wild animals and to stop the illegal trade of wildlife and their parts.The organization has stopped the illegal mobile zoos and handed over the animals to forest department. Illegal wild animals of circus party, like, tigers, lions, elephants, monkeys etc; have also been handed over to the forest department by Nature's Beckon.Further, the trade on non-human primates has been stopped totally in Assam through community conservation programmes and by people's involvement in anti-...
Police and forest department officials in the city's Dispur area have seized skins and flash of deer and yak with some arms and ammunitions during a joint raid on Thursday. According to information, the joint raid was conducted at the residence of Manu Bezbaruah on the basis on the confessional statement of Shivaji Baruah who was arrested by police on Tuesday. The raid was conducted at the house of Manu Bezbaruah just behind the Dispur State Bank where some flash, skins and horns of deer and yak were seized. Also an elephant leg was in the seizer list. The arms and ammunition include a DBBL gun, 2 rifles, 9 rounds of live bullets of DBBL gun, 132 small arms bullets. Police failed to arrest...
An earthquake of mild intensity was felt some parts of Assam and Meghalaya early in the morning on Thursday.Measuring a magnitude of 4.3 on the Richter scale, the tremor occurred at around 6-45 with its epicenter at latitude 26.3 degrees north and longitude 92.5 degrees east in Morigaon district of Assam, about 85 km from the Central Seismological Observatory (CSO) at Upper Shillong. There was no report of loss of life and property.
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