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PM announces package for Arunachal Pradesh
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday has said Arunachal Pradesh is in the need of a set of strategies for overall development of the state.
Congress majority for 15 districts
The ruling party which have majority in altogether 15 districts out of 19 which have gone to panchayat polls. Besides preparing to form zilla parishads ...Fire breaks out at Pltanbazar
A devastating fire broke out the Bengali Girls’High School in city’s Pltanbazar area on Thursday in the afternoon. According to information, the authorities have yet ...Accidental firing jolts Itanagar
An accidental firing rattled Itanagar early in the morning on Tursday. That too before the prime Minister’s maiden visit to the land of rising sun. ...
Me-dam-me-fi today
Assam observes Me-dam-me-fi on Thursday to offer puja the Ahom ancestors with much religious fervour. Several functions are being organised to mark the occasion ...Firing in Itanagar before PM’s visit
Despite a mammoth security arrangement before the Prime Minister’s visit to Itanagar, a shoot out incident has rattled the state capital on Thursday morning. The ...Manmohan on Arunachal Pradesh visit
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is arriving in Itanagar on a two day visit to Arunachal on Thursday. During his visit, Dr Singh is schedule to ...
Ballot papers found outside DC Office, Dhemaji
Hundreds of uncounted ballot papers are being found outside the Panchayat Election Counting centre at Dhemaji Deputy Commissioner's office premises at Dhemaji on 30-01-08 showing ...
3 Adivasi people deposed before Manisana panel
More than one hundred Adivasi people rushed to Guwahati on Wednesday to depose before the Justicer Manisana panel probing the Beltola incident but the chairman ...
North East Games gets underway
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 ...Road mishap: 6 died, 38 injured in Numaligarh
Six people died and 38 others have been injured at a road mishap which took place on late Tuesday morning in Numaligarh near Babathan. According ...Road mishap:11 killed in Guwahati-Silchar road
Eleven passengers were killed when a Guwahati-Silchar bus skidded off the road and fell into a over 100-metre-deep gorge near Mawryngkneng, about 40 km from ...
Tragic incident: 10 dead in Dhekiajuli
Ten people were left dead and more than thirteen injured when a Tata Safari has a head on collision with a truck in Sonitpur district’s ...Former NDFB cadre shot dead in ciy
Situation in the city’s Betkuchi area is still tense 15 hours after the killing of a former NDFB cadre..According to information, the incident took place ...
Counting will end on Wednesday
The Congress is heading for a landslide victory in the overall scenario even as the ruling party is losing support in some of its strongholds. ...Panchayat polls: Major victory for Cong
The ruling party is set to scale a major victory in the panchayat polls towards the end of the vote counting on Tuesday. Congress is ...Congress heading for a comfortable victory
Barring a few districts, Congress is heading for a comfortable victory in the panchayat poll even as the counting of votes is going on. The ...Congress takes early lead
Barring a few districts, the ruling party is finding it quite difficult to edge the Opposition Asom Gana Parishad in the early trends of Panchayat ...
Explosive materials recovered in Jalukbari
The city police have recovered a huge cache of foreign made arms and explosives from Jalukbari area in Guwahati on Monday morning while the district ...Early trends shows a hazy picture
Congress is moving neck and neck with the opposition Asom Gana Parishad in the initial trend of the counting of votes that has begun in ...Early trends:Cong, AGP go neck and neck
Congress is moving neck and neck with the opposition Asom Gana Parishad in the initial trend of the counting of votes that has begun in ...
Panchayat polls: counting of votes begins
Amidst tight security ring, the counting of votes in the panchayat poll has begun on Monday morning to decided on the fate of altogether 89,272 ...Vote counting: Opp to remain alert
The opposition parties will closely monitor the vote counting on Monday throughout the state apprehending large scale rigging by the ruling Congress. Led by AUDF, ...Busu dima gets under way
Despite a chilly Sunday morning, the atmosphere atop the Borail hill became agog with festivity as it was throbbing with the dance of Dimasa as ...
Dharna at Latashil against poaching
The All Assam Students Union will observe a statewide dharna on 2nd February demanding immediate steps to save the wildlife at the Kaziranga National Park. ...
Police medal for Buragohain
Nilambar Buragohain, Area Organiser, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), posted at Force Head Quarter Delhi as Additional Director (Administration), has been awarded Police Medal for ...2 ULFA cadres, Army captain dead in encounter
Two ULFA cadres and an Army captain died at a fierce encounter at the Meshakhi forest area in upper Assam’s Tinsukia district on Sunday. According ...
Come forward for talk: Governor’s clarion call to militants
Assam Governor Lt General (Retd) Ajoy Kumar Singh has reiterated his clarion call to the militant outfits to come forward for talks for a peaceful ...Govt announces police medals
Asom IGP attached to the BIEO, Pradip Kumar, has been selected for President’s Police Medal for his outstanding service. SDPO Kamal Kumar Gupta, SI Ruhindra ...Gogoi orders probe into Kaziranga poaching
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has asked the Chief Secretary to set up a one-man inquiry committee headed by Principal Secretary PK Choudhury to probe into ...
Padmashree to 3 in Assam
Dance guru Jatin Goswami and litterateurs Surya Hazarika and Shilla Pathak of Asom have been named for Padmashree awards. ...Assam tableaux : CM orders probe
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has asked Chief Secretary PC Sarma to probe into the matter as to why Assam tableaux is not being put in ...
PVSM for Barbora
IAF’s Western Air Command’s AOC-in-C Air Marshal Pranab Kumar Barbora is among the Param Vishist Seva Medal (PVSM) winners — PVSM is the highest peacetime ...Assam Celebrates R-Day
Defying ULFA diktat, amid an water tight security arrangement Assam is celebrating the Republic Day on Saturday along with the nation. The situation till now ...PIL against illegal saw mills and felling of trees in Meghalaya
The illegal felling of trees and illegal operation of Sawmills in Meghalaya has assumed such wide and significant proportion that the said illegal operation of ...
Assam Association, Mumbai Celebrated Magh Bihu
Assam Association,Mumbai Celebrated Magh Bihu on 19/01/08. ...Madabdev award to Terang, Chutiya
Noted Karbi litterateur Rong Bong Terang and Vaishnavite scholar Sonaram Chutiya have been declared the recipients of the prestigious Madhabdev Award. According to information, minister ...
Nalbari Balst: 2 injured
Three peope have been injured while a powerful blast rocked a vegetable market in Nalbari. The explosion took place at 6in the evening. The injure ...Controversy dogs Asom Sahitya Sabha
Asom Sahitya Sabha is mired in yet another controversy with former secretary of the Sabha and the sitting president are lashing out at each other.Addressing ...Centre sends instructions for NE states
The Union home ministry has sent a slew of instructions for the north eastern states to deal with any situation during the Republic Day celebrations ...
Poaching poses serious threat to Kaziranga
Kaziranga National Park, one of the world’s heritage site of late, is buying a bad name - safe haven of poachers, who have killed 21 ...Explosive materials recovered in Bongaigaon (updated)
The Bongaigaon police have recovered some explosive materials inside a bag from a bus which was on its way to Bongaigaon from Barpeta in the ...
R-Day securtity
With less than 24 hours left for the Republic Day, security has been beefed up across the state to ensure peace and normalcy during the ...Darrang panchayat polling peaceful
Despite drizzling in January Coldwave, around seventy five per cent voters exercised their franchise in the fourth and final phase of panchayat polling in Darrang ...NABARD plans Rs 2224.63 crore investment in 2008-09 in Assam
NABARD has planned to invest a total Rs 2224.63 crore for 2008-2009 in Assam. Addressing a seminar held on Thursday at the Assam Administrative Staff ...
38 ULFA cadres surrender in Tamulpur
Thirty-eight ULFA cadres, including a woman cadre, laid down their arms before the army in Tamulpur in Baksa district on Thursday morning. The group was ...
Assam panchayat polls underway in Darrang
Amid tight security, Assam is going to the fourth and final phase of the panchayat elections in Darrang district from in the morning on Thursday. ...One killed on Haflong
The Black Widow has killed one Amri Rupsi in Haflong on Thursday morning alleging him to be a police informer. According to information, the publicity ...
Protest in Manipur against Armed Forces Act
Manipur Alliance for Child Rights organizing mass rally in connection with "Remove Armed Forces Special Power Act 1958" and "Protect our children's rights" held ...
Car rally against rhino killing
A car rally was organized with 64 jeeps from Kaziranga to Bokakhat by Kaziranga Jeep Safari Union, Kaziranga Devlopment Union and Kaziranga Greenland Society, to ...Call to hoist Tricolour on Republic Day
Several Guwahati based working journalists and writers including noted author Nirupama Bargohain and veteran journalist Dhirendranath Chakravorty have made an appeal to the people of ...Netaji did not die a hard death: Dev chaudhory
Freedom fighter and one time close aide of Netaji, Umesh Chandra Devchaudhory on Wednesday demanded that the Mukherjee Commission report should be made public to ...Non Rabhas call off agitation
Several non Rabha organizations on Wednesday demanded reorganization of the Rabha Hasong Autonomous Council area. Participating at a meeting in Dispur with revenue minister Dr ...Nagaland team in Guwahati as NE Sports Fest from Jan 3
The Nagaland players have arrived in the city on Wednesday to participate in the North East Games as it is all set to begin on ...
One injured in Bamunimoidam blast: suspect held
The Railway Protection Force jawans have apprehended a boy suspecting him to be involved in the blast that rocked the city’s Bamunimoidam area which left ...
Freedom of media is art of democracy: Dasmunsi
Union minister for information and broadcasting Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi on Tuesday said the freedom of media is an art of democracy but he cautioned the ...
50 year in Journalism: Radhika Mohan Bhagawati
Father of Assamese journalism Radhika Mohan Bhagawati is being felicitated by Union Minster for Information and Broadcasting Priyaranjan Dasmunshi as he completes 50 year in ...NSCN-IM releases NF Railway officials
NSCN-IM faction has released the two Northeast Frontier Railway officials kidnapped at around 7-30 in the morning on Tuesday from the lower Haflong area. They ...Nava Saikia killing: People demand action against police
More trouble brews in Biswanath following the killing of Naba Saikia by police saying him to be a hardcore ULFA militant on Friday morning which ...Blast in Srirampur: 9 injured
Nine people have been injured while a powerful bomb exploded at Srirampur in Kokrajhar on Tuesday. According to information, the blast took place at around ...Repoll in 75 polling booths in Karimganj on Tuesday
Karimganj is going to repoll in 75 polling booths in Karimganj on Tuesday. The repolling has been ordered following the allegations of large scale rigging ...Arrested ULFA cadres reveal plan to strike on R-Day
The ULFA was planning a huge strike in the city in the run up to the Republic Day celebrations. The insurgent outfit rushed four battalions ...
Manisana Commission: 2 more officers depose
Two leading officers on Monday deposed before the Manisana Singh Commission which is probing the Beltola clash that rocked the state on November 24. They ...
Assam Association Gurgaon celebrates Uruka and Magh Bihu
The chillness in the air on the evening of 14th January, 2008, couldn't deter the Assamese as well as the well-wishers of Assam, residing in ...Boycott calls muffle R-Day celebration
Altogether four proscribed militant outfit in the operating in the northeastern states have given a Republic Day boycott call. These outfits are United Liberation Front ...Encounter in Meghalaya: top ULFA cadre killed
Top ULFA Madan Koch has been killed during a joint operation by Meghalaya police and Army on Sunday afternoon in Garo Hills. According to information,.Madan ...Bombs recovered from Barpeta bus
The Barpeta police have recovered two powerful bombs from a bus operating under the Assam State Transport Corporation in the district on Saturday.. According to ...Hijack threat haunts NE airports
The north eastern airports are being put on alert as the home ministry reports are apprehending terrorists strike before the 26th January. Quoting the official ...Pollution panel warns AMCH
The Assam Pollution Control Board chairman has asked the Assam Medical College Hospital and a section of nursing homes to stick to the rules ...Explosive material recovered in Nalbari
The Army and police on Friday have recovered a huge amount of explosive materials in Baram chawk in Nalbari district. These include five exclusive devices ...Bombs found at NE Express
Two country-made bombs have been recovered in the New Delhi-bound North East Express from Guwahati on Friday morning. This has forced delay in the train ...ULFA corporal arrested in Sonari
A hardocre ULFA leader has been arrested during a joint operation by police and Army in Sonari on Friday wee hours.According to information, 268th Field ...9 injured in car accident
Altogether nine people have been injured while a van and an Alto car had a head on collision in Chariduwar under Rangapara police station on ...ULFA corporal killed in encounter
ULFA’s corporal Puali Duwarah was killed in an encounter in the wee hours on Thursday in Makum. According to information, the encounter took place at ...National handloom expo under way
The ARTFED National Handloom Expo’08 began on Wednesday at the Karmashree Hiteswar Saikia College field, Panjabari. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi was present as the chief ...Kameswari fest at Kamakhya
The Kamakhya Debutter Board is organising the Kameswari music and dance festival at the portals of Sri Sri Kamakhya temple on January 14 and 15 ...Assamese films for Dhaka fest
Four awarded Assamese films – Agnisnan by Dr Bhabendra Nath Saikia, Hkhagoroloi Bohu Door by internationally acclaimed Jahnu Barua, Joimoti of Manju Borah, Aideu by ...Two ULFA cadres surrender
Two hardcore ULFA militants surrendered before security forces Dibrugarh district on Wednesday. Both of them belong to the outfit's crack unit -- 28th battalion. ...Booth capturing mars polling in Nagaon
Large scale violence in the form of booth capturing marred the third phase of panchayat polling in Nagaon district on Wednesday. The incident took place ...Enforce Assamese in Assamese by Apr 14: Sahitya Sabha to govt
The Asom Sahitya Sabha has served an ultimatum for Dispur to ensure Assamese language in all administrative functionings by April 14. It further threatened to ...Canara bank training
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 ...AANLA top cadre captired in Karbi Aglong
The police has arrested top ranked AANLA leader Rupen Lakra during an operation in Bokajan in Karbi Anglong district on Wedenesday. The police further claimed ...GNRC media fellows declared
The name of the fellows for the 3rd GNRC media fellowship (2007-08) has been declared. Three promising reporters namely Lakhyajit Gohain (Dainik Janambhumi), Kishore Kumar ...Violence mars polling in Hailakandi
Large scale rigging, booth capturing and other forms of violence have marred the third phase of panchayat polls in Hailakandi district. Despite an elaborate security ...Rigging, booth capturing in panchayat poll
Rigging and booth capturing is reported in many places of Assam in the third phase of pnachayat polls which is going on. According to information, ...Bridge set on fire in Gohpur
Before the repolling in Raonamukh and Alokpur in Gohpur Assembly constituency on Wednesday miscreants set ablez a bridge in Rajabari. Later police and fire officials ...Third Phase of Panchayat Polls Going on
Amid an elaborate security arrangement 42 lakh voters are voting on Wednesday in the third phase of panchayat polls. the polling began in the morning ...
Gauripur MLA beaten up; in GMCH
On the eve of the third phase of panchayat poll, Gauripur legislator andan associate of the ruling Congress and two others have been seriously injury ...AANLA, DHD-J, KLNLF may be banned
The Assam Government is drafting a proposal to ban three more outfits operating in the state. According to information, Dispur seeks ban on All Adivasi ...'The Padyatra' linking the land-rights, dignity and freedom
The struggle against poverty must be linked with the ongoing struggles for land rights, restoring dignity to human life, and against the value system which ...
Shiv Prasad Thakur no more
Veteran Assamese film producer, director, three-time National Award winner Siva Prasad Thakur passed away at Guwahati on 05-01-08 at an age of 71. He died ...
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