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ISF (IM) takes responsibility of serial blast in Assam

A terror group named  ISF (IM) takes responsibility of the serial blasts yesterday. According to a satellite channel News Live, they have received a SMS
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Govt confirms blast toll goes up to 77

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The death toll in Assam’s serial blasts has gone up to 77 on Friday with 11 more people succumbing to their injuries overnight. Confirming this ...
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Worried Centre rushes Patil, NSG to Assam

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The Centre on Friday expressed grave concern over the serial blasts in Assam a day after the state was rocked by serial blasts leaving 75 ...
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PM announces ex-gratia

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The Centre has announced a financial assistance of Rs.1 lakh each to the next of kin of those killed in the serial blasts.According to PMO ...
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Pray for peace

The serial blasts that shook the north eastern state of Assam on October 30, 2008 should be condemned by one and all. The inhumane act ...
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Whither The Light of Democracy

Deepawali is the festival of lights which is celebrated all over India . It marks the advent of the winter season and signifies peace and ...
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Silver Jubilee Celebration of Christ Jyoti School

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In the year 1983, with the effort of Rev. father Prakash, a catholic salvatorian institute was opened with about 20 nos. of students in the ...
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Pro-talk ULFA group releases monthly magazine: Hondhikhyon

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No. 28  (A & C) Battalion of ULFA publishes a monthly magazine “Hondhikhyon”. The  magazine was released by Bhupen Saikia, Principal of Dibrugarh D.H.S.K.Law collage ...
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Assam violence: Opp pin blame on govt

The Opposition parties on Friday sharply pinned down both Delhi and Dispur in Parliament for failing to deal with the communal riot that claimed atleast ...
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Care for children and adolescents living with diabetes

"Diabetes is a deadly disease, and each year, almost 4 million people die from diabetes-related causes. Children, particularly in countries where there is limited access ...
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Seeking livelihood: tender for renting out vehicles to OIL

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A huge gathering seen during period for submission of tender papers of vehicles at Oil India Limited’s contract office in Duliajan on 21-10-08. Photo: UB ...
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Supreme Court hears Assam 'select killings' case

A Division Bench of Supreme Court of India comprising JJ Dalbir Bhandari and H.S. Bedi after hearing Prof. Bhim Singh, Advocate for the petitioner ALOK, ...
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City to ride with German Karmariders on Sunday

Five German cyclists, known as Karmariders, will tour 60 kms across Guwahati tomorrow, accompanied by a thousand cyclists and more than 500 walkers, mostly ...
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Not only the rich are at risk of diabetes

A media report labeled diabetes as a lifestyle disease. Rightly so, but it doesn't imply that poor and underserved communities are not at risk of ...
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India should strengthen its public distribution system to reduce food scarcity

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United Nations has recently issued a report which reveals that currently there are 75 million (7.5 crore) people ...
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Czech Business Delegation to visit Northeast

A 13 member business delegation of Czech Republic will visit Northeast from Sunday. The delegation led by  Dr Hynek Kmonicek, the Ambassador of Czech Republic ...
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Shaktimoy Das to attend GPC programme

The eminent Bengali writer and literary translator Shaktimoy Das will attend the Guest of  the Month programme of Guwahati Press Club on October 17 (Friday). ...
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World Anesthesia Day to be celebrated in Guwahati

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Under the banner of Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (Guwahati city branch) the World Anaesthesia Day-2008 will be celebrated in the city on 16th October. Although ...
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ULFA backs no battle against B'deshi immigrants

It can't but be a breaking news. Never did ULFA say its wants Bangladeshi immigrants should quit Assam at the height of the riot in ...
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Its a dream come true: United AGP stands again in Assam

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Its a big big day for regional politics in Assam. Despite stiff resistance the main Opposition Asom Gana Parishad on Tuesday announced its unification of ...
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After carnage its blame game: Anjali ups ante against Himanta

Its Himanta Biswa Sarma vs Anjali Daimary. The former is a powerful minister in the Tarun Gogoi cabinet while the latter is no less popular ...
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Bus accident in Dhubri: 26 died, 45 injured

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At least 26 people, mostly labourers engaged in brick kiln, were killed, 45 others have been injured, some of them seriously when a bus collided ...
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A visit to Udalguri relief camp

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Assamese people who are living in the camp Bhakatpara relief Camp Boro women in the Relief Camp Children in the Camp Children in the Relief ...
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Political leaders rush to Assam as they spot Darrang, Udalguri

A few days after an end to the communal clash, political leaders from Delhi are flying to in Udalguri and Darrang districts of Assam to ...
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Assam cricketers to go with SRK’s Knight Riders

Two Assam cricketers have been selected to the Indian Premier League’s Sharukh Khan’s Knight Riders in its second season. Both the cricketers will attend the ...
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Road accident in Dibrugarh: Arunachal MLA injured, 3 others died

An Arunachal Pradesh legislator has left been injujred his two PSOs and the driver died at a tragic road accident in Dibrugarh on Sunday night.According ...
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World food scarcity and the challenges of climate change and bio energy

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‘Rarely has the World Food Day assumed greater meaning than in present times, as rapidly rising food prices risk increasing the number of hungry in the world,’ according to the Food And Agriculture Organization (FAO)....
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In Assam, Power Maddens

It is amusing to see note that Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma thinks that the NDFB has hoisted Pakistani flag in Udalguri. I hope he ...
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Golaghat town wears a fresh look as AGP foundation Day on Oct 14

The Opposition Asom Gana Parishad is nearing its preparation to hold the foundation day function at Golaghat town salted for October 14.The entire town is ...
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Pak flag in Udalguri: Gogoi wants to go for CBI probe

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The Assam government will go for a CBI probe into hoisting of a 'Pakistan flag' in clash-hit Udalguri district.Talking to reporters on Saturday in Dispur, ...
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Major blast averted in the city

A major blast has been averted in the city when police recovered two live bomb on Sunday morning. According to information, police recovered two live ...
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Sonia rushes team to visit Udalguri, Darrang

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has rushed a three member team to the violence-hit Udalguri and Darrang distircts where 62 people were killed, over 200 injured ...
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Ahmed submits report to PM on Assam violence

Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed has submitted his report on the communal clashes in lower Assam’s Darrang and Udalguri districts where 62 ...
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Gogoi orders judicial probe into communal clashes

The Assam government has ordered a judicial probe into the ethnic violence in Darrang and Udalguri districts that has claimed 62 lives even as normalcy ...
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The Wrath Of God

The wrath of gods seems to be descending on the religious Indian masses with perilious frequency as stampedes at pilgrimages kill more people (361 in ...
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Gogoi visits Darrang, Udalguri to pave the way for normalcy

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Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday visited the violence-hit areas of Udalguri and Darrang districts in where at least 62 people were killed, hundreds ...
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8 injured in blast near Guwahati puja function

Despite an elaborate security arrangement, a minor blast rocked Japorijog area in Guwahati on Thursday evening near a puja pandal leaving 8 persons injured. According ...
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Centre asks Assam govt to deal with situation firmly

The Centre has sent an advisory to the Assam government asking it to take all necessary steps to ensure safety and security for the innocent ...
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No respite from riot in lower Assam: 2 more killed in Dalgaon

Two more persons were killed at Dalgaon in Darrang district in police firing for dispersing an some miscreants on Tuesday midnight.According to information, the incident ...
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People with diabetes lose more than money

"It is not about money. No amount of money will give back my limb" said a 65 years old woman with diabetes (name withheld on ...
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Singer Dilip Sarma passes away

Noted singer and Sangeet Natak Academy award winner Dilip Sarma passed away on later Monday night at the Guwahati Medical College Hospital. He was 78. ...
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Tension still prevails; Centre rushes 1,400 forces to Udalgui, Darrang

Tension is still simmering in five districts of lower Assam even as the Centre has dispatched 1,400 para-military force personnel to contain the situation where ...
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46 rebels surrender before army in Dinjan camp

Forty six rebels belonging to different outfits like ULFA, NDFB, KLNLF, NSCN have surrendered before the army at the Dinjan Camp in Dibrugarh on Monday.All ...
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Fundamentalist forces behind violence: APW

The Assam Public Works has alleged that the orgy of violence in Udalguri and its adjacent districts are nothing but a handiwork of Huji and ...
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Govt draws flak on communal riot in lower Assam

The Assam government ha come in for sharp criticism for the burning situation in Udalguri and its four neighbouring districts where as many as 60 ...
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AASU, ABSU flay govt failure to control communal riot

The All Assam Students Union and All Bodo Students Union has accused the Gogoi government for its failure to ensure the identity of the indigenous ...
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Fresh clashes erupts in lower Assam: toll 53

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There is report of fresh clashes in five riot hit districts of lower Assam on Monday where other tribes joining the Bodos in the attack ...
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Violence: Govt trying to say it NDFB ethnic cleansing

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A stunned Assam Government is trying to call the string of violence in Udalguri an ethnic cleansing by the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) ...
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CM hints at reconsideration of ceasefire with NDFB

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogai says the government could reconsider the ceasefire with NDFB if the allegations of masterminding the communal flare up in lower ...
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Udalguri and Darrang still burning: toll reaches 36

Udalguri and Darrang districts are still burning on Monday. Its spreading to make the  situation more volatile.  Three persons died, several others have been injured ...
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All party delegation visiting Udalguri, Darrang on Monday

An all party delegation led by Opposition leader Chandra Mohan Patowary is visiting the  riot hit areas of Udalguri and Darrang districts on Monday.Assam health ...
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Hagrama alleges third party involvement in Udalguri, Darrang

BTAD chief Hagrama Mohilary alleges involvement of third force in the communal flare-up  in Udalguri and Darrang district of lower Assam. Talking to a private ...
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Pak flag flying in violence-hit area

In yet another development, media persons who are covering the communal riot in Rowta and its adjacent areas saw a Pakistani flag in Sonaripara and ...
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Rowta still burning: toll mounts to 35

The communal flare up in Rowta that has taken a toll of more than 35, over 150 injured, is spanning out of control as the ...
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NDFB sticks to the gun for Bodoland demand

The National Democratic Front of Bodoland is stick to the demand for a separate Bodoland if general secretary of the Bodo outfit Govinda Basumatary is ...
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'Asomar Loka-Sankritir Ruprekha' released

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The minister of culture of Assam, Bharat Chandra Narah inaugurated a book titled "Asomar Loka-Sankritir Ruprekha (An insight into the folk culture of Assam)" at ...
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Enounter in Nalbari; 3 ULFA killed

Three ULFA cadres have been killed in an encounter with army in Tihu in Nalbari district on Friday night. According to information, the incident took ...
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Rowta violence up escalating; 10 killed, shoot at sight ordered

Atleast ten people were killed, more than 40 others have been injured in the communal clash that broke out between Bodos and Bangladeshi immigrants at ...
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Communal clash in Rowta: 1 killed, 10 injured, 6 houses torched

One person was killed more than twenty five others have been injured and three villages have been torched in a fresh string of communal violence ...
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Freedom Fighter Powal Barua to attend GPC programme

Veteran freedom fighter Powal Barua will attend the 'Guest of the Month' programme of Guwahati Press Club tomorrow (2nd October). During the program, staring ...
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306 ULFBV bid farewell to arms before Gogoi

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Altogether 305 rebels of the United Liberation Front of Barak Valley laid down their arms before the authority in Assam at function organized in the ...
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Assam human rights violation reaches global focus

The human rights violation cases in Assam has even reached international scene when the state’s lawyer and human rights activist and PCG spokesman Arup Borbora ...
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