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The Assam Public Health Bill, 2010: another bill to curb medics’ liberty?

Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has come forward with yet another heroic act ‘The Assam Public Health Bill, 2010’. It sounds very fantastic to
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13 Years After: Waiting for Justice in the Parag Das Assassination Case

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"We have waited thirteen years, another hour should not be to difficult to bear, will it?" said an elderly bystander to a colleague, as all ...
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Animals in captivity

“The Assam State Zoo encompassing over 130 hectares of land boasts of an astonishing collection of some rare and extinct species of wild animals settled ...
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Cotton College: Our hopes and aspiration

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During my visit to Guwahati each time I take a walk from my family home (Barpetia para) passing Harisava, Gauhati Dairy, Mahamaya to N3 Cotton ...
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Rongali Bihu is here

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If winter comes can spring behind? Its spring time in Assam...time for celebration of the season with joy. The advent of spring is marked by ...
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Girl gangs with a noble cause

There is no power like girl power. This can’t ring more true when it comes to empowering young adolescent girls in rural India.What began as ...
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Congress’ concern for AGP

With the declaration of Lok Sabha elections by the Election Commission of India, all the national and regional political parties have geared up their activities ...
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Further dilution of pictorial tobacco warnings feared

On 23 January 2009, the Group of Ministers (GoM) in India will again meet to assuage concerns of tobacco lobby on pictorial warnings, health activists ...
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Wahid Saleh from Netherlands with love

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Assam is in the need of politicians with leadership qualities, with ideas and policies, motivation and action to set right the flaws in Assam institutions of governance. This is more or less of what a son of its soil working in the distant Netherlands. But he is still working a lot for his motherland. Here is an interview with Assam Times....
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Citizens of India-Pakistan stand-up for peace

To confront the present war posturing between India and Pakistan, the citizens of both countries are launching a joint signature petition campaign on 9 January ...
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