Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the Guwahati-Mendhipothar train in Meghalaya at a function in Guwahati on Saturday.
In his speech the prime minister stressed better rail connectivity in the north eastern region saying that his the region will be the thrust area of his government.
Governor JB Patnaik, Union ministers Sarbananda Sonowal, Kiren Rijiju, Chief minister Tarun Gogoi and his Meghalaya counterpart Dr Mukul Sangma were among those who attended the function at Maligaon organized by the Northeastern Frontier Railway.
Caught in a barrage of criticism a day after the examination bungling, education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is not at all interested to continue the portfolio.Addressing a press conference in Dispur on Tuesday, Sarma said he would request the chief minister to relieve him of the portfolio saying that he does not want the students to bear the brunt of his conflict with a leading media baron.He strongly denied the allegations of any leakage of HSLC question papers on Monday but in the same breath he said that in a bid to clear the doubts SEBA will hold the examination again.On Monday a few examination centres claimed to have received Assamese and Social Science question papers instead of...
Shurhozelie Liezietsu is taking oath as Nagaland Chief Minister on Wednesday two days after the Naga Peoples’ Front legislators elected the party president as their legislative body chief. Immediately after NPF legislators met Governor P B Acharya on Monday staking claim to form the new government with Liezietsu as chief minister, the date of oath taking ceremony was fixed on Wednesday. Acharya will administer the 81 old Naga politician and author as chief minister at the Raj Bhawan in the morning. His cabinet colleagues are also set to take the oath of office and secrecy in the ceremony. The cabinet colleagues, more or less, would remain unchanged. But the portfolios might be slightly...
An Assam police man is going to set yet another record that could fetch no less pride for the state after clinching a few awards within a short spell of time. He is none other than Manjit Dihingia. Dihingia, a 12th Assam Police Battalion Jawan in Jamugurihat is preparing for 25 hour marathon race with barefoot. He would start the marathon race from Gohpur to Kusumtola and from Kusumyola. His success will break the 24 hour marathon race record by Abhijit Baruah in Jorhat. Dihingia told Assam Times that he is busy with preparation to crack the success and that he has already obtained permission from the authority to allow him for the wonderful task. Dihingia, who has already set a...
The paralyzing political turmoil is nearing an end after a crucial meeting of Naga Peopls’ Front legislators unanimously elected Shurhozelie Lieztietsu the right person to replace TR Zeliang as Nagaland chief minister on Monday.The 81 year old political leader’s name was formally proposed at the NPF legislative body meeting at the State Banquet Hall in Kohima in the morning 12 hours after Zeliang tendered his resignation before governor PB Acharya.Minutes after the unanimous decision, the DAN legislators met and endorsed the decision and drive down to the Raj Bhawan to stake claims to form the new government. Former chief minister Neuphu Rio also tried his level best poaching a section of...
Nagaland chief minister TR Zeliang formally is resigning on Monday to pave the way for finalizing a new successor amid the ongoing logjam that paralyzes normal life across the north eastern state.In a statement issued immediately after he arrived from Delhi, Zeliang convened an emergency meeting if the NPF legislative body meeting at the State Banquet Hall In Kohima at 10 in the morning.The meeting is electing Zeliang’s successor. Then this would be followed by the meeting of DAN legislators who would endorse the new chief ministerial candidate.Then the legislators are set to rush to the Raj Bhawan where Zeliang is putting in his papers and his successor is staking claims to form the...
A class III student died after falling off of a dilapidated bamboo bridge on Sunday noon at Siuguri under Raha P.S. According to information received, the 13 year old student named Momtaj Begam accompanied by two friends was on her way home at the time. All of a sudden, she slipped off of the wholes of the dilapidated bridge's railing landing on the hard mud below. She was later declared dead at the hospital.
Alternate media users among the practicing journalists of Tripura have taken a pioneering initiative to form an organization named Tripura Web Media Forum (TWMF) with an aim to pursue independent journalism from the alienated region of India. The launching of the web media forum was initiated with a delegate conference and a dialogue on Web Media – Importance and Challenges on 20 February 2017 at Agartala Press Club. Veteran journalist of the State, Gautam Kar Bhowmik inaugurated the dialogue, where the key note address was delivered by senior journalist Nava Thakuria. Agartala based senior journalist Pranab Sarkar was honoured with Justice SM Ali Award for Excellence in Journalism 2017...
Borgos, a resort adjacent to the Kaziranga National Park suddenly struck the attention of all political leaders in the north eastern region. On Saturday, the resort turned into the hub of all political activities to end the dead lock in Nagaland. As many as forty NPF legislators have hunkered down on Saturday to bring back Neiphu Rio as new Chief minister in lieu of TR Zeling who is set to put in papers bowing down to mounting pressure from a few civil society organizations for the reservation logjam. Forty MLAs are believed to have backed Rio whom they expelled last year alleging anti party activities. Now BJP leadership in New Delhi have suggested the NPF legislators to back Rio as...
A 2 minute video clip unleashed huge storm in political landscape providing no less ammunition to Congress and AIUDF to corner the ruling BJP in the ongoing assembly session. The clip allegedly showing BJP MLA from Morigaon Ramakanta Deori in an uncompromising position with a girl in Guwahati which has gone viral in the entire state on Saturday. Many local organizations and individuals have asked the Tiwa leader and ruling party MLA to quit. But Deori who talked to a news channel has refuted the allegation and called it a political conspiracy.
The BJP-led Assam government starts feeling the hit of the alleged failure to keep its poll promises even after nine months in power. During this period, the Sarbananda Sonowal government has done precious little to resolve the vexed Bangladeshi immigrants' issue and instead Dispur seems to maintained stoic silence on the Centre’s intention to roll out red carpet for more Bangladeshi immigrants as refugees. The time has come for the people to know the real agenda of the governments both in Delhi and Dispur. This was more or less of what the leaders of an organization said when they staged dharma in front of the Assam BJP unit office in Guwahati on Saturday. In a hard hitting letter shot off...
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