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.
Kalikho Pul’s suicide note takes the centre stage of debate in judiciary while the wife of the late Arunachal Pradesh Chief minister has written to CJI demanding probe.Addressing a press conference in Delhi on Friday, Pul’s widow Dangwimsai said she has written a letter to the country's judicial head to probe the allegations against the judges whose judgment dislodged Kalikho Pul government.She said she would meet prime minister and home minister to demand a CBI probe into the explosive revelations.“The Pema Khandu government has been trying to cover up the revelations. Despite so much allegations and even after strong recommendation for CBI probe by the then governor JP Rajkhowa, a simple...
Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal is on a visit to New Delhi amid the speculation of his preparedness to expand his cabinet.Sources told Assam Times in the capital that Sonowal is meeting prime minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah for discussing the cabinet expansion.Modi and Shah are expected to approve the list of the new ministers which comprise five from BJP along with two each from AGP and BPF. The expansion was on the cards after January 15. But simmering discontent in AGP and BPF regarding more cabinet berths forced Sonowal to keep it pending and started the budget session which will be over by March 15.
After B Barooah Cancer Hospital, yet another state-of-the-art hospital injects no less ray of hopes for thousands of cancer patients from the north eastern region. Union health minister JP Nadda opened the 20 beded cancer hospital adjacent to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital at a function on Friday evening.Nadda, in his speech said the centre will help the entire region provide best possible treatment for the cancer patients. State health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma called it a memorable day in the state’s health sector saying that the hospital will be of immense help for Assam and other north eastern states to curb cancer disease.Earlier in the day, Nadda laid the corner stone of the...
In a move that can help Nagaland heave a sigh of relief from the indefinite shut down call, the NPF legislators have elected the party president Shurhozelie Lieztietsu as the head of the team.The party MLAs are preparing to go down to the Raj Bhawan immediately after the arrival of governor PB Acharya who is in Delhi along with TR Zeliang.The new chief minister is expected to take oath of office and secrecy on Friday or Saturday.Zeliang and Acharya have apprised the Centre of the simmering situation following the ongoing indefinite shut down opposing 33 per cent reservation in the polls. KHRIEHU LIEZIETSU NORTHERN ANGAMI-I (KOHIMA) Party:NPF S/o|D/o|W/o: MR.SHURHOZELIE LIEZIETSU...
Bowing down to the pressure mounted on him by the protestors, TR Zeliang is learnt to have put in papers as Nagaland chief minister on Friday. The huge development took place immediately after Zeliang and governor OB Acharya arrived in New Delhi on Thursday evening. They duo met union home minister Rajnath Singh where they apprised the Centre of the on going impasse following the indefinite shut down call by the civil society organizations in protest against the 33 per cent reservation for women.
The Arunachal police have grilled Sanjay Raj Subba in connection with a cheating and fraud case after they arrested the former Congress MLA from Naoboisa on Thursday.A team of police from Sepa rushed to Subba’s residence in Harmoti in the morning and lifted him to be arrested. One of his close associates is still on the run.According to allegations, Subba took Rs 50 lakh as bride from a contractor in Arunachal Pradesh promising award if contract which was not materialized. Then the contractor filed a complaint in the police station where the three tine MLA was arrested.
Amid an unprecedented security and CCTV vigil, the High School Certificate examination and High Madrasa examination have begun across the state on Friday.The Assam state secondary education board is holding the examinations from 9 in the morning with 3,80,665 HSLC and 10, 647 HM candidates at 855 centres across the state.For the first time, the secondary education board is holding the examinations amid tight security deploying policemen to ensure normalcy. The authorities have clamped 144 CrPC in and around the centres.CCTV cameras have been installed in many examination centres to prevent the candidates from resorting to unfair means. The examination is expected in May.
After Manoranjana Sinh yet another chit fund scam accused procured bail. He is Sadananda Gogoi whom the Calcutta High Court granted bail after languishing in the central jail for more than 800 days.Hearing the bail plea on Thursday, a division bench of the court rejected CBI’s submission that Gogoi’s bail would hamper investigation.The court, however, asked the accused not to leave Kolkata and to appear before the investigation office once in every month. He was the first accused in the scam to be arrested by CBI after the country’s premier investigation agency took up the probe.The court last week granted bail to Manoranjana Sinh who was arrested in 2015. Now only former Union...
Union health minister JP Nadda is on a two days visit to Assam on Friday injecting fresh hopes in the state’s health sector. Nadda is laying the foundation stone of a medical college Dhubri on Friday morning apart from laying the cornerstone of the proposed cancer hospital attached to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital in the evening. On Saturday, he is laying the foundation stone of the Nagaon Medical College Hospital. The Union minister further opening Amrit Pharmacies in the five existing medical colleges after signing pacts.
Yet another police officer probing the corruption cases received death threat sending anger across the state. He is none other than SS Panesar.The senior police officer who is probing the cash for job scam has received a mobile message where he was threatened of dire consequences if he proceeds with the probe.According to sources, the uncompromising officer got the message from the Garo National Liberation Army who wants jailed APSC chairman Rakesh Paul to be protected.
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