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.
The Assamese community in Delhi and the national capital region is observing me-dam-me-phi on Sunday seeking divine help from the ancestors to overcome all odds.The day long celebration began with puja offerings to the Ahom forefathers with traditional Ahom rites in the capital.The Assam Association in Delhi which organized the festival where many north eastern people who keep in the capital visited the festival venue and joined the solemn function.Apart from puja, an open meeting was also organized which was attended by many eminent personality from the north east.
Many AIUDF top leaders from Assam have been camping in UP to join electioneering to help Congress-SP alliance win the ongoing assembly polls.These top leaders include all thirteen party legislators apart from the three Lok Sabha members. Led by party president Badaruddin Ajmal, the party leaders and legislators have been campaigning in the Muslim dominated areas.In a number of rallies in UP, party leaders keep telling the plights of the religious minority people in Assam after an end to the Congress regime. They told the Muslim people to ensure the victory of SP-Congress allies in the polls.“We are shocked to have heard the plights of the minorities in Assam as soon as the BJP led...
Former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Kalikho Pul’s wife Dongwimsal Pul has demanded CBI probe into her husband’s revelations against Pema Khandu along with his deputy. Addressing a press meet in Itanagar on Saturday, she said the revelations are serious which need a thorough probe. She said prime minister Narendra Modi and his minister of state Kiren Rijiju, who hails from the north eastern state should order a probe. The accused trio should step down for the sake of an impartial probe,said the widow a couple of days after Pul’s revelations came to light in media.
The city based Dispur Hospital’s physician Dr Raj Kumar Dutta attended the media OPD at Guwahati Press Club on Saturday. Over 25 media persons along with their families participated in the camp and received free healthcare consultations from the physician. Moreover they also got their weight, blood pressure & sugar checked by Champak Goswami (laboratory technician) and Jonprova Devi (nurse). The 4 February evening clinic, organized under the series of Evening with a Doctor programs at the press club premises was conducted by Dr Vinay Singal from the Gurgaon based Medanta-The Medicity Hospital. Practicing doctors from Apollo Hospitals Chennai, Narayana Super-Specialty Hospitals, GNRC...
The agitating tribal bodies in Nagaland are all set to enforce an indefinite shut down in the state from Monday mounting pressure on Chief minister TR Zeliang and hid ministerial colleagues to quit.The chief minister straightly has refused to resign and not a single minister is preparing to put in papers bowing down to the growing pressure.In a statement, Nagaland assembly Speaker said that the chief minister, ministers and legislators should be allowed to do whatever they want and forcing them to quit office does not look fair.He further said on Saturday that no minister or legislator has so far resigned on this ground.The authority has step up security in Kohima and Dimapur to contain...
A booklet by late Kalikho Pul seems to have unleashed huge storm in the country's political landscape where both Congress and BJP leadership have been maintaining stoic silence raising doubts over the role a section of top politicians.Written in Hindi My Vichar, the booklet found near the lifeless former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister, has some untold stories of how a circle of Congress and BJP leaders along with brokers, lawyers have amassed crores of money from the exchequers within a short spell of time in the poor north eastern state.According to Pul, his main rival and former chief minister Nabam Tuki made crores of money meant for the poor people under the various...
Caught in a deep dilemma Nagaland chief minister TR Zeliang has urged the Centre to exempt the northeastern state from the reservation formula which triggered an orgy if violence in the state.Zeliang, who is on a visit to New Delhi sought help to resolve the issue amicably saying that the massive anger would keep his state on the boil.Union home minister Rajnath Singh, who invited him for discussion on Thursday assured him if all central help to end the impasse where many influential civil society organizations are nit accepting 33 per cent reservation for women.After an orgy of the recent violence, the civil society organizations served an ultimatum to Zeliang to quit as chief minister...
A massive protest is waiting to erupt in Nagaland as the deadline fixed by the influential civil society groups for Chief minister TR Zeliang to quit office ends on Friday.Security forces are fanning in Kohima and Dimapur to deal with the impending law and order mess.Army, police and para military forces are intensifying street patrolling in the capital city of Kohima apprehending mob violence as the chief minister’s office has made it simple that under no circumstances he would quit because of the pressure mounted on him to do so.His refusal is believed to have made the protesters more angry who are discussing the next course of action in any form. “We are well prepared to go to any extent...
The Shillong police have charge sheeted Julius Kitbok Dorphang along with three women in the notorious sex racket they busted two months back in the capital city of Meghalaya. Police filed the charge sheet before a special court on Thursday and all the accused are in judicial custody for running the racket from a guest house where the victim was a 14 year old girl. The supplementary charge sheet is also expected in a day or two.
Journalists’ Forum Assam [JFA] insists on continuation of Journalist Parag Kumar Das Memorial Award and urges the Sadin-Pratidin Media Group to take necessary initiatives in this regard. The forum apprehends that the annual award will be discontinued as Janasadharan, an Assamese daily newspaper that initiated the Journalist Parag Kumar Das Memorial Award, had closed down its publication last year. “As Late Parag Kumar Das devoted most of his time, energy and space for the Sadin-Pratidin group and even faced miscreant’s bullets while working as one of the highest policy makers of the media house, the management of Sadin-Pratidin Media group should take the lead to continue the award from...
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