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.
Noted Agricultural Scientist, Doyen of Assam Agriculture. Dr. Dhirendra Nath Borthakur, Former VC, Assam Agricultural University expired on Thursday at Guwahati. He was born on September 21, 1926. "I deeply mourn his departure. Had great contribution in the field of Agriculture. He was doyen of Assam Agriculture. He wrote many books on various agricultural subjects in both Assamese and English language. He was President of Assam Science Society and Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha, Assam", says Mowsam Hazarika, former editor, Bigyan Jeuti.
The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) is devising a new mechanism to resolve the decade long conflict with the government.Sources close to commander in chief Paresh Baruah told Assam Times that the rebel outfit struggling to separate Assam from the mainland us preparing is a panel to renew the peace negotiation with the Centre.Baruah himself is preparing the panel to be sent to Anup Chetia who is trying to regroup the former colleagues to find out an amicable settlement of the issue. The former rebels are holding a brainstorming session this week where the new move is expected to dominate the discussion.Notably, the peace negotiation which took off during the UPA regime stopped...
Violence continues to erupt in Kohima forcing the government to deploy army and para military forces to contain the situation in the Nagaland capital city on Friday. Hundreds of protestors keep moving in the city damaging government property demanding Chief minister TR Zeliang’s immediate resignation. A section of the protestors pelted stones at the government buildings to make the situation further worse. The protestors have threatened to bury the lifeless protestors in front of the chief minister's residence in Kohima if the demands are not entertained. The situation went out of control when the government held the municipal polls with 33 per cent reservation for women triggering...
The enforcement directorate has attached a huge property worth Rs 100 crore belonging to Matang Sinh and Manorsnjana Sinh in New Delhi in connection with the sharadha chit fund scam. The two flats owned by the jailed Sinhs at Doctor’s Lane in the Gole Market area were attached by ED on Thursday. Both Sinh and his estranged wife are now in the central jail in Kolkata.
Controversial film maker Himansu Prasad Das will appear before police on Friday afternoon to face sedition charges for seeking ULFA-I help to run his movie in the halls. Das, whom police summoned to appear in connection with the charge agreed to face the action. He must face interrogation by a team of senior controversy who registered s suo moto case seeking help from the head of a banned rebel outfit. Notably, Das openly wrote to ULFA-I military head Paresh Baruah asking for his intervention to ensure that his new film is allowed to screen when the hall owners tried to stop it for two Hindi movies.
Former chief minister Tarun Gogoi has raised serious doubts over the government’s sincerity on the process to update the national register of citizens. Participating in the debate on the governor's address on Thursday, the senior Congress leader said the process in processing at a snails pace. He observed that instead of detecting and deporting the immigrants, the Centre is trying to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955. He also questioned the delay in the complete sealing of the Indo-Bangla border even two years after NDA formed the government at the Centre.
Senior Congress leader and former chief minister Tarun Gogoi thrashed the Centre alleging lack of proper care for Assam in the Union Budget. Participating in the debate over the governor’s speech on the floor of the assembly, Gogoi alleged that nothing concrete is there in the union budget. According to the former chief minister, the budget has brought no fund to mitigate the misery of flood and errosion. He further observed that the insurgent activities in the state are on the rise. According to him, the Centre has not been doing enough to address the issue with sincerity. “The backward area fund has been stopped. No central support to modernize the police force and how you would deal...
Patriotic Peoples’ Front Assam (PPFA) appreciates newly crowned US President Donald Trump for his gesture to India terming the largest democracy of the globe as ‘a true friend and partner in addressing challenges around the world’. The northeast India based patriotic forum also expressed happiness that President Trump called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 24 January 2017 to invite the latter for visiting the United States later this year. Both the powerful politicians discussed opportunities to strengthen the partnership between the US and India in broad areas such as the economy and defense. They also talked about the security scenario in the region of South & Central Asia and...
The Centre is understood to have approved Z plus security for chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal in view of rebel threat to his life. Union home ministry has cleared the proposal a couple of days back facilitating three tier security for the chief minister.
The Union Budget to be tabled in Parliament on Wednesday by finance minister Arun Jaitley is expected to give the people of Dibrugarh a fresh ray of hopes.Kamini Gogoi, a retired school teacher in the Paltanbazar area in Dibrugarh told Assam Times that the budget would fetch something exceptionally good for the people.“The NDA government at the Centre must keep in mind the favour the people of Assam did in the assembly polls. Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal hails from this district definitely the government must encourage us,” said Gogoi.Bobbeta Saikia, a housewife in Naliapool pins hopes on the measures to rein in the soaring price level. “I want special measures urgently to control the...
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