Dada Saheb Phalke awardee filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan today interacted with scribes in Guwahati Press Club. Attending the Guest of the Month programme, Padma Vibhushan Gopalakrishnan argued that regional film industry deserves support from the government. He specially stated that Assam government should patronage the local film industry as it is facing crisis.
Mentioning about Assam and Kerala having lot of similarities including its green landscapes, abundant rains, growing vector-borne diseases and also the lifestyle of the habitants, Gopalakrishnan pointed out that both the States are geographically apart, but the people are emotionally very closed.
The noted film personality has scripted and directed eleven feature films in Malayalam and all of those creations had brought laurels to him and Indian film fraternity.
Gopalakrishnan earlier received Bishwaratna Dr. Bhupen Hazarika International Solidarity Award in a glittering function held in the city yesterday evening. Conferring the award on the internationally acclaimed director, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi termed Bhupen Hazarika a great humanist and a revolutionary.
“A cultural doyen, Bhupen Hazarika forged a synergy among all geographical territories in the country and brought about unity in the country,” said Gogoi adding that he witnessed ‘lot of similarities between Bhupen Hazarika and Adoor Gopalakrishnan’ as both them acted as bridge between Assam and Kerala, though both the Sates are geographically far off.
The police team probing the GS Road clash on Monday is believed to have been preparing to arrest Himanta Biswa Sarma charging him with engineering the clash where many Congress and BJP activists sustained injured. According to sources, policemen are expected to arrest the BJP leader as soon as he arrives from Dhaka. His involvement in the clash is evident from a video footage available with a section of media house where immediately after landing at Nalbari over telephone he instructed someone to march towards the Rajiv Bhawan where the clash took place. Police arrested ten BJP leaders. But they were released on bail hours after it. Significantly, Sarma left for Dhaka hours after the...
Much to an utter disappointment for state BJP, Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma is alleged have fuelled the clash on the GS Road among a section of Congress and BJP workers on Monday. According to reports with evidence, the former Congress leader now in BJP asked his fellow party workers to march towards the Rajiv Bhawan where the clash took place leaving at least 30 Congress and BJP workers injured. Dr Sarma issued a telephonic instruction to his party men after he arrived at the Gardon HS School Playground accompanying Union minister Smriti Irani, Sarbananda Sonowal, Mahendra Singh and Bijoya Chakrabarty. In his telephonic conversation from Nalbari, he asked his workers to march towards the Rajiv...
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Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has expressed its grief at the demise of two media employees on Saturday morning in an accident that took place on National highway 37 in Dergaon locality. The victims have been identified as Pankaj Medhi and Pranab Kalita, who carried the copies of The Telegraph, a prominent English daily newspaper of eastern India, to eastern Assam from Guwahati. The JFA, in a statement issued by its president Rupam Barua and secretary Nava Thakuria, also appealed to the Kolkata based management of The Telegraph to compensate the families of victims adequately, as they died on duty hours. Moreover, the forum has urged Assam government to create a corpus fund to compensate...
Luminaries of Assamese Literature, a collection of biographical articles on eminent persons, written by Babul Tamuli in English was released on Friday in the city. Eminent educationist Dr Amarjyoti Choudhury, while releasing the book, appreciated the initiative of the writer. Dr Paramananda Rajbongshi, secretary general of Asom Sahitya Sabha with writer-journalists Utpal Dutta and Nava Thakuria also graced the occasion. Published by Pranjal Kumar Mahanta on behalf of Aalibaat, the book comprises brief life-stories of Anandaram Barooah, Lakshminath Bezbarua, Rajani Kanta Bordoloi, Ambikagiri Raychoudhury, Jyotiprasad Agarwala, Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya, Bhupen Hazarika, Bhabendra Nath...
The National Investigating Agency claimed to have arrested a dreaded NSCN(K) militant from Bangalore on Friday who is supposed to be the main culprit of the attack on Assam Rifles in Kohima early this year. Identified as Atoshe Chopey, the Naga insurgent was captured during a joint raid of Bangalore Police at a lodge in the morning. After detaining and interrogating for a few hours, he was produced before a special court in the city. NIA team is preparing for his transit remand to shift him to Dimapur for proper investigation of the incident where four Assam Rifles jawans were injured at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in Kohima March 26 this year According to NIA, Chopey hails from Zunheboto...
After Mahendra Das, yet another murder convict has escaped the gallows much to the delight of the his delight. He is none other than Holiram Bordoloi who got the court breather. The Gauhati High Court has commuted his death sentence to lifer ten years after he killed two of his brothers. According to a statement, a division bench comprising Chief Justice (acting) T Vaiphei and Justice C R Sarma, in its judgment recently commuted the death sentence of the murder convict to imprisonment for life. The Morigaon sessions Judge, in case No.47(A) of 1999 convicted him in the gory offence under sections 147 (rioting)/148 (rioting with deadly weapons)/436 (mischief by fire or...
TRAI has issued another consultation paper asking once again, if we want Net Neutrality. This time, it's about differential pricing - Airtel Zero and Internet.org type services. Copy and paste it in your email and send to TRAI. You will be able to edit before you send. Emails should be sent to advisorfea1@trai.gov.in Please bcc us at trai@email.savetheinternet.in We will try to ensure that your response is acknowledged by TRAI. ---------------------- To, RS Sharma,Chairman, TRAI CC:Vinod Kotwal, Advisor (F&EA), TRAI Dear Sir, On the outset, I would request you not to publish my email address on the TRAI website. I would like to thank the TRAI for...
Security forces belonging to army and police have claimed to arrest a KLO cadre from Anthaibari on Thursday in Kokrajhar district. Based on an information, a joint team of security forces launched operation and managed to arrest KLO cadre identified as Mukti Roy of Anthaibari village under Kokrajhar PS. The arrested handed over to Kokrajhar PS. Roy was involved in extortion, recruiting new cadres, illegal and nefarious activities. A country made riffle along with live ammunition was recovered from him.
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