Sasastra Seema Bal jawans held a timber smuggler along with a trolley loaded with firewood from 16th battalion based at Ranighuli near Runikata police station in Chirang district on Sunday. The SSB jawans conducted special operations in the area under command of inspector Shyamal Singh managed to seized one power tractor along with trolley loaded of firewood from Indo-Bhutan border and apprehended a timber smuggler. The arrested person was identified as Ranjit Mushahary (26) of Gwtwibari of Chirang district. The seized timber would be cost of Rs.9.90 lakhs.
Assam Congress leaders are holding a brainstorming session to discuss the party’s poll prospect after Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma joined BJP. Senior party leaders have agreed to go all out against BJP at all level saying that the have a number of issues to approach the voters in the run up to the assembly polls early next year. AICC leaders Dr CP Joshi, Abinash Pandey along with state Congress president Anjan Dutta and Chief minister Tarun Gogoi attended the meeting at the Rajiv Bhawan.The district level senior leaders assured the central leadership that Congress has good chance to retain power for fourth consecutive term. “Whatever our government did even in the remote areas of the state. These...
Cong ready for polls Congress is fully prepared for the assembly polls and it would retain power for the fourth consecutive term. State Congress president Anjan Dutta said it on Sunday when he arrived in the Rajiv Bhawan to attend a crucial party meeting.Dutta said that the dissident won’t be able to topple the Tarun Gogoi government immediately. Dutta further said that APCC would take against the sitting party MLAs if they fail to reply to the showcause notices within the next 15 days.
Two crucial meetings of Congress topguns are believed to have finalized strategy to stop exodus of sitting MPs to BJP. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi convened the late night meeting at his residence at his official residence in Koinadhara where AICC leaders Dr CP Joshi and Abinash Pandey were present. Earlier, the AICC leaders met the sitting party MLAs at Hotel Brahmaputra Ashoka and asked them to toe on the party line.The MLAs, who attended the meeting said that they won’t join BJP. After coming out of the meeting former minister Siddique Ahmed said that no MLA would join BJP anew.Dr Joshi and Pandey are scheduled to meet all senior APCC leaders on Sunday. The crisis took a grave turn...
Hours after they met Amit Shah in New Delhi on Saturday, parliamentary secretaries Bolin Chetia and Abu Taher Bepari put in papers. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has already accepted their resignations. Another parliamentary secretary Pradan Baruah resigned after Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma unofficially joined BJP.
The Sonapur gangrape accused confessed to have committed the crime after police caught them on Friday night. During police interrogation, one of the duo said that the victim was his classmate and that he and his friend took her on their car to be gangraped at Byrnihat in Meghalaya. They warned her of dire consequences if she disclosed their names and dumped her in Ural villages along the Assam-Meghalaya border early in the morning. After confirmation, police arrested the accused on Saturday.
Caught in a barrage of criticism and controversy, Manipur Okram Ibobi Singh has ordered a magisterial inquiry into Churachandpur violence where 8 people lost their lives last week hours after the assembly cleared three controversial bills.The chief minister confirmed the probe when he was holding a cabinet meeting in Imphal on Saturday night. The cabinet further took stock of the law and order situation in the vulnerable areas.
Parts of Manipur start bearing the brunt of landslides, bandhs and blockades by United Naga Council. A fuel crisis is waiting to hit the restive north eastern state when the paralyzing bandh forced many trucks to remain stranded on the way to Imphal on the Imphal-Dimapur National Highway. The existing stock of petrol will not last more than four days and if these are allowed continue then the state had no way but to grapple with the impending fuel crisis. Deports, mostly, in Imphal town and adjacent areas have been rationing for the last couple of days suggesting that the fuel crisis is waiting to rerun in the state.
Two incidents of landslides heavily disrupted surface communication on the Guwahati-Shillong Road for several hours on Saturday night. The first incident of landslide took place in Jorabat area forcing many vehicles to remain stranded for several hours on Saturday night.Another landslide incident took place at 13th Mile area where a huge hillock collapsed on the highway. It took several hours for the workers to clear the road.
Congress is not worried at all over the exodus of sitting MLAs. Talking to Assam Times on Saturday, senior party leaders said that the ruling has already roped in at least 30 MLAs to help the government survive the impending constitutional crisis. These MLAs include AUIDF, BPF and AGP.“We would survive the impending crisis even if 20 sitting MLAs resign. We have number. But we won’t reveal our survival strategy,” a senior party leader told Assam Times after 9 MLAs met Amit Shah n New Delhi on Saturday.The party is prepared to face the early polls. According t APCC sources, the government has asked the state secondary education board to hold the HSLC and HS examination in...
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