A team of Assam Police has been camping in Mumbai for the last couple of weeks in search of a 16-year-old girl who has been remaining untraced for the last 10 months. But the clue eludes tie and again. The police team is busy in the searh operation in view of the Gauhait High Court's directive of a progress report by on June 22. Populrly known as Suhana Begum the girl from Hojai went missing from Pub-Bandarmela on August 25. He family members suspect Fatarul Nessa believes that she was hiding in Mumbai with a boy who she knows. According to the allegations, Mehboob Alam and Aynullah lured her away to Mumbai forcing the family members to move the court. The court asked polie to submit the status report on June 22 which is nearing.
Veteran Naga politician Shurhozelie Leiztietsu took oath as new Nagaland chief minister on Wednesday ending a month long deadlock in the north eastern state. Nagaland governor PB Acharya administered the 81 year old NPF leader the oath of office and secrecy at a function in the Raj Bhawan in the morning. Leiztietsu has retained all former ministers in his member cabinet who also took oath. New NPF president, BJP leaders and other legislators were also present in the oath taking ceremony. The wheels of Leiztietsu started running when TR Zeliang had to resign bowing down to the pressure mounted on him by the civil society organizations who are dead opposed to the 33 pet cent reservation for...
The Naga Peoples Front has welcomed Imkong L Imchen again after the MLA tendered apology to the party leadership nearly three years after he was suspended. Chief minister designate Shurhozelie Lieztietsu formally revoked the three year old order at a meeting of the party in Kohima on Tuesday night. The former minister in the erstwhile Neiphu Rio government was suspended from the party for Hus alleged involvement in the anti party activities. But Rio was not figured in the meeting. DAN chairman TR Zeliang and Lieztietsu appreciated each other for their efforts to restore normalcy in violent protest hit state.
The Supreme Court is quite unhappy with the alleged unabetted influx into Assam from across the Indo-Bangladesh border.Hearing a set of petitions on Tuesday pertaining to infiltration, NRC, Assam Accord, Citizenship amendment move, a division bench of the court comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar, Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice SK Kaul called the alleged non stop infiltration an external aggression.If it is allowed yo continue the state would be overcrowded by those who have no rights to live on the soil of Assam, the bench observed fearing that unabetted infiltration will ultimately result in the erosion of culture.The bench asked the Gauhati High court to expedite the...
A constitutional bench of the Supreme Court will hear a set of petitions pertaining to 13 issues confronting Assam and its people. These include the validity of the Assam Accord, move to amend the Citizenship Act and its impending impact on Assam, NRC, infiltration. A division bench of the country’s apex court comprising chief justice JS Khehar. Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice SK Kaul on Tuesday decided to set up the special bench to start hearing on day to day basis from May 11. The petitioners include Asom Sahitya Sabha, Ahom Sabha, Assam Public Works who moved the court challenging the validity of certain clauses of the Assam Accord 1985, cut off date, Citizenship Amendment Bill,...
Assault on sitting judge in Assam, PPFA demands stern actions against anti-national culprits Guwahati: Patriotic Peoples’ Front Assam (PPFA) expresses serious concern over the Goalpara incident, where a sitting judge was physically manhandled by some lawyers recently and demands stern actions against those unruly law practitioners to maintain the dignity of the Indian judicial entity. The forum strongly argues that the anti-national culprits, who targeted the Foreigners Tribunal member Ajay Kumar Phukan inside his office at Goalpara in western Assam, must be punished to protect the image of judicial personalities among the mass. It may be noted that a group of lawyers, while engaging with...
He is a 20 year old youth whom Delhi police caught charging him with raping and slapping a woman from Nagaland in Hauz Khas village on Saturday.Popularly known as Raja, police arrested him on Tuesday from South Delhi when he was sleeping inside a park. Since Saturday he has not visited his home and only moved from one park to another.The casual utensil washer in the hotels and pubs also sustained head injury when the rape victim hit him with a stone as he was committed the sexual crime. But still he has not visited any doctor for treatment.How the incident took place? It took place at 11.30 midnight on Saturday. The victim and her cousin were on the way back to their home. The 20 year...
Delhi police claimed to have arrested a person in connection with the recent sexual assault on a woman from Nagaland in Hauz Khas village. According to police, interrogation is going on to extract the information of the crime where a person took a 24 year old woman away to a park to be repeatedly raped at 11.30 night on Saturday. Police registered the case against unknown person and during the course of investigation one person was arrested on Tuesday in this connection. Meanwhile, a group of people from the north east staged a silent protest in the afternoon at the entrance gate of Hauz Khas village demanding justice and rehabilitation measure for the victim.
Caught in a barrage of criticism a day after the examination bungling, education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is not at all interested to continue the portfolio.Addressing a press conference in Dispur on Tuesday, Sarma said he would request the chief minister to relieve him of the portfolio saying that he does not want the students to bear the brunt of his conflict with a leading media baron.He strongly denied the allegations of any leakage of HSLC question papers on Monday but in the same breath he said that in a bid to clear the doubts SEBA will hold the examination again.On Monday a few examination centres claimed to have received Assamese and Social Science question papers instead of...
Shurhozelie Liezietsu is taking oath as Nagaland Chief Minister on Wednesday two days after the Naga Peoples’ Front legislators elected the party president as their legislative body chief. Immediately after NPF legislators met Governor P B Acharya on Monday staking claim to form the new government with Liezietsu as chief minister, the date of oath taking ceremony was fixed on Wednesday. Acharya will administer the 81 old Naga politician and author as chief minister at the Raj Bhawan in the morning. His cabinet colleagues are also set to take the oath of office and secrecy in the ceremony. The cabinet colleagues, more or less, would remain unchanged. But the portfolios might be slightly...
An Assam police man is going to set yet another record that could fetch no less pride for the state after clinching a few awards within a short spell of time. He is none other than Manjit Dihingia. Dihingia, a 12th Assam Police Battalion Jawan in Jamugurihat is preparing for 25 hour marathon race with barefoot. He would start the marathon race from Gohpur to Kusumtola and from Kusumyola. His success will break the 24 hour marathon race record by Abhijit Baruah in Jorhat. Dihingia told Assam Times that he is busy with preparation to crack the success and that he has already obtained permission from the authority to allow him for the wonderful task. Dihingia, who has already set a...
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