All of sudden a busy road in Guwahati started teeming with people in the morning. Vehicles stopped plying on the road. A huge crowd blocked the road for not less 30 minutes. Policemen were off from the scene. But why? All eyes seemed to have fixed on a scene where a girl threshed a youth.
Nobody came to the rescue of the youth under attack. Three other youths who appeared in the scene helped the girl beat up the youth more severally. That’s the incident which struck the attention of all when the satellite channels repeatedly were beaming the story on Monday.
The fact of the matter is that the girl was running out of her patience when the youth in question has been following her for the last three days. For the last three days he has been following her passing lewd comments and what not. But tolerance has a limit. When she came to see the same youth on the road with same style she took a dao in her hands and started chasing the youth openly on the road.
He was caught and was slapped mercilessly. The youth tried his best to escape. But by them three other youths reached the spot who joined the girl. A section of the local residents called the youth a drug addicted who was later handed over to the police.
The incident assumed significance a month after a drug addict killed a college girl in Noonmati area in the city sending shockwaves across the state.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court needs to reaffirm India’s constitutional and international obligations to rights on complex issues of nationality, detention and deportation and not be unmindful of its own commitment to these duties, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has urged.
The following is the text of the statement, issued today, and signed by a group of eminent citizens including former Supreme Court Justice Madan Lokur, Wajahat Habibullah, CHRI’s Chair and former Chief Information Commissioner, Justice AP Shah, former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, and a number of senior former officials and civil society leaders:
As concerned citizens, we look to the Supreme...
Guwahati: A wild confused wild jumbo wreaked no less havoc among the Guwahati denizens on Tuesday evening forcing the authorities to resort to tranquilizer.
The strayed animal which managed to enter into the city from the nearby hill areas was spotted in the busy GS Road forcing the people to flee.
Police and para military forces and forest guards took resort to tranquilizer to drive out the animal at 7 in the afternoon much to the respite of the people who were left unharmed.
Guwahati: Chennai based exert on Sri Lankan affairs, N Sathiya Moorthy will interact with Guwahati scribes tomorrow (Monday, 29 April) at 3 pm where he is expected to highlight the socio-political background of the island nation and also the implication of Colombo terror attacks for India as a whole.
A former journalist and presently a senior fellow & Chennai chapter director of Observer Research Foundation (www.orfonline.org), Sathiya Moorthy will be available to members of Guwahati Press Club through video-conferencing.
Sathiya Moorthy has developed expertise on Indian politics, elections, public affairs along with political affairs of Maldives and Sri Lanka. After writing...
Guwahati: Even after alliance with BJP, AGP founder president and former CM Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is targeting BJP president Amit Shah.
Mahanta, the 2 time CM is preparing to take Amit Shah to the Supreme Court for his recent announcement that Citizenship (Amendment) Bill would be enacted before completing NRC in the state.
Mahanta called it a case of contempt of court since NRC works are in progress at the instance of Supreme Court.
He would represent the family members of the Assam Agitation leaders who are least satisfied with Amit Shah's statement.
New Delhi: In a major setback for Tripura BJP, Niti Deb, the wife of chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb has moved a Delhi court with a divorce plea.
According to what she has alleged, Deb has alleged that she was the victim of domestic violence.
CNBC-TV18 reports suggested that Niti has moved the Tis Hazari court in Delhi and filed a divorce petition.
New Delhi: The BJP-led Assam government was left red faced in the Supreme Court when it apprised the top court of the move to free some of the detention camp inmates identified as immigrants 5 years back.
A division bench of the court presided over by CJI Ranjan Gogoi who took potshot at the government as it was hearing a petition alleging untold torture on the detention camp inmates.
Gogoi used a number of harsh words on Chief Secretary Alok Kumar and said he had no rights to continue his post. Then Kumar tendered apology before the court for making such proposal unheard of.
CJI further slammed the government for missing of 5 lakh identified illegal settlers and...
Guwahati: Finally state Congress has admitted the party's failure to make the Citizenship Bill in the Lok Sabha poll with full forces.
This was what former CM Tarun Gogoi said as he was addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Thursday.
Gogoi said they tried their best but it failed to reach the people in the grassroots level.
"We tried. But we could not concentrate only on it since many issues were on the store," said the former chief minister.
He further said that the pressure groups who organized the state wide protest could not help the issue reach the rural areas.
Many issues confronting the north eastern region have been left unnoticed amid the heat and dust of the recent electioneering much to the surprise of the knowledgeable circle.
Insurgency, flood and erosion, cross border influx missed the poll manifestoed released by both Congress and BJP.
"I don't understand why these parties are averse to make these poll issues. Both parties are responsible " said Bondita Sailor, a college teacher in Sivasagar.
"We have concentrated only on the principal issue which is none other than the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. We won't allow it, " said HP Saikia, a Congress leader in Guwahati.
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Kokrajhar: A Bihu dance workshop was organsied at Rashmela field in Kokrajhar to impart dancing skills among performers in the area.
A good number of performers participated the workshop, which was organized by Kokrajhar Rongmon Bihuwa group.
Bisuwa Utsov and Rongali Bihu is being organizing at Rashmela field beginning from April in Kokrajhar.
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