A sweltering heatwave disrupted normal life in Golaghat along with other parts of the state during the last couple of days. Two students fell unconscious inside the class room at the ResidentialGirls' Polytechnique on Saturday. Both the girls fell unconscious under the heat wave as they were attending their classes. Later they were taken to KK Civil Hospital.
GUWAHATI:Amid a stepped up activities within BJP to get the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016 cleared in Parliament, Asom Gana Parishad has reiterated that the regional party will never support it. The party decided to dispatch a delegation to the Centre to mount pressure on the NDA government to stop the deal. In a meeting at the party headquarters in Guwahati, AGP leaders and legislators vowed to oppose the move and decided to approach all political parties for support to stop the move.
GUWAHATI: Security forces claimed to have rescued a person from NDFB-I's custody after a fierce fighting where two dreaded rebels were eliminated in Karbi Anglong on Saturday. The gunfight took place in Umrangsu where the rebels were hiding along with Mahendra Ray whom they kidnapped two days back demanding ₹3 crore ran some. Details awaited.
AIAZWL:Mizoram has received a huge boost on it's power from after prime minister Narendra Modi opened the NEEPCO owned Tuitial Hydro Electric Power project in Aiazwl on Saturday. Opening this vital project at a function in the Assam Rifles Ground in the capital city, the Prime Minister, flanked by Governor Nirbhay Sarma and chief minister Lalthanhawala, Modi said the project would percolate huge benefit for the entire north eastern region. Modi's Mizoram visit is said to be BJP's initial but huge step to woo the people since the north eastern state is going to the assembly polls early next year. Then Modi left for Shillong where he is addressing a rally in Polo Ground apart from opening...
HOJAI: Hojai is gearing up to hist the National Sub Junior Hockey Tournament from January, 2018. Talking to Assam Times, Hojai Sports Association Secretary Kamal Dutta said 23 states have confirmed participation in the week long event slated to begin from January 5 which will conclude on January 13. The stadium is getting a fresh look and the organizers are working overtime to dress the playground afresh. Top organizers have been constantly reviewing the progress.
KOKRAJHAR:A dreaded NDFB-S rebel is undergoing bullet injury treatment in hospital after he was trapped during the recent counter insurgency operation at Dhumbazar in Kokrajhar. Identified as Maothi alias Martyr Narzary, he received multiple bullet injury in his body to be rushed to the hospital. police claimed to have seized a pistol from the rebel after the encounter where the rebel outfit lost its western commander.
MARGHERITA: Security forces are fanning in search Arunav Phukan in Margherita a day after suspected ULFA-I rebels kidnapped the local BJP leader's son in Tinsukia district on Friday. Army, police and para military forces are concentrating the search operation along the Assam- Arunachal Pradesh border where he has gone missing as he was going to look after his father's business in Wala Basti. Nobody has so far owned up the responsibility and no organization has been in touch with the Phukans. But top sources confirmed that Dilip Phukan, who owns a stone quarry and a close aide of Margherita Bhaskar Sarma, received extortion notices from the rebel outfit.
GUWAHATI: The United Liberation Front of Asom (I) has strongly condemned the recent shoot out in Golaghat where twelve tea garden workers were injured in firing by their owner. In a statement issued on Friday, the rebel outfit fighting for an independent Assam said they have been probing the incident and that the guilty must be punished. They said they would always be fighting for the suppressed and,marginalized section of the society.
GUWAHATI: The Gauhati High Court has reserved its ruling on the bail petitions moved by 19 ACS and APS officers who were arrested in the APSC cash for jobs scam. A bench of Justice Rumi Kumari Phukan heard the bail petitions on Friday and reserved the ruling. The ruling is expected in a day or two. All of these officers have been sent to jail after the end of the police remand. The court further heard the anticipatory bail petition of Nishamoni Deka who has been absconding since the police launched the massive drive against these ACS and APS officers. The Supreme Court has already rejected the anticipatory bail plea.
NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said Assam will be a major south east Asian destination for foreign investment when the north eastern state is hosting the global investors’ summit in the capital city of Guwahati in February. Addressing a prèss conference in New Delhi on Friday Sonowal said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is opening the three days summit which will beckon the foreign investors. “We want a pollution free environment. We want industrial growth without hampering the ecology. Now Assam is a nice place for the investors. This will help the state engage lakhs of unemployed youths directly and indirectly in it,” said Sonowal. Before that Sonowal along with his...
GUWAHATI: Anna Hazare will never support Akhil Gogoi? Why? The KMSS leader has inclination to violence. This was what the Gandhian leader himself told reporters in Guwahati on Friday. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati, Hazare said never in his life should has been supporting violence and that he won’t in future. “What Akhil Gogoi did was related to violence which is not the solution. I don’t have support,” said Anna Hazare who is in the city seeking support to his soon to be launched Jan Lok Pal agitation. The octogenarian leader who arrived in Guwahati on Saturday is leaving for Arunachal Pradesh to monger more support from the north eastern state. ...
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