Gautom Roy and Siddique Ahmed took oath a new cabinet ministers on Tuesday. Governor PBAcharya administered the duo the oath of office and secrecy at a brief function at the Raj Bhawan in the morning. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi along with his cabinet colleagues, APCC leaders and parliamentary secretaries attended the function. Gogoi sacked both of them last year.
New Delhi and Dispur will strike a deal set up generic centres at about 100 hospitals in Assam for generic medicines at very low cost to poor patients.This was what Union Minister Ananth Kumar said in Guwahati on Saturday. Laying the foundation stone of National Institute of Pharmaceuticals Education and Research (NIPER) campus in the city, he said the this would be done under the Janaushadhi scheme which will provide more than 500 generic medicines by setting up generic centres at about 100 hospitals in district and subdivisional headquarters.Kumar said the Centre would set up the generic centres at the cost of Rs 2.5 lakh each in the state and the cost of 100 hospitals would be Rs 100...
Pranshree Kalita tops the HS science stream while his counterpart in the arts stream is Manash Pratim Goswami. Sweta Agarwal tops the commerce stream as the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council has declared the results on Saturday. Pranshree scores with an aggregate of 490 out of 500 marks while Manash and Sweta share the top scorer position in commerce stream with an aggregate of 469 marks.
After months of will-it-won’t-it, Dispur has cleared the decks for holding the SAF games slated for November-end this year.The Assam government on Friday night has written to the sports ministry evincing to host the sports event in the state. Sources told Assam Times that the decision was finalized after Union sports minister Sarbananda Sonowal made it clear that the games village is not mandatory for the event unlike the National Games. The Olympic body is expected to formally announce the venue on June 6. Earlier chief minister was reluctant to host the event citing fund crunch. When the Centre assured him of funds Dispur agreed to host the event.
Amid simmering protest for Indo-Bangla land swap deal Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi will accompany Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Dhaka slated for June 6.Modi will require Gogoi’s support to finalise the implementation of the land deal between New Delhi and Dhaka. Sources told Assam Times that Modi will be flanked by Gogoi from Guwahati. Along with Gogoi, Prime Minister would be accompanied by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to Dhaka.Modi who is scheduled to arrive in Guwahati on June 8 to be straightly left for IIT in North Guwahat where he will address the convocation ceremony.
Amid sharpening attack for a number of issues Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a visit to the state on June 8.Modi who is scheduled to arrive in Guwahati will straightly leave for IIT in North Guwahat where he will address the convocation ceremony.Prime Minister is scheduled to leave to Dhaka towards the afternoon.
An eerie silence is prevails in Sonitpur district a day after tea garden worker beheaded a minor boy in the name of puja offering to the god before being lynched by mob.According to police, the accused had a dispute with the father of the victim. The incident took place a day after the two families had quarrel. Later in the evening, he allegedly dragged the boy into his house and hacked him to death with a machete and also beheaded him.The bizarre incident took place at Rongapara area where Nanu Mirdha in the Tarajuli Tea Estate beheaded Sanatan Bag at his residence.When the shocking news started spreading like wild fire, the local residents in large number raided his residence, dragged him...
Shock and anger still are simmering in Rongapara a day after bizarre incident where Nanu Mirdha in the Tarajuli Tea Estate beheaded Sanatan Bag at his residence.Local residents suspect that the beheading could be a case of child sacrifice as idols of gods and goddesses and other religious material were recovered from the place where the boy's body was found. Locals allege that the accused was a tantrik.When the shocking news started spreading like wild fire, the local residents in large number raided his residence, dragged him out and lynched him.
In yet another incident that touches off a seismic wave of shock and anger across the state, a tea garden worker beheaded a minor boy in the name of puja offering to the god before being lynched by mob in Sonitpur district.The bizzare incident took place at Rongapara area where Nanu Mirdha in the Tarajuli Tea Estate beheaded Sanatan Bag at his residence.When the shocking news started spreading like wild fire, the local residents in large number raided his residence, dragged him out and lynched him.Police and para military forces arrived in the spot and brought the situation under control. DC Lalit Gogoi and SP Sanyukta Parashar have been monitoring the situation.
After years of hopes and aspiration, Assam gets its Mega food park in Tihu—first of its kind in the north east.Local people and economists called it a major boost to the food processing sector which will help the state add value and reduce food wastage.Chief minister Tarun Gogoi and Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal opened the park at a function attended by union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju and sports minister Sarbananda Sonowal.Officials told Assam Times that the Centre sanctioned a Mega Food Park to M/s North East Mega Food Park Pvt. Ltd in the district. The North East Mega Food Park has been set up in 50 acre of land at the cost of Rs. 76...
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