ULFA-I uses guerrilla tactic only for self defence and not for waging any waragainstIndia, said Dr Abhizeet Asom.
In a message sent to media on the Protest Day on Saturday, the ULFA-I chairman said that the outfit has been struggling to save the rights of the indigenous people of Assam.
According to the elusive ULFA-I leader, the "immature" studentleaders who spearheaded the Assam Agitation surrendered before New Delhi when they signed an accord to deport Bangladeshi aliens in 1985 with Rajiv Gandhi.
"However, India in contrast is seeking military solution to our legitimate struggle to establish our birthright as enshrined in international statues and our indigenous masses are responding to the call of the hour to own what belong to them," said the ULFA supremo.
He further spoke of the India, Bangladesh land deal with reference to the history of East Pakistan. The outfit also said that the move to give refugee status to the non-Muslim Bangladeshis are strange.
GUWAHATI: Finally the high voltage drama has ended.Manvik Surana has been rescued from Bhaskarnagar nearly 7 hours after the minor boy was kidnapped from the Kid Veda School premised. According to information, acting on some clues the police team tracking the case picked up a person who was known to Manvik's father. After marathon interrogation at an undisclosed location the interrogation found some lead and raided a house in Fatashil Ambari where the minor boy was rescued. Police have arrested a woman and two youths who were planning to demand cash from Manvik's parents. Details are awaited.
GUWAHATI: The policemen probing the sensation abduction of a Guwahati school boy are believed to have been interrogating a youth in this connection. Sources say in Guwahati that a team of senior CID officials have been questionings the person at an undisclosed location.Identified as Manvik Surana, the son of a top ranked city based contractor was kidnapped by the miscreants from the Kid Veda School premises in the afternoon.
GUWAHATI: Despite the much hyped watertight security, criminals keep unleashing terror among the Guwahati denizens in the form of killing, kidnapping, extortion and what not. Unidentified miscreants kidnapped the minor son of a city based contractor from the school triggering shock and sensation across the state on Monday. According to police, Manvik Surana, the minor student of Kid Veda in Bhangagarh area was taken away by the abductors from the school premises in the name of his family members at 1.30 in the afternoon. The incident came to light when Manvik’s family members came to the school to lift him. A police team has been intensifying the searh operation in the nook...
KOKRAJHAR: In yet another case of secret killing rerun, miscreants killed a priest after he was invited with a phone call in Chirang district on Saturday. According to information, Pradeep Upadhyay, a local resident of Ulubari went out after he received a call in the evening. But he never returned. Local residents spotted the body of the priest inside a nearyby jungle in the morning. Police investigation is going on. Various organizations and individuals have condemned the incident and demand judicial probe to ascertain the circumstance.
GUWAHATI: The Assam Government claimed to have received a hefty Rs 70,000 crore investment at the end of the global investors’ summit in Guwahati on Sunday. Talking to media government officials say investment are set to pour in a number of vital sectors which include petroleum, telecom, health and tourism. “We have struck initial 200 deal with the investors from home and abroad to the tune of Rs 70,000 crore,” said an official. He said tourism sector alone is set to get a huge boost with a total investment proposal of Rs 2,347 crore.
DUDHNOI: Police on Sunday have arrested three persons a day after they allegedly shot at a coal trader in Jogighopa in Goalpara district on Saturday. Hours after the coal trader Azmul Haque sustained injury in shoot out at Kabaitary at night policemen started investigation and arrested the trio. A team of senior police officials has been interrogating the arrested persons in this connection. Stunning revelations are believed to have surface pertaining to the nefarious illegal coal trade in the state where a section of political leaders and police top guns are involved.
GUWAHATI: DoNER minister Jitendra Singh said the global investment summit in Guwahati will bring the entire Northeast into the world focus which opens new gateways of trade within the region as well as outside the region, with ASEAN nations. Briefing the media in the sidelines of the summit on Saturday Singh said, the event of such magnitude has been, in the past, usually held in some of the major cosmopolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. It is, therefore, a great breakthrough in holding a brainstorming business summit. Singh said the conclusions drawn by the different sessions being held over two days will be seriously studied and accordingly followed...
GUWAHATI: In a major boost on the economic front of Assam, the state government inked as many as 176 initial agreements after prime minister Narendra Modi opened the global investment summit in Guwahati on Saturday. The packs involving Rs65,186 crore were signed on behalf of 160 firms on the day one and most these investment would come for tea, health, hotel, telecom, oil and gas sectors. ONGC announced Rs13,000 crore investment while Oil India Ltd has promised Rs10,000 crore. Numaligarh Refinery Ltd was keen to invest Rs3,410 crore. Tata joins the investment with an elaborate cancer care programme in 15 districts with Rs2,000 crore investment....
BY MH AHMED MANCACHAR: A huge land allotment scam seems to have surfaced in Mancachar where the role of a block development officer has raised no less doubt among the people who wants a thorough probe into the allegation. The BDO in question is Rashul Haque attached to Fekamari who is learnt to have allocated a plot belonging to the super market bus stand to four persons after he along with a section of local panchayat officials received money as bribe. Talking to Assam Times, South Salmara Zila Unnayan Parishad president Akher Amin said the BDO and his associates have received a hefty amount of money to the tune of ₹15 lakh as bribe for land allotment. He said after she received a...
BOBBETA GOGOI& RC SAIKIA GUWAHATI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country’s engine of growth would gather more steam as the north east Indian state of Assam is going to beckon more global investors. Opening the two days global investors’ summit in Guwahati on Saturday, the prime minister said the event will help the north eastern region and its people see the face of development in a balanced manner. He called ‘Advantage Assam: India’s Expressway to ASEAN’ an appropriate one to spread a huge message to the world. He said,” it is more than a statement. In fact it is a comprehensive vision.” The Prime Minister observed that the entire northeastern region of eight states is...
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