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.
NAMRUP: The local residents in Namrup rescued a stranger in dire strait on Friday who is now battling for life at the Assam Medical College in Dibrugarh. Ramesh Murmu, a local resident discovered the unidentified person at the railway station premises in the morning and passed the information to the railway police. Then a local pharmacist offered him primary treatment before sending him to the state dispensary. Then finally he was rushed to the Assam Medical College Hospital for better treatment. Local residents and the police men were quite disappointed with the 108 officials who, initially refused to render service to the stranger patient.
GUWAHATI:A mild 4.0 intensity earthquake has shaken Assam and it's neighbouring north eastern states striking no less panic among the people on Friday. Originated in Karbi Anglong district, the tremor was felt at 12.40 noon forcing the people in the high rise buildings to the open space. The panic stricken Guwahati denizens in the flats and towers started coming down gearing a massive quake. There is no report of any casualty so far in the quake.
GUWAHATI: Traditional Assamese Bihuwan or drape along with lemon and smoked rice(kumol chaul) might get the GI tag. Courtesy Assam Agricultural University (AAU) which is working overnight to ensure it. GI is granted by the GI Registry Office based in Chennai, established under the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration & Protection) Act, 1999 that came into force with effect from September 15, 2003. The varsity did no less help muga silk, Assam (orthodox) tea, Karbi Anglong ginger and Tezpur litchi are the other products procure the rare tah. AAU director Dr GN Hazarika said that the university has undertaken an initiative to offer its expertise to organisations seeking GI...
HOJAI:Altogether 21 teams from different state have joined the National Sub Junior Hockey Championship which begins in Hojai on Friday. The participating teams started polling matches from early in the morning since chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal is formally opening the clash in the afternoon. Talking to www.assamtimes.org, the Hojai Sports Association officials who have organized the event said all participating teams have arrived in the venue. They said all players are getting adequate accommodation to put up wonderful performance in the tourney which Hojai hosts for the first time.
GUWAHATI: Trouble brews for Mamata Banerjee a day after the West Bengal Chief Minister called the updated NRC in Assam a conspiracy against the Bangla speaking people.The Gauhati police have booked Banerjee when TN Das, a lawyer based in Guwahati moved the Latashil police station with a complaint against her. In his FIR, Das said that her inflammatory speech at the public meeting in Birbhum might create communal riot in Assam where the people of different castes, creeds and religious have been living peacefully for decades.Acting on the FIR, the police booked the chief minister under the Section 153-A of the Indian Penal Code.Banerjee in her speech said she won't tolerate the conspiracy of...
NEW DELHI: A soon to be convened tripartite talks over the Assam Accord is expected to clear the citizenship controversy. This was what the impression of Dr Samujjal Bhattacharya after the AASU adviser along with Dipankar Nath and Lurinjyoti Gogoi called on Union home minister Rajnath Singh in the capital on Thursday. The three member AASU delegation has warned Singh that they were not prepared to compromise the implementation of the Assam Accord and the cut off date for detecting and deporting the Bangladeshi immigrants. The AASU team told the reporters here that they have made it plain before the home minister that they won't allow the Centre to proceed with the Citizenship (Amendment...
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Rajnath Singh said no Indian living in Assam would be left out in the updated NRC in Assam. Replying to Saugata Roy of Trinamool Congress in Parliament on Thursday, Singh said process is on to update NRC in the north eastern state under the direct supervision of the Supreme Court. Singh was responding to Roy who alleged that NRC is a conspiracy in Assam against the Bangla speaking people in the state. His party chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asked her MPs to go all out against NRC in Parliament. She in her address in a public rally in Birbhum called it a conspiracy to drive out the Bangla speaking lots and said that if...
Guwahati: Expressing utter dismay on a responsible politician’s communal remarks over the ongoing process of National Register of Citizens (NRC) updaion in the State, the Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) urges the politician in power to exercise restrain while making a public statement. The Assam based forum, while reacting sharply to a recent outburst of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee claiming that the NRC updating process in the State was a ‘conspiracy to drive away Bengalis’, also appeals to the conscious people of the neighboring State to prevent their talkative chief minister from making such inflammatory statements. The much waited updation of NRC of 1951 is...
GUWAHATI: The Dibrugarh police probing the APSC scam have indicted 25 more civil and police officers in its next charge sheet filed before a special court on Thursday. The special operation unit set up to probe the cash for job scam has chargesheeted all the accused they have arrested already whom the court sent to the Guwahati Central Jail. The police have enclosed the details of the forensic reports, answer scripts of the accused officers in the civil service examination along with the charge sheet filed before the court. This is said to be the third charge sheet in this nefarious case where the candidates who bribed chairman Rakesh Paul and his associates to ensure selection and with...
MARGHERITA: More than 200 AASU leaders and activists blocked the National Highway No 38 in Margherita on Thursday for one hour demanding immediate steps to repair the vital road which has been lying in a shamble for years. Talking to reporters, Margherita AASU unit president Dipankar Buragohain and General Secretary Bulbul Saikia said the vital road which has been playing a pivotal role in the surface communication network has been remaining in a dilapidated condition only because of the lackadaisical attitude of the government. The protestors slammed chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who before the assembly polls promised to rev up the road sector, has gone back to his own promise....
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