The 5th Jeevan Kite & River Festival kicks off with the theme "Brahmaputra Campaign" from January 1, 2016. This campaign is an effort to connect the urban generation with the river. The event will continue till January 7 at Rajaduwar Ghat, near Sukreswar Park, Guwahati. Kite flying, adventure sports, cultural shows are some attractions of the event.
Guwahati rainwater toll mounts to 4 with a state secretetate employee Deben Nath was washed away by the river Bahini on Wrdnesday as he was crossing a bamboo bridge. The Assam government has announced Rs.400,000 as ex gratia to each of the four families.
Under the joint initiative of Batadrava Police and it's VDP wing, a felicitation programme was organized in the auditorium of Sati Radhika Girls' High School on Wednesday where 60 meritorious students of greater Batadrava region and its surroundings area were felicitated for excellent performance in the HSLC and HS final exam 2017. The programme was held under the presidentship of Social activist Padmakanta Borah,where Devraj Upadhaya, Superintendent of Police,Nagaon attended the programme as Guest of honour to encourage the successful students. The 1st division holders of HSLC & HS Examination 2017 hailing from Batadrava including the 6th rank holder of HS ( Arts) Amanisha Borah were...
The death toll in the massive waterlogging in Guwahati has gone up to three when an SDRF team deployed in rescue operation fished out the body of a youth on Wednesday morning who had been remaining untraced since Tuesday afternoon. Identified as Pintu Das from Dibrugarh, the body was recovered during a search operation at Junali area where he was washed away by the river Bharalu. The body is being sent for post mortem before being rushed to the home district. Two persons were electrocuted in the same Zoo Road area on Tuesday. Initially, a school boy was electrocuted as he was wading through the rainwaters and an eyewitness rushed to his rescue who also met the...
Rain waters start receding in Guwahati on Wednesday twenty four hours after heavydownpour wreaked huge havoc in the premier north eastern city where two persons were killed. Barring the low lying areas, there is marginal let up in the situation in the points where rainwaters have disappeared on Wednesday morning. The situation improved because of let up in the rains apart from the initiatives to pump out the disrupting rain waters which submerged almost 60% of the capital state. GD Road is cleared of the waters while the RG Barua Road will be clear towards the evening. But if fresh rains lash the city, it would be another nightmare. The district administration...
The Assam government has fired a newly appointed lady ACS officer alleging her involvement in the APSC scam suggesting similar action against many others who managed to be selected in the combined competitive examination. M Kalita, the assistant commissioner attached to the chief minister's secreteriat has been fired on Monday in view of her alleged involvement in the scam. According to sources, even after glaring evidence of her involvement she was not questioned by the investigators along with 25 others at Kahilipara last week. Same fate awaits many other officers who allegedly ensured selection by bribing chairman Rakesh Paul who along with eleven others have been jailed.
Amid massive water logging two persons died in Guwahati sending huge shockwaves across the premier north eastern city on Tuesday. The incident took place near the Assam State Zoo in the evening where Pushan Kalita, a school boy was suddenly electrocuted as he was wading through the rainwater. Then Anowar Hussain, who by profession was a vegetable vendor rushed to thr spot to save the teenager also died of electrocution.
Three people of a family died and another sustained serious injury when the vehicle carrying them hit at a roadside tree in Goalpara district on Sunday. The mushsp took place in the afternoon at Hadalapara when thr driver lost his control over the vehicle and hit the roadside where Lyaqot Ali, Nazia Sultana and Wasim Afzan died on the spot. Local residents in large number came and extricated the three bodies from the mangled vehicle and rescued Shamim Afzal to be sent to bye nearest hospital where he is battling for life.
Senior Naga rebel leader Khango Kanyak will succeed SS Khaplang, the NSCN-K chairman who passed away at a Myanmar hospital on Friday. Kanyak, who is known for his relentless revolt in search of thr greater Nagalim is set to take the reign of the outfit in a day or two. Top rebels are believed to have agreed to put Kanyak, the vice chairman in the helm of affairs. He joined the outfit in 1963 and visited China and Pakistan and in 2011 he was selected as the second in command of the decade old Naga rebel outfit who has been responsible for a number of dreaded attacks on the security forces in the north eastern region. The bereaved north eastern rebels bade a tearful farewell to...
Veteran Naga rebel SS Khaplang died in Myanmar on Friday sending shockwave across the nation. He is believed to have died in Taga in the afternoon. Details awaited.
Around 500 people, mostly, Dimasa from North Cachar staged a huge dharna in Guwahati on Friday demanding exoneration of the former DHD (J) rebels whom a recent NIA court convicted in the infamous terror funding scam. Raising the demand to exempt the former rebels, the protesters who represented twenty local organizations said violence will erupt in the hills district if Juel Garlosa and Niranjan Hojai are sentenced to life imprisonment. Deepak Hafila, a protester said,” peace will be disturbed again in our district. We don’t want it to happen. Let them remain free.” “Since they eschewed violence and came back to the national mainstream why should the duo be jailed again,” said Goju Hojai...
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