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.
Four unidentified rebels and an army major died during a fierce fighting between security forces and a joint team of ULFS-I and NSCN-K in Nagaland on Wednesday. The gun battle that lasted for nearly ten hours took place at a remote Naga village of Oting in Mon district. Acting on a tip off, army jawans of 12 Para Commandos conducted a search operating at the hilltop where the fierce fighting broke out from Tuesday evening. Four rebels were found dead along with an army major. Three army jawans also sustained serious injury during the encounter who have been fighting with death at the Jorhat Medical College Hospital. Army, police and para military ate fanning out in the entire area in...
More and more stunning revelations seem to have surfaced in the APSC scam where many candidates procured job as top ranked civil and police officers for cash. Acting on some fresh revelations, the police team probing the multi crore scam conducted a raid at them commission’s office at Khanapara in Guwahati on Tuesday and seized hundreds of answer scripts to probe the allegations against some more candidates to managed to get selection. The policemen arrived in the office in the afternoon and then entered into the strongroom where they seized many answersctipts of a number of successful candidates who were recruited three years back. According to sources, these answerscripts...
A senior police team from Dibrugarh probing the multi crore APSC selection scam is preparing to interrogate over two dozen ACS,APS and allied service officers, a move that will brew more trouble in the state administrative machinery. According to information, acting on some stunning revelation during the ongoing probe, the team has dispatched summons to four deputy superintendents of police, 15 circle officers including the son of a former minister. They would be questioned at the Assam Administrative Staff College acting on the revelations of those arrested in this connection. Apart from these confessional statements, the police have gatherer huge evidence of an infamous process of...
The Dhemaji police have chargesheeted nearly five dozen people of an organization fighting for thr settlement if the Hindu illegal settlers, in connection with the Silapothar clash where a group of violent protesters attacked some local student activists and damaged their organization.The police team probing the March 5 incident in Silapothar filed the charge sheet at a local lower court in Dhemaji on Saturday imposing a number of tight sections against the NIBBUSS leaders who allegedly attacked the local AASU leaders and demolished their office marking an end of the rally demanding settlement of the Hindu Bangladeshi immigrants.Sources told Assam Times that the authorities have imposed a...
Senior Congress leader Tarun Gogoi has thrashed thr BJP led NDA government at the Centre for banning sale and slaughtering of cattle under the law against the cruelty to the animal.Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Saturday, Gogoi said the government can't pass any diktat on the traditional food habits since beef is common item of food for many communities in the north eastern region.“Today they are talking of beef and tomorrow they would do the same in the case of pork, mutton, poultry and fish,” said the three time chief minister.Gogoi, further, took on his successor Sarbanabda Sonowal alleging his stoic silence fearing wrath of his central leadership and that he lacks courage...
The Biswanath police have arrested two people on Saturday a day after the duo alleged to have attacked two neighbours for opposing to slaughter cattle nearby. Identified as Ahmed Ali, the local resident of a remote village and his associate were arrested by police acting on a complaint lodged by Bhadheswari Goswami and Bharati Malik whom he attacked with sharp weapons when they asked him not to slaughter cattle at his home. Then Ahmed with one of his associates attacked the women triggering a huge clash on Friday forcing the district administration to step in to bring the situation under control. According to the local residents, the Ahmed did slaughter cattle at his own home till the other...
Security forces are fanning in and around Gossaigaon sun division in Kojrajhar in search of NC Joshi a day after suspected Santhal rebels kidnapped the senior officer of a tea garden in Guwahati. Police, however, recovered the abandoned vehicle belonging to Joshi in Chirang a couple of hours the rebels kidnapped him at gunpoint. According to information, Joshi along with three others was on a visit to a tea garden in search of labourers. He took three labourers on the way. But the trio forced Joshi to halt at an unmanned place. Then three people who accompanied Joshi were tied at a tree and took away him at gunpoint and there is hardly any breakthrough into the incident.
Scholars and experts at a recent function in Guwahati outlined the role of conscientious students for a better future of the country.Addressing the fourth convocation ceremony in the Guwahati campus of Tata Institute of Social Sciences on Wednesday the speakers said the conscientious students can give the north eastern region a good image which would have a far reaching impact on the entire nation.The convocation ceremony began after Assam education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma opened the new buildings of the campus in presence of the Chairman of the governing board of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, S. Ramadorai along with director Prof. S. Parasuraman, registrar, Dr....
The security forces on Wednesday arrested three youths in Pathankot area of Punjab when they were suspiciously moving in the area a day after the recovery of a bag contain some incriminating materials. According to information, police picked up them as the trio were found to have been roaming in the district bordering Pakistan. A senior team of Punjab police has been interrogating them. The interrogators are tight lipped on the development. A massive security is in place following the recovery of an abandoned bag containing army uniform forcing the authorities to step up operation.
At least thirteen talents have fetched huge pride for Assam when they cracked the civil service examination, 2016 conducted by the Union Public Service Commission which announced the results on Wednesday. Swapnil Khare ranks 43 while Dibakar Nath has been ranked in 254th position. Kapinjal Kumar Sarma bags 507 position while Seuj Kumar Saikia gets 677th position followed by Dipankar Gogoi who is ranked in 816th. Tapan Deka has been ranked in 859 along with Dipjoy Das in the same position. Mamoni Doley has been ranked in 928 followed by Bidisha Chinte and Yoshodhara Das, Abhijit Pegu, Bandana Deori and Montu Swargiary.
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