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.
As many as 35 girls have reached their parents in Tinsukia district a day after they were rescued just before taking to Kerala.Immediately after being rescued at the Margherita Railway Station on Saturday what a few of the girls told Assam Times suggest a circle of people has been making money with human trafficking.“We are told to wait at this station. Some body was to arrive here to help us board on the train, that’s why we were looking for him,” a girl told Assam Times after she was recued by ATTSA with the help of police.“They told us that money won’t be a problem if we go to Kerala. We were told that we would get good salary,” said a girl who was rescued along with 34 other girls.“We...
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is all set to expand his cabinet very soon. Gogoi who got the seal of approval from party high command in New Delhi is expected to move the governor soon for the swearing in ceremony.Sources told Assam Times Gogoi, initially found it quite difficult to get his own men inducted in the soon to be expanded ministry. Dr CP Joshi, Ahmed Patel et al wanted a circle of legislators who have been secretly doing dissidence against Gogoi. But finally he convinced the high command before he was allowed to induct four new faces.He submitted the list of the ministers last month when he visited New Delhi. But he failed to meet the Gandhis. He finalized his list in...
One after another Union ministers are visiting the state at a time when BJP and Congress are equally feeling the heat of the Indo-Bangla land deal. Boxed by the circumstances, the BJP leadership are maintaining stoic silence allowing the Union leaders an ministers to speak out in support of the deal than runs into a hail of protest.The Centre sent Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Saturday who strongly advocated the deal saying that it would be instrumental to help both the countries resolve the perennial infiltration and border issues.Rathore who talked to the media in the sidelight of a function to mark the nationwide launch of...
Hundreds of Congress workers formally joined BJP Karbi Anglong district hardly a year before the assembly polls.The Congress workers joined BJP at a meeting on Saturday in Bakaliaghat in presence of state BJP president Siddharth Bhattacharya.“We are fed up with Congress who has done precious little for the last many years. We have no option but to go with BJP,” said BJ Ingty, a Congress activist.Rinky Kathar, a strong Congress activist deplored before Assam Times that what she hoped were not fulfilled by the Congress government. “We have lots of problems. During more than a decade we only got assurance and nothing else. We think BJP is the proper alternative,” she said. “We hope our...
Bad days are not far away for Assam financial health if what Tarun Gogoi apprehends before Centre.In a letter to Arun Jaitley, Gogoi said that without Centre’s help the state can not escape the impending crisis. Gogoi in his letter sent to the Union finance minister urged the Centre to settle the fund flow issue to the State. “The state has been facing a major challenge during 2014-15 and 2015-16 over planning and flow of funds,” Gogoi has written to Jaitley.According to him, Assam is in the need of more public investment and increased financial support from the Centre to sustain and speed up growth.He said the funds released to the State are showing a declining trend. The budget has...
Biswajit Roy on Friday took over as Director (Human Resources & Business Development) of Oil India Limited (OIL).According to OIL, the UNCTAD-certified trainer on entrepreneurship has over 32 years of rich experience in the oil industry, spanning across a spectrum of diverse functions, such as marketing, operations, business development, human resources, besides a stint at the overseas office of Indian Oil at Dubai.
Sualkuchi, the name of a tiny place in the outskirt of Guwahati dazzles in broad day light on Sunday. The Manchester of the east is teeming with the people from the country and abroad on Sunday to attend the Sualkuchi Festival being organized to showcase its colourful craft and culture. “ I am happy to have visited this place as nowhere in this world I have come across such a beautiful place with nice guys. So simple and so courageous. They are expert in the field of weaving,” said RB S Rojja a tourist from New Zealand. “It gives us immense pleasure to have seen so much people in the opening day. We love to show our craft and culture to the world,” said Navami Das who is participating...
At least 2 persons died and 14 others includibg five women received serious injured following thunderstorm in various places of Kokrajhar and Chirang district late last evening in Assam. While, Doctors in the Kokrajhar Rup Nath Brahma civil hospital said that injured are out of critical and sufficient treatments are being given. According to eye witnesses the thunderstorms struck peoples at Simbargaon, Jharbari, Karigaon of Kokrajhar district where two persons (one man and woman) died and 12 others sustained injured at around 5 . 30 pm. In another incident at Oxiguri village of Chirang district, two women seriously injured in the strong thunderstorm. The deceased were...
A smooth passage of the Indo-Bangla land swap deal is expected to resolve two issues confronting Assam for the last several decades. Sources told Assam Times that Dhaka is all prepared to extradite Anup Chetia who has been languishing in jail for the last two decades. “Chetia is aware of his possible extradition and he is fully prepared to land in his native place. The passage of the bill virtually clears the decks,” said a senior home ministry official.The extradition formalities would be cleared towards the end of the month when Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be on his pathbreaking visit to Dhaka. Chetia is expected to be flown to New Delhi before being sent to Assam so...
Unidentified miscreants shot dead a couple in Dhubri creating no less sensation in the entire district on Friday. Local residents in Kushakati told Assam Times that three unidentified gunmen barged into their house on Friday wee hours and started indiscriminate firing at Abdul Kalam and Sabina Bibi.The couple died on the spot and the gunmen left the spot. Their bodies were recovered in the morning. Police officials arrived in the spot and the investigation is going on.
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