The mortal remains of Anjan Dutta were consigned to flames on Friday a day after the APCC president died of cardiac arrest in New Delhi. After last respect to the lifeless former minister in Guwahati and Sivasagar, Dutta’s body was taken to Gaurisagar where he was cremated with full state honour in the afternoon. Former Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and forest minister Pramila Rani Brahma, MP Ripun Bora were prominent among those who were present at the cremation ground. Before that thousands of bereaved Congress men received Dutta’s body at the Jorhat Airport in the morning and was taken to Sivasagar to facilitate his fans to pay their last respect in Sivasagar town and his birth place Gayan gaon.
Dutta died of cardiac ailment on Thursday morning at the All India Institute of Medical Science a couple of weeks after he was rushed to it. The party in rank and file have condoled his death and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family members.
AGARTALA: After interrogating for two hours at a police station in Agartala, the election observer asked Pallab Lochan Das to leave Tripura on Friday night. The power minister was caught in a remote area in Dhalai district in the poll bound north eastern state acting on the allegations of violating model code of conduct since he was allegedly distributing cash among the voters. He was caught by local people and Left activists with the car in which he was travelling with a fake pass shown to have been signed by Dhalai SP.
BY OUR SPECIAL BUREAU AGARTALA: The election authority in Tripura has detained Pallab Luchon Das charging the Assam power minister with campaigning in poll bound state even after the end of electioneering on Friday.Das, who has been camping in the north eastern state was arrested from a house in a remote hamlet in Gandachura area in the evening. Acting on a complaint lodged by Left Front activists, a team of police conducted a raid at the house where Das was allegedly hiding violating the model code of conduct. Police further seized a car in which he was travelling with a fake pass. Das, the close associate of BJP poll in charge Himanta Biswa Sarma would be pushed back to his...
PRASENJIT SAHA AGARTALA: Congress president Rahul Gandhi has appealed to the voters in Tripura to reject the communal forces in the upcoming assembly polls slated for Sunday. Addressing a poll rally in Unakoti just a couple of hours before the end of electioneering on Friday Gandhi said Congress can only provide the north eastern state a stable government to ensure sustainable development. Taking a dig at BJP, the Nehru-Gandhi family scion said the saffron party leaders including prime minister Narendra Modi keep making false promises to woo the voters. He called Modi a lier adding that he has been running the government at the Centre with many lies for the last four years. Top party...
Guwahati: A national level patriotic people’s forum demanded the immediate reopening of Karmavir Nabin Chandra Bardoloi library for the common people in general and book lovers in particular. In a meeting on the occasion of Karmavir’s 82nd death anniversary at Guwahati Press Club on 15 February, the Assam chapter of All India Patriotic Forum also emphasized on installing a life size statue of the great patriot in an appropriate location of the prehistoric city. Various speakers in the meeting highlighted the struggle, moral courage and achievement of Karmavir (1875 – 1936) paying rich tributes to the freedom fighter, political stalwart and patriotic writer. Addressing the meeting as the...
PRASENJIT SAHA AGARTALA: The high voltage electioneering heat and dust is closing in Tripura on Friday two days ahead of the assembly polls slated for Sunday. Polling officials,mostly, have left for their assigned centres from Friday morning with EVM and other materials. The polling is taking place from 7 in the morning. Altogether 297 candidates are in the fray in the north eastern state where BJP has fielded 51 candidates. The Congress has fielded 59 candidates. CPM has fielded 57 candidates leaving nine seats for its ally, the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT). The Trinamool Congress has fielded its candidates in 24 constituencies. A...
NEW DELHI: Trouble brews for Pema Khandu after a woman leveled a serious charge against the Arunachal Pradesh chief Minister. The woman who has moved the National Commission for Women has accused Khandu along with his two associates of gang raping her in 2008. The woman who hails from Siang has told the commission that she had been gang-raped in the month of July. According to her lawyer, the victim who was in search of job was invited to a guest house in Tawang where Khandu along with two others namely Phurpa Lama Thumpeen Tashi and Dorjee Wangchu gang raped her. The aftermath is more pathetic. According to the complainant, she move Itanagar women police station with...
GUWAHATI: Guwahati has become a safe transit route to smuggle gold these days. Central excise sleuths seized a huge consignment of gold from ISTB on Friday. Acting on a tip off, the central excise officials conducted a check at a bag where they discovered gold worth Rs 2 crore.
GUWAHATI: Amid an unprecedented security bandobast, the High School Leaving Certificate Examination and High Madrasa Examinations 2018 begin on Friday across the state. Altogether 3,44,190 candidates have appeared in the HSLC examination conducted by the Secondary Education Board of Assam at 852 centres. Of them 176,308 are female while 167,882 others are male. On the other hand, 5,225 female candidates are appearing in the AHM examination against 4,118 male students. All examination centres are under strict CCTV surveillance and the authorities have set up 34 evaluation zones across the State.
PRASENJIT SAHA AGARTALA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi blamed it all on the arrogance of the Left Front leaders for lack of development in Tripura. Addressing a he poll rally in Agartala on Thursday, Modi said the Left Front Government has been depriving the employees of their due benefits. “If BJP comes to power we will allow the employees to strike the benefits,” said Modi. The Prime Minister said,“Power to BJP means a huge boost for connectivity to Tripura to make the north eastern state a modern Indian state.”Several central an state leader attended the huge rally I the second and final leg of his electioneering tour to Tripura which goes to pollson February 27. ...
MARCUS ANGAMI KOHIMA: Odisha Governor S C Jamir mires in dire controversy a few days ahead of the assembly polls in the north eastern state of Nagaland. Nagaland BJP has lodged a complaint before the authority alleging the aged politician has been campaigning for Congress and NPF in the run up to the assembly polls slated for February 27. In his complaint, state BJP unit president Visasolie Lhoungu said,“ Jamir has been camping in the poll bound and keeps campaigning for the candidates of his choice who belong to Congress and Naga People’s Front.”
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