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.
The difference between AGP and BJP seems to have widened as the regional party openly opposed the BJP-led government’s move to support the mega dam at Geruksmukh along the Assam – Arunachal Pradesh border. The party leaders who held a huge convention in Guwahati tore apart the move to roll out red carpet to the Hindu immigrants. All leaders agreed to mount pressure on the state and Centre to implement the Assam Accord. A few leaders in the convention suggested the party policy makers to pull out of the coalition government to refurbish the image in the run up to the panchayat polls. But the party leadership preferred to keep mum and stressed a mechanism to retain its...
The media fraternity in the city today (22 September) demonstrated their angers against the murder of journalists across the country. The scribes under the banner of North East Union of Working Journalists (NEUWJ) gathered in front of Guwahati Press Club and raised demands for punishing the culprits who killed young journalist Shantanu Bhowmik in Tripura recently. The demonstrators also urged the Manik Sarkar led government at Agartala to compensate the bereaved family of Shantanu, who left behind his mother and only sister. Prior to the protest-demonstration a meeting was also organized at the press club, where NEUWJ president Joykanta Sarma, general secretary Manoj Agasti with senior...
The Delhi police have arrested a Supreme Court lawyer from Assam a couple of days after his car rammed into a biker after an altercation who died in the hospital. Identified as Rohit Krishna Mahanta, was arrested on Friday hours after the youth who sustained injury died at a hospital. The incident took place near AIIMS last week where Mahanta misbehaved with Gurpreet Singh as he opposed smoking just beside him. An angry, who was allegedly found drunk, attacked the photography student and later his car rammed into the two wheeler where Gurpreet was riding on. Gurpreet received serious injury and police booked Mahanta. But later, He was released on bail. He was rearrested...
A 3.1 magnitude tremor rocked the north eastern state of Manipur a couple of hours after the one of 4.4 magnitude striking no less struck panic on Friday. Originated in Churachandpur, the tremor was felt at 4.05 in the morning forcing the people to get up from the bed fearing the rerun of the massive one in 2015. There was no report of any loss of life and property. Couple of hours back, Manipur experienced a 4.4 magnitude tremor originated in Ukhrul. The tremor was felt across the state at 10.04 in the evening forcing many people in the high rise buildings to come down to the open space. “As I was watching television, suddenly I came to feel the jolt as the clock struck at 10.4...
Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) strongly condemns the brutal murder of a young scribe in Tripura on Wednesday (20 September 2017) and urges Manik Sarkar led Left government at Agartala to book the culprits under the law. The initial reports narrate that Shantanu Bhowmik, 29, who was associated with a local news channel faced attacks when he was covering a clash between the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) and Communist Party of India (Marxist)'s tribal wing Tripura Rajaer Upajati Ganamukti Parishad (TRUGP) at Mandai, few kilometer away from Agartala on Wednesday afternoon. Seriously injured Shantanu was taken to a government hospital, but the attending doctors declared him...
An orgy of violence marred the 12 hour Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday called in protest against the Centre’s move to accord citizenship to the Chakma and Hajong refugees in the north eastern state. Tension started escalating in the capital city of Itanagar where a section of the bandh supporters vandalized the state BJP office apart from setting afire a few vehicles on the roads. At least four vehicles, including a state transport corporation bus were set on fire. Normal life remained heavily disrupted under the impact of the bandh called by the All Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union (AAPSU) supported by all tribal students unions across the north eastern state. Roads from early in the...
Security forces fanning in search of trouble mongers claimed to have captured a dreaded a rebel along with his associate in Karbi Anglong district on Tuesday. Identified as Jona Singh Rongpi, and Ranjit Bhumji, the KPLT rebels were arrested during a joint operation by CRPF and Police from Jamindar Teron. Security forces further seized a AK-56 rifle, live ammunition, grenades and a khukri from their possession.
A lower court in Dibrugarh remanded Akhil Gogoi to fourteen days judicial custody after police produced the peasant leader before it following the end of police custody. Police sought Gogoi in their remand again for ten days to intensity the probe. But the court rejected it and sent the KMSS leader to the jail who was arrested for his open appeal to the people to remain prepared for armed struggle if the government fails to deliver the goods. Gogoi is set to move another bail plea before the court on Tuesday. Before that he was brought to the court amid tight security ad hundreds of KMSS activists shouted slogans demanded immediate release of Akhil Gogoi.
At least 15 people were feared to have met watery grave along the Assam-Meghalaya border when a boat carrying them on a river capsized under the impact of a huge storm on Sunday. The tragic incident took place on the river Sabanjoria in Khalisbhatia in the afternoon. Ten bodies were fished put till Sunday evening and the search operation which suspended due to darkness resumed on Monday morning where five more bodies were fished out. Ten other people ate said to have been missing till now. Local residents along with SDRF jawans have been continuing the search operation on the river bed and more bodies are expected to fished out.
Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) in northeast India expresses concern over the ongoing crackdown on newspaper & radios in Cambodia with an aim to silence the media ahead of next year’s general election. The recent shut down of an independent English newspaper in the southeast Asian country has shown the authority’s intolerance towards the mainstream media, alleged the forum based in northeast India. In a statement, the forum of scribes revealed that the Cambodia Daily was forced by the government agencies to close down its publication over a tax dispute. The newspaper was slapped with a purported $6.3 million tax bill recently and the authority ordered the amount to be paid by September...
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