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.
A local court in Guwahati on Tuesday remanded Basanta Doley to 14 days police custody a day after the APSC member was arrested in connection with a selection scam. The police team probing the scam produced Doley before the court in the afternoon and sought him in their remand for further interrogation. Then the court allowed the police to take the APSC member in their custody for the next 14 days. Doley was arrested after 10 hours of interrogation in this connection. Dutta caught the attention after he damaged some official documents in the office premises a couple of days after chairman Rakesh Paul was arrested by Dibrugarh police.
The Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expressed grief at the demise of Sukhendu Bhattacharya. Bhattacharya breathed his last on Sunday. The former PTI scribe was suffering from various ailments for some time. He was cremated on Monday afternoon. Bhattacharya, 52, left behind his mother, wife, two children and a host of friends. He worked for PTI from Guwahati and Kolkata since 1988. Lately he took voluntary retirement from the news agency and started living in the city permanently.
Newly elected Lakhimpur MP Pradan Baruah took the oath in Lak Sabha on Tuesday. Baruah won the recent Lok Sabha bye polls and took the oath from Lok Sabha Speaker.
The Gauhati High Court on Tuesday granted bail to Akhil Gogoi in two cases more than a month after the KMSS leader was sent to jail. Both the cases are related to the incident at Jakhalabandha police station where he allegedly took the lead of a protest against the eviction drive in the Kaziranga National Park. But Gogoi won’t be allowed to come out of the jail as another case is pending against him where he has yet to procure the bail in Lakhimpur district.
The police team probing the APSC scam has arrested yet another member of the state autonomous body that selects candidates for the various Government departments. Identified as Basanta Doley, he was picked up on Monday charging him with destroying some crucial official documents after the police arrested chairman Rakesh Paul. A team of senior police officers has been interrogating Doley accusing him of destroying the evidence by setting on fire a heap of crucial documents saying that these were unwanted. More APSC officials are likely to be arrested in this connection.
The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA-I) has dared Union minister Rajen Gohain to make Assamese a compulsory subject in the high school level. In a statement issued by ULFA-I on Monday, chairman Dr Abhijit Asom deplored that in some pockets of Nagaon district a section of the Assamese people have stopped talking in the native language. He slammed the railway minister for his recent assertion that the Bengali Hindu refugees would be forced to adopt the Assamese language.
The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA-I) announced it preparedness to continue the struggle for an independent Assam with an appeal to the people to take an united stand. In a statement issued by ULFA-I on Monday, chairman Dr Abhijit Asom said that the need of the hour to discourage the anti-Assam circle. The rebel outfit made it clear that Assam is never safe at the hands of those who are loyal to the Delhitis.
The Assam government employees have every reasons to celebrate. The good news came from Dr HImanta BIswa Sarma who said that the government will implement the pay panel recommendation from April in 2017. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Monday, the finance minister said that the state government employees will get DAamount more than their central government counterparts . According to minister, the pay commission has recommended Rs15000 as the minimum of a state government employee. He said that the government has hiked the family pension and that if the pensioner dies at 67, then the family members will get the entire amount and not half.
Dr Madan Mohan Reddy, senior consultant on orthopedic surgery from Apollo Hospitals, Chennai attended the 'Evening with a Doctor' program on Saturday (26 November 2016) at Guwahati Press Club (GPC). Over 25 GPC member-journalists along with their relatives participated in the evening OPD and got free consultations on various ailments like back-neck- knee pain, major fractures, arthritis etc. Apollo’s marketing officer Roopjyoti Baruah assisted in conducting the camp. The next evening clinic on 3 December at GPC premises will be attended by eye specialists Dr Subhra Kinkor Goswami & Dr Bijuli Goswami of Sight First. The camp will begin at 4 pm and continue till 6 pm for the benefit of...
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