Luitpar Club in Narengi Campus of Oil India Limited recently organized a unique initiative for encouraging reading habit among the residents, primarily the young people in the colony. The club supplied various books in Assamese, English, Hindi and Bengali language to the households under Rasaraj Lakshminath Bezbaruah mobile library.
The program was launched by journalist Nava Thakuria on 21 July in presence of Luitpar Club president, its secretary Narayan Majumder, senior members including Padmeswar Kalita, Haren Sarma, Jadav Kalita, Tapas Bhattacharya, Hira Rajbongshi etc.
Utter anger grips Bhawanipur area in Barpeta district on Monday a day after miscreants kept a cow head inside a local temple on Sunday suggesting an abortive attempt to create an orgy of communal clash. The incident came to light when a few local residents discovered a cow head inside the Madan Mohan Gosain Than Satra at Banglipara. Senior police and civil officials arrived in the spot on receipt of the complaint. With sniffer dogs police tried to trace the miscreants. But nobody has so far been arrested or interrogated in this connection. Local residents vehemently condemned the miscreants and gave the police 24 hours deadline to nab the culprits involved in it. ...
Durgapur, the name of a sleepy hamlet nestled in Kaziranga National park is throbbing with the activities of a full fledged hub of a green revolution. Courtesy Krishka Mukti Sangram Samity. The spotlight falls on a tiny plot of 16 bighas in the area, the nerve centre of all activities to open a new leaf in the state’s economic activities.Named as the Kaziranga National Orchid Park, the entire area is teeming with many workaholic people who are joining the revolution fetching a ray of hope for the people of Assam. Dozens of local youths are preserving over 500 endangered spices of orchids in the north eastern region which are blooming brightly.These are apart from over 200 endangered...
Assam on Monday joined the Mahalaya celebrations along with the rest of the country to mark the countdown to the Durga pujas. Rivers banks in many places were teeming with Durga devotees who started chanting mantra invoking the goddess. Hundreds of devotees in Guwahati poured into the streets early in the morning to attend the Mahalaya celebrations on the Brahmaputra river banks.
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi turns 82 on Sunday. The octogenarian chief minister is celebrating his birth day at his own official residence at Koinadhara in view of his ailment. Senior Congress leaders, cabinet colleagues, MLAs and party workers visited Gogoi to wish him on his birth day.
A woman and her son lost their lives when a storm lashed the city of Guwahati on Saturday night. The tragic incident took place at Dhirenpara area when a minor boy died in electrocution after high voltage powerlines collapsed in the storm. When his mother tried to rescue her 12 year old son she also died in electrocution. Amid shock and anger, local residents blamed the power department for lack of maintenance which was why the powerlines collapsed in the storm.
The Dispur police have arrested Juel Garlosa hours after the former DHD(J) top leader turned politician met governor PB Acharya along with senior BJP leaders to stake claims for forming the Dima Hasao autonomous council.A team of Dispur police station arrived in the residence of Garlosa and arrested the elected member of the autonomous council in the wee hours in connection with a case pending against him with the Lenting police station. Notably, Garlosa was among other BJP leaders who met governor PB Acharya and staked claims to form the Dima Hasao autonomous council saying that he along with a few others have joined BJP where Congress has reduced to minority. ...
After allowing two autonomous councils to go out of their hands Congress accused BJP of resorting to horse trading. Congress president Anjan Dutta told reporters in Guwahati on Saturday that the four executive members of the Dima Hasao autonomous council have left the party not going by the peoples’ wish. “They did it only money and power. I say it is unfortunate,” said Dutta.Later senior Congress leader Ripun Bora said, “BJP is teaming with former militants which talks of high morality.” The ruling Congress is set to lose the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council. BJP moved the Assam governor PB Acharya staking claims to form the council saying that they have numbers.
The ruling Congress is all set to lose the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council. BJP moved the Assam governor PB Acharya staking claims to form the council saying that they have numbers. But the governor is all set to hold a special convention of the council to examine the majority of the Congress. If Congress fails to prove majority, the council would be dissolved paving the way for forming the BJP council.The bizarre development took place on Friday when five Congress executive members along with four others joined BJP. Now BJP’s strength has gone up from 10 to 16 in the 28 member council.A team of senior BJP leaders on Saturday met Governor PB Acharya at the Raj Bhawan and apprised...
Apprehending outbreak of a volatile situation over the beef controversy chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday urged the people to go all out against the dirty politics to monger trouble in the state.In a statement Gogoi accused some “fringe groups” of the BJP of trying to foment trouble by importing the beef controversy and to extract political mileage thereof. He said, “the government is maintaining a close vigil over the situation and timely intervention of the government machinery prevented the situation from snowballing into chaos.”
A second Assam agitation is on the threshold if the All Assam Students Union leaders are to be believed. AASU leaders on Saturday disclosed their preparedness to launch a massive movement to stop Centre from making Assam a dumping ground of immigrants. Participating in Gana Satyagrah programme in Barpeta AASU advisor Dr Sammujjal Bhattacharjya said that the second Assam agitation is imminent and that that is the best possible way to deal with the Centre who is trying to make Assam a safe haven for the Bangladeshi immigrants. “But we are not anti-Muslim and not anti Bengalis. We oppose Bangladeshi immigrants,” said the AASU leader.
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