In a bizarre move that leaves the BJP-led government red faced on the floor on Monday, AGP thrashed the Narendra Modi Government at the Centre for the controversial move on the Hindu Bangladeshi nationals.
Former Chief Minister and AGP leader PK Mahanta said that he was dead opposed to the move and that it would be an insult to the spirit of Assam Accord.
However, AGP president Atul Bora who holds the agriculture minister looked very disappointed when his predecessor rose to speak on the controversial move to give refugee status for the Hindu nationals of the neighbouring countries.
PermalinkSubmitted by jay Boro on Mon, 08/08/2016 - 19:44
Why Can't they go and settle in west bengal? Assam is already a semi-bengal. Mahanta did a good job by raising his opinion. Ruling the govt doesn't mean you don't have a voice against election manifesto.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi held the much-awaited cabinet meeting at his Koinadhara residence on Sunday evening. But contrary to what was widely expected no minister was asked to put in papers to reshuffle his cabinet. The chief minister did not mention anything about cabinet expansion and reshuffe in the meeting which last for about two hours. According to minister Gautom Roy, the cabinet discussed recruitment in police department and cleared the proposal to recruit around 8000 policemen in the district level. Further it hiked the cx-gratia to the next kin of the victims in violence to Rs 5 lakh. The cabinet decided to ensure pension for the teacher immediately...
A memorial meeting on senior journalist Bhupen Borgohain, who passed away on 27 October, has been organized in Guwahati Press Club on Monday (3 November, 2014). The meeting will start at 2 pm. Member-journalists and well-wishers of Bhupen Borgohain are requested to attend the same.
Pobitora wildlife sanctuary opens for tourists on Sunday a day after Kaziranga National Park. Forest minister Rockybul Hussain opened the sanctuary at a brief function in Morigaon this morning. Around 200 tourists from the country and abroad visited the park on jeep and elephant safari. Mayong’s titular king was also present in the function.
Dispur is all set to hand over all the jihadi related cases to the National Investigation Agency for probe. The decision was finalized when Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi held a high level meeting with senior police and civil officials in Dispur on Saturday.According to official sources, NIA would be asked to probe these specific cases thoroughly as it has international ramification. The chief minister further directed the officials to take all possible steps against anti-national activities,Home and Political Principal Secretary MGVK Bhanu, Director General of Police Khagen Sarma, Additional DGP-law and order R M Singh and ADGP-Special Branch Pallab Bhattacharya attended the meeting.
A daily wage earner died a tragic death when a boulder fell on him in Morigaon district on Saturday. The incident took place atop the Sonaikuthi hills in Jagiroad when a huge boulder rolled down the hill and hit Arup Doley when he was illegally carrying out stone cutting.Four others who escape the death when they were cutting stones with Arup managed to flee spot the spot. Police investigation is going on to ascertain the truth.
RUPAK DAS, BAKSA: After a brief lull, rhino poaching has struck Manas National Park. Forest guards recovered the carcass of a full grown rhino at Dauzeng of the Bhuyapara range of the national park on Saturday. The horn of the animal which was believed to have been killed two or three days back was missing. The carcass bore three injury marks. The rhino was brought to this park along with four others from the Pabitara wildlife sanctuary in 2012 under the project Indian Rhino Vision-2020(IRV-2020). With this, the number of rhinos killed in this park has gone up to 8.
The Assam government is preparing for police commissionerate in Guwahati from January 1. The decision was finalized at a high level meeting in Dispur on Saturday. The government is finalizing a police commissioner for the premier north eastern city which is a DIG level police officer. Apart from the commissioner, the DGP has already proposed an additional police commissioner, two deputy commissioners. The government proposed the polie commissionerate in 2008 when serial blast rocked the city.
The National Investigation Agency has named a resident of Barpeta district in the recent Burdwan blast case. The country’s premier investigation agency has indicted Shahnur Alom who is a resident of Sarthebari along with eleven others who are absconding. Among other, four hail from Bangladesh and seven from West Bengal who have alleged links with the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh. The NIA has released photographs of nine of the wanted persons but has no photograph of three of the four suspected Bangladeshi nationals involved.
Normalcy is back to Karbi Anlong and Dima Hasao. The JACAS-sponsored 1000-hour long bandh has been called off. JACAS officials told Assam Times that they have only called off the bandh after they got assurance from the Centre to hold talks in November. But, in the same breath, they made it plain that if the Centre continues to play the delaying tactic, then they would have no option but to resume the bandh that paralyzed normal life in Dima Hasao and Karbi Anglong.Neighbouring Nagaland and Manipur also bore the brunt which forcing Nagaland chief minister TR Zeliang to seek Centre’s intervention.
On the occasion of the death anniversary of Asom Ratna Dr Bhupen Hazarika, the ‘3rd Dr Bhupen Hazarika Memorial Lecture’ will be held on November 5, 2014 at Halleswar Uttar Anchalik Sanskritik Sangha Auditorium at Tezpur from 3 pm onwards.The programme is organized jointly by Information and Public Relations Department along with the District Administration, Sonitpur.This year, the Memorial Lecture will be delivered by eminent writer, critic and litterateur Ratna Ojha on the topic, ‘The Legacy of Mahapurush Srimanta Sankardeva and Legendary Personae Dr Bhupen Hazarika’.Minister for Information and Public Relations, Basanta Das will inaugurate the Memorial...
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