Defying ULFA diktat, national flag kept fluttering in the sky of Assam as the state along with other parts of the country celebrated the 70th Independence Day on Monday.
Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal hoisted the flag in the central function at the Khanapara Veterinary Playground and took salute of the march past by army, police, para military forces and scouts and guides.
In his address, the Chief Minister stressed peace which he said is the key to development. He said that his government has been trying to step up the pace of development and that his government is committed to implement the Assam Accord in letter in spirit.
His cabinet colleagues along with many legislators and bureaucrats unfurled the national flags in the district and sub divisional headquarters in the morning.
Barring a few stray incidents the red letter day is peaceful.
The Hatigaon police have arrested three youths and charged them with keeping Gopinath Das at an undisclosed location who is wanted in connection with a rape case. Picked up from their residence at Bhaskarnagar area in the city on Saturday night, they are brother in laws of the Boko MLA who has been absconding from September 7 after he raped his minor domestic help.
Yet another sensational robbery in Guwahati suggests utter lawlessness in the premier north eastern city. The incident took place on Saturday midnight where a gang of robbers armed with pistol and sharp weapons stormed into a courier service office in Gorchuk area. Then they tied the four employees with rope and looted Rs 11 lakh in cash before disappearing from the spot. Later policemen came and started the investigation.
Amid an uneasy calm the authority has suspended a senior police officer in Nazira on Saturday a day after his son allegedly attacked a driver with his service revolver along with three of his friends.Identified as Hari Narayan Dutta, the ASI with Nazira Adarsha Police station was suspended after his son was arrested in this connection. On the other hand, the deputy commissioner who rushed to Nazira town to deal with the mob ordered a magisterial probe into the entire incident.Four miscreants, including the son of the ASI on Saturday attacked an oil tanker driver who succumbed to injury in Dibrugarh triggering a massive protest on Saturday here the violent protestors vandalized the nearest...
In a nationwide rare show of solidarity more than 1 lakh women hit the streets in Manipur with a huge human chain on Saturday demanding immediate withdrawal of the three controversial bills apart from action against the police personnel involved in the killing of 9 agitators in Churachandpur last week.Organized by JAC’s women wing in Churachandpur along with Joint Philanthropic Organisation, the human chain started from Kangvai to Churachandpur district hospital where they observed one-minute silence for souls of nine tribals killed in the orgy of Chuachandpur violence.Later the speakers pledged to carry out the fight for withdrawal of the controversial bills.“We are prepared give a brave...
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi lashed out at the home ministry for opposing safe passage for Paresh Baruah whose mother has been battling for life. In a statement issued on Saturday Gogoi made an oblique attack on Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju who questioned the chief minister’s national interest. Sharpening his attack on the home ministry, Gogoi said that he had been fighting insurgency for the last many years where he claimed to have achieved huge success. He, therefore, said that he need not take anybody’s advice on national interest and humanitarian ground. According to him, he announced safe passage for ULFA top leader to...
Assam education minister Sarat Borkataky has called for having grassroots-level innovation in technology to help solve real local problems in a meaningful manner.Addressing a function in Guwahati on Friday, he said to make the state an enterprising one, every household must adopt and use technology. He said there is a dire need for grassroots-level innovation in technology that will help solve real local problems in a meaningful manner.The exposition aims at enabling and empowering the Northeast through information and communication technology. Borkataky said the state was ready for the next IT revolution with large number of private engineering colleges along with the existing government...
A sweltering heatwave disrupted normal life in Golaghat along with other parts of the state during the last couple of days. Two students fell unconscious inside the class room at the Residential Girls' Polytechnique on Saturday. Both the girls fell unconscious under the heat wave as they were attending their classes. Later they were taken to KK Civil Hospital.
In a new twist that widens the difference between Delhi and Dispur, the home ministry has denied any safe passage for Paresh Baruah to help the ULFA boss visit his ailing mother.The Centre’s clear cut message surfaced after Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi publicly admitted the safe passage for Paresh Baruah on humanitarian ground.Sources told Assam Times that a section of home ministry officials dealing with the north east region are quite unhappy with the chief minister’s announcement without prior approval from the Centre, which, the experts say, is not required.Talking to a section of media, Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju said that the safe announcement suggests Dispur’s...
Ziro in Arunachal Pradesh is getting a fresh look two days before the historic Nyishi-Apatani Summit. People start thronging in thousands from Saturday in the hilly township to get their names registered in the country’s first ever conclave to boost the bonhomie between two hills tribes. Till sunset the people even from the far flung areas made long queues in front of the Abotani Hall where the organizers have started registration. On Friday alone, more than 500 people have got their names registered at the Apatani Valley. The numbers are expected to multiply on Saturday as thousands of people are waiting to arrive in the spot by the morning. Chief Minister Nabam Tuki is...
HRD ministry is preparing an e-library where the teachers, students and researchers would have free access. This was what Smriti Irani said when the Union HRD minister was a visit to Agartala on Friday.She said that to be launched in January next year named as Shoddha Sindhu, the e-library will comprise 90,000 books would be available even from the mobiles which would be of immense benefit for the students and teachers. Later she addressed a function at the NIT in Agartala where she advised the authority to organize a conclave of all NITs of the northeast involving students for a day or two, to knock out solutions to common problems facing them and government of India will help such...
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