A novel on conservation movement, penned by Pankaj Govinda Medhi, was released at Guwahati Press Club on Sunday afternoon. Titled ‘Charai Chuburi’, the novel in Assamese elaborates a distinctive part of the movement to preserve the forest & wildlife across Assam.
Published Banalata, Dibrugarh, the book was officially released by Phanindra Kumar Devchoudhury, editor of Niyamiya Barta, award winning author Bipul Deuri, conservation personality Soumyadeep Dutta and journalist Nava Thakuria. The program was moderated by Manjit Rajkhowa, who designed the cover of the novel.
The landslide victory for AAP in Delhi is set to be the big booster for its workers in Assam. Thousands of people are in touch with the Assam AAP leadership for joining the party.“Yes, it has boost our morale. We are receiving many phone calls from the people during the last three days who are keen to join us,” said an AAP leader in Guwahati on Thursday.He said ,”membership drive is yet to take place. We are accepting only the honest people to join our party. We would screen the people who are interested in us.” Another senior AAP leader told Assam Times that they have so far received over 5,000 phone calls for joining the party. But he said that they are not in a haste as they...
Movement of trains between Upper and Lower Assam got stalled for several hours on Wednesday after a leopard came under the Avadh-Assam Express at Chandrapur. A forest official was seriously injured when he tried to move the spotted cat from the tracks, assuming it to be dead. Passengers from the stopping train moved out to have a look at the animal created a chaos and the panic-stricken cat was seen trying to attack people. A police personnel also received injuries in the incident. The animal that lost two of its hind legs bled to death without any medical aid. The forest official was admitted to a city nursing home.
Arvind Kejriwal is likely to take oath as Delhi chief minister on Saturday. Jubilant AAP leaders told Assam Times at the in Patel Nagar based party headquarters that that date is more or less final. The venue is the Ramlila ground in the evening hours. The newly elected AAP leaders are meeting at the Constitution Club where Kejriwal was formally elected as the head of the legislative party.
Finally, Narendra Modi and Amit Shah have been voted out. That too in Delhi where the party had to remain satisfied with just 3 seats. Congress failed even to open an account. The Arvind Kejriwal led AAP ensured a landslide victory with 67 seats 39 seats more than what it got in 2013. BJP could not retain 29 seats it got in 2013 while Congress lost all 8 seats in the Delhi assembly polls. BJP’s chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi lost to SK Bagga by over 2,200 votes.
Polling to 74 municipal boards and town committees concluded today amid tight security. Barring a few sporadic incidents, polling was largely peaceful. Voters turned up in 1,748 voting centres to cast their votes to select representatives to 32 municipal boards and 42 town committees. While 367 of the total 746 wards are reserved for women candidates, 32 wards are reserved for ST and seven wards are reserved for SC candidates.The civic polls have assumed importance in view of the forthcoming Assembly elections next year. While the ruling Congress swept the last urban civic polls, this year the party is likely to face a tough time given the performance shown by the BJP and AIUDF in the last...
At least 15 people are feared dead when a vehicle carrying at least 20 people collided head on a truck in Golaghat district on Sunday.The tragic mishap took place on the National Highway 37 in Kaziranga when the Tata Winger from Golaghat collided with a stranded truck in the wee hours.Ten people died on the spot while others succumbed to injuries at the hospital where they were undergoing treatment.
The Central Bureau of Investigation probing the Saradha scam on Saturday got remand of Matang Sinh a week after they arrested the former Union minister.ACJM (in-charge) of Alipore court Manikuntala Roy remanded Sinh to CBI custody till February 11 after the investigation agency sought seven days remand.The judge further cleared the prayer that a lawyer be provided with Sinh during interrogation.The counsel, appearing for Sinh said that the accused was a grade II liver transplant patient and hence needed special medical attention and that his immunity level was very low and sending him to police custody might endanger his life.Sinh told the court that the investigation officer in this case...
The Assam government has prohibited sale of liquor for three select days in areas falling under 74 municipal boards and town committees across the state because of civic polls slated for on February 9. The Excise Department has declared February 8, 9 and 12 (previous day of poll, day of poll and day of counting respectively) as dry days.
Ruling BJP is left red faced early in the morning when it Mangolpurie candidate was caught red handed with liquor by a section of local residents.Police has detained him after he was handed over to the nearest police station.
The Assam State human right commission has ordered a probe into the alleged siphoning of a huge amount of money out of a grant for as many as 08 jails in Assam.A division bench of its chairperson Dr Justice Aftab Hussain Saikia, member Tarun Pookan, on Friday issued a notice to the Assam Government to institute an inquiry into the allegation.The order was issued after the Commission took sou moto cognizance of a news published in the vernacular dailylast week.According to the allegations, the siphoning of a huge amount of money out of a grant of Rs.2 Crores and 50 Lakhs released by the then IG(Prisons) during 2014-15 in favour of 2(two) Supply Firms, viz., Tanmoy Enterprise and...
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