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 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...
The Centre devise an effective mechanism with China for trans-boundary rivers like the Brahmaputra to pursue water-sharing with the neighbouring country. This was more or less of what chief minister Tarun Gogoi said when he was addressing the Assam Water Conference, 2015, in Guwahati on Friday.In his speech, Gogoi said it has become a necessity for the Centre to thrash out a water-sharing mechanism with all riparian countries as China is building dams on the mighty river. Union water resources minister Uma Bharati, Union minister of state for DoNER Jitendra Singh and state water resources minister Basanta Das were present at the conference.
Much to a major boost for the rehabilitation of the Adivasi carnage victims in Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts, Tripura CPM has collected Rs 16.92 lakh.According to party leaders, the entire amount was collected from the villages, towns and from government employees. The ruling party leaders rued that Delhi and Dispur have been failing to provide rehabilitation and adequate compensation to the victims.
The ‘immigrant’ tag seems to monger no less trouble for BJP in the run up to the Delhi assembly polls. Assam police have booked BJP’s chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi along with three others for referring to the people of North East India as "immigrants" in the party’s vision document.Acting on a complaint filed by a businessman, polie have registered case against BJP's Delhi president Satish Upadhyay, the vision document chairman Harsh Vardhan, spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor and the party's state in-charge Prabhat Jha.The BJP leaders have been booked under the Indian Penal Code's Section 153 A for promoting "enmity between different groups on the grounds of race, residence,...
Security forced caught two dreaded militants belonging to the Dima Hasao National Army during a joint operation in Dima Hasao district on Friday. The joint team of 43 Assam Rifles and police launched the operation in Maibong area where a militant was captured in the wee hours. During interrogation Joyness Hojai alias Armaan revealed the whereabouts of Supal Thaosan who was immediately held from Didambra area.
FINER chief R S Joshi Ramesh Goenka, Chairman, Taxation Committee FINER, Pabitra Buragohain, Vice Chairman, Sandeep Khaitan, Treasurer, FINER, Bajrang Lohia, Director FINER, and Abhijit Barua participated in the discussion moderated by Prdyut Bora.FINER urged the Centre to restore the spirit of NEIIPP 2007. The business chamber of the north east further stressed the need to do away with tax at maximum rates on incentives by restoring income tax exemption benefit.Participating in a video conference with Union finister of state for finance Jayanta Sinha, FINER officials in Guwahati on Thursday urged the centre to formulate specific banking policy for North East Region to ensure financial...
Most of the city based journalists are facing different ailments like diabetes, hyper tension, skin problem, various joint pains etc, which was reflected in a daylong health check-up camp organized by down town hospital in Guwahati Press Club on Thursday. Organized on the occasion of 26th anniversary of the city based private hospital, the general health camp was attended by over 120 journalists and their close family members. Physicians from various departments like General Medicine (Dr Swapnav Borthakur, Dr Nitin Naharkar), Cardiology (Dr Dipannita Mahanta), Diabetology (Dr Rupam Das), ENT (Dr Dhruba Jyoti Dutta, Dr Srikanth Medam),Gynecology (Dr Monti Saha), Pediatrics (Dr Kahkasa Rahman...
Assam and Nagaland officials are hammering out a slew of measures to restore bonhomie between the north eastern states at an earlier date.Attended by Sivasagar Deputy Commissioner Virender Mittal and his Mokokchung counterpart Sushil Kumar Patel, the brainstorming meeting at Mokokchung on Wednesday vowed to boost the age old bonhomie between Assam and Nagaland.Chaired by Mokokchung DIO (NIC) Temsuwati, the close door meet stressed immediate measures to ensure peace along the interstate border.Both sides agreed to accord priority is to maintain peace and tranquility along the border through people to people contact and socio-economic relationship. They further felt that ugly heads of...
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