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.
Two person were killed and over 30 others sustained injury when a powerful explosion hit a crowded place in Dibrugarh district on Sunday. The explosion took place at 7 in the evening under a truck when a round 30 people was busy with loading goods in Rajgarh town which is the main shopping point for the people.Police officials told Assam Times that the explosion took place with a huge sound but they found it quit difficult to ascertain the nature of the blast where electricity was disrupted for several hours. Identified as Manilal Gupta, the local trader died on the spot while over 30 others are under going treatment at local hospital. Five critically...
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi has ordered magisterial inquiry into it the allegations of torture inflicted on a blind student in Nagaon two months after the incident where the room mates forced the 14 year old boy to drink his urine.The incident took place on September 26 in the Sreemanta Sankar Mission Barhampur Blind School where Deba Tati from Tezpur was allegedly forced to drink urine by his room mates. Not only that the room mates tried to strangulate the boy with a bed sheet on that day accused him of passing urine in the room. The care taker was absent from the room on that day forcing the victim to leave the school.
A seismic wave of protest hits the state a day after Dr Subramanima Swamy asked the Bangladeshi immigrants to convert to Hinduism if they want to stay in Assam. Muslim people in large number took to the streets in the various places across the state in protest against the BJP leader’s comment.Congress, AGP leaders are set to oppose Dr Sawamy in a day or two while the state BJP leaders are also not prepared to react immediately. “Don’t spear communal tension in Assam. Let us live in peace. Why Dr Swamy is targeting the immigrants whom he wants to be converted to Hinduism, “said a protester who took to the streets in Guwahati on Sunday.Another protester told Assam Times,” BJP...
CBI is all set to quiz two Congress legislators in between Monday to Wednesday in connection with the Saradha scam. Former ministers Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma and Anjan Dutta are believed to have received the summons a couple of days back. But both of them have yet to reveal the dates for appearing before CBI. The country’s premier investigating agency is likely to book one of the duo, if need be, for taking protection money from Saradha boss Sudipto Sen.Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma, who allegedly accepted protection money from Sudipto Sen, is likely to be questioned on the Saradha payments into the account of the news channel owned by his wife. He was also allegedly in touch...
BJP leader Dr Subramaniam Swamy strongly advocates amendment in the Assam Accord to force Bangladesh to take back its immigrants. Addressing a press conference in Guwhati on Saturday, the veteran BJP leader said that the Accord was outdated that it should be amended. According to him, a new clause should be amended in the Accord empowering New Delhi to take action against Bangladesh if it refuse to to take back illegal migrants.He, however, said that the an immigrant, if covert to Hindu, should be allowed to stay. “Otherwise sealing of the Indo-Bangladesh border is not a solution to the influx problem that cripples the country, he said. “Let us tell Bangladesh that there would be dire...
The Assam Assembly will hold its winter session from December 15. Governor JB Patnaik has convened the session for only 12 working days. Several crucial bills are scheduled to be moved in the short session.
Tinsukia police have arrested a hardcore ULF-I militant n Saturday a day after the militant outfit believed to have exploded a powerful grenade in a tea garden area. Identified as Bhaity Asom, the dreaded ULFA militant was captured during a search operation in Borguri area in the afternoon.
Dr Subramanima Swamy is on a two days visit to Guwahati. The veteran BJP leader arrived in the capital city to be received by the party leaders at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in the afternoon. Dr Swamy is scheduled to attend two party meetings in Guwahati on Sunday before leaving back to New Delhi.
Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has expressed concern over the ban on a book of a Dimapur based Naga Editor-Journalist by a tribal body and urged Ao Senden to withdraw the restriction urgently. Ao Senden (Ao Hoho), which is responsible for the welfare of Ao tribe in Nagaland, alleges that Monalisa Changkija’s recent book has narrated some false allegations against the tribal body. Released on October 25, the book titled Cogitating For A Better Deal (published by Heritage Publishing House, Dimapur, 2014), is a compilation of six seminar papers which the author presented at various national seminars.It may be mentioned that Monalisa, an acclaimed Journalist and Editor of Nagaland Page, an...
The Golaghat police have blamed Naga militants for the recent firing at Ratanpur paddy field where a villager was killed and three others sustained injury.According to police, despite tight vigil by the security forces, armed miscreants from Nagaland opened fire on a group of farmers when they were harvesting crops. Senior police officers are probing the shocking incident to convey it to their Nagaland counterpart.
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