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 Calcutta High Court on Friday refused to grant bail for Sadananda Gogoi whom CBI arrested in September in connection with Saradha scam. A division bench of the High Court straightly rejected the bail petition when it came up for hearing on Friday.Gogoi’s counsel moved the plea a couple of days back after the Alipore additional judicial magistrate rejected the bail plea acting on CBI’s request that bail for Gogoi would hamper the probe into the multi crore scam.This has forced Gogoi’s counsel to challenge the lower court’s order before the high court. CBI arrested Gogoi in the first week of September after several days of interrogation. Recently the country’s premier investigation agency...
Security forces are fanning in the nook and corner of Chamdang Tea garden area in search of the militants who exploded a powerful grenade in the wee hours. Immediately after the explosion police and CRPF jawans arrived in the spot and codoned off the entire area for search opertion. The grenade was exploded to terrorise the businessman who was beleived to have received extortion notices along with many other businessmen. The explosion took place in Chamdang tea garden area in the wee hours when the suspected militants lobbed the grenade at the residence of businessman Mahabir Agarwalla. There is is no report of any casualty. But the building was partially damaged....
A residential building was partially damaged when suspected ULFA militants are beleived to have lobbed a powerful grenade in Doomdooma in Tinsukia district on Friday.The explosion took place in Chamdang tea garden area in the wee hours when the suspected militants lobbed the grenade at the residence of businessman Mahabir Agarwalla. There is is no report of any casualty. But the building was partially damaged.Senior police officials arrived in the spot and search operation is going on. Details awaited.
President Pranab Mukherjee stressed value based education that shapes the destiny of a nation mired in poverty, social disorder and economic malaise. In his address at the 12th Convocation of the Tezpur Central University on Thursday, he said that a strong education system is required for superior knowledge. He institutions only a few institutions deserve a better position while many others have been lagging in international rankings.In his address, Governor JB Patnaik said that knowledge loses its purpose unless it is connected with the people.Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal also graced on the occasion. Sonowal assured the university authorities that...
After days of will-it-won’t-it, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday summoned Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma to be quizzed in the Saradha scam. The former cabinet minister received the summon on Thursday to appear before the CBI office located at Salt Lake in Kolkata on Friday.Dr Sarma, whom CBI raided in August in this connection would be questioned by the special crime branch of the premier investigation agency acting on Saradha boss Sudipto Sen’s purported letter where he claimed to have paid crores of rupees to Dr Sarma in Guwahati along with Shankar Baruah who committed suicide after being raided. Sadananda Gogoi whom CBI arrested two months back played the crucial role in the...
The Bengaluru police on Thursday have held three youths a day after they allegedly attacked a Manipur student on the road on Wednesday even as the student is still undergoing treatment at a local nursing home.Police picked up the trio acting on the complaint filed after the incident where the goons attacked the student and branded him as a Chinese nationa on Wednesday night.According to allegations, a three member group of miscreants attacked the student with sharp weapon from behind on the road at night. He further came to hear some comments against the north east people. Later he was rushed to a local nursing home in the city where he is undergoing treatment. The incident...
Despite stringent measures racial attacks on the north eastern people refuse to die down outside the region. Yet another person was killed in New Delhi sending shock and anger in the entire region.Identified as Jirang Kengo, the research fellow with the Tata Institute of Social Science was stabbed to death a couple of days back at his own house in the capital.His body was recovered on Wednesday night from his house at Kotla in New Delhi. Police further found a sharp knife beside his body. The incident is believed to have taken place two or three days back. Police investigation is going on. But the miscreants are yet to be picked up.
After a brief lull, poachers have struck Kaziranga again killing a full grown rhino on Wednesday. Forest guards recovered the carcass near Laodubi camp in the national park on Thursday wee hours three hours after they had a heavy gun fight in the Kohora range.Sources told Assam Times that hearing gun firing the forest guards launched an operation in Kahora range where the heavy exchange of firing took place. The poachers, however, managed to escape with the rhino horn.Assam Times broke the news of the encounter between forest gaurds and poachers at Kohora range of the world heritage site on Wednesday night at 9 in the evening which continued for several hours. There was report of any...
President Pranab Mukherjee is on a two days visit to the North East. Mukherjee landed at the Tezpur airport in the afternoon and straightly left fot Tezpur Central University where he attended the 12 th Convocation ceremony.Towards the evening, the President will attend a cultural programme where he would receive a copy of the book, Agnikanya Chandraprabha Saikiani at the same varsity auditorium.On Friday he would attend an army function in the town. Then he would leave for Arunachal Pradesh to attend a varsity function. Mukherjee will leave back to New Delhi in the afternoon.
There is no respite for Sadananda Gogoi. A special court on Wednesday refused to grant bail for the singer whom CBI arrested in connection with the Saradha scam.After accepting CBI’s prayer, the additional chief judicial magistrate in Alipore extended judicial term for Gogoi till December 3 along with three others accused in the multi-crore scam. They include retired IPS officer Rajat Majumdar, East Bengal Club official Debabrata Sarkar and businessman Sandhir Agarwal. CBI named all of them in the second chargesheet filed on Monday before this court charging them under sections 120b, 409 and 420 of IPC (criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust and cheating) and also under sections...
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