A statue from Thailand dedicated to Lord Buddha unveiled Buddha temple in Mitta Bhava Buddha Monastery Campus at Lokhora, Guwahati on Wednes day. On occasion of Buddha Purnima, one of the most revered festival of Buddhism the statue was unveiled at presence of devotees. After hoisting the Buddhist International flag in the Buddha temple inside the campus the idol was unveiled by Buddhist priest Bhangte Nyane Tishai. He planted a peepal sappling under which species Lord Buddha had his enlightenment in Buddha Gaya. Social worker Rajib Panikhuan, D. Ganesh Pegu, Promod Shyam, Bhugeshwar Shyam, Nag Aang Kham, Teng aung Shyam, Prafulla Hafiza, Hifijul Ahmed, Mangalsing Bay and environmental worker Chandan Kumar Duarah were present in the pray to Lord Buddha. Devotees planted saplings in the campus. An organisation from Thailand offered the Lord Buddha golden brass statue of complying with a request from Assam Therawada Buddhist Welfare Society.
GUWAHATI: Normal life remains heavily disrupted on Wednesday as the All Assam Tai Ahom Students Union enforces a 12 hour statewide Assam bandh mounting pressure on the government to grant ST status at an earlier date. AKSHYAY PRANAB KALITA FROM NAMRUP: Roads, mostly, in upper Assam districts are remaining deserter since vehicles have stopped plying from 6 in the morning when the bandh call started. Shops and markers, schools and colleges, banks and offices have not opened under the impact of the bandh call which is ending only in the evening. Many AATASU leaders and workers have enforced the bandh call by burning tyres on the roads to stop the movement of traffic from early in the morning...
DUDHNOI:More than 5000 people are thronging in front of the Goalpara Central Jail on Wednesday to greet Akhil Gogoi, who is all set to come out of it a day after he procured bail. KMSS leaders from far flung areas have already arrived early in the morning to welcome their leader who is expected to be released by 10 in the morning. A local court in Dudhnoi granted bail to the KMSS adviser two days after he was arrested in Dibrugarh to be brought to Dudhnoi. Before that Gogoi was arrested in September under NSA which the Gauhati High Court set aside recently. Many KMSS leaders, workers, organizations and individuals have categorically welcomed the court's decision to grant bail to Akhil...
KOKRAJHAR:KLO on Tuesday made it plain and simple that never will the rebel outfit compromise its demand for a sovereign Kamatapur. In his address at the outfit's Martyrs' Day function at an undisclosed location the chief Jiban Singha Koch said they would keep struggling until and unless the Koches regain the historic Kamatapur. Flanked by the top north eastern rebels in the function he said many people have lost their lives in the name of the struggle for Kamatapur which they wont allow to go in vain. According to Koch, the only way to keep alive the culture and identity of the Koch people is the independent and sovereign state which needs to be regained. He said those who lost...
GUWAHATI: A senior BJP leader on Tuesday joined Congress alleging autocratic style of functionings by the state party leadership. He is none other than Manoranjan Das, the former party MLA from Pattacharkuchi who has finally joined Congress after several months of taking on the party leadership. Das said it has become impossible for him to be with the party with a circle of selfish leaders at the helm. He targetted state BJP president Ranjit Das alleging that he along with Himanta Biswa Sarma has been trying to dislodge Sarbanabda Sonowal as chief minister. He joined the opposition party along with eight block level supporters at a function in the Rajib Bhawan in presence of several...
DUDHNOI: A local court in Dudhnoi granted bail to Akhil Gogoi three days after the police arrested him in a case and brought him from Dibrugarh. The Chief Judicial Magistrate on Tuesday heard his bail plea and granted it refusing to read the police who arrested him. Gogoi would be released on Wednesday from the Central Jail where he was sent on Sunday. Hundreds of KMSS leaders and workers thronged the court premises as the court was hearing the bail plea in the morning. Minutes after they got to know the court order granting the bail they shouted slogans against the BJP-led government alleging a conspiracy to gag the voice of protest. Many KMSS leaders and workers from far flung areas...
SIMANTA HAZARIKA LAKHIMPUR: A strayed rhino from the Kaziranga National Park has been striking no less panic in the Jamuguri area in Lakhimpur district for the last couple of days forcing the forest officials to follow the animal to ensure its safety. But the one horn animal sustained mild injury because of an abortive bid on its life by poachers. Rajen Malla, a local resident told www.assamtimes.org that the animal was seen roaming on the bare bank of the river Subansiri for the last three days. The forest guards must ensure its safety, said Malla. A forest official who does not wished to be named said it came from the national park in search of food. "It sustained mild injury because...
A silent effort called Brahmaputra Campaign is underway for sensitizing on clean and creative riverbank environment, by volunteers’ association Jeevan Initiative. As part of this, various competitions are being organized for the residents of Assam. Entries for photography, video, poster design, sculpture, street-play on the theme of the Brahmaputra and the riverbanks may be submitted at Basic Plus book store, Opposite New Arts Building, Cotton University, Guwahati-1, or jeevan.initiative@gmail.com by December 27. Besides dance based on Brahmaputra or its tributaries, instrumental music, folk song, mono and duet acting, unplugged music competitions will be held at the 7th Jeevan Kite &...
Majuli,: Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development Nitin Gadkari will decide on the fate of the Brahmaputra Board as he would chair the review meeting with north eastern chief ministers in Kaziranga on December 30. According to information, apart from discussing the restructure of the board, the high powered board meeting is expected to assign the works of development of the Master Plans, Survey and Investigation and Detailed Project report for water resources in the North East to WAPCOS. Gadkari along with Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal will lay foundation of Rs. 237 Crores project ‘Protection of Majuli Island from Flood and Erosion” taken up by...
MARGHERITA: Ten days after ULFA-I kidnapped him at gunpoint, Arunav Phukan has reached his home in Jagun unhurt on Monday morning. A team of security force, relatives have brought him back his parents hours after he was left at Joyrampur in Arunachal Pradesh in the morning. Initially, he called up his mother and confirmed his release who wad in touch with police. Policemen received him and toom him to a local hospital in Arunachal Pradesh for check up. Then he was brought to Jagun police station for some formality and the sent to his parents. Talking to the reporters who were waiting outside his residents, Arunav said he was kept comfortably and was not tortured. A group of 6/7 rebels...
KOKRAJHAR: Pomp and gaiety erupted in Kokrajhar as the BTAD district headquarters observed Christmas on Monday along with rest of the planet. A day after the mid night carols, the focus of the on Monday was the special prayer at Donbosco Church and Kokrajhar Baptist Church where both Christians and non Christians alike attended the prayers for divine intervention to restore global peace. Forest minister Pramilarani Brahma and a Lankan national attended the open prayer at the Don Bosco premises Bro Jesurajan Mark, the Sri Lankan student who is pursuing a course in Don Bosco University in Tepesia said,"I am immensely delighted to have attended the prayer with so decent and discipline...
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