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.
He is a 20 year old youth whom Delhi police caught charging him with raping and slapping a woman from Nagaland in Hauz Khas village on Saturday.Popularly known as Raja, police arrested him on Tuesday from South Delhi when he was sleeping inside a park. Since Saturday he has not visited his home and only moved from one park to another.The casual utensil washer in the hotels and pubs also sustained head injury when the rape victim hit him with a stone as he was committed the sexual crime. But still he has not visited any doctor for treatment.How the incident took place? It took place at 11.30 midnight on Saturday. The victim and her cousin were on the way back to their home. The 20 year...
Delhi police claimed to have arrested a person in connection with the recent sexual assault on a woman from Nagaland in Hauz Khas village. According to police, interrogation is going on to extract the information of the crime where a person took a 24 year old woman away to a park to be repeatedly raped at 11.30 night on Saturday. Police registered the case against unknown person and during the course of investigation one person was arrested on Tuesday in this connection. Meanwhile, a group of people from the north east staged a silent protest in the afternoon at the entrance gate of Hauz Khas village demanding justice and rehabilitation measure for the victim.
Caught in a barrage of criticism a day after the examination bungling, education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is not at all interested to continue the portfolio.Addressing a press conference in Dispur on Tuesday, Sarma said he would request the chief minister to relieve him of the portfolio saying that he does not want the students to bear the brunt of his conflict with a leading media baron.He strongly denied the allegations of any leakage of HSLC question papers on Monday but in the same breath he said that in a bid to clear the doubts SEBA will hold the examination again.On Monday a few examination centres claimed to have received Assamese and Social Science question papers instead of...
Shurhozelie Liezietsu is taking oath as Nagaland Chief Minister on Wednesday two days after the Naga Peoples’ Front legislators elected the party president as their legislative body chief. Immediately after NPF legislators met Governor P B Acharya on Monday staking claim to form the new government with Liezietsu as chief minister, the date of oath taking ceremony was fixed on Wednesday. Acharya will administer the 81 old Naga politician and author as chief minister at the Raj Bhawan in the morning. His cabinet colleagues are also set to take the oath of office and secrecy in the ceremony. The cabinet colleagues, more or less, would remain unchanged. But the portfolios might be slightly...
An Assam police man is going to set yet another record that could fetch no less pride for the state after clinching a few awards within a short spell of time. He is none other than Manjit Dihingia. Dihingia, a 12th Assam Police Battalion Jawan in Jamugurihat is preparing for 25 hour marathon race with barefoot. He would start the marathon race from Gohpur to Kusumtola and from Kusumyola. His success will break the 24 hour marathon race record by Abhijit Baruah in Jorhat. Dihingia told Assam Times that he is busy with preparation to crack the success and that he has already obtained permission from the authority to allow him for the wonderful task. Dihingia, who has already set a...
The paralyzing political turmoil is nearing an end after a crucial meeting of Naga Peopls’ Front legislators unanimously elected Shurhozelie Lieztietsu the right person to replace TR Zeliang as Nagaland chief minister on Monday.The 81 year old political leader’s name was formally proposed at the NPF legislative body meeting at the State Banquet Hall in Kohima in the morning 12 hours after Zeliang tendered his resignation before governor PB Acharya.Minutes after the unanimous decision, the DAN legislators met and endorsed the decision and drive down to the Raj Bhawan to stake claims to form the new government. Former chief minister Neuphu Rio also tried his level best poaching a section of...
Nagaland chief minister TR Zeliang formally is resigning on Monday to pave the way for finalizing a new successor amid the ongoing logjam that paralyzes normal life across the north eastern state.In a statement issued immediately after he arrived from Delhi, Zeliang convened an emergency meeting if the NPF legislative body meeting at the State Banquet Hall In Kohima at 10 in the morning.The meeting is electing Zeliang’s successor. Then this would be followed by the meeting of DAN legislators who would endorse the new chief ministerial candidate.Then the legislators are set to rush to the Raj Bhawan where Zeliang is putting in his papers and his successor is staking claims to form the...
A class III student died after falling off of a dilapidated bamboo bridge on Sunday noon at Siuguri under Raha P.S. According to information received, the 13 year old student named Momtaj Begam accompanied by two friends was on her way home at the time. All of a sudden, she slipped off of the wholes of the dilapidated bridge's railing landing on the hard mud below. She was later declared dead at the hospital.
Alternate media users among the practicing journalists of Tripura have taken a pioneering initiative to form an organization named Tripura Web Media Forum (TWMF) with an aim to pursue independent journalism from the alienated region of India. The launching of the web media forum was initiated with a delegate conference and a dialogue on Web Media – Importance and Challenges on 20 February 2017 at Agartala Press Club. Veteran journalist of the State, Gautam Kar Bhowmik inaugurated the dialogue, where the key note address was delivered by senior journalist Nava Thakuria. Agartala based senior journalist Pranab Sarkar was honoured with Justice SM Ali Award for Excellence in Journalism 2017...
Borgos, a resort adjacent to the Kaziranga National Park suddenly struck the attention of all political leaders in the north eastern region. On Saturday, the resort turned into the hub of all political activities to end the dead lock in Nagaland. As many as forty NPF legislators have hunkered down on Saturday to bring back Neiphu Rio as new Chief minister in lieu of TR Zeling who is set to put in papers bowing down to mounting pressure from a few civil society organizations for the reservation logjam. Forty MLAs are believed to have backed Rio whom they expelled last year alleging anti party activities. Now BJP leadership in New Delhi have suggested the NPF legislators to back Rio as...
Add new comment