The Asam Agitation which started in 1979 and ended with The Assam Accord in 1985, is a major timeline of history of Assam.
The Assam Accord, which sought to end a six-year-long agitation against illegal immigrants in Assam, was signed between members of the All Assam Students Union (AASU), and state and central governments just a few hours before Rajiv Gandhi was to deliver the Independence Day address in 1985. Immediately afterwards, the student leaders were catapulted from their hostel rooms into the corridors of power. Their party, the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), was voted to power the same year, with Prafulla Kumar Mahanta becoming the youngest ever chief minister of an Indian state.
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Key clauses of the Assam Accord remained unimplemented during Mahanta's often controversial tenures (1985-1990, 1996-2001), and through three terms of Congress rule, which ended with the BJP's victory in the state in 2016. Central to the Accord was deportation of those who could not prove their roots in India prior to 24 March 1971. In 2015, the process of updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC) based on the 1971 cut-off of the Accord began. The first list was released in December 2017, and did not include 14 million names.
Assam: The Accord, The Discord authored by journalist Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty looks at the making of the Assam Accord and its long shadow on the state, through political gamesmanship between principle players, periods of ULFA and Bodo militancies, and right-wing propaganda that has split the state along communal lines.
The Dispur Hospital conducted the weekly evening OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club on Saturday (2 September), where Dr Raj Dutta (medicine) offered free consultations to the participants. Organized under the series of ‘Evening with a Doctor’ programs, the camp witnessed the participation of more than 30 media persons along with their family members, where they also got their blood pressure & sugar checked by hospital workers namely Parismita Gogoi and Jitu Pathak. A physiotherapy camp is scheduled for 8 September (1 pm to 5 pm) at press club premises, whereas the next Saturday (9 September, 4 pm to 6 pm) clinic will be arranged by Hayat Hospital. Another camp on 15 September (3 pm to 4...
A low intensity 3.4 earthquake shook the north eastern state of Manipur on Sunday striking no less panic for many people who feared the rerun of the 2015 jolt. The earthquake, which originated in Imphal struck the state at 2.34 in the morning which forced many people people in the high rise buildings to come down to the open space.
The Rural Development Society celebrated the World Coconut Day with a day long programme at Khanapara . In this context, a popular talk was delivered by Mowsam Hazarika, Assistant Director of agriculture. Hazarika said the World Coconut Day helps people understand that this crop has a vital role in poverty reduction and to provide nutritional and health security, which are the prime need of this hour. Hazarika said Coconut is regarded as a life-giving fruit for its amazing properties and it reduces obesity. It shelters the body from deadly diseases and boosts the metabolism level, thereby extracting excess weight from the body. Moreover, coconut proves to be...
The Assam government is handing over the Louis Berger scam to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) acting on the Gauhati High Court order which received some crucial papers from CID pertaining to the multi crore which surfaced in 2015. Sources told Assam Times that Dispur will write to the country’s premier investigation agency in a day or two asking for a thorough probe into the multi crore scam. The ministry of administration and personnel will send the papers to CBI. According to highly placed sources, during investigation the criminal investigation department found lots of evidence of the Louis Berger kick back which they submitted before the court very recently....
Prime minister Narendra Modi is all set to reshuffle his cabinet on Sunday morning where as many as seven faces are missing paving the way for ten others which include Himanta Biswa Sarma from Assam. Top BJP leaders said that Himanta Biswa Sarma is likely to be inducted as a minister ox state in the new team who has been drawing no less applaud from the central party leadership for his relentless efforts to ensure BJP victory in the assembly polls in Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram early next year. “Sarma, the man who is known to be the chief ministerial aspirant would be inducted this time. Modi and party boss Amit Shah finalized the move firstly to...
Though miles away from their homeland, Assamese people residing in Chennai along with Association Chennai donated ₹ 1 lakh towards the Chief Minister Flood relief Fund. 32 assamese people staying in chennai donated towards this relief fund. It is also to be mentioned that many tamil employees of a company named Vardhaman from Erode district of Tamilnadu also donated towards this fund collected in Chennai. On behalf of Assam Association Chennai, Ex-president of Assam Association, Chennai Sulakshan Saikia & Shri Samir Barua handed over the chq of INR 1 lakh to honorable chief Minister Shri Sarbananda Sonowal on August 29, 2017.
Dispur Hospital on Saturday will conduct an evening OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club (GPC) where Dr Raj Kr Dutta (medicine) will be available for free consultations to the GPC members along with their dependents. The camp, where the participants will also get the opportunity to check their blood pressure, will start at 4 pm and conclude by 6 pm.
A low intensity 3.0 earthquake jolted the north eastern state of Nagaland on Friday striking panic button for many people who feared the rerun of the 2015 jolt in Manipur. The earthquake, which originated in Zuhenboto struck the state at 8.41 in the morning which forced many people people in the high rise buildings to come down to the open space. There is, however, no report of any casuslty or loss of property.
Yet another incident of gangrape sends no less shock and anger across the state on Thursday. The victim is battling to survive at the Gauhati Medical College Hospital. The incident took place in Tamulpur areas where the local residents rescued a girl from a house where she was gangraped on Wednesday night. The villagers, further, caught one of the rapists to be thrashed before handing over to the police. The victim was initially rushed to a local hospital and then shifted to the GMCH. A police team is interrogating the arrested rapist to extract the inputs of the whereabouts of other perpetrators. Many local organizations have demanded exemplary...
A fire that broke out at the Assam Secretariat in Dispur on Thursday reduced to ashes a few crucial files belonging to finance department. Believed to have been originated from electric short circuit, the fire broke out when chief minister Sarbanabda Sonowal was holding his cabinet meeting in the morning. Within an hour, fire tenders brought the situation under control. But many crucial files were gutted by the fire.
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