Guwahati: Come March 22 Arunachal Pradesh is preparing to host a bird festival, atop the blue hills to promote tourism by giving a big push to wildlife conservation. Courtesy Arunachal Pradesh Art & Culture Eco-Tourism Society, this organization dedicated to promote wildlife conservation is holding the festival for three days from March 22 at Rupa and the Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in West Kameng district.
According to the organizing secretary Ms. Kesang Khrimey, the event aims at conserving the wildlife with a massive participation of the people and thereby to promote the tourism sector which provides livelihood for many in the state.
Interaction with wildlife experts and tourism entrepreneurs apart from heritage walk and seminars would be the salient features of the event, said Khrimey.
“We have already got confirmation of participation form experts in the field of nature conservation from the country and abroad, including Dr.Anuj Jain of BirdLife Asia (Singapore), Mr Paul Insua-Cao of Royal Society for Protection of Birds, UK and Director of The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) Dr Deepak Apte”, she added.
Khrimey further said that it would be an occasion for the people of all walks of life to share their views and ideas with the wildlife experts and the tourism entrepreneurs will have the same amount of benefit to boost their means of livelihood.
Bohag Bihu, the much vaunted festival of the Assamese kicks off on Friday amid no less traditional pomp and gaiety across the state marking an entry into a new Assamese calendar year. The week long festivity began early in the morning with Goru Bihu, where the cow was bathed in pool and rivers to be worshipped. Traditional Assamese sweets and pastries are flooding every household to be served to the near and dear ones. Dressed in traditional attire people in the open spaces are busy with egg fights other games to mark the annual spring festival. With drums and cymbals, flute and buffalo horn pipes the young boys and girls are performing door to door Bihu Huchori wishing divine bliss...
BJP candidate Ranoj Pegu won the Dhemaji assembly by election defeating his nearest rival Congress candidate Babul Sonowal by a margin of 9,253 votes on Thursday. Pegu, for whom high profile party leaders campaigned got around 69, 253 votes while despite low key campaign Congress candidate Babul Sonowal pulled 60,000 votes. When the BJP candidate took the final leader the party leaders and workers started celebrating the victory. With drums and symbols, they started singing and dancing saying it a real occasion a day before the Rongali Bihu.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Assam twice this year if he accepts the invitation from chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal. Sonowal called on Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday and invited him to attend the Dhola-Saniya bridge opening ceremony next month. The chief minister further invited him to attend the global investment summit in Guwahati on November 9,10,11.
A group of villagers in Lakhimpur district inflicted inhuman torture upon a couple charging them with practising black magic hardly a week after a couple were killed in Kokrajhar sending shockwaves across the state. The incident took place at Moinahuri in Dhakuakhana where a group of villagers dragged Brojen Doley and his wife to a sandpit to be beaten up before allowing them to be remained half buried alleging witch craft. Acting on complaints police came and rescued the couple and registered a case. But by then the villagers fled from the spot. “The incident took place in the midnight where some youths picked up the couple and brought near a jungle where they were severely...
China is worried over the recent deal to dredge the river Brahmaputra. This was what APW leader Aabhijit Sharma said when he addressed a press conference in Guwahati on Wednesday. Sharma said the day after the deal was struck, China sought help of ULFA (I) C Paresh Baruah who in turn suggested the Chinese authority to dispatch a team of diplomats for a tact study. Acting on this suggestion, China is sending a team on April 15 for assessing the situation led by Luo Zhaoul, the Ambassador of China, said Sharma. He said, “Baruah, who is very much loyal to the China, has also failed to provide proper report to China as he has no proper idea with regard to the future impact of the said...
Assamese society in North Bengal, is going to celebrate Rongali Bihu on April 20 in Siliguri with colorful programme. Please contact Pankaj Dutta Baruah, Secretary, Rongali Bihu Celebration committee 2017, Siliguri for details. Phone: 9593457465 (Whatsapp), 9475307773
Spring, the season of blooming flowers, gurgling steams, chirping is back with unbound festivity that gives the north eastern state a different look. Festivity grips the people who are well prepared to welcome the traditional new Assamese year from Friday. Women folks are busy in weaving Bihuwan, a traditional tapestry to be served to the near and dear ones. Of them are preparing traditional cakes and pastries to be served on the occasion. The air in Assam is now thick with the sounds of drums and symbols along with other bamboo made traditional instruments as the troupes are preparing for the Bihu Huchories in the open space and stages. The urban lots are busy with last minute shopping...
The move for cabinet expansion in Assam hits a major hurdle when BJP president Amit Shah met AGP and BPF leadership in New Delhi on Monday. The two coalition partners have demanded more berths and refused to give in. The party president is further believed to have been dead opposed to the induction of a legislator in the expanded cabinet. All these issues figured in the close door meeting of Amit Shah with AGP president Atul Bora, his BPF counterpart Hagrama Mohilary and senior BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma. Caught in a dire confusion and controversy, party president Amit Shah invited chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal to attend another round of meeting on Tuesday night and Wednesday...
An anti corruption and vigilance cell of Assam police questioned a circle of senior officers in the state directorate of information and public relations to probe a Rs 30 crore scam that took place during the erstwhile Congress government. The police team questioned deputy director Kanakeswar Gohain along with a few officers three days after they questioned director Ranjit Gogoi before taking many files in questions in their possession. According to allegations, the multi crore scam took place in the name of publicity of the much hyped Mission Assam Vision Assam campaign where the department awarded publicity contracts to a few firms without issuing any tenders. According to information...
A lower court in Guwahati on Monday sent Dr N Rajamarathandan to jail after police produced the CID officer before it in connection with a case where he was charged with providing classified information to the associates of Soobodh Biswas. The IPS officer who was probing the role of Soobodh Biswas in the Silapothar clash was arrested two days back after several hours of interrogation. He was accused of making public the progress of the probe he was heading in an RTI response. He was remanded to two days police custody which expired on Monday and the investigators did not seek him in remand before the court which sent him to jail for fourteen days.
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