At least 12 persons were killed and 30 others injured in an indiscriminate firing by the banned National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants at Bhiumajuli in Bihali Reserve Forest area in Sonitpur district on Sunday. According to information, heavily armed militants belonging to the RaNJAN DAIMARY faction of the Voro rebel outfit came to the spot on Sunday evening and started to fire targeting some shops. The militants earlier served extortion notices only to be denied by the villagers. Immediately after the firing, the militants left the spot leaving 11 persons dead on the spot.The injured have been rushed to nearby civil hospitals at Biswanath Chariali and Tezpur. Police and Para-military forced have started a massive combing operation in and around the spot of incident to apprehend the culprits.But There is no report ofany arrest.
PermalinkSubmitted by Dorika on Mon, 05/10/2009 - 17:12
North-East India is so much like Africa.
Just check out these:
1. Rich in natural resource, but poor
human resource
2. Aggressive Tribalism, Tribal Agenda too High for a cosmopolitan mindset
3. Like many tribes in Africa, many hill tribes have taken up Christianity and Western lifestyles, but still xenophobic in mental set-up
4. Christianity has not been able to bring in 'Universal Peace and Brotherhood', it has just expanded the base of Christians which is the objective of the Pope in Vatican city.
5. Highly Racist in social order...fellow countrymen need Inner Line Permits (ILP) in hill states even when they have gone up much higher in all ranks in the national level. Students from NE hill states are moving out to study in Delhi. Students from Delhi will never come to such xenophobic towns where racism rules the roost.
6. Highly consumerist societies, no productivity, not self-reliant in food, clothes or anything else. Still talks about 'seperate lands'.
The list goes on and on.....
PermalinkSubmitted by Sanjana on Tue, 06/10/2009 - 05:41
Now i expect Sabierence to response....want to know his views on this incident....
This band terrorist are another form of dacoits consisting of illeterate guys and blind eyes without brains..there mission is loot others hard earn money,kill and make undeveloped areas so that missionaries' goal gets successful
PermalinkSubmitted by Nabajit Malakar on Sun, 18/10/2009 - 07:35
I would like to respond to Dorika's comment. His/her observations are partially true. But I would suggest him/her to read more on the issue and then give judgements.
Assam scripts yet another history on Sunday. Altogether 100 people on Sunday planted 40,885 saplings within an hour near the Chirang Reserve Forest to enter the Guinness World Records. Army’s Dogra Regiment and 135 Ecological Battalion jawans planted the saplings on the banks of the Saralbhanga river on Sunday from 11 in the morning to 12 noon. The entire rare event was video-graphed in full view of three independent observers. The footage would now be sent to Guinness World Records.
Security forces recovered a powerful improvised explosive device during a joint operation from Rangiya in in Kamrup Rural district on Sunday.
Weighing around five kg, the IED was recovered among bamboo groves behind a house at Titkuri village following a tip-off. Police called it a handiwork of ULFA’s anti-talk faction. Later, the IED has been taken to the nearby army camp at Sansari for safe disposal.
More explosive revelations on the militants activities in Guwahati surfaced on Sunday a day after security forces apprehended four GNLA militants on their way from Dimapur to Goalpara. GNLA, along with a section of Manipur-based insurgent activists have been hiding in the city preparing blueprint to carry out a string of subversive activities in the entire region.
The startling revelations have come out in their confessional statements. Security forces apprehended four hardcore GNLA militants during a joint operation in Gorchuk on Saturday. Two sophisticated weapons and some ammunitions were also seized from their possession. Security forces intercepted a vehicle in Guwahati en route to...
North Eastern Frontier Railway on Saturday announced a special train from Dibrugarh in to Yesvantpur to ferry the students of the north eastern region and north Bengal to appear for medical and engineering entrance tests in Bangalore.
According to NF Railway, the special train will ply on May 1 and it will leave Yesvantpur on May 4. The return 02509 special train will leave on May 7 and reach Dibrugarh on May 10. Every year thousands of students from the region aspiring for medical and engineering careers go to Bangalore for appearing joint entrance tests.
The Tea Board would select four small tea growers from Sonitpur district this year for a tour to Kenya for undergoing training there.The announcement was made by Tea Board chairman MGVK Bhanu who was attending the small tea growers convention in Tezpur on Saturday.He also attended technical session on various aspects of leaf handling and transportation, plucking and tipping, pruning and young tea upbringing, etc by experts from AAU, TRA and Tea Board. Self Help Groups of Dibrugarh, Nagaon, Dhekiajuli also shared their experiences in the interactive session.Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi distributed financial assistance to the Scheduled Caste small tea growers under Board’s special scheme...
Union Minister for DoNER, Paban Singh Ghatowar exhorted upon the small tea growers to maintain quality of their produce to get minimum remunerative price.
Ghatowar said the need of the hour for the small tea growers is to organise themselves to become a force to be reckoned with. He requested the Tea Board to provide fertilisers, transport and other incentives at subsidised rates for the benefit of the small tea growers. Ghatowar further requested the State Government to regularise the land patta of the small tea growers to allay the apprehensions from their minds. Ghatowar while urging the Tea Board to set up a welfare fund for the labourers working in the small tea gardens, asked the...
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi urged the small tea growers to ensure quality to get a better remunerative price and to face the stiff competition from big tea industries. Opening a Convention cum Workshop for Small Tea Growers at Tezpur Central University on Saturday, Gogoi underscored the need for the small tea growers not to compromise with quality to get a better price for their produce. The Chief Minister emphasised on the need for adopting latest technology for better yield.
He thanked Tea Board Chairman MGVK Bhanu for taking up a slew of initiatives, hoped that the Board would continue to extend support and cooperation to the small tea growers and make them economically vibrant and...
Two people died and two others were injured in a road mishaps in Jorhat district on Friday night.A woman was killed while her husband and two kids were injured in an accident at Panisoku near Pulibor in Jorhat district on Friday night. The incident took place at NH-37, when a Tata Indica car, in which the family was travelling, was hit by a trailer truck. The deceased woman was identified as Pompy Borthakur. The injured were rushed to Jorhat Medical College Hospital in critical condition.
Former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta has been elected as AGP president after the founder president defeated his rival Padma Hazarika by a margin of 37 votes in the party’s first-ever battle of ballots on Thursday.
Mahanta, the two time chief minister said that he would try his best to give the party a fresh lease of life.
On the other hand, Atul Bora defeated Kumar Deepak Das to be elected at the end of the neck and neck fight for working president.
The voting which began at 9 in the morning and concluded at 3 in the afternoon. The results formally announced at 5 in the evening.
Notably, for the first time the regional party held polls to elect its president and...
Cipla Limited in association with Guwahati Press Club has organized an Asthma Check-up camp at Guwahati Press Club on May 1 (Tuesday) commemorating the World Asthma Day. The media persons with their family members can attend the camp which will start at 10.30 am (and continue till 2.30 pm).
The camp is designed to address the Lung Function Test by every participant which will record his/her particular physical stays. Dr Swapnab Borthakur from Down Town Hospital will conduct the check-up, informed MN Dutta, territory manager of Cipla Ltd.
Member-journalists are requested to attend the check-up camp.
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