The proceedings in Assam Assembly came to a grinding halt on Friday for almost an hour a day after the debate went all time low on Thursday.
As the House began its question hour at around 9 in the morning, Opposition members did not allow the Speaker Tanka Bahadur Rai to come out of the chamber demanding steps to rein in Assam health minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma who locked horn with former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta. Deputy Speaker Pranati Phukan who began the question hour in the absence of the opposition members adjourned the House for an hour. Later, The Speaker convened an all party meet at his chambers and promised that he would ensure that no member is allowed to go for any personal attack. Then, the Opposition came to participate in the House proceedings. The legislators call entire incident an unprecedented and unfortunate.
Notably, Mahanta called Dr Sarma a tail of dog while the health minister ridiculed the former Chief Minister for having unholy affair with Sanghamitra Bharali.
PermalinkSubmitted by Raktim (Rongmon) on Thu, 18/03/2010 - 02:24
The recent enquiry against the appointment of Sankar Baruah as DGP is a positive and encouraging step taken by a bold person senior ADG Sarada Prasad.
Such enquiries are really needed in Assam. One such question that I would like to put to the CM Tarun Gogoi as to what makes him appoint the daughter-in-law of influential Congressman Bobbeeta Sharma, who was also a one time flop actress and an anchor who grabs commissioned programmes under political clout as Chairperson of the Assam State Film Development Corporation (ASFDC) for more than 6 years since her appointment in 2005. What about the like of Mridula Barua, Jahnu Barua, Jwangdao Bodosa, Timothy Das Hanse and other genuine personalities realted to Assamese films?
----Raktim Pegu
Zoo-Narengi Road,
Ghy-21
Sonitpur police have arrested six persons on Saturday charging them with cremating a woman alive practising witchcraft on Thursday. The body of the woman identified as Lakshmi Gaur, was exhumed on Saturday at Misamari's Milanpur area for further investigation. The main accused is still remaining untraced. Local police came to know about the incident on Friday.
In a similar incident on Friday, a 45-year-old tribal woman, a mother of five children, was burnt alive allegedly for practising witchcraft by some villagers in Jolah village, under Sonari police station, in Sibsagar district.
The probe into the multi crore Unipay scam takes a new turn when BIEO seized a huge amount of money during a raid against Pranabjyoti Barman.
BIEO on Saturday evening seized Rs. 276 lakh from an Axis Bank locker belonging to Barman who is said to be the kingpin of the scam. BIEO and CID officials have been interrogating Barman.
The Sivasagar district legal authority in association M.C. Club, Rain Tree Club, Women United Forum and Human Welfare Society is organising a legal awareness camp at M.C. Club of Nazira on February 11. The topics of discission will be - women and child in need of care and protection and unorganised workers social security act.
One person died at a tragic road mishap in the outskirt of Jorhat town on Friday. The accident took place at 9 in the evening at Ladpoigarh on the National Highway where a speeding tractor rammed into Krishna Bora who was riding on a bicycle. Bora died on the spot and the tractor driver managed to escape amid dark.
Sonitpur police have unearthed a huge flash trade where girls were taken away from a remote area luring job. Local residents in Pungpani caught two persons on Thursday midnight when they were taking away eight girls to Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Bihar. Later, they were handed over to police. Police officials are believed to have unearthed some crucial evidence to bust the entire racket which has been running in the area for the last five years.
A minor girl, hailing from Assam is believed to have committed suicide by hanging herself at her residence in Mumbai. The tragic incident took place in Madanpura area of Nagpadaon Friday. She was identified as Fatima Shaikh who was found hanging on Friday wee hours at the residence of her foster parents. Shaikh's mother died five years ago, whereas her alcoholic father stays in Assam. Shaikh's aunt adopted her and brought to Mumbai a few years ago. The reason is yet to become clear. The body was taken to nearby government run J J hospital.
Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said that around 16 million children do not attend schools in the country. Addressing the convocation ceremony of Tezpur Central University on Friday, he said that the government has taken all possible steps to make them literate within this decade. Assam Governor J B Patnaik said the institution has attempted to strike a balance between global expansion of knowledge and national and regional aspirations. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi who attended the function urged the students to work to change the society. The Governor presented degrees and diplomas to 1050 students of the university besides awarding doctorate degrees to 50 students...
Meghalaya Governor RS Mooshahary said that the north eastern region must look at Nagaland to attain self sufficiency in food production. Opening the Northeast Agri Fair 2012 organised by the Assam Agricultural University in Guwahati on Friday, he said the northeastern region produce only 2.94 million tonnes food grain while the requirement is about 10 million tones. Mooshahary said that the food security is the most important issue at this moment, given that all the northeastern states are food deficient.
Central Revenue Intelligence department officials sized a truck loaded with Phensedyl cough syrup bottles in Cachar district on Friday. Acting on specific input CRI branch of Silchar intercepted the truck loaded with 450 cartons of Phensedyl bottles after a chase at Gumrah-Jalalpur area. The illegally-loaded Phensedyl bottles in Guwahati were proceeding towards Agartala for being smuggled out to Bangladesh. The value of the consignment was estimated to be around Rs 38 lakh.
CPI national secretary D Raja said that all trade unions, irrespective of their political affiliations, have supported the nationwide general strike call on February 28. Addressing the open session of the Assam state conference in Morigaon on Friday, Raja said that the strike has been called to protest against the "liberalised economic policies" of the UPA government.
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