ThaneswarHazarika, of the Bokakhat Town and the local correspondent of The Sentinel newspaperdied on Saturday at his residence following prolonged illness. Born in Majuli, Hazarika was 64 at the time of his demise.
Notededucationist, Hazarika retired as the principal-in-charge of JDSG college, Bokakhat. He was associated with various newspapers of Assam including The Assam Tribune, Dainik Asom, The Sentinel, The Eastern Clarion, Natun Dainik etc. He was serving as the president of Bokakhat Press Club at the time of his demise.
Highly admired by the people of Bokakhat, Hazarika leaves behind his wife, two daughters and a son, besides a host of relatives.
PermalinkSubmitted by Rajiv Kalita on Thu, 12/05/2011 - 02:58
I am extremely shocked and sorry to hear about Hazarika sir's demise.
It certainly is a great loss... Gratitude and respect. May his soul rest in peace
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A brain storming session of senior BJP leaders and their AGP counterparts on Saturday is all set to clear the decks for an alliance between the two parties for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.To be attended by senior BJP leader SS Ahluwahuah along with BJP state president Sarbananda Sonowal and AGP president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, the meeting is scheduled to take place at the Tezpur Tourist Lodge.The meeting is set to hold three days after the regional party president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta called on the top BJP leaders in New Delhi seeking poll alliance to defeat Congress.
Rhino poaching strikes again in Kaziranga. Poachers have killed a full grown female rhino on Friday night. This time poachers have struck at the Burapahar range of the national park.The carcass was found on Saturday morning. The horn is missing. Forest guards are spreading tentacles to nab the poachers inside the park. The strike took place hours after police nabbed three people in Bokajan on their way back from Dimpaur after selling rhino horn. A huge amount of Rs 23 lakhs were seized from their possession.
Police have identified the two youths a day after they died in the explosion in Umrangsu on their way to Guwahati with explosives inside their car on Friday.Police sources confirmed that the duo were Sahabuddin and Ainuddin. Sahabuddin was engaged in a coal mine in Meghalaya. Both they were believed to have carried explosives to Guwahati at the instance of ULFA-I in the run to the Republic Day celebration.
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Guwahati got rid of yet another explosion. Two hardcore ULFA linkmen are believed to have killed in an explosion that took place inside a vehicle carrying them in Karbi Anglong on Friday.The incident took place at Seventh Mile area in Umrangsu when the linkmen duo were believed to have been carrying explosives to Guwahati. The duo were killed on the spot when the bomb went off suddenly.The vehicle remained mangled. The face of the bodies were left beyond recognition. Top ranked reached the spot. Security forces are fanning in and around the area to trace the point where the explosives were carried.
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Amid stepped up security measures ahead of the Republic Day, a major tragedy averted in Dhekiajuli in Sonitpur district when security forces defused a powerful grenade on Friday.The handgrenade was found lying inside a bag just behind the Dhekiajuli ASTC bus stand in the morning. On seeing the suspicious object, the bag was handed over to the police who later confirmed it a hand grenade. Later it was defused.
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