Commemorating 100 years of Indian Cinema, the President of India Pranab Mukherjee released a special sheet of postal stamps on May 2, 2013, featuring 50 legends of Bollywood including Dr. Bhupen Hazarika.
Chirang police have arrested altogether 14 youths in connection with rape and murder of a Bodo girl on Saturday.According to information, the survivor herself identified four of them who picked up the girl from the river where they were fishing in the morning.Police interrogation is going on to extract more and more confession that can help them get more clues.The incident took place at Boldi gaon near Amguri along the Indo-Bhutan border where around 7 miscreants picked up a girl to be raped and murdered in a nearby jungle.Another girl, however, managed to survive who is giving vital clues to the police officials probing the sensational case.Hours after the victim’s body was found by the...
Titabor police on Saturday got remand of Akhil Gogoi to be shifted from Guwahati in connection with three cases pending against the KMSS president. The court of Kamrup Chief Judicial magistrate allowed Titabor police to shift Gogoi from the Guwahati Central Jail after the transit remand was sought on Saturday.But hundreds of KMSS activists are staged dharna in front of the jail to prevent police from shifting their leader to Jorhat.
Prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that the people of Assam would get nothing but raw deal if BJP forms the government at the Centre. Address a poll rally to campaign for BK Handique and Pawan Singh Ghatowar at Mahmara in Sivasagar on Saturday, Dr Singh said that the entire opposition party is busy with Narendra Modi and that Modi, if made the prime minister, would have no business but the own party and the party men.According to the prime minister the north east has immense potential for sustainable development and that a stable Congress government is required to tap these potentials.
Prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh said the ten year long wonderful performance of the UPA government and the Tarun Gogoi government in Dispur would be the key to the victory of the ruling party in the general elections in Assam.In his address at a huge poll rally to campaign for BK Handique and Pawan Singh Ghatowar at Mahmara in Sivasagar on Saturday, Dr Singh said that the Congress led government has delivered the goods almost on all fronts.He said that his government, if allowed to retain power, would take strong measures to rein in the price line. According to the prime minister the north east has immense potential for sustainable development and that a stable Congress government is...
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday predicted stool defeat for BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in Assam.Addressing a huge rally in presence of prime minister Dr Mamnohan Singh in Sivasagar, Gogoi said that the voters have already decided not to support BJP in view of the wonderful performance of Congress government in Dispur and NDA government in Delhi.He said that the ruling party will get more than 10 seats in the polls this time adding that the voters are intelligent and aware of the parties and their performances.
Sensation prevails in Chirang after a tribal girl was rapped and killed by miscreants on Friday. The incident took place at Boldi gaon near Amguri along the Indo-Bhutan border.According to information, the incident took place in the afternoon when a gang of seven miscreants picked up the girl who was fishing at the Makra river along with three others.Then she was dragged into the nearby jungle. Some of them also tried to pick up the two others. But they managed to escape from the spot.The girl was believed to have been repeatedly rapped before being murdered. Her body was found on Saturday.Police investigation is going on. Police officials investigating the case have been extracting...
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is on a day long visit to Sivasagar on Saturday to campaign for Bijoy Krishna Handique and Pawan Singh Ghatowar who are contesting from Jorhat and Dibrugarh respectively in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.Dr Singh arrived in Khumtai near Mahmora at 11-30 in the morning to be received by Chief minister Tarun Gogoi along with APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita.Dr Singh, who represents Assam in Parliament is visiting the state for the last as prime minister.
The shoot out in Sonari on Friday is believed to be handiwork of ULFA where the militants attacked a local trader for refusing to pay ransom.According to information, the militants served him extortion notice and threatened him of dire consequences.Identified as Golap Lunawat, the local trader in Sonari was killed hours after miscreants sprayed several rounds of bullets on his womb on Friday evening.He breathed his last at 8-30 in the evening two hours after he was rushed to the Aditya Hospital.
In yet another bizarre incident that sends shockwaves across the state, a tribal girl was raped and then murdered in Chirang district.The incident took place on Friday in Amguri along the Indo-Bhutan border where miscreants picked up the girl who went for fishing along with five other girls.Her body was recovered from a jungle nearby on Saturday morning. The body bore several injury marks. Details are awaited.
AGP is holding a brainstorming meet in Guwahati on Saturday to arrive at a consensus on the withdrawal of suspension on Padma Hazarika.But the meeting will have hardly any outcome as the Sootea MLA and his supporters are conspicuous by their absence in the meeting.Acting on the advice of a circle of senior leaders to withdraw the suspension order, the party invited Hazarika to take a decision. But his absence seems to have forced the leadership to stall the process.
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