An irate mob in Golaghat killed a leopard after the animal attacked six person at a tea garden on Sunday. The incident took place at Jalan Tea Estate in the morning when the full grown leopard suddenly pounded on a garden worker as he was walking at around 6 in the morning. Then the animal managed to sneak into the tea estate injured six persons in six different incidents of attack during two hours. Then the local residents-----mostly the tea garden workers chased the leopard and was beaten to death. Forest officials reached the spot only after the leopard died in the mob attack. All the six injured people are battling for life in the Jorhat Medical College Hospital.
Akola Das from Krishnaguru College in Barpeta tops the arts stream of the Higher Secondary Examinatio, 2017 as the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council has announced the results on Tuesday. Next to Aoloka is Sabina Yashmin from Brillient Academy in Mongoldoi in the second position while the third position goes to Ankit Mitra from Genious Academy Junior College in Lakhimpur. According to the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council which conducted the examination in February and March, 73.16 per cent candidates cleared the examination out of 1,88,629 candidates marking a marginal declines in the percentage of successful candidates.
The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC) results for 2017 Class 12 is declated on Tuesday. This year's percentage of passed students are 86.24% in science, 73.16% in arts and 82.72% in commerce. Rajababu Saikia from Ramanujan Junior College, Nagaon ranked 1st in the Science stream. Alaka Das from Krishnaguru College, Barpeta ranked 1st in the Arts stream. in commerce, Prashant Gowel from K C Das Commerce College, Guwahati raked 1st.
The Sonitpur District All Rabha Students’ Union (ARSU) committee in collaboration with Rabha Community Education Cell/ARSU organized a career awareness programme for the students appearing matric and Higher Secondary on May 28 at Rakshashmari ME School, Dhekiajuli, Sonitpur. The programme was led by Ranjan K Baruah, Director, North East Youth Foundation, Guwahati and covered several important points regarding selection of subjects after matriculation and the career path ahead. He dealt with certain career options available for students of Arts, Science and Commerce streams. In addition to academic careers, he also talked about entrepreneurship, administrative services, and jobs in corporate...
The activists of North-East Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS) held a protest demonstration in Delhi's Assam Bhawan on Monday to protest against the killing of innocent people in Chirang district in alleged fake encounter. A delegation of activists also submitted a memorandum addressed to the Assam Chief Minister through the Resident Commissioner. Army, Assam Police, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel brutally killed tw persons- Lucas Narzary and David Islary in Simlaguri village of Chirang district on March 30 on the pretext of identifying them as NDFB (Songbijit) militants. This issue is raised in a recent report of CRPF Inspector-General...
The United Liberation Front of Asom(I) has owned up the responsibility of the explosion at an ONGC pipeline in Sonari on Saturday. In a statement issued to media on Sunday, the rebel outfit said that they will continue these until and unless sovereignty is restored on the indigenous people. An ONGC pipeline was partially damaged when the explosion took place at Teok Ghat with a huge sound in Sonari district in the evening. Security forces and senior ONGC officials initially could not ascertain ULFA’s role in the incident which took place two days after an Ulfa rebel died in Dikom as he was believed to have been planting a bomb at an OIL pipeline which exploded immediately....
An ONGC pipeline was partially damaged when a mysterious explosion took place on Saturday evening Sonari district. The explosion took place at Trok Ghat with a huge sound. Security forces and senior ONGC officials have been examining the incident which took place two days after an Ulfa rebel died in Dikom as he was believed to have been planting a bomb at an OIL pipeline which exploded immediately. Details awaited.
A huge rescue team of IAF, army and police is leaving for a place situated 30 km in the north west of Tezpur to recover the Sukhoi 30 a day after the missing fighter jet was located with the help of satellite images. The rescuers have been finding it difficult to reach the spot in the dense jungle terrain because of an inclement weather where the jet fighter was understood to have crashlanded. According to sources, the rescuers are expected to reach the spot in the afternoon to rescue the wreckage of the fighter jet which took off from the Salonibari airbase in Tezpur at 10.30 in the morning on Tuesday on routine sortie with two pilots on board. The crash site is believed to...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened the country's longest ever Dhola -Sadiya bridge over the river Brahmaputra naming it after Bhupen Hazarika during his day long visit to the state on Friday. Walking alone for a little while on the bridge Modi watched the natural beauty and bounty of the entire area in Sadiya bordering Arunachal Pradesh immediately after he opened the 9.15 km bridge which he said a huge boost to the nation’s surface communication network. Modi began his day long Assam visit at Sadiya where he dedicated the Rs 950 crore bridge to the nation with Assam governor BLPurhit, Assam chief minister Sarbanabda Sonowal and union surface transport minister Nitin Gadkari...
A mammoth security arrangement is in place at Guwahati along with Sadiya, Gogamukh and North Guwahati as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a day long visit to the state on Friday to boost the morale of the one year old BJP-led three party coalition government. Firstly Modi is arriving in Sadiya where he is opening the country's longest ever bridge over the mighty Brahmaputra which has huge capacity to bear the weight of military equipment to Arunachal Pradesh bordering China. The Dhola-Sadiya Bridge will be inaugurated tomorrow. This is one of the most important infrastructure projects in our nation. — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 25, 2017 I shall lay the foundation...
The member-journalists of Guwahati Press Club on Thursday (25 May) remembered soft-spoken journalist Mithu Choudhury, who died last week after suffering from various ailments. Choudhury , 53, lately used to contribute for various news portals and his focus area was insurgency in northeast India. The speakers of the memorial meeting described Choudhury as an honest and dedicated journalist. They also appreciated Choudhury’s commitment to the medium for which he had to sacrifices a lot. Till his untimely death, Choudhury maintained his identity as a working journalist based in the city. The participants also observed one-minute silence to pay respect to the departed soul. They also...
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