| Kokrajhar on the boil, death toll reaches 9 |
Additional forces deployed in the district: Chief Minister
From our Correspondent & By our Staff Reporter
KOKRAJHAR/GUWAHATI, July 21: Fresh tension gripped Kokrajhar district on Saturday following sporadic incidents of communal violence reported in some parts of the district following the killings of four BPF youth activists including an ex-BLT member at Namapara on ... |
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| 2,94,9774 bighas of government land under encroachment |
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, July 21: The Assam Government is not taking any concrete steps to evict encroachers from the government land.
Though Dispur on several occasions directed the Deputy Commissioners to evict the encroachers from the government land, the State Government has not bothered about whether the Deputy Commissioners have taken any action in this regard. |
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| Pranab or Sangma: Poll outcome today |
NEW DELHI, July 21: Victory of Pranab Mukherjee, the ruling UPA’s candidate for the presidential poll held on Thursday, is a foregone conclusion, but the final outcome will be announced after counting of the ballots on Sunday at Parliament House.
“The results of the presidential election will be known immediately after counting is over Sunday,” Rajya Sabha Secretary Ge... |
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| Bhupen Hazarika's memorial to become a reality soon |
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, July 21: The Assam Government and Gauhati University authorities are leaving no stone unturned to give the Bard of the Brahmaputra the ultimate tribute that he deserves. Bhupen Hazarika’s memorial which will almost be like a temple for the millions who revered and admired him may soon become a reality.
A meeting was held on July 19 in which ... |
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| 'Special need for social science in NE' |
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, July 21: Union Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh advocated giving stress on imparting skill development to workers engaged in manual labour jobs and said the private sector firms can play a role in it.
Ramesh was speaking at the inauguration of five-year integrated Master’s Programme in Social Sciences by the Guwahati ca... |
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| Illegal B'deshis behind theft and loot in xatras: BJYM |
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, July 21: “Till the Congress government is in power in Assam, our xatras will never be safe. If the Congress reign in the State continues, our xatras will soon slip into the hands of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants,” said Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) State general secretary Diplu Ranjan Sarma.
He further said, “Already large... |
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| Disaster management expert visits Assam |
In order to help the Assam State Disaster Management Authority to strengthen the information mechanism for disaster management in the State, Dr Richard Garfield, Professor of Public Health at Columbia University and Associate of the National Centre for Disaster Preparedness in the United States, visited Assam recently.
With a vast international experience of working in the area of need ... |
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| Lakshmi Sehgal's health deteriorates |
KANPUR, July 21: The health of Lakshmi Sehgal, a close associate of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, deteriorated on Saturday, doctors here said. IANS
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| Reaching the depths of shame |
What happened on one of the busiest streets of Guwahati in the evening of July 9 has raised a storm for almost a fortnight now and been discussed so threadbare that there is now room only for the kind of soul-searching that every law-abiding society needs to undertake in order to sustain itself in reasonably good health. However, what happened will remain a matter of abiding shame for the resid... |
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