Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanata Biswa Sarma on Friday attended the three-day historic Gova Deoroja Jonbeel Mela at Dayang Belguri pathar in Morigaon district, which is around 65 kilometer east of the State capital city. Indigenous Tiwa monarch Deep Singh Deoroja along with the rulers of other Tiwa kingdoms were also present during the second day’s program. Best known for the practice of…
Guwahati: Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi flagged off a weeklong ‘Women on Wheels’ drive, organized by Amazing Namaste Foundation to mark the celebration of Azadi-Ka-Amrit-Mahotsav, at Raj Bhavan in the city on Saturday. Supported by the National Commission for Women and State Women Commissions of north-eastern States, the drive will cover a cumulative distance of 40000…
Geneva: New year brings sad news as a young Bangladeshi journalist was killed in the first half of 2023. Ashiqul Islam (27), who worked for Dainik Paryabekhyan from Brahmanbaria locality (which is adjacent to India’s north-eastern State of Tripura) was hacked to death on 9 January by a group of miscreants. Press Emblem Campaign (PEC),…
Saving one-horned rhinoceros The incidents of rhinoceros poaching in various forest reserves of Assam in northeast India has decreased drastically. Brutal laws against the poachers, strengthening of ground staff inside the protected forest areas and increasing public awareness in the fringe localities of national parks and wildlife sanctuaries across the State have positively impacted the…
Guwahati: Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi inaugurated a multimedia exhibition on ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav-Unsung Heroes of Northeast’ at Assam Engineering Institute playground of Chandmari locality in the city on Wednesday. Organized by the central bureau of communication (under Union information and broadcasting ministry), the exhibition is aimed to generate awareness among the public especially the younger generation about the valour and sacrifices of all the…
Guwahati: Jnanpith awardee veteran Assamese poet Nilamoni Phukan passed away this morning at Gauhati medical college hospital in the city. The celebrated litterateur was approaching 90. The soft-spoken gentleman was not feeling well for some time and finally the breathed his last at 11.55 am on 19 January 2023. The third Assamese writer to receive…
Guwahati: Chalachitram national film festival ২০২২ kicked off on Thursday at Jyoti Chitraban auditorium in the city, where film director Aditya J Patwardhan and actor Kankana Chakraborty lighted the inaugural lamp. Organised every year under the initiative of Chalachitram, a subsidiary of Viswa Sangbad Kendra Assam, the two-day festival is aimed to propagate the cinema…
Guwahati: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has detected massive financial anomalies involving Indian Rupees hundreds of crores in the process of National Register of Citizens (NRC) updation in Assam. The national audit body also recommended action against the former State NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela and the system integrator (Ms Wipro Limited). The…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, while laying foundation stones and inaugurated projects worth Rs 973.38 crores for Dibrugarh district on Saturday, urged the people to lead an economic revolution to give a major fillip to overall development of the State. Attending the Bikakhor-Babe-Eta-Pokhek program at Tingkhong, Sarma commented that the State witnessed many…
The newspaper industry in India faces an extreme challenge from the electronic and digital media outlets in the recent days, but it was beyond speculations that the social media space would even spread rumours about the untimely demise of a prestigious newspaper like The Statesman. But it happens in our country. One of India’s premier…
