Guwahati: Assam government pays rupees 50 lakh to the family of terror victim Suman Swargiary, the Assam Rifles jowan, who was killed in an ambush attack by terrorists along with seven others including the commanding officer of the unit in Churachandpur locality of Manipur on 13 November last. State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on…
Guwahati: Assam and Meghalaya start initiatives to defuse the border tension between the two neighbouring Stare with new confidence building measures. With an aim to bring a lasting solution to the decade-old border dispute, both the chief ministers of Assam and Meghalaya on Tuesday visited lower Lumpi area. Assam government chief Himanta Biswa Sarma along…
Guwahati: Union minister Rameswar Teli on Tuesday unveiled the plaque of 200 bedded ESIC model hospital in Beltola locality of the city. The labour and employment ministry has approved the proposal for the hospital and sanctioned around rupees 143 crore for the project. Initially the Beltola ESIC hospital used to provide treatment facilities to insured…
Guwahati: Jailed for 11 years in Myanmar, the American journalist was released on 15 November 2021 and was immediately deported out of the south-east Asian country. Danny Fenster is on a flight out of Myanmar, said the authority of a digital media outlet named Frontier Myanmar, where he is working as an editor. There is…
Guwahati: Indian Journalists Union (IJU) expresses shock over the brutal murder of a young scribe in Bihar and demands a thorough probe into the incident that led to the untimely demise of Buddhinath Jha. The national union of scribes also raised voices for discarding all legal procedures against two female journalists by the Tripura government…
Guwahati: Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, condoles the sad demise of two young journalists in India and Afghanistan within 24 hours and urges the concerned authorities to probe the developments that led to their untimely deaths, and subsequently to book the perpetrators to justice. It may be mentioned…
Guwahati: Two terror outfits namely People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and Manipur Naga People’s Front (MNPF) claimed responsibility for Saturday’s Manipur ambush attack, where seven persons including five Assam Rifles personnel were killed on the spot. A commanding AR officer along with his wife and minor son also succumbed to injuries in the incident that took…
Guwahati: Various global media and human rights organizations expressed dismay over the 11-year imprisonment of American journalist Danny Fenster by the military junta of Myanmar (also known as Burma and Brahmadesh) and demanded his immediate and unconditional release by the military dictators in Naypietaw. Mentionable is that the US journalist was arrested on 24 May…
Guwahati: The Union government recently released Rs 100 crore for the revival of Brahmaputra valley fertilizers corporation limited (BVFCL) at Namrup in eastern Assam. Soon after meeting with the visiting Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in the national capital, the Union chemicals and fertilizers minister Mansukh Mandaviya took the initiative. It may be mentioned…
Guwahati: A special voter’s enrollment initiative with an aim to include all qualified electorates’ names in the voter’s list begins on Saturday in Assam. State chief electoral officer Nitin Khade recently announced the special campaign dates (13 & 14 November 2021) in regards to the ongoing process of special summary revision for registration of all…
