Welcoming Professor Muhammad Yunus The news is pleasantly breaking. Widely acclaimed Bangladeshi Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus is visiting Assam to grace the forthcoming Bodoland International Knowledge Festival to be held at Kokrajhar kick starting on 27 February 2023. Prof Yunus will address the inaugural function of the four-day unique festival, organized for the first…
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 and chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma greeted the people on the occasion of Magh (or Bhogali) Bihu, one of the important festivals of the region. In a statement Sarma said that the festival provides an opportunity to the people for celebrating an intrinsic relationship with the nature. It is also…
Riding night city buses When a senior minister in Himanta Biswa Sarma’s cabinet took a ride in city buses of Guwahati to understand the problems of daily commuters, it made news. During the State urban affairs minister Ashok Singhal’s visit, he might have observed a lot of difficulties faced by the elderly people along with the women…
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…
A deadly year for journalists As the year 2022 approaches the end, it has turned out to be a dangerous year for working journalists across the world with casualties as high as 115 in 29 countries. Since 1 January Ukraine has lost 34 media persons followed by Mexico (17), said the annual report of Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the Geneva-global media…
Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi was indeed crowded with audience including a large number of distinguished personalities from Assam as Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 25 November addressed the closing ceremony of the year-long celebration of 400th birth anniversary of 17th century Ahom army general Lachit Barphukan. Terming the extraordinary Ahom army general as the…
As the victory in the Battle of Saraighat in 1671 had a far-reaching impact on the northeastern region and beyond, similarly, the defeat of the Mughals signalled the beginning of the downfall of the Mughal sultanate in India Had it not been for the victory at the Battle of Saraighat in 1671 against the Mughals…
The celebration of the 400th birth ceremony of Lachit Barphukan by the RSS is not a mere calendar occasion but it seeks to awaken the people on Rashtravad and educate them about the importance of imbibing nationalism for the greater good of the country As a schoolboy whenever I crossed the Saraighat bridge on…
Northeast’s improved journo-murder index If nothing unusual happens in the next few weeks, Northeast will complete another year with no incident of journo-murder, the trend sustained for the last five years. In contrast, the country as a whole continues losing 5 to 15 journalists to assailants every year. Till date, this year the populous nation witnesses the murder of four…
