Guwahati: Northeast zone cultural centre, Dimapur in collaboration with Tripura information & cultural affairs department has organised Bharat Ko Jaano, a three-day chain Yatra festival in different locations of the Bangladesh bordering State. The festival with the theme of national cultural exchange program was launched on Monday at Rajashri Kala Kshetra in Udaipur locality. Folk…
Guwahati: Union ports, shipping & waterways and AYUSH minister Sarbananda Sonowal recently met an expert group of agripreneurs and academicians to explore possibility of an agriculture driven growth, especially for the farming community of the region. The expert group appraised Sonowal about the existing types of farming and their economic as well as ecological viability….
Geneva: As the year 2021 sets to finish its cycle, Afghanistan emerges as the most dangerous country for scribes with 12 journo-casualties, followed by Mexico (10 dead), Pakistan (7), India (6), etc. The south Asian nation also lost at least 10 media workers to the Covid-19 complications till date, said Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the…
Guwahati: Apprehending the spread of Covid-19 in the State at the backdrop of rising number of Omicron infections across the country, Assam government has reimposed the night curfew from 26 December (beginning on 11.30 pm till 6 next day morning). According to the new directive, issued by the State disaster management authority, the night curfew…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday inaugurated Atal Udyan, set up by Guwahati metropolitan development authority (GMDA) at Adabari locality in the city. The park in memory of former Prime Minister Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee is built with a cost of rupees 8 crore 74 lakhs covering an area of 8…
Guwahati: Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla will address the members of Assam legislative assembly in the city on Friday. On this occasion, Birla will also officially launch the Assam legislative digital television in the central hall of the State legislative assembly. State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, assembly speaker Biswajit Daimary, leader of opposition of…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday held a meeting with the delegation of All Bodo Students’ Union and Bodo Sahitya Sabha regarding the development of educational sector in Bodoland Territorial Region as per the Bodo accord. During the meeting at Janata Bhawan, it was decided that 26 venture colleges would be taken…
Yavatmal. On December 3, six Muslim youths assaulted Laxman after a road rage incident. On seeing this, his younger brother Shyam (23) tried to intervene when the assailants attacked him with sword. Shyam died on the spot. Laxman too was injured. An FIR was lodged with Mahagaon police, who have arrested the 6 accused. According…
Geneva: Three ethnic Shan journalists along with a civilian were imprisoned for three years recently by a military court in Myanmar for spreading misinformation about the regime in Naypyidaw. Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, deplores the sentences and urges the military junta to respect the freedom of press. Editor…
Guwahati: The rousing voices against the brutal armed forces special powers act 1958 (AFSPA) gain momentum again in northeast India with the incident of Oting village in Nagaland, where 14 civilians recently lost their lives under its complicity. From local villages to State level organizations, north-eastern to national and international institutions have now come forward…
