Guwahati: The decades-long border disputes between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh will be resolved by this year, commented Arunachal chief minister Pema Khandu in presence of his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma. Both the young leaders held discussions on the prolonged issue at Namsai on Friday and finally signed a declaration to minimize the border disputes…
Guwahati: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) recently raised a pertinent issue at the backdrop of a controversial documentary film poster that features Goddess Kali smoking a cigarette. Addressing the media during the three-day Akhil Bharatiya Prant Pracharaks’ meet (7-9 July 2022) at Jhunjhunu of Rajasthan, it asserted that no one should offend religious sensibilities. Sunil Ambekar,…
Geneva: Journalists continue to be the victim of violence in Bangladesh as the police recovered a partially decomposed body of Hashibur Rahaman Rubel on 7 July 2022. The young scribe went missing five days back and his body was found under a bridge on Garai river in Kumarkhali locality. Rubel was associated with Dainik Khustiar…
After the DMK came to power, then voices demanding a separate Tamil Nadu by denying its autonomy, partitioning Bharat for Muslims ( another Pakistan within India), appeasement of minorities and Hinduphobic, derogative and obscene speeches targeting Brahmins are heard very loudly. T N Education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, who is the son of late DMK…
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the Geneva-based global media safety and rights body, has demanded adequate punishment to perpetrators who were involved in the murder of Pakistani journalist Iftikhar Ahmed on Saturday last. Iftikhar becomes the 74th media worker to be killed this year, whereas globally 79 media persons lost their lives to assailants in…
Guwahati: Assam Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) and Singapore-headquartered firm Surbana Jurong have signed a Letter of Intent in the city on Monday in presence of State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and the southeast Asian city nation’s minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam. Sarma stated in his speech that signing of the agreement would add a new strength…
New Delhi. ISRO successfully launched PSLV C-53 with three satellites from Singapore. PSLV C-53 was launched from the second launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota. PSLV C-53 launched three satellites into orbit. The PSLV rocket, carrying the 365 kg DS-EO as its primary passenger and the 155 kg NeuSAR and the…
Coincidently, Swamiji wrote a poem ‘To the Fourth of July’ in English on 4 July 1898! Though it was written on the anniversary of the United States’ independence, it is said that the poem reflects a passionate utterance of his powerful longing for freedom Swami Vivekananda attained Mahasamadhi on July 4, 1902, fulfilling the prophecies…
Guwahati: A year long celebration of 100 years of sports journalism in Assam begins coinciding the day while the first ever news related to a football competition was published in Asomiya (a weekly news magazine mentored by Chandra Kumar Agarwala) on 1 July 1923. Assam Sports Journalists Association (ASJA), which is affiliated to Sports Journalists…
Guwahati: As the Eid al-Adha is approaching (9 to 12 July 2022), the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI), a statutory body of the Union government in New Delhi has issued a new advisory to all States and union territories urging authorities to stop the illegal treatment of animals during the religious festival. People for…
