Guwahati: Taliban have announced that they will join hands with Pakistan in Kashmir, a leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has said. With the statement, the PTI leader has unabashedly admitted the Pakistan military’s close ties with the Taliban and its anti-India agenda. Talking during an on-air television show, PTI leader Neelam Irshad Sheikh said,…
Guwahati: Union ports, shipping & waterways and AYUSH minister Sarbananda Sonowal continues to criticise the Congress party for its careless attitude to north-eastern Bharat. Assam as well as the northeast was lagging behind in developments because of the century-old party that ruled the country for decades after independence. Addressing a series of meetings with selected…
PEC expresses concern over continued harassment to Burmese journalists Geneva/ Guwahati: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the Switzerland based global media rights body, expresses serious concern over the continued harassments to journalists and other media workers of Myanmar (also known as Burma or Brahmadesh), by the Burmese junta, which dethroned the democratically elected government in NayPieTaw…
Guwahati: Street protests along with stone pelting, vandalism on police vehicles, etc by a group of people in Shillong during the 75th Independence Day celebrations on Sunday compelled the Meghalaya government to order a judicial probe into the mysterious death of a former militant leader in a police encounter on 13 August. It may be…
Guwahati: Expressing grave concerns over the relentless attacks on temples and Hindu villagers inside Bangladesh, a northeast Bharat based nationalist citizen’s forum urged the Union government in New Delhi to deal with Dhaka strongly. Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) reminded that every citizen of Bangladesh fought for independence against the colonial British regime and later…
Guwahati: Worried with Assam-Mizoram border disputes, where six police personnel lost their lives during duty hours on 26 July last, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma arrives in New Delhi with an aim to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday along with BJP Parliamentarians from the State. CM…
Geneva/Guwahati: Expressing serious concerns over the latest crisis faced by the people of Myanmar (formerly Burma) due to Covid-19 pandemic under a military regime in NayPieTaw, the Switzerland based global media rights body ‘Press Emblem Campaign’ demands all political prisoners including the journalists to be released without any prerequisite. It may be mentioned that military…
Guwahati: Assam and Mizoram have resolved to sort out the inter-State border issues amicably and both the governments decided to hold regular district magistrate level meetings of concerned border districts. A joint statement, issued by both the government representatives in Aizawl on Thursday, stated their resolutions on necessary measures to promote, preserve and maintain peace…
Guwahati: Assam’s pride and the century old tea industry is struggling for survival due to tea prices declining below the cost of production (CoP), informed Bidyananda Barkakoty, the adviser to North Eastern Tea Association (NETA). He asserted that unless there is an increase in price of tea, the concerned industry including the small tea growers…
Guwahati: Lovlina Borgohain, who lost to Busenaz Surmeneli from Turkey in women’s welterweight (64-69kg) semi-final match of Tokyo Olympic Games, becomes the first Assamese to win an Olympic medal and third Indian boxer (after Mary Kom-2012 and Vijender Singh-2008) to win a boxing medal at the Olympics. The 23-year-old pugilist fought hard in the ring…
