Guwahati: In view of the tragic road accident in Jalukbari locality of the city, where seven students of Assam Engineering College (AEC) lost their lives, State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday asked the education department for instituting a high-level enquiry committee to probe into the circumstances that led to the accident and premature…
Guwahati: A number of Guwahati-based scribes and RTI (right to information) activists have been facing interrogation and even arrest by Assam chief minister’s special vigilance cell following the allegations of Sewali Devi Sharma, the prime accused in Rs 105 crore State council of educational research and training (SCERT) scam, as being blackmailers to her in…
Guwahati: Expressing profound grief at the demise of seven brilliant students of Assam Engineering College (AEC) in a tragic late-night accident on 29 May 2023, All Assam Engineer’s Association (AAEA) urges the college authority to impose some basic disciplinary measures urgently. The forum of graduate engineers (many of them are AECians) also wishes an early…
Understanding the public movements in Assam are solely dependent on the mainstream media, should the journalists play with the tricks to highlight an issue according to their convenience? If some Guwahati-based television journalists are alleged to be involved in a massive financial scam, shouldn’t the media report about it with public concern? Do the local…
Swatantryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was a fearless freedom fighter, social reformer, writer, dramatist, historian, political leader, and philosopher. Those who disagree with Savarkar’s political views begin with the assumption that he was a conservative and reactionary fanatic. Since much of his literature is in Marathi, his ideas and achievements in many fields are primarily unknown…
Guwahati: India has donated about 25 tons of goods including food items and medicines to the cyclone Mocha affected Myanmar. Three Indian Navy warships have arrived at Thilawa port of Yangon in the afternoon hours of 18 May. Responsible military council officials have received the donated items, reported Narinjara News, an influential news outlet of…
Guwahati: Assam Governor Gulab Chand Kataria recently adopted ten patients suffering from tuberculosis (TB) for six months as part of Nikshay Mitra, a community support initiative for TB patients under Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan. The initiative is understood as a step towards garnering community support for the specific healthcare system. Governor Kataria appealed…
Guwahati: Emphasizing on the issue of police modernization in Assam, State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma declared once AFSPA is lifted from the entire State by the end of 2023, Assam police battalions would be empowered to replace the central armed police forces (other than the number of CPAFs whose presence is mandatory in Assam…
Guwahati: State PHED minister Jayanta Mallabaruah officially launched the first Jal Shala, under the Jal Doot program at an event in Pachariya locality of Kamrup district. Mentionable is that Jal Doot program has been initiated to act as a community-level voluntary system that carries out functionality and impact assessment of various water supply schemes and…
Guwahati: A dream will come true for the people of Assam as the Stategovernment has taken pragmatic initiatives to establish Srimanta Sankardev chair at School of Sanskrit & Indic Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. A memorandum of understanding was signed on Thursday in presence of State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma…
