Assam: 10 arrested for supplying pre-activated SIM cards to Pakistani agents

Acrime branch team stumbled upon a racket involved in procuring SIM cards from different service providers fraudulently and supplying those to some Pakistani agents. As per police, 10 persons have been apprehended in an operation carried out in the Nagaon and Morigaon Districts of Assam. The arrest comes after an operation was launched by Addl….

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Dreaming of a world with three zeros

Nava Thakuria Can we imagine a world of zero poverty, zero unemployment, and zero carbon emissions with a new approach in post-corona economics! Ask Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and he will answer in the affirmative. The university professor turned revolutionary banker believes that the human race should not only dream about a safer world…

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Journalist Devendra Khare attacked, PEC demands punishment to perpetrators

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, condemns the recent physical attack on a journalist in Uttar Pradesh and demands stringent punishments to the perpetrators. Devendra Khare, who is associated with the privately owned Hindi media outlet News1India, was shot at by miscreants in the evening hours of 26 February…

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Human beings born as entrepreneurs: Prof Yunus

Guwahati: Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, who visited Assam as the chief guest at Bodoland International Knowledge Festival 2023 in Kokrajhar (administrative headquarter of Bodoland Autonomous Region) held on 27 February to 2 March, commented that we need to encourage youth to become entrepreneurs instead of job seekers. He also emphasized on creating a world…

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Assam Governor interacts with IIT, IIM students at Raj Bhavan

Guwahati: The present day young generation need to know the essence and importance of democracy and the freedom struggle, which has given the countrymen the largest democracy in the world, said Assam Governor Gulab Chand Kataria while talking to a group of senior students during an interactive program at Raj Bhavan on Wednesday. He also…

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Need to eliminate child marriage

As India targets to eradicate the menace of child marriage by 2030 to achieve the sustainable development goal, Assam government rightly sets 2026 to eliminate the menace, widely recognized as a serious rights violation. Hardliner chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, while terming child marriage a social scourge, reiterates the Bhartiya Janata Party led government’s commitment…

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