Riding night city buses

Riding night city buses When a senior minister in Himanta Biswa Sarma’s cabinet took a ride in city buses of Guwahati to understand the problems of daily commuters, it made news. During the State urban affairs minister Ashok Singhal’s visit, he might have observed a lot of difficulties faced by the elderly people along with the women…

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Festival of books continues attracting visitors

Guwahati: Assam Book Fair (2022-23), presently going on at AEI playground in the city, continues to attract thousands of visitors and book lovers everyday. Jointly organised by the State government run Publication Board Assam and All Assam Publishers & Book Sellers Association, the festival of books was inaugurated by reputed Indonesian performing poet Tara Noesantara on 29 December. In the first…

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Chalachitram national film festival kicks off in Guwahati

Guwahati: Chalachitram national film festival ২০২২ kicked off on Thursday at Jyoti Chitraban auditorium in the city, where film director Aditya J Patwardhan and actor Kankana Chakraborty lighted the inaugural lamp. Organised every year under the initiative of Chalachitram, a subsidiary of Viswa Sangbad Kendra Assam, the two-day festival is aimed to propagate the cinema…

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Tiwa ruler Jungal Balahu’s contribution remembered

Guwahati: Attending the Jungal Balahu Divas and Bhumipujan ceremony for development of tourist facilities at the legendary Tiwa ruler’s rampart in Raha locality of central Assam, State chief minister Himanata Biswa Sarma on Tuesday commented that the medieval era ruler Jungal Balahu made immense contributions towards the socio-economic and spiritual progress of various communities inhabiting…

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RSS Sarkaryavah Dattatreya Ji Hosabale pays homage to Sri Siddeshwara Swamiji of Jnana Yogashram, Vijayapura

Bengaluru. RSS Sarkaryavah Dattatreya Hosabale Ji and Kshetra Sanghchalak V. Nagaraj pays homage to Sri Siddeshwara Swamiji of Gnana Yogashram, Vijayapura. “Respectful Salutations to the holy memory of Sri Siddeshwar Swamiji of Gnana Yogashram, Vijayapura, whose mortal journey ended today. The people worshiped Pujyashri as the walking god. This Sattvic lamp that reached the pinnacle…

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Guwahatians receive 100 CNG buses

Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday flagged off 100 new compressed natural gas (CNG) run buses for the benefit of nearly 15 lakh city dwellers and also inaugurated the city’s first CNG fuel station near the inter-State bus terminus of Guwahati. Gifted by the Guwahati smart city limited (under its Smart City…

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Kerala – NIA arrests High Court Advocate Mohd Mubarak allegedly a member of PFI’s hit squad

NIA, on December 30, 2022, arrested an advocate practising in the Kerala High Court following the raids conducted in 56 premises linked to leaders of the banned outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) in Kerala. The arrested advocate is identified as Mohammed Mubarak, a native of Edavanakkad in the Ernakulam District. NIA in an official…

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Kerala – CPM leader intentionally insults Lord Ayyappa over social media, apologises after outrage

Kochi. Insulting Hindu gods, and raising questions over the Hindu culture is an old habit of the CPM leaders. Following the habit, Kerala’s CPM leader, K Mukundan, has stroked controversy by passing insulting comments about Lord Ayyappa on social media. K. Mukundan is the branch secretary of Mundakappadam. Taking Facebook, Mukundan wrote, that Lord Ayyappa…

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