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…
Guwahati: Assam’s very own Lovlina Borgohain is fighting in Olympic Games on Wednesday for Silver/Gold medal, after ensuring a Bronze in boxing category. She thus became the first Assamese to secure a medal in the history of 125 years of Olympic Games. In an attempt to pray for the boxer, a lighting program was organised…
Guwahati: Bharat Tibbat Sahyog Manch, an umbrella body of Indians supporting the Tibet Mukti Sadhana (Tibetan freedom movement) has decided to observe forthcoming 20 October as a protest day against the Communist regime in Beijing as the People’s Liberation Army attacked simultaneously on Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh (then North East Frontier Agency) on this date…
Three Assam tiger reserves get global recognition Guwahati: Three tiger reserves of Assam have been accredited by the global conservation assured tiger standards (CA/TS), where India as a whole witnessed recognition to 14 forest reserves. World famous Kaziranga national park and tiger reserve along with Manas and Orang forest reserves emerged successful in getting the…
Guwahati: The Union government in New Delhi has summoned both State police chiefs and chief secretaries of Assam and Mizoram to New Delhi for a thorough discussion over the ongoing border clashes. Union home minister Amit Shah as already talked to chief ministers Pu Zoramthanga and Himanta Biswa Sarma, who incidentally happens to be the…
Guwahati, 20 July 2021: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat is visiting Assam to grace a session of RSS Asom Kshetra to be held, following all necessary Covid-19 protocols, at Sewabharati Janajati Chatravas in Adinggiri area of Maligaon locality inside the city. The RSS chief will leave for Chennai on 22 July. The…
Guwahati: Assam government has launched a series of drug-disposing events, where various banned psychotropic items, seized by Assam police personnel in the last few days, have been destroyed in full public view. State chief minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma himself attended two such programs at Golaghat and Diphu on Saturday, where he set on fire…
Guwahati: The lone Nobel laurate of Bangladesh, Professor Muhammad Yunus is going to receive a rare Olympic honour in Japan on 23 July next. The economist turned revolutionary banker turned social entrepreneur, Dr Yunus will be honoured during the opening ceremony of Tokyo Olympic Games, organised under the shadow of Covid-19. The extraordinary orator becomes…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma, while answering questions from the opposition members in the State legislative assembly on Thursday reasserted the government’s zero-tolerance policy against crimes and reiterated its stand towards the rapists, murderers, drug-peddlers, human traffickers, etc will continue. Sarma stated that the police forces would take strong actions under the…
