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Prof Yunus appointed as head of interim government in Bangladesh

Guwahati: Now it’s official- Bangladesh’s lone Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus has been appointed as the head of interim government by Bangladesh President Muhammed Shahabuddin on Tuesday midnight following a series of discussions with the top military personnel,  agitating student leaders and other law experts in  Banga Bhaban. Prof Yunus, who was in Paris following ...

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Ex-banker & philanthropist Harihar Talukdar  passes away

Guwahati: Harihar Talukdar, former managing director of the Industrial Co-Operative Bank Limited and  Union Co-Operative Bank Limited passed away this morning after suffering from a brief illness. Talukdar, who was a leading figure in urban cooperative  banking of northeast India, served NAFCUB Assam as its secretary. He was associated with Guwahati Public School since its ...

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Help stop killing spree in Bangladesh:  Prof Yunus

Guwahati: After nearly hundreds of young people, precisely students, were killed by the government armed  forces in liaison with the ruling party affiliates in Bangladesh, the country’s lone Nobel  laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus made a clarion call to the international community including the United Nations to halt the murder of agitating Bangladeshi nationals across the ...

Assam flood situation continues to be grim affecting 2.1 million

Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam along with some other parts of northeast India remain grim as incessant rainfall continues affecting over 2.1 million population. The second wave of flood in Assam  inundated  over 2200 villages in 29 districts, following which around 40,000 families took shelter in 700 relief camps set up by the administration.  ...

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PPFA bats for a life-size statue of Kamrup Nripati Prithu in Guwahati

Guwahati: As the nation celebrates the reincarnation of Nalanda University and remember the brutality of invader Mohamad -I- Bakhtiyar Khilji, it’s time to honour Kamrup Nripati Prithu, who defeated the notorious Turkish-Afghan enemy, with a life-size statue of the mediaeval Kamrup king somewhere in the prehistoric city, argues the Patriotic People’s Front, Assam (PPFA). In ...

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A fair probe into NEET episode need of the hour: PPFA  

Guwahati: Expressing dismay over the debates on irregularities in the nation-wide entrance examinations to pick up aspiring students to study the medical science in different academic institutions across the country, a northeast Bharat-based forum of nationalist citizens demanded a fair probe into the episode and insisted that the evaluation process should be made fool-proved and ...

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Fake narrative emerges as a big challenge to Bharat

Guwahati: The first & foremost principle of journalism should be an uncompromised commitment to serve and protect the interest of the motherland. Along with the media persons, every citizen should come forward to play their roles with utmost responsibilities for the nation, and the journalists must support the people to fight against fake narratives, said  ...

Devarsi Narad Jayanti celebration in Guwahati

Guwahati: Visva Sambad Kendra Assam is celebrating  Devarsi Narad Jayanti program in Guwahati on Sunday (9 June 2024) by organizing a lecture on the relevance of world’s first media person Narad Muni and awarding working journalists at a function to be held at    Sudarshanalay in the city by 4 pm. Ashok Srivastava, senior consulting ...

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Assam locals assaulted by Bangladeshi origin vendors, PVM demands action 

Guwahati:  Expressing utter dismay over the incident of physical assaults on two local residents of Mangaldoi in central Assam by a group of Bangladeshi origin vendors recently, an influential anti-influx body urged the concerned authorities to take necessary actions. Prabajan Virodhi Manch (PVM) in a media statement argued that Mangaldoi municipal board and Darrang district police ...

Karabi Goswami awarded with Mrs Aparupa 2024

Guwahati: Assam’s largest women voluntary organization Aparupa, which involve over 70,000 ladies, organized  Aparupa Mahiyasi Nari Awards 2024 at Gauhati medical college auditorium on 28 April, which was inaugurated by  Asom Sahitya Sabha’s vice-president Mrinalni Devi. The program witnessed the release of its mouthpiece Aparupa aling with several books including the one on life struggles ...

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Sandeshkhali victims faced sexual exploitation: NHRC 

Guwahati:  National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India in its spot enquiry report reveals that the victims (villagers of Sandeshkhali in West Bengal) ‘faced assault, threat, sexual exploitation, land grabbing, and forced unpaid labour’ and hence many residents were compelled to seek livelihood outside their locality. The NHRC report, released on 13 April 2024 in ...

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RSS bats for Samajik Parivartan

Nagpur:  Samajik Samrasata (social harmony) is not a strategy, but an article of faith. Samajik Parivartan (social transformation) will realize after bringing the Sajjan Shakti (the power of good) together and their collective efforts. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has pledged to join the whole society and move forward towards Samajik Parivartan (social transformation), said RSS ...

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RSS to discuss Panch Parivartan program for the centenary year

Nagpur: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an active socio-cultural organisation of Bharat, will complete one hundred years of existence on  Vijayadashmi in 2025. The forthcoming Akhil Bhartiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS), scheduled for   15, 16 and 17 March next at Nagpur (Maharashtra) will  discuss the plans adopted for  its centenary celebration. The annual Pratinidhi Sabha will also ...

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Assam tea story

Assam tea story on a table calendar

What would the world do without tea! That was an important line from a chapter in the textbook, which our high school teacher pronounced dramatically. Our beloved English teacher also threw light on Sydney Smith, the 18th century British writer, who penned the chapter adding many amazing sentences like- Thank God for tea! I am ...