Guwahati: Special envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on Myanmar Julie Bishop seemingly has little regard to human rights, observes Progressive Voice, an umbrella organisation of pro-democracy Burmese outfits. In its weekly statement, the organisation argued that Julie Bishop made her first address to a UN General Assembly committee since her appointment in April and ‘her ...
India (Bharat) has been relentlessly pursuing global harmony and as a nation it continues to spread spiritual values and cultural heritage to foster universal brotherhood and friendship among different nations, commented Assam Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya while addressing the 4th National Sanatan Conference on 26 October 2024 in the prehistoric city of Guwahati. Governor Acharya ...
Guwahati: With an aim to foster nationalism through film-works and pay homage to India’s thousands years old civilization, culture and heritage, 8th Chalachitram National Film Festival – 2024 will kick start on Saturday in the far eastern part of Bharat. The two-day festival at Jyoti Chitraban premises in Kahilipara locality of the prehistoric city will ...
India’s eastern neighbour Myanmar (also known as Burma and Brahmadesh) today faces a civil war following a military coup on 1 February 2021, which was orchestrated by General Min Aung Hlaing to dethrone democratically elected Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) government in Naypyitaw. The Buddhist majority nation is still under military ...
Commonly depicted picture of Bangladesh, where the Hindu and other religious minorities often face persecution by the majority Muslims, recently contradicted by some public rallies organized in Dhaka and Chittagong. As the south Asian nation was reeling under a visible political turmoil since July, at least four massive protest demonstrations took place in the country. ...
Guwahati: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) stated that there should be no compromise when it comes to women’s safety. The issue was extensively discussed during the three-day RSS Samanvay Baithak held at Palakkad of Kerala. The discussion was particularly in the context of the recent rape and murder case involving a young female doctor in West ...
It was midnight of 31 August 2019, as an extraordinary bureaucrat unfolded the mystic National Register of Citizens (NRC) to the people of Assam in presence of a large gathering of over enthusiast media persons in Guwahati. The then State NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela, who not only explained various features of NRC to the attending ...
Guwahati: Union minister of State for road transport & highways and corporate affairs Harsh Malhotra visited Assam’s Darang district on 23 August to assess the progress of various development schemes in the district. The Minister began his visit by inspecting the Baghpari Chapari number 2 water supply scheme under Mangaldai division of the Public Health ...
Guwahati: Observing the Sibsagar incident, where a community was compelled to apologize for a crime committed by some individuals in presence of a State minister, Patriotic Peoples’ Front Assam (PPFA) expressed dismay that some people continue the same old theory of hatred against outsiders (non-Assamese Indians) since the days of Assam agitation. The forum of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
