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Bengaluru to host ABPS 2025, RSS plans expansion 

Guwahati: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is holding its annual Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS) at Janaseva Vidya Kendra premises in Bengaluru on 21, 22 and 23 March 2025. RSS’s Akhil Bharatiya Prachar Pramukh Sunil Ambekar briefed the press about the ABPS, an important Sangh meeting in a year, where N. Tippeswamy, Kshetra Karyavah of Dakshin ...

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A Bhaona and its afthermath 

The controversy erupting after  a social media post from a television journalist, associated with Gauhati Press Club (formerly Guwahati Press Club) brought many questions for the media body, which invited a minister in Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s cabinet for a cultural program, scheduled for 15 March in the city, but ended in receiving ...

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RSS Sarsanghchalak visits Donyi Polo Nyedar Namlo of Arunachal Pradesh

Guwahati: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat visited Donyi Polo Nyedar Namlo, the revered indigenous prayer center of Nyishi Janjati in Naharlagun of Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday. It was a momentous and spiritually enriching stopover of Sarsanghchalak Dr Bhagwat as the Namlo is dedicated to the worship of Sun (Donyi) and Moon (Polo), ...

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PCA advocates reactivation of Press Council in India

Guwahati: Press Club of Assam (PCA) expresses worries that the country’s statutory and quasi-judicial body to safeguard the press freedom remains non-functional for nearly five months. PCA in a statement insisted on constituting the 15th Press Council (of India) as the term of the 14th Press Council expired on 5 October 2024. It also demanded ...

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RSS Sarsanghchalak advocates for promoting  mother tongues

Guwahati: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)  Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat, while gracing an intellectual (Bouddhik) program  on Sunday  morning, pointed out that the Swayamsevaks work as a catalyst for the welfare of the society.  Dr Bhagwat commented that RSS is not an usual organization, which inspires the Swayamsevaks to dedicate their time, energy and space for ...

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RSS Sarsanghchalak arriving Guwahati on Friday 

Guwahati: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)  Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat is arriving in the city on Friday with a five-day program in Assam. The scheduled tour ( 21 to 25 February 2024) is a part of tour (Prabas) undertaken by Dr Bhagwat  as the  RSS is celebrating the centenary year (1925 -2025).  According to the schedule, ...

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BJP Assam unit chief Dilip Saikia  opposes China’s new dam on Brahmaputra

Guwahati: Member of Lok Sabha and Bharatiya Janata Party’s Assam unit chief Dilip Saikia  strongly opposes China’s proposed hydroelectric dam on Brahmaputra in Tibet, which has been projected to be the largest dam across the world. During the Zero Hour in Parliament on 10 February 2025, the Parliamentarian from Darrang-Udalguri constituency raised serious concerns asserting ...

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ASEAN Parliamentarians  denounce Myanmar’s cyber-security law

Guwahati: The ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) opposes the military junta’s recently revived cyber-security law with a warning that it would pose a serious threat to fundamental rights and contradicts the principles enlisted in the Constitution of Myanmar. The draconian legislation is a calculated attempt by the junta to suppress dissents, stifle free expressions ...

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Felicitation to Assam’s brave female biker

Guwahati: Assam’s  adventurous female bike rider Meenakshi Das, who has recently completed her mission to travel in 64 countries solo, was felicitated by  Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s  Kharghuli Shakha of Guwahati Mahanagar in a small function near her residence on the southern bank of Brahmaputra. The  41 years old mother to a high school going daughter ...

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Assam minister Bimal Borah in London for Advantage Assam 2.0

Guwahati: After the road show of Advantage Assam 2.0 in Dubai, Assam industry, commerce and public enterprise minister Bimal Borah arrived in London on Thursday. After arriving there as a precursor to the Advantage Assam 2.0 summit, Borah met with British minister for Indo-Pacific, Catherine West  at her office in the evening hours. Borah explained ...

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PPFA urges govt to reopen Lakshminath Bezbarua road

Guwahati: Expressing dismay over the fate of an important road, named after Assam’s pioneer  litterateur Sahityasamrat  Lakshminath Bezbarua, the Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) urges the concerned authorities to reopen the road connecting Guwahati Railway station with Nehru Park/Gauhati Town Club point on MG road. The forum of nationalist citizens argues that  LNB road should ...

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PPFA demands a rock-hard policy against illegal migrants

Guwahati: Understanding the grim situation, created by illegal migrants (precisely from Bangladesh) across Bharat, a regional forum of nationalist citizens urges the Union government to adopt a rock-hard policy to detect and deport all the intruders as early as possible. Patriotic People’s Front, Assam (PPFA), in a statement, lamented that successive governments in New Delhi ...

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Assam minister Jayanta Mallabaruah chats with senior media persons on urban issues

Guwahati: After assuming charge of the housing and urban affairs department, Assam minister Jayanta Mallabaruah hosted an interactive session titled ‘Bartalap’ with a group of senior editor-journalists from various media houses on 21 December in the city. This platform facilitated discussions on the key priorities and initiatives of the concerned departments and also public health ...

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Pragjyotishpur LitFest ’24 concludes with a high note

Guwahati: Curtain came down for the Pragjyotishpur Literature Festival 2024 at Madhavdev international auditorium of Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra premises in the prehistoric city of northeast India. Organised for the second time by Sankardev Education and Research Foundation (SERF) with the theme ‘In Search of Roots’ on 13, 14 and 15 December, the closing ceremony also ...