Guwahati: Denouncing the boycott call by many separatist militant outfits of northeast India, the Patriotic Peoples’ Front Assam (PPFA) urges every Indian settling in the region to observe the 76th Republic Day and unfurl the Tri-colour showing respect to all the known and unknown martyrs of Freedom Movement against the British colonial forces. The forum ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Guwahati: Pragjyotishpur Literature Festival 2024, a three-day celebration of literature, culture, and intellectual discourse, is underway at Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra in Guwahati. The LitFest organising committee has announced the second Pragjyotishpur Literature Awards to be conferred on veteran Nepali-language author Bidyapati Dahal for his significant contributions to the literature. The Pragjyotishpur Young Literature Award 2024 ...
Guwahati: Valmiki Sangeet Vidyalaya, run by the city-based Dr Hedgewar Memorial Trust, organises a spectacular cultural event titled ‘Samatar Chandere Jivanar Joigaan’ (Joy of Living with Rhythm of Equality) on Sunday (8 December 2024) starting at 4 pm in Assam Cricket Association stadium, Barsapara. With an aim to honour the revered constitution-maker Dr Bhimrao Ramji ...
Guwahati: Loka Jagaran Mancha’s Guwahati Mahanagar unit had submitted a memorandum to Professor Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser of the interim government of Bangladesh, on 3 December 2024, where it expressed serious concern over the atrocities committed against the religious minorities in the south Asian country. The document, sent via Kamrup metro district authorities of Assam, ...
The recently concluded by-polls for 48 legislative assembly constituencies in 14 States (along with two Parliamentary constituencies in Kerala and Maharashtra) divulged an important fact that no less than 41 assembly seats needed the special elections as those were vacated by the respective legislators after they were elected to the lower house of Indian Parliament. ...
Gauhati: A function to commemorate the completion of 53 years by the Directorate of Cultural Affairs (under Assam government) turned a serious and fruitful event to cherish the recognition to Asomiya (Assamese) as a classical language and also highlight the future course of actions for the government, concerned organisations, literary personalities and common people using ...
Guwahati: The voting under by-polls in six assembly constituencies of Assam and Meghalaya, conducted to fill up the vacant seats (as the respective legislators had shifted their focus to the national politics after winning the recently conducted Lok Sabha polls), ended largely peacefully on Wednesday evening with a satisfactory over 70% voters’ turn out. The ...
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 ...
