Guwahati: Reacting sharply on Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s public statement over 1971 as the cut-off year (to identify illegal immigrants in the State following the historic Assam Accord signed in 1985 culminating the six years long anti-foreigners agitation), Upamanyu Hazarika-who leads an influential forum against infiltration- urges Sarma to come clean over the ...
Geneva: New year brings sad news as a young Bangladeshi journalist was killed in the first half of 2023. Ashiqul Islam (27), who worked for Dainik Parjabekshon from Brahmanbaria locality (which is adjacent to India’s north-eastern State of Tripura) was hacked to death on 9 January by a group of miscreants. Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), ...
Guwahati: When a senior minister in Himanta Biswa Sarma’s State cabinet takes a ride in city buses of Guwahati to understand the problems of daily commuters, it makes news. So, when Assam urban affairs minister Ashok Singhal recently got into a city bus and accompanied common passengers, it received massive media coverage. But the question ...
Guwahati: One of the most intimate witnesses of the Hindi film world, Gulzar’s memoirs can provide a glimpse into an era of Indian cinema. And through these stories one can get to know many unknown facts about the lives of the colorful world, said Mumbai-based film director Akash Aditya Lama while launching the Assamese translation ...
Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA), while appreciating the State minister of housing & urban affairs Ashok Singhal for taking a ride in city buses recently to understand the problems of daily commuters, urges him to focus on the quality night city bus service. Singhal in his statement assured that he would maintain a consistent ...
Guwahati: Chalachitram national film festival 2022 kicked off on Thursday at Jyoti Chitraban auditorium in the city, where film director Aditya J Patwardhan and actor Kankana Chakraborty lighted the inaugural lamp. Organised every year under the initiative of Chalachitram, a subsidiary of Viswa Sangbad Kendra Assam, the two-day festival is aimed to propagate the cinema ...
Guwahati: Assam Book Fair (2022-23) begins with fanfare among the book lovers in the region on Thursday. Jointly organised by Publication Board Assam and All Assam Publishers & Book Sellers Association at Assam Engineering Institute playground in Chandmari locality of the city, Asom Granthamela was inaugurated by the reputed Indonesian performing poet Tara Noesantara on ...
Guwahati: Over 500 local, regional and international organizations of Myanmar (Burma/Brahmadesh) have urged the UK foreign secretary to sanction all companies involved in supplying aviation fuel to the trouble-torn southeast Asian nation, as its ruling junta have intensified aerial attacks over its own people, who have raised voices against the military dictators. In a recent ...
Guwahati: A splendid show by hundreds of sanitation workers’ children at Sonaram playground in Bharalu locality of the city on Sunday mesmerised thousands of audience, where 200 pupils performed Bhortaal Nritya and 500 participated in a group Sattriya dance program. Organized by Valmiki Sangeet Vidyalay on the eve of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar’s death anniversary, the ...
Guwahati: On the occasion of death anniversary of Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (popularly known as Babasaheb Ambedkar), Valmiki Sangeet Vidyalay, run by Dr Hedgewar Memorial Trust – which has been working for education, health and reforms in various under-developed localities of northeast India, has organised a cultural show titled সমতাৰ ছন্দেৰে জীৱনৰ জয়গান (celebrating life ...
Guwahati: PrimeMinister Narendra Modi on Friday attended the closing ceremony of the year-long celebration of 400th birth anniversary of 17th century Ahom army general Lachit Barphukan held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. Congratulating State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for successful conduct of the three-day celebration in the national capital, PM Modi exuded confidence ...
Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA), while expressing concern over the disturbing news related to uptation process of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam demands that the concerned authorities should pay the outstanding amount of money to around six thosand data entry operators (DEO) as early as possible. The forum of nationalist citizens also ...
Guwahati: The lone Nobel laureate of Bangladesh, who is popularly known as banker to the poor, Professor Muhammad Yunus has been awarded with Karl Kübel Prize of Germany for his extraordinary and multifaceted commitment to families all over the world. The Karl Kübel Foundation for Child and Family honoured the Bangladeshi economist, who conceptualized the ...
Guwahati: In a move to draw a roadmap for holistic development ofAssam and to create a blueprint for expediting its growth as we allmake it a model on all sectors, State chief minister Himanta BiswaSarma along with spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev inaugurated athree-day Chintan Shivir at Kaziranga. The three-day camp beginningon Saturday will have ...
Guwahati: Rashtriyata Swayamsevak Sangh chief Dr Mohan Bhagwat, while attending a public meeting at U Soso Tham auditorium in Shillong of Meghalaya, stated that Bharat is an ancient nation since time immemorial, but due to forgetting the civilizational motto and values, it lost the freedom. Sarsanghchalak Bhagwat also added that ‘our binding force among one ...
