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Assam civilian awards

Assam civilian awards presented to 21 personalities

Guwahati: Assam Governor Gulab Chand Kataria conferred State’s civilian awards namely Assam Baibhav, Assam Saurav and Assam Gaurav on 21 personalities at a solemn function held at Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra in the city on Friday. In presence of State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the awards were given to those personalities in recognition of their ...

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Sonowal attends Uddipana award ceremony

Guwahati: Union ports, shipping & waterways and Ayush minister Sarbananda Sonowal attended the Uddipana award ceremony at Dibrugarh on Saturday during the Sonowal Kachari youth & cultural festival. Handing over Uddipana awards to Mousum Sonowal (Dibrugarh), Panchami Sonowal, Ditimani Sonowal (Dhemaji), Sania Dekari  and Tanmay Sonowal  (Tinsukia)   making significant achievement in their respective fields, Sonowal ...

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Over 5.5 lakh RSS Swayamsevaks served people during Covid-19

Guwahati: Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat and Sarkaryavah Dattatreya Hosabale inaugurated the three-day annual meeting of Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS) belonging to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) by paying floral tributes to a portrait of Bharat Mata at Panipat in Haryana on 12 March. RSS chief Bhagwat adored a Gamocha, the pride of Assam, while sitting ...

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Himachal Chief Minister celebrates Holi

Shimla: Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu today celebrated Holi at the Peterhof, Shimla with Cabinet Ministers, Congress leaders, prominent people and citizens of Shimla city. On this festival of colours, the Chief Minister said that we all should celebrate this festival with traditional fervor and gaiety. He wished that this festival of colours would ...

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Dreaming of a new world with three zeros

Can we imagine a world of zero poverty, zero unemployment, and zero carbon emissions with a new approach in post-corona economics! Ask Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and he will answer in the affirmative. The university professor turned revolutionary banker believes that the human race should not only dream about a safer world by reducing ...

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Journalist killed in India, PEC demands a fair probe

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses shock over the killing of journalist Shashikant Warishe in Maharashtra and demands a fair probe to identifythe culprit for punishing under the law. Warishe (48), who used to work for Marathi-language daily Mahanagari Times, was mowed down by a four-wheeler on Monday ...

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Assam readies to host G20 meetings

Guwahati: Assam is all set to host first sustainable financial working group (SFWG) meeting and Youth 20 inception meeting as part of India’s year-long G20 presidency, where it is meticulously chalked out various tour programs that would help in promoting the State’s rich biodiversity and socio-cultural heritage in international arena. The authorities have completed the ...

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Welcoming Professor Muhammad Yunus

The news is pleasantly breaking. Widely acclaimed Bangladeshi Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus is visiting Assam to grace the forthcoming Bodoland International Knowledge Festival to be held at Kokrajhar kick starting on 27 February 2023. Prof Yunus will address the inaugural function of the four-day unique festival, organized for the first time by the Bodoland ...

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Himachal CM emphasizes on evolving mechanism to expedite FCA cases

Shimla: Expressing concern over the delay in granting forest clearances under the Forest Conservation Act (FCA), Himachal Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has emphasized on evolving a mechanism to expedite the clearance cases of FCA, so that work on developmental projects in the State could be started at the earliest and completed within the stipulated time period.  Thakur Sukhvinder Singh ...

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Governor attends Sankardev Sishu-Vidya Niketan’s celebration

Guwahati: Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi, while attending the closing function of Sankardev Sishu-Vidya Niketan’s silver jubilee celebration at Ramdia in Kamrup district on Tuesday, commented that the success of any educational institution is determined by the impact it creates in young minds and its ability to teach its students to dream big. “I sincerely believe ...

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PVM urges Assam CM to come clean on 1971

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 ...

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Bangladeshi journalist killed, PEC demands probe and justice

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), ...

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Riding city buses in Guwahati

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 ...

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Gulzar’s memoirs  launched in Assamese

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 ...