New Delhi: Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will be visiting Guwahati on Saturday to attend the first anniversary celebration of the third consecutive term of the Congress government in the state. Meanwhile, ULFA hardliners have called for a 12-hour bandh in the state in protest against the visit. On Friday night, one person was killed in a bomb blast allegedly by anti-talk faction of ULFA in Tinsukia district....
08:29 AM, May 26, 2012
Guwahati: A TADA designated court in the city on Thursday acquitted United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa in a murder case dating back to 1990. Rajkhowa was acquitted on the basis of benefit of doubt in the case relating to the murder of noted businessman Surendra Paul. The businessman was gunned down on April 9, 1990 at Tinsukia district in upper Assam by suspected ULFA militants. The...
05:11 PM, May 24, 2012
Guwahati: Based on information provided by an arrested thief, the Guwahati police on Sunday recovered cash worth Rs 13.29 lakh from a garbage dump at lower Assam's Barpeta district. Police said the money was recovered from a garbage dump behind the house of one Kishore Deka. Deka had been apprehended recently by the police in Guwahati for stealing over Rs 21 lakh from an ATM at Guwahati's Gorchuk locality a...
09:10 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Mild tremors measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale were on Friday felt in north eastern states of Assam and Meghalaya, and West Bengal. The tremors were primarily felt in Guwahati, Shillong and Kolkata. The tremors were also felt in Malda, Baharampur and Jiaganj in West Bengal. According to R S Dattatreya of MET Department, the epicentre of the earthquake was in Tezpur in Assam. The quake was felt...
06:30 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Bombay High Court cleared the path for 21-year-old Bidhan Barua to undergo a sex change surgery. Bidhan had approached the court after his family threatened him against the surgery. The 21-year old spoke to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai on how difficult his battle has been. Following is an excerpt from Rajdeep Sardesai's interview with Bidhan Barua: Rajdeep Sardesai: Bidhan, you virtually went against your family for this...
08:06 AM, May 08, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday cleared the path for 21-year-old Bidhan Barua to undergo a sex reassignment surgery. Guwahati based Barua had approached the Bombay High Court after his family threatened him when he was in Mumbai for his operation. This comes after the state and the centre government told the court they had no objection to such a procedure. Last month in the petition, Bhidan, who feels...
09:40 PM, May 07, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday cleared the path for 21-year-old Bidhan Barua from Assam to undergo a sex reassignment surgery. Barua, who hails from Guwahati, had approached the Bombay high court after his family threatened him when he was in Mumbai for his operation. This comes just days after the Bombay High Court on last Thursday warned the youth against using pressure tactics and threatening to commit suicide...
07:06 PM, May 07, 2012
Guwahati: A week after the ferry tragedy in Dhubri, the Assam government has approached New Delhi seeking a Rs 365-crore package to develop the inland water transport network in the state, a minister said in Guwahati on Sunday. Assam government spokesman and state Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain said the state government has submitted a memorandum to the central government seeking a Rs 365 crore package to upgrade the inland water...
08:22 PM, May 06, 2012
Guwahati: They are the only means of transport between the North and South banks of the Brahmaputra in Dhubri in Assam but these flimsy, ageing and overcrowded boats are also omens of impending tragedy, like the one that happened just two days ago. "In this accident an entire family of nine got swept away," says a resident. But for locals there is often no other lifeline to civilisation. "We have...
10:13 PM, May 02, 2012
Guwahati: It has been over 36 hours since the tragic accident in Dhubri in Assam. By Tuesday morning, 103 were confirmed dead. From then on, there has been no recovery of any more bodies, as bad weather continues to hamper rescue operations at the site. Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is expected to visit the accident site on Wednesday at 2 pm. Rahul will be accompanied by Chief Minister Tarun...
09:34 AM, May 02, 2012
Guwahati: A 21-year-old student from Guwahati who feels he is a woman trapped in man's body, has moved the Bombay High Court seeking to restrain his parents from interfering with his decision to undergo a sex change operation. Bidhan Barua, who likes to call himself Swati, has alleged that his parents had thwarted the sex reassignment surgery which was scheduled to be performed at Saifee hospital in Guwahati on April...
09:08 AM, Apr 28, 2012
Guwahati: Assam has been put on high alert and extra security has been deployed ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's one-day visit. Two blasts rocked the state on Thursday evening just hours ahead of the Prime Minister's visit. The Prime Minister will be in Guwahati to inaugurate the platinum jubilee celebration of the Assam Assembly. The Home Ministry has asked the state to keep a strict vigil as intelligence hints...
11:25 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Guwahati: Authorities have stepped up security in Assam ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's one-day visit to the state on Friday amid a 12-hour strike called by ULFA militants to protest the high-profile visit, officials said. A powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was meanwhile recovered from Lower Assam. According to officials, the police and security forces in Assam have drawn up an elaborate security plan in and around Guwahati ahead...
08:05 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Guwahati: With the Union Home Ministry alerting the Assam government to tighten security ahead of ULFA's 'Army day' on Friday, DGP Jayanta Narayan Choudhury on Thursday said that three districts in the state were an area of concern. "Three districts in upper Assam are an area of concern and we are on maximum alert," Choudhury who recently took charge said in Guwahati, referring to Tinsukia, Dibrugarh and Sibsagar districts where...
03:35 PM, Mar 15, 2012
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