Guwahati: A passenger train derailed on Friday morning in Kamrup (Rural) district of Assam, after hitting an earth-cutting vehicle on its track, leaving two people dead and 50 injured. The Bongaigaon-Guwahati Chilarai Passenger train rammed into the vehicle stuck on the track at Gossainghati between Azara and Mirza railway stations leaving about 50 injured around 9.30 am, railway sources said. Three bogies of the Bongaigaon-Guwahati passenger train derailed. The injured...
10:19 AM, Feb 03, 2012
Sibsagar: A major disaster was averted when a powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was recovered from a school playground in Sibsagar district of Assam just before the flag hoisting on Thursday. Official sources said a plastic packet containing the IED was detected near the podium prior to the flag hoisting at the Dighalipukhuri High School at Sonari. The bomb defusal squad of the police and the army respectively visited the...
07:25 PM, Jan 26, 2012
Guwahati: From guns to roses, life turned full circle for close to 700 militants from nine separatist groups in Assam on Tuesday when they laid down arms to join the mainstream in the presence of union Home Minister P Chidambaram. In one of northeast India's biggest surrender ceremonies in Assam's main city of Guwahati, a total of 676 militants laid down weapons and in return received roses from the home...
04:18 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Guwahati: In one of the largest surrender ceremonies in the North East region, 1855 militants belonging to nine groups on Tuesday bid a farewell to arms before Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and received roses for weapons turned in. Among them were five major ethnic groups of the Adivashi Santhal outfits operating in upper Assam and three belonging to the Kukis besides a Hmar group inhabiting central Assam. "Today is...
05:34 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: One bogie of the Brahmaputra Mail got derailed on Wednesday leaving five dead and six injured. Accident took place at 5.50 AM at Karanpura in Eastern Railways division. The accident happened when a stationary goods train with fault in the engine suddenly rolled back and hit the sleeper coach at Karanpura station. Sahibganj SP Vijay Laxmi said, "Rescue operations are on. All the injured have been shifted to...
07:38 AM, Jan 11, 2012
Itanagar: Three ULFA cadre were shot dead in an encounter with security forces at Namsai in Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh, police said on Monday. The ultras were killed in an encounter with personnel of 26 Maratha Light Infantry regiment near Noadehing Bridge at Namsai in Assam-Arunachal boundary at around 10.15 pm on Friday night, sources said. "Security forces have been alerted after a specific information about a kidnappings conspiracy...
12:26 PM, Dec 26, 2011
New Delhi: Industry and traditional design are closing ranks in India, with plans to set up four new National Institutes of Design (NIDs) to meet the growing need for industrial designers, especially at the regional level. The commerce, industry and textiles ministry will announce NIDs in Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana to push the growth of regional design and train more youngsters as designers, said Pradyumna Vyas, director...
11:04 AM, Dec 12, 2011
Guwahati: At least six persons were injured by unidentified persons claiming to be ULFA in Tinsukia district, officials said on Thursday. The assailants armed with sophisticated sharp weapons attacked people at Jagun along the Assam-Bangladesh border and injured six of them seriously on Wednesday night. They left the spot after claiming themselves to be ULFA cadres, they said. The army and police have launched massive operation to track them out,...
08:31 AM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: Protestors in Assam have taken to the streets to block trucks carrying turbines for the Subansiri Dam site, the largest hydro-power project in India. Wednesday evening's violence in upper Assam's Sinitpur and Lakhimpur was not unexpected. But the police and paramilitary forces lathi charged, fired blanks in the air and then allegedly fired on protestors, leaving hundreds injured. Undeterred, people protesting against the building of the dam on...
09:22 AM, Dec 02, 2011
New Delhi: Traders all over the country are up in arms against the government's decision to introduce Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail. Over 1 crore traders and small-time retailers are on strike in many states across the country on Thursday. Retailers say the move to allow big foreign giants in Indian retail will cost millions of jobs. Sources said that over 20 protesting traders in Mumbai were detained. The...
02:55 PM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: The row over the construction of the Subansiri Dam in Upper Assam took an ugly turn on Wednesday. Around 3000 protesters from the Akhil Gogoi-led Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) clashed with police. They allegedly blocked policemen who were escorting a truck that was carrying a turbine for the dam. Sources say the police resorted to lathicharge and then blank fire. According to reports more than 80 people...
08:40 AM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: Ailing Assamese writer and Jnanpith award winning litterateur Indira Goswami died on Tuesday morning after a prolonged illness. The former Delhi University professor was admitted to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital following lung infection and breathing problems. Earlier this year, the noted writer suddenly fell ill at her residence and was shifted to the GMCH on February 13. The 70-year-old writer, appointed by ULFA to represent it in...
08:45 AM, Nov 29, 2011
Agartala: Tripura, Manipur and Meghalaya could soon get their own high courts that would help in quicker disposal of cases, save litigants time and money, and fulfil a long-standing demand of these states. All the eight northeastern states, excluding Sikkim, come under the jurisdiction of the Gauhati High Court situated in Assam. It has benches in several northeastern states. Sikkim has a separate high court. "All necessary infrastructure for the...
07:40 PM, Nov 28, 2011
New Delhi: India and Bangladesh will sign a formal extradition treaty by the end of December 2011 or early January 2012. The first person to be handed over, once the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty for Transfer of Sentenced Prisoners (extradition treaty) is signed, will be jailed United Liberation Front of Asom general secretary Anup Chetia. Chetia has been seeking political asylum in Bangladesh, but is wanted in India for many...
10:07 AM, Nov 21, 2011
Guwahati: It was the end of an era as the mortal remains of the bard from Assam, Bhupen Hazarika, went up in flames Wednesday with his son Tej lighting the funeral pyre amid sobs and wails from a sea of humanity. Heartrending scenes were witnessed at the Gauhati University campus, close to the banks of the great Asian river Brahmaputra. As the funeral pyre was lit at 10:26 am, chants...
10:22 AM, Nov 09, 2011
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