With controversy rocking the nomination of Santiuse Kujur, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Tuesday said that angry Congress legislators would not go against the party line but would vote for the candidates nominated by the party.Mr Gogoi admitted that there was some resentment over the name of Santiuse Kujur but claimed that it would subside.“I know the reaction of Anjan Dutta and many other...

Source : Asianage | 5 Hour(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Guwahati

Non-Adivasi tribal groups trigger revolt

The selection of a little known tea tribe leader Santiuse Kujur for second Rajya Sabha seat by the Congress party in Assam has surcharged the political atmosphere of state with indigenous tribal groups up in arms against ruling party.The problem started with the remarks of tea tribe leader and MLA Raju Sahu who not only criticised former minister and MLA Anjan Dutta for opposing the nomination of a...

Source : Asianage | 5 Hour(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Guwahati

Rare bearcat found in Assam

Guwahati, May 22 : A bearcat, a rare species of climbing mammal, was captured in Assam's Nagaon district and shifted to a rehabilitation centre, officials said Wednesday."The sub-adult male (around 1.5-metre-long) had reportedly entered a house in Aahomgaon village on the outskirts of Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary, in Nagaon district," an official said."The locals then handed it over to the police, who...

Source : Newkerala | 6 Hour(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Guwahati

Outburst in Congress over two Rajya Sabha nominees from minorities

Congress's minority politics in the state since Independence is taking a toll on the party. The party leadership is now taking a beating from its ownfor being a little too generous to the minority communities after the high command nominated two minority candidates for twoAnother Congress MP in the Rajya Sabha, Naznin Faruque, is also from the Muslim minority community. There are six slots for the...

Source : Times Of India | 1 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Guwahati

Father kills self after son fails Class X exam

father committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of his house in the city on Tuesday after one of his two sons failed to clear the Class X board examination. The deceased,, was depressed since the results of state board matriculation exam were declared on Friday, members of his family told police.Purbey, about 50 years old, earned his living by pulling a rickshaw and was residing in a ...

Source : Times Of India | 1 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Guwahati

Court pulls up police officers for protecting the corrupt

special court here on Tuesday summoned the former additional director general of the vigilance and anti-corruption bureau ofThe special court in its order said that "these senior police officers in order to protect some government officials from legal punishment disobeyed the directions of law."The court said former ADGP Sharada Prasad abused his supervisory power in a case registered with the state's...

Source : Times Of India | 1 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Guwahati

Cotton College admissions from May-end

admission process to the higher secondary and undergraduate courses in the prestigious Cotton College inEstablished in 1901, Cotton College is the oldest college in the state. It has been the first choice for students of the state for several decades. Despite stiff competition from private institutions in recent times, the college remains one of the best in the state as it has produced many rank holders...

Source : Times Of India | 1 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Guwahati

PM files affidavit correcting age in RS poll papers

Guwahati: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Congress Rajya Sabha candidate from Assam, has filed a fresh affidavit correcting his age to 80 prior to scrutiny of the nominations Tuesday.The Prime Minister submitted the fresh affidavit two days ago correcting his age to 80 from 82 as given earlier in his nomination papers for the May 30 election, Assembly sources said today.As per rule, there was time...

Source : Zeenews | 1 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Guwahati

PM files affidavit correcting age to 80 in RS poll papers

Guwahati, May 21: In a gaffe that cost the UPA government and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in particular, major embarrassment, the nomination filing process became the talking point for the counrty as it obsessed over the 'actual' age of its head of state.Setting the record straight, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Congress Rajya Sabha candidate from Assam, has filed a fresh affidavit correcting...

Source : Oneindia | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Guwahati

India-China dialogue: NE chorus for int'l water panel

Even as China has expressed its willingness to share hydrological information on thewith India, civil society groups in the northeast demanded that both Beijing and New Delhi should establish an independent international commission on water for better management ofThe Northeast Dialogue Forum (NDF), a conglomeration of over 20 human rights and anti-dam organisations in the region, has categorically...

Source : Times Of India | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Guwahati