Politics / Assam

GUWAHATI, April 23 ? A group of agitated beneficiaries under a Centrally-sponsored vehicle loan scheme today laid siege to the office of the WPT and BC Minister, Bharat Chandra Narah in Janata Bhawan complex here after the Assam Plains Tribe Development Corporation (APTDC) had postponed the ?loan mela? scheduled for today at the eleventh hour. The WPT and BC Minister, Sri Narah informed that about 18 Tata Sumos, 32 autorickshaws and three mini-trucks were to be distributed among the beneficiaries who had paid their share in December last year, at a loan mela scheduled for today. All the...

NEW DELHI, April 22? While supporting repeal of the IMDT Act, the Central Government has ruled out extension of the controversial Act to any other States pointing out that it has hampered the process of detection and deportation of illegal migrants. The clarification was given by additional Solicitor General, Harish Salve during the course of the final hearing of the Writ Petition filed by Sarbananda Sonowal challenging the IMDT Act before Special bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice G.B.Patnaik, Justice Brajesh Kumar and Justice Arijit Pasayat, here this afternoon.

The hearing of...

GUWAHATI, April 22: The State Government today effected a major bureaucratic reshuffle and shifted persons holding key posts of Additional Chief Secretary, Home Commissioner and Finance Commissioner. Official sources said that Sri MS Pangtey, Additional Chief Secretary in charge of Home, Political, Passport and Border departments has been transferred and posted as the chairman of the Assam Administrative Tribunal, while, Sri PK Dutta, Additional Chief Secretary in charge of Finance Department, will take over the posts held by Sri Pangtey.

Sources said the Sri L Rynjah, Commissioner of the...

GUWAHATI, April 20 ?Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi?s latest appeal for negotiation during the festive season of Bihu has nothing new in it, said the proscribed ULFA here today. The ULFA in a faxed press release, said that the Chief Minister?s appeal was only a cover-up measure to hide the State Government?s conspiratorial attitude and lack of effectiveness in matters of resolving the ULFA issue through negotiation. Infact, the Chief Minister?s appeal is nothing but an attempt at befooling the people, it is full of hypocracy and product of a diabolic design, the banned outfit said.

It also called...

GUWAHATI, April 20? Peeved at the delay in finding out an amicable solution to the Bodo problem through the creation of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), the Coordination Committee of Bodoland Movement (CCBM), spearheaded by the All Bodo Students? Union (ABSU) has decided to launch a fresh movement to put pressure on the government to ensure immediate steps for creation of the Council. Talking to The Assam Tribune, the president of the ABSU, Sri Rabiram Narzary said that the CCBM, as the first phase of the movement, will stage a demonstration at Dispur on April 22. He said that a delegation...

GUWAHATI, April 18 ? A family court here has issued summons to former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta to appear as a witness in connection with a divorce petition filed by an Assembly Secretariat employee, Sanghamitra Bharali, who claimed she had married Mahanta, reports PTI. The principal judge of the court last week also issued summons to Mahanta?s former ministerial colleague, SA Choudhury, and former MP, Keshav Mahanta, for a hearing on the divorce suit filed by Bharali against her husband, Monideep Das. Mahanta and his party colleagues have been asked to appear in the court on...

GUWAHATI, April 18 ? After a brief lull, fractional clashes between rival Bodo organisations started again as the Education Secretary of the All Bodo Students? Union (ABSU), Sri Khwawamkhang Boro was shot dead by suspected National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) militants at Lontibari village under Patacharkuchi police station in Barpeta district this morning. The ABSU president, Sri Rabiram Narzary said that Sri Boro, aged about 32 years, went to Lontibari village to attend a Bihu function. At around 8.30 am today, a group of armed NDFB militants dragged Sri Boro from the Bihutoli and...

GUWAHATI, May 18 ? Environmentalists here have decried the attempts made by some circles at politicising the issue of eviction conducted by the State Forest Department presently, at the directive of the Supreme Court of India, to free the forest areas of the State, particularly the city, from encroachers. ?An encroacher is an encroacher. There should not be any attempt at distinguishing the encroachers on the basis of their castes, creeds and languages. Politicians should refrain from deriving any political mileage by using the encroachers as tools for attaining their political goals,? the...

GUWAHATI, April 11 ? Representatives of the Nyishi tribe in Arunachal Pradesh and Bodos in the hill State and Assam today held a meeting in Itanagar to evolve ways to put an end to the clashes and conflicts between the two communities in Arunachal Pradesh. The joint meeting which was held at the Banquet Hall in Itanagar called for restoration of peace and harmony by putting an end to all sorts of unwanted incidents of kidnapping, torture, extortion etc. that had strained the relationship between the two communities and pledged to work unitedly to prevent recurrence of such incidents in inter...

GUWAHATI, April 8 ? Tea majors having estates in Assam may face privilege proceedings in Assam Assembly as Speaker Prithvi Majhi today informed the House that he would refer comments made by certain tea companies undermining the State Assembly resolution favouring shifting of tea headquarters to the State from Kolkata. AGP legislators Dilip Kumar Saikia and Zoiinath Sharma drew the attention of the Speaker to the ??objectionable?? comments made by officials of tea companies against the State Assembly resolution for shifting of tea headquarters to the State. The AGP legislators tabled newspaper...