Articles for category: National, News

Nava Thakuria

One more prestigious award conferred on Prof Yunus

Guwahati: The lone Nobel laureate of Bangladesh, who is popularly known as banker to the poor, Professor Muhammad Yunus has been awarded with Karl Kübel Prize of Germany for his extraordinary and multifaceted commitment to families all over the world. The Karl Kübel Foundation for Child and Family honoured the Bangladeshi economist, who conceptualized the ...

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Following the intriguing debate on road mishap

During our college days the teachers used to advise and inspire us, once we become automobile engineers, we should try to replace the piston engine as it’s not fuel efficient. When I left Assam Engineering College (under Gauhati University) in 1990 after completing my degree course in Mechanical branch (with a special paper on Automobile ...

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Sadhguru graces Assam government’s Chintan Shivir

Guwahati: In a move to draw a roadmap for holistic development ofAssam and to create a blueprint for expediting its growth as we allmake it a model on all sectors, State chief minister Himanta BiswaSarma along with spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev inaugurated athree-day Chintan Shivir at Kaziranga.  The three-day camp beginningon Saturday will have ...

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Mohan Bhagwat addresses public meeting in Shillong

Guwahati: Rashtriyata Swayamsevak Sangh chief Dr Mohan Bhagwat, while attending a public meeting at U Soso Tham auditorium in Shillong of Meghalaya, stated that Bharat is an ancient nation since time immemorial, but due to forgetting the civilizational motto and values, it lost the freedom. Sarsanghchalak Bhagwat also added that ‘our binding force among one ...

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Himachal played vital role in freedom movement: Modi

Mandi: Coalition governments at the Centre have failed to deliver, leading to the world casting a doubt on India’s ability, therefore stability was vital for keeping the pace of development going. This was stated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi while virtually addressing the Yuva Vijay Sankalp Rally organized by the State BJYM held at ...

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Engineer’s Day greetings to everyone with inherent engineering mind

Guwahati: Realizing that each individual has an inherent engineering mind irrespective of their adopted professions, All Assam Engineer’s Association (AAEA) greets everyone on the auspicious occasion ofEngineer’s Day, which is celebrated on 15 September in India. The forum of graduate engineers wishes a productive life for every professional engineer across the country, even after their ...

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CM Sarma hails Indian judiciary for upholding the rule of law

Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, while attending the diamond jubilee celebration of Bar Council of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim  lauded it for various activities such as orientation programs for advocates, steps towards digitization of records, etc. Congratulating the Bar Council for having successfully completed 60 years of glorious existence, Sarma ...

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AAEA bats for speed data recorder in automobile

Guwahati: Understanding the concern of millions of automobile users in India following the death of a high-profile entrepreneur in a recent road accident, All Assam Engineer’s Association (AAEA) bats for more advanced safety features in the vehicles, particularly those run with 80 (or above) kilometer per hour speed. The issue of seatbelts in the rear ...

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PPFA insists on a proper portrait of Birbala Kanaklata

Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA), while expressing displeasure on circulating a wrong photograph of  Kanaklata Barua, the young martyr of India’s freedom struggle from Gohpur in Assam, urges the government to take the pain to paint a proper portrait of  Birbala Kanaklata with the help of her close relatives. The forum of nationalist citizens ...

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New York Times Edition, Visibility & Credibility

For some days, it has been widely discussed about the success stories of Delhi government in both education and healthcare sectors. The well wishers of  Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) along with Delhi chief minister CM Arvind Kejriwal  and his deputy Manish Sisodia have flooded the social media space with appreciative messages. Latey it was added ...

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Burmese translator of Mera Naam Joker passes away

Guwahati: Acclaimed Rakhine author Maung Paw Tun, who translated popular Hindi novel Mera Naam Joker of Khwaja Ahmad Abbas into Burmese language, passes away. The award winning writer-translator, who was suffering from colon cancer, breathed his last at 9:45 am on 13 August 2022 at his residence in Yangon city of Myanmar (also known as ...

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Tri-colour hoisted at RSS headquarter in Nagpur

Guwahati: Along with every patriot of Bharat, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat hoisted the national flag at its  headquarter in Nagpur on Saturday following the nationwide campaign for Har Ghar Tiranga. The largest nationalist organisation in the globe had already extended its support to both Tri-colour festuval and Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav commemorating ...

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Marching ahead with the spirit of Swatantra Bharat

Guwahati: It was probably two decades back, when a group of journalists and Guwahati-based patriots marched on a street of Guwahati to celebrate the Independence Day. As a number of separatist armed militant outfits imposed a general strike on the day (that was the way the ethnic insurgents made them visible in the public domain ...

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UTA demands a correct NRC for Assam

Guwahati: United Trust of Assam, while expressing serious concerns over the sensational allegations, floated in regards to the process of National Register of Citizens (NRC) updation in Assam, demanded a high level probe (preferably by the Central Bureau of Investigation) into the irregularities, through which it is assumed that a huge number of illegal migrants ...

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Awaiting a self-cleaning mechanism for Assam media 

If some editor-journalists are allegedly involved in a financial scam, shouldn’t the people get an opportunity to identify them? As the mainstream newspapers and news channels of Assam are avoiding the issue in their coverage, how come the actual picture will come to the public domain? If the mainstream media outlets intentionally kill the news, ...