Organisations condemn brutal killings in BTAD

Organisations condemn brutal killings in BTAD

SILCHAR, May 4: Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) today burnt the effigy of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in front of Khudiram statue for failing to maintain the law and order situation in Bodoland Territorial Areas District, resulting in killings of innocent people......Complete details here

Meet and Workshop of INDEST–AICTE Consortium organized

Meet and Workshop of INDEST–AICTE Consortium organized

SILCHAR, May 4: A two–day–long 10th Annual Meet and Workshop of INDEST–AICTE Consortium organized by NIT Silchar in its premises in collaboration with IIT Delhi starting from tomorrow. This is informed by Prof NV Deshpande, Director of ......Complete details here

Election for the post of the Chairperson of Silchar Municipal Board

Election for the post of Chairperson of SMB defers

SILCHAR, May 3: The election for the post of the Chairperson of Silchar Municipal Board has been deferred with an order of the Cachar Deputy Commissioner Gokul Mohan Hazarika, who in a letter to the acting Chairperson of the Board Bijayendra Prasad Singh requested not to.......Complete details here

Matribasha Suraksha Samiti chalks out programmes for May 9 and May 19

Matribasha Suraksha Samiti chalks out programmes for May 9 and May 19

SILCHAR, May 3: Matribasha Suraksha Samiti has chalked out a series of programme to observe the 154th birth anniversary of Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore on May 9 (25 Baishakh, first month of the Bengali calendar) and the Language Martyrs’ Day on May 19 in a.......Complete details here 

CRPC decries branding of a genuine Indian citizen as a ’D’ voter

CRPC decries branding of a genuine Indian citizen as a ’D’ voter

SILCHAR, May 2: Citizens’ Rights Preservation Committee (CRPC), Assam strongly condemned the arrest of a genuine Indian citizen, Sazida Khatun of Katigorah, Cachar – a mother of five children including an eight–month–old daughter, who......Complete details here 

Allegation labelled against the principal of Women’s College Manoj Kumar Paul

CID disproves allegation against principal of Women’s College

SILCHAR, May 2: The allegation labelled against the principal of Women’s College Manoj Kumar Paul by the lady librarian of the institute that he had sent a mail to her on September 5, 2013 from his e–mail id having objectionable images and texts has been disproved by the......Complete details here

CITU, AITUC, AICCTU, AIUTUC, TUCC call for strengthening labour movement

Trade Unions call for strengthening labour movement

SILCHAR, May 1: The different trade unions including CITU, AITUC, AICCTU, AIUTUC, TUCC and EWTCC observed May Day here today with a resolve to stand united against all sorts of injustice towards them. A host of speakers who included Samdeo Kurmi, Sripad Dhar, among others addressed a......Complete details here 

Court sends Rumi Nath’s second husband Jacky Zakir to police custody

Court sends Rumi Nath’s second husband Jacky Zakir to police custody

SILCHAR, April 29: Borkhola MLA Dr Rumi Nath’s second husband Jacky Zakir was sent to police custody for 14 days by the Court here today. Rumi Nath filed a case against her husband Jacky Zakir at Silchar sadar police station under the......Complete details here

Cachar district unit of the Imarat Shariah and Tamire Nadayatut Tamire of Joynagar

Khanka Mehfil to begin on May 10

SILCHAR, April 29: Cachar district unit of the Imarat Shariah and Tamire Nadayatut Tamire of Joynagar Tarapur will organise a five–day–long Khanka Mehfil at the Raipur Palador Masjid. The Mehfil will begin on......Complete details here

This is one Lok Sabha election where the level of personal attacks

Caution about Promises
This is one Lok Sabha election where the level of personal attacks against rival candidates and the rash promises and statements made in the course of election speeches has outstripped anything that we have seen and heard in the past. Take, for instance, the very presumption that it would be a.....Complete details here 

12–hour bandh in Silchar today

12–hour bandh in Cachar today

SILCHAR, May 4: Condemning the brutal killing of the people in BTAD, number of organisations under the banner of Protibadi Gana Mancha called 12–hour Cachar bandh on Monday. The bandh has been called from......Complete details here

Dr Rumi Nath files complaint against her second husband; Police detains Jacky Zakir

Dr Rumi Nath files complaint against her second husband; Police detains Jacky Zakir

SILCHAR, April 28: The Police today detained Jacky Zakir, the second husband of the controversial MLA from Borkhola Dr Rumi Nath based on her complaint against him.......Complete details here

Heavy shower with hailstorm lashes Silchar town

Heavy shower with hailstorm lashes Silchar

SILCHAR, April 27: The town experienced heavy shower followed by hailstorm last evening that lasted for around 45 minutes. A few roads were waterlogged for around half an hour. The people from different parts of the town confirmed that many trees were uprooted. A few electric poles also fell down which resulted in.......Complete details here

Kayanat pays tribute to Safdar Hashmi

Kayanat pays tribute to Safdar Hashmi

SILCHAR, April 27: Kayanat, a cultural organisation of the town, paid a tribute to the father of street play Safdar Hashmi at a function held last evening at the meeting hall of Madhya Sahar Sanskritik Samiti. The programme was organised to commemorate the birth anniversary of the......Complete details here 

The case of rigging in a polling station in Jalukbari LAC

The Rigging Disgrace

The case of rigging in a polling station in Jalukbari LAC which came to light after a local television channel aired footages of polling personnel asking voters’ to cast votes in favour of candidates of their choice is indeed a sad state of affairs. Earlier this time the elections were buoying with an air of happiness, given the fact that the......Complete details here

For Durable Peace

For Durable Peace

To revisit the times about two years back — and such revisit must keep happening for the sake of durable peace — at the fourth round of tripartite peace talks with the Centre and the Assam government, the Arabinda Rajkhowa–led pro–talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) had sought a foolproof mechanism to deal with the......Complete details here 

Shillong Lajong end I–League campaign with lose against Mohan Bagan

Shillong Lajong end I–League campaign with lose against Mohan Bagan

Shillong, Apr 27: Shillong Lajong FC ended their I–League in a bitter note after they went down to Mohun Bagan AC at the Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata by a score line of 2–1.........Complete details here

Shillong Lajong FC today defeated AIFF Navi Mumbai Academy

Win for Lajong boys in U–19 I–League

Shillong, Apr 27: The U–19 team of the Shillong Lajong FC today defeated AIFF Navi Mumbai Academy by 2–1 in the ongoing Under 19 I–League Final Round being held in......Complete details here 

Eminent publisher and founder General Secretary of the North East Book Fair, Ramen Dutta passed away

Publisher Ramen Dutta passes away

Guwahati, April 25: Eminent publisher and founder General Secretary of the North East Book Fair, Ramen Dutta passed away at his residence at the.......Complete details here

Final phase of the Lok Sabha elections in Assam

End of the Poll Fever

Thursday marked the end of the final phase of the Lok Sabha elections in Assam. The elections to the 16th Lok Sabha have been different from all previous parliamentary elections in more ways than one. In the first place, the turnout of voters this time has probably broken all.......Complete details here 

Tarun Gogoi has been making statements that are bound to leave a lot of people thoroughly confused

An All–time Oracle

In recent weeks, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has been making statements that are bound to leave a lot of people thoroughly confused. And what makes the problem worse is that whenever such statements are made Gogoi is inclined to talk almost like an Oracle—as though he is the only one who has access to facts and is able to make precise forecasts of......Complete details here

Election arithmetic for the 2016 Assembly elections in the State

Assam Lok Sabha campaign throws peek into 2016 poll math

The slanging match of a campaign that the polls to the Lok Sabha saw in Assam (as elsewhere in the country) has given us a clear peek into the possible election arithmetic for the 2016 Assembly elections in the State. If claims or threats by political leaders are any indication, the ruling Congress in......Complete details here

Convocation of Assam Institute of Management (AIM)

19th Convocation of Assam Institute of Management

Guwahati, April 25: The Assam Institute of Management (AIM) will hold its 19th Convocation on April 28 from 11 am onwards to felicitate the students of the 2012–2014 batch with the award of the post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM). Distinguished......Complete details here 

Let China understand that it might go on denying visa to people from Arunachal Pradesh

Food for thought

Let China understand that it might go on denying visa to people from Arunachal Pradesh on the basis of its preposterous claim that the State is a Chinese territory, but this will not deter India from doing what it should, and must, when it comes to......Complete details here 

The Gauhati High Court today cancelled the licenses of five blood banks

HC cancels licenses of 5 blood banks

GUWAHATI, April 25: The Gauhati High Court today cancelled the licenses of five blood banks in the State for failing to meet the requisite norms. The order was given by Chief Justice AM Sapre and Justice AK Goswami during a hearing of.......Complete details here 

2014 Lok Sabha elections in Assam

2014 LS polls recorded highest voter turnout in State’s political history

GUWAHATI, April 25: The 2014 Lok Sabha elections in Assam which concluded yesterday recorded the highest turnout of electorates in the State’s entire political history –– both in the Assembly elections as well as in the parliamentary polls. This year’s elections also broke the past record of........Complete details here

Silchar Kala Academy is going to start a six month certificate course on acting

Silchar Kala Academy to begin theatre course

SILCHAR : There is a great news for the young theatre enthusiast as Kala Academy, a premier theatre institute and a sister organisation of the well known cultural group Bhabikal, of this town is going to start a six month certificate course on acting from.....Complete details here

ACKHSA laid siege of the Assam State Electricity Board’s revenue offices

ACKHSA lays siege of ASEB offices, threatens to continue movement

SILCHAR : Peeved at the unprecedented load–shedding for the last few days, the members of All Cachar Karimganj Hailakandi Students’ Association (ACKHSA) laid siege of the Assam State Electricity Board’s revenue offices here today bringing the official work and transaction to halt. Raising slogan ‘no electricity, no bill’, the ACKHSA members who......Complete details here

Silchar Collegiate School celebrated its foundation day with much fanfare

Silchar Collegiate School celebrates its foundation day

SILCHAR : Silchar Collegiate School celebrated its foundation day with much fanfare at district library auditorium held here on Thursday evening. Vice–Chancellor of Assam University Prof Somnath Dasgupta graced the evening as the chief guest. The programme began with the lighting of the......Complete details here

East Bengal vs United SC CFL Match Live Streaming Online

CFL Match Live Streaming Online East Bengal vs United SC, Calcutta Football League

East Bengal football clubs is going to play their crucial Kolkata Football League match against United Sports Club of Kolkata in the Yuba Bharati Stadium at 4 PM. The match is available live online Streaming here. United SC 's Elco will go all out to win the match and play for pride while defending champion East Bengal FC will play for league title. Currently East Bengal Club is on top of the CFL league table followed by Mohun Bagan and Mohammedan Sporting. 

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‘D’ voters has taken the centre–stage of debate and discussion

Adhivakta Parishad for revival of Immigrants (Expulsion from Assam) Act, 1950

Along with the demand for update of National Register for Citizens (NRC), the issue of ‘D’ voters has taken the centre–stage of debate and discussion. The issue has been taken up by Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad, Cachar district committee, for its resolution in the right perspective in respect of Hindu refugees of the State of......Complete details here 

Hailakandi Education Department issues show–cause notices

Hailakandi Education Department issues show–cause notices to teachers

SILCHAR, December 5: District Education Department has issued show–cause notices to ten teachers of different schools of Hailakandi for not attending the schools regularly. The department has also issued an order to stop the salary of these accused teachers who were absent in schools without any.....Complete details here 

Union High School, Hmarkhawlein, brought into focus

Problems of Union High School, Hmarkhawlein, brought into focus

Hmar Students’ Association of Barak Valley and people in general have expressed their serious concern at the lack of teaching staff of Union High School, Hmarkhawlein, the only English medium institute of its kind. It is one of the oldest schools located in the Hmar dominated area of Lakhipur sub–division of Cachar. Students belonging to different tribes and from various villages pursue their.....Complete details here 

Silchar Book Fair

Silchar Book Fair to start from December 15

The 22nd Silchar Book Fair will be started from December 15, in which the publishers and distributors from different parts of  the country like Kolkata, Agartala as well as.....Complete details here

Cachar district committee of All Assam Construction Labourers Union

Cachar district committee of All Assam Construction Labourers Union pitched for hike in retirement monthly pension 

The members of the Cachar district committee of All Assam Construction Labourers Union pitched for hike in retirement monthly pension from the prevailing amount of Rs 350. The members of the organization also recently submitted a memorandum addressed to the.....Complete details here

Assam Rifles recovered major arms haul

Assam Rifles along with Mizoram Police recovered weapons 

In yet another major arms haul, 14 Assam Rifles along with Mizoram Police, based on specific information, recovered 16 weapons which include one light machine gun, 10 assault rifles, 4 MA–3 weapons and a huge quantity of warlike stores that comprise 39 grenades, pistol silencer, telescopic sight, 30 magazines and a.....Complete details here

NDFB (S) cadre killed in Udalguri

NDFB (S) cadre killed in encounter at village Jalukbari near Khairabari in Udalguri district

Acting on a tip off, the troops of Red Horns Division located at Borrangajuli camp carried out a joint operation assisted by police at village Jalukbari near Khairabari in Udalguri district on.....details news here

12 hour bandh called by Sara Assam Bangali Jatiya Parishad (SABJP)

Dawn to dusk bandh in Barak Valley successful

SILCHAR, December 3: The 12 hour bandh called by Sara Assam Bangali Jatiya Parishad (SABJP) from 5 am to 5 pm today in protest against the harassment and prosecution of Hindu Bengalis in the State in the name of ‘D’ voters passed off peacefully. There was no report of any untoward incident in any.....Complete details here

The history of Barak Valley from all accounts

Exploring the unexplored about Barak Valley
The history of Barak Valley from all accounts has been shrouded in mystery and darkness. All that one knows is the backdrop against which Silchar town has emerged as a cantonment with the annexation of Cachar by the British in.....Complete details here

3th AIFF Grassroots Festival conducted by the AIFF Regional Academy at the Fr. Agnel’s Ground, Navi Mumbai.

Sixty five children and twenty officials participated in the 13th AIFF Grassroots Festival conducted by the AIFF Regional Academy at the Fr. Agnel’s Ground, Navi Mumbai. Following a month-long break on account of school examinations and a subsequent vacation for Diwali.....Complete details here