Barak Valley crippled by unprecedented power crisis

Barak Valley crippled by unprecedented power crisis

SILCHAR, April 20: The last Parliamentary elections in Barak Valley have been under the shadow of interplay of light and darkness and people in general wondered why the Opposition political parties did not make load–shedding one of the major issues like BG and Mahasadak to nail the false claim of Pradyut Bordoloi, Minister of Power, who went on......Complete details here

CRPC, Assam condoles the sudden death of Anup Kumar Choudhury

CRPC, Assam mourns demise of Anup Kumar Choudhury

CRPC, Assam condoles with profound grief and sorrow the sudden death of one of its present State General Secretaries Anup Kumar Choudhury at the age of 53 years due to kidney failure. He breathed his last on.....Complete details here

Assam Cricket Association ACA gives financial support to budding cricketer

ACA gives financial support to budding cricketer

GUWAHATI, April 19: Assam Cricket Association has come forward in support of its budding cricketer Mantu Das, who has made his debut in Ranji cricket in the current session, with financial aid of .....Complete details here

Nabin Chandra Tamuly Inter School Cricket Tournament

Nabin Chandra Tamuly Inter School Cricket

GUWAHATI, April 19: Capital Public School and Angels of God High School won their respective matches in the Nabin Chandra Tamuly Inter School Cricket Tournament, organized by Guwahati Sports Association, at Nehru Stadium on.....Complete details here 

1st Golap Hazarika and Arati Hazarika T20 Cricket Tournament

City CC, Bud earn full points

GUWAHATI, April 19: City Cricket Club (Red) beat River Rine Club by 20 runs while Bud Cricket Club outplayed Gauhati Town Club by 115 runs in the 1st Golap Hazarika and Arati Hazarika T20 Cricket Tournament at Judges’ Field on.....Complete details here 

U–13 Inter District Cricket Tournament

Tinsukia boys stun Guwahati

GUWAHATI, April 19: Showing an impressive performance Tinsukia boys stunned title contender Guwahati by 7 wickets in the 2nd Umananda Bora Memorial U–13 Inter District Cricket Tournament at Barsapara Cricket Stadium on.....Complete details here 

Dr Subramanium Swamy challenges Tarun Gogoi for open debate

Dr Swamy challenges Gogoi for open debate

GUWAHATI, April 18: Reacting to Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s assertion that Assam is more developed than Gujarat, BJP leader Dr Subramanium Swamy threw an open challenge to Gogoi for an open debate on the issue. He was talking to the.....Complete details here

PANE Foundation Day lecture at Gauhati University

PANE Foundation Day lecture at Gauhati University

Guwahati, April 18: Physics Academy of North East (PANE) arranged its Foundation day lecture on 11th 2014 at Gauhati University. It was Professor RS Bhalerao of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai who.....Complete details here

ACKHSA mourns demise of Dinesh Prasad Goala, MLA of Lakhipur

ACKHSA mourns demise of Dinesh Prasad Goala

SILCHAR, April 18: All Cachar–Karimganj–Hailakandi Students’ Association (ACKHSA) expressed grief over the demise of ex–minister and the sitting MLA of Lakhipur Dinesh Prasad Goala. Adviser to ACKHSA Rupam Nandi Purkayastha said that the.....Complete details here

Karimganj BJP confident of winning Karimganj seat

Karimganj BJP confident of winning elections

SILCHAR, April 18: Bharatiya Janata Party is confident of winning the SC reserved Karimganj seat in the recently held Lok Sabha elections......Complete details here

3rd day of the Kaliyani Open Tennis tournament at Numaligarh

Major upsets caused by Naga youngsters

GUWAHATI, April 19: Youngsters from Nagaland made their presence felt on the 3rd day of the Kaliyani Open Tennis tournament at NRL Township in Numaligarh on Saturday. In Girls under 18 quarter final , 3rd seeded player Shivangi Roy Barua lost to Thejanino from.....Complete details here

A derby match between Shillong Lajong and Rangdajeid United

Lajong to face Rangdajeid in I–League tomorrow

Shillong, April 19: A derby match I–league between two local football giants of the state –Shillong Lajong Football Club (SLFC) and Rangdajeid United Football Club (RUFC) should be a treat to soccer fans on Monday even as the managers of the two football clubs decided to show no remorse when they take on.....Complete details here 

GC College’s Fast Track French Language Certificate Course results declared

GC College’s French language course’s results declared

SILCHAR, April 18: The results of the annual examinations of the fourth batch of Assam University affiliated Gurucharan College’s Fast Track French Language Certificate Course was declared.......Complete details here 

A man was allegedly murdered at Kailashkushi under Bhuban Valley Tea Estate

Nephew murders uncle

SILCHAR, April 18: A man was allegedly murdered at Kailashkushi under Bhuban Valley Tea Estate under Lakhipur police station on Thursday night. He was identified as Babul Rajbongshi (32), a daily labourer. The police said that....Complete details here

Dimasa Historical Heritage Foundation Silchar celebrated the Bengali New Year

Heritage Foundation unveils calendar with ancient Dimasa alphabets

SILCHAR, April 18: Dimasa Historical Heritage Foundation, Silchar, celebrated the Bengali New Year 1421 at a function held here on Tuesday. On the occasion, the second publication of the calendar 2014–2015 was unveiled by the president of the Foundation Uttam Chand Barman. It was an.....Complete details here

Vote, but which button to press? - Anjan Kumar Barman

Vote, but which button to press? - Anjan Kumar Barman

The Lok Sabha elections have already started in various parts of the country and reports suggest that people are showing up in the polling booths in huge numbers that impress. But there is a disquieting thought pertaining to.....Complete details here 

Media vis–?–vis Terrorism

Media vis–?–vis Terrorism

The media in India has come to acquire a role much larger than what it was thought even a decade back. Since the advent of the era of globalization, liberalization, and the consequent free–market economy, which started in the early 1990s of the last century, the media has.....Complete details here

Train Derailment taking place in Assam

Train Derailment

Last Wednesday, the country witnessed another incident of train derailment taking place in Assam. The Dimapur– Kamakhya BG Express that was on its way to reach Kamakhya Station derailed at Tegheriya near Jagiroad around 2.15 am in the morning. This is not the first incident that such railway mishap has.....Complete details here

NGOs mourn the demise of Dinesh Prasad Goala

Political fraternity and NGOs mourn the demise of Dinesh Prasad Goala

SILCHAR, April 17: Different organisations and the political fraternity of Barak Valley mourned the demise of ex–minister and sitting MLA of Lakhipur in Cachar district Dinesh Prasad Goala, who breathed his last on Wednesday morning at a......Complete details here 

Re-polls in Hailakandi district goes off peacefully

Re–polls in Hailakandi goes off peacefully

SILCHAR, April 17: Amidst tight security, the re–polling in two polling stations in Hailakandi district under SC reserved Karimganj Lok Sabha seat went off......Complete details here

Re–poll in the two polling booths of 117 Jogaimathura ME School in Lakhipur assembly

Peaceful re–poll in nine polling stations

SILCHAR, April 17: Re–poll in the two polling booths of 117 Jogaimathura ME School in Lakhipur assembly segment and the other 59 Balighat LP School in Borkhola assembly segment under Silchar Parliamentary seat was......Complete details here 

Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar

Calling for 2014 Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar

SILCHAR, April 17: A 12–day seminar from July 14 to July 26 with the theme “women as innovators and entrepreneurs, generating job creation and strengthening communities” has been organized by the East–West Centre of Kolkata American Centre. Launched in 2002, the ‘Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar’ is a professional training, dialogue, and......Complete details here 

Narendra Modi and his companions are anti–women - Rahul Gandhi

‘BJP practises communal and divisive politics’

Slamming BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said Modi and his companions are anti–women for which they opposed the Women Reservation Bill, but if the Congress is.....Complete details here

Narendra Modi on Tarun Gogoi and Rahul Gandhi

Coming down heavily on Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said Gogoi should give more stress on the development of his State instead of finding loopholes in the.....Complete details here 

Sunsilk Mega Miss North East pageant held

Sunsilk Mega Miss North East 2014 pageant held

Guwahati, April 19: The Grand Finale of the Sunsilk Mega Miss North East 2014 pageant was held at a glittering event at the ITA Cultural Complex, Machkhowa, on......Complete details here

Election Commission asks media not to bring out opinion polls

EC asks media not to bring out opinion polls

Guwahati, April 19: The Election Commission noted that certain news channels have broadcast what they call opinion polls on April 14, even as multi–phased polls were announced and are currently in progress in various parts of the......Complete details here

Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti General Secretary Kamal Medhi arrested at CJM Court

Kamal Medhi arrested at CJM Court

Guwahati, April 19: Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) General Secretary Kamal Medhi was arrested by the police after he surrendered at the CJM Court at the city today. Medhi, who was being wanted in the self immolation case of KMSS activist Pranab Boro that took place on February 24, had been avoiding arrest for......Complete details here 

Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) with Dima Hasao–based militant outfit Dima Halam Daogah (DHD)

Prayer for Peace

The Central and the Assam governments signed a Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) with both the factions of the Dima Hasao–based militant outfit Dima Halam Daogah (DHD) at the office of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in New Delhi on October 8, 2012. Dilip Nunisa of the DHD(N) and Jewel Gorlosa of the DHD(J) signed the MoS with representatives from the......Complete details here 

Frequent power cuts made lives of the people of Barak Valley miserable

Unprecedented load–shedding adds to people’s woes

SILCHAR, April 19: It is just the beginning of summer, but the scorching heat, frequent power cuts and high humidity have already made lives of the people of Barak Valley miserable for the last few days. The frequent power cuts in this hot and sultry summer have become quite irritating for the people of Silchar in general. The power supply has totally gone out of control with no..........Complete details here

Zubin Garg sings Hindi songs at Bihu function

Zubin Garg sings Hindi songs at Bihu function, stirs controversy

Guwahati, April 16: Renowned singer Zubin Garg stirred a controversy this Bihu when he got down singing some of his hit Bollywood numbers at a Bihu function on Monday (April 14). Garg, whose shows are a major attraction for people at any Bihu function, faced opposition from the organizers and the public as well for singing Hindi songs at the.....Complete details here 

Jahnu Barua’s Ajeyo has bagged the Rajat Kamal Award National Film Awards

Jahnu Barua’s Ajeyo has bagged the Rajat Kamal Award 

Guwahati, April 16: Renowned filmmaker Jahnu Barua’s Ajeyo has bagged the Rajat Kamal Award at this year’s National Film Awards. Barua, who has won several awards at the National Film Awards platform, made the film based on Arun Sarma’s novel titled Asirbador Rang. Talking about the......Complete details here

Pranjal Bordoloi Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) campaigns in backward areas

Pranjal Bordoloi campaigns in backward areas

Guwahati, April 16: While most political parties are resorting to big rallies and campaigning drives to garner in public support, the rookie Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is silently carrying on its campaigning in some of the most backward regions which may have got missed by the......Complete details here

Mukoli Bihu held at Judges Field by All Guwahati Students Union (AGSU)

Mukoli Bihu held at Judges Field

Guwahati, April 16: the All Guwahati Students Union (AGSU) held its yearly Mukoli Bihu programme at the Judges Field on Monday (April 14). The event was attended by some of Assam’s most prominent artistes and leaders of the All Assam Students Union (AASU). The programme started at about 10:15 am with renowned musician Rajeswar Bordoloi hoisting the......Complete details here

Birthday of Samuel Hahneman, father of Homeopathy

Remembering Samuel Hahneman on his birthday

SILCHAR, April 16: 260th birthday of Samuel Hahneman, father of Homeopathy, was observed with all solemnity by Barak Valley Homeopaths Joint Forum here recently. Dr M Santi Kumar Singha, general secretary of the Forum, Dr Chapalesh Chakraborty, and others threw light on the.......Complete details here

9 polling booths to go for re–poll in Barak Valle

Nine polling booths to go for re–poll in Barak Valley

SILCHAR, April 16: As directed by the Election Commission of India, re–poll in nine polling booths of Barak Valley will be held on Thursday. Seven of these polling booths are under Karimganj Lok Sabha seat while two are under Silchar Parliamentary seat. Re–poll has to be..........Complete details here 

Barak Valley celebrated Bengali New Year

Barak Valley celebrates ’Bengali New Year’

SILCHAR : Along with other parts of the country, the people of Barak Valley celebrated Bengali New Year 1421 on Tuesday with fanfare and gaiety. In the morning, a colourful rally under the aegis of Bangla Noboborsho Udjapan Committee was taken out in which the people from all walks life......Complete details here 

Barak Development Parishad appreciates role of Karimganj administration

Parishad appreciates role of Karimganj administration

SILCHAR : Barak Development Parishad expressed their happiness at the role of the administration in organizing the Lok Sabha polls held on April 12 in all the polling stations of Karimganj in a peaceful manner......Complete details here

Dinesh Prasad Goala MLA and Chairman of Housefed, passed away

Dinesh Prasad Goala passes away

SILCHAR : Dinesh Prasad Goala, MLA and Chairman of Housefed, passed away this early in the morning today. He was admitted in Vedanta Hospital in Gurgaon, Harayana, near New Delhi for the treatment of his heart related problem. After he felt severe uneasiness and pain in his chest at his Pailapool residence, he was rushed to......Complete details here 

2nd phase of polling records 75% voters turnout - Lok Sabha Election

2nd phase of polling records 75% voters turnout - Lok Sabha Election

The second phase of Lok Sabha polls recorded almost 75% of polling yesterday. Barring a few incidents of disorder, most of the polling procedures concluded on a peaceful note. While comparing the......Complete details here

ICAI holds workshop on TDS Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

ICAI holds workshop on TDS

Guwahati, April 13: The Guwahati Branch of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India organized a 3 hour long CPE Workshop on TDS at the Auditorium, ICAI Bhawan, Maniknagar, on Saturday, April. The event was initiated by CPE Committee Chairman of the Branch CA Rohit Agarwal while the Branch Chairman CA K P Sarda updated the.......Complete details here

Assam celebrates Rongali Bihu

Assam celebrates Rongali Bihu despite poll fever

GUWAHATI, April 13: The trill of the cuckoo, the lilting Bihu songs to the beating of dhols and cymbals accompanied by the mellifluous notes of bamboo flutes and buffalo horns heralded the festival of Rongali or Bohag Bihu in Assam despite the Lok Sabha elections in the.......Complete details here 

Chetan Bhagat motivates students in Silchar

Chetan Bhagat motivates students to do ’’big things’’ in life

SILCHAR, April 13: The writer, novelist, columnist, and many more Chetan Bhagat gave a motivational lecture to the young students of Barak Valley at Rajib Bhawan today. Chetan Bhagat was in Silchar to inaugurate the Silchar centre of Concept Educations located at......Complete details here 

Haflong based Assam Rifles Battalion achieves major breakthrough

Assam Rifles achieves major breakthrough

SILCHAR, April 13: In a major breakthrough, the Haflong based Assam Rifles Battalion has once again saved the lives of many innocent civilians from a possible strike by the insurgents. The Battalion has been pursuing information regarding transportation of a cache of.....Complete details here

It is Congress versus Congress in Barak Valley (Lok Sabha Election)

It is Congress versus Congress in Barak Valley (Lok Sabha Election) 

SILCHAR, April 13: Elections are over. It is time to collect ground reports, calculate and compute to assess the prospect of win of their candidates by political parties in the ‘battle of ballots’ for Silchar and Karimganj Parliamentary seats. The preliminary information as called from around the 7 assembly segments of Cachar under Silchar and.......Complete details here

Narendra Modi wave sweeping across two hill districts

Modi wave sweeping across two hill districts

GUWAHATI, April 10: Considered as a Congress bastion, people of the Diphu Lok Sabha constituency, it seems, are not happy with the Congress rule. Political observers believe that tribal and non–tribal people of both Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao districts are most likely to.....Complete details here

Polls in Delhi: North East people participate in large number

Polls in Delhi: NE people participate in large number

NEW DELHI, April 10: The enthusiasm was all over. Boys and girls, men and women, young and old were seen standing in queues to cast their votes here on Thursday. Enthusiasm was also visible among the voters hailing from the northeastern States......Complete details here

2nd phase of Lok Sabha election - Silchar, Karimganj, Diphu

3 candidates face criminal charges, 6 are crorepatis

GUWAHATI, April 10: The second phase of Lok Sabha elections to be held on April 12 in Silchar, Karimganj and the Autonomous District (Diphu) will witness 37 candidates from parties like the Congress, the BJP, the AGP and others battling for..........Complete details here 

BJP’s Promises - Lok Sabha Election 2014

BJP’s Promises - Lok Sabha Election 2014

The election manifesto released by the Bharatiya Janata Party, albeit a relative delay as compared to the Congress party has certain very comprehensive and well–meaning points. Regardless of whether the BJP on its earlier stint did something or not to solve the problem of illegal infiltration from Bangladesh, the fact that the issue has at..........Complete details here

Prafulla Kumar Mahanta creates ground for the resurgence of AGP - Lok Sabha Election Silchar and Karimganj

Prafulla Kumar Mahanta creates ground for the resurgence of AGP - Lok Sabha Election Silchar and Karimganj

SILCHAR, April 10: Lying low after the sad demise of Sahidul Alam Choudhury, former minister in the cabinet of Prafulla Kumar Mahanta and also the general secretary of the party, regarded as the architect behind the emergence of AGP in Barak Valley, three day election campaign of ......Complete details here

The District Magistrate of Hailakandi declares dry day

District Magistrate declares dry day

SILCHAR, April 10: As per WT message received from the Joint Secretary to the Government of Assam, Excise Department, the District Magistrate of Hailakandi, under Rule 324 (A) of Assam Excise Rules 1945 and Section 135 (C) of the Representation of the People’s Act 1951, declared the period from 5 pm of April 10 to 5 pm of April 12 as dry days throughout the district to maintain public peace and tranquillity in....Complete details here 

Bijoy Krishna Nath castigates Congress and BJP

AGP candidate castigates Congress and BJP

SILCHAR, April 10: AGP candidate from Silchar seat Bijoy Krishna Nath today held series of street corner meetings here in the town, giving a clarion call for change. Bijoy Krishna Nath training his gun at both Congress candidate Sushmita Dev and incumbent MP and BJP candidate Kabindra Purkayastha said that Congress candidate had failed to.....Complete details here

First phase of the Lok Sabha elections

51 candidates’ electoral fate to be sealed today

GUWAHATI, April 6: The fate of 51 candidates will be decided in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections to be held in five parliamentary constituencies of Tezpur, Kaliabor, Jorhat, Dibrugarh and Lakhimpur in Assam on Monday......Complete details here

Independent candidate from Silchar Lok Sabha Constituency Shuvodeep Dutta

Shuvodeep Dutta ends his fast

SILCHAR, April 6: The Independent candidate from Silchar Lok Sabha Constituency Shuvodeep Dutta on Saturday evening broke his five–day fast on the separation of Barak Valley from Assam, saying that he had only suspended his movement and not ended it. With a handful of supporters, Dutta has been on fast unto death from March 31. He ended his...........Complete details here 

Mithun Chakraborty campaigning for TMC candidate in Lok Sabha seat of Silchar

Mithun Chakraborty adds grist to the campaign mill of TMC candidate

SILCHAR, April 6: In order to add grist to the campaign mill of Dr Wazid Reza Osmani, Trinamool Congress nominee for Lok Sabha seat of Silchar, Mithun Chakraborty, the well known film actor and MP (Rajya Sabha) of the party, came all the way from Kolkata to address an election rally in favour of the.....Complete details here 

Tarun Gogoi on a day–long hurricane visit of Barak Valley

Tarun Gogoi hits ‘Modi–balloon’ to blow his own trumpet

SILCHAR, April 6: Tarun Gogoi, Chief Minister of Assam, who was on a day–long hurricane visit of Barak Valley to address election rallies at Karimganj and Baburbazar in Cachar as well as at Silchar in Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan, in an identical tone hit out at ‘Modi–balloon’ and gloated over his ‘development package’ for this remote and.............Complete details here

13 crorepatis, 5 class eight pass–outs in poll fray in Lok Sabha Election 2014

13 crorepatis, 5 class eight pass–outs in poll fray  in Lok Sabha Election 2014

GUWAHATI, April 6: From highly educated to HSLC pass and from crorepati to poor, the Monday’s Lok Sabha poll battle in Assam will witness a mix of candidates from different backgrounds. Of the 51 candidates in fray, 2 candidates are doctorate degree holders, 11 candidates are post graduates, 22 candidates are graduates............Complete details here

AGP candidate slams Congress and BJP for ‘underdevelopment’

AGP candidate slams Congress and BJP for ‘underdevelopment’

SILCHAR : AGP candidate from Silchar Bijoy Krishna Nath training his gun at both Congress candidate Sushmita Dev and incumbent MP and BJP candidate Kabindra Purkayastha said that Congress candidate had failed to provide minimum facility to the people of Silchar town as the chairperson of Silchar Municipal Board, while BJP candidate who is a three time MP always prefers to listen to the......Complete details here

BJP accuses Congress of using administration against its workers

BJP accuses Congress of using administration against its workers

SILCHAR: Cachar BJP expressed its disappointment at the way the members and workers of the saffron brigade are allegedly served with notices under 107 of CrPC by the Cachar district administration......Complete details here

ACKHSA on Silchar-Lumding broad-gauge & East-West Corridor project

ACKHSA asks candidates to clear stand on BG & East–West Corridor - Lok Sabha Election 2014

SILCHAR: At a time when almost all the candidates in the fray for Lok Sabha polls are trying to make the issues of Silchar–Lumding broad–gauge and East–West Corridor as main poll planks, the All Cachar Karimganj Hailakandi Students’ Association asked the......Complete details here

Triangular contest in Diphu Parliamentary Constituency - Diphu Lok Sabha Election 2014

Triangular contest in Diphu Parliamentary Constituency - Diphu Lok Sabha Election 2014 

DIPHU, April 4: With each passing day, electioneering is gaining momentum in Karbi Anglong for Diphu Parliamentary Constituency. The political parties are holding public meetings to woo the voters to cast their votes in.............Complete details here

Activist Dulal Bora seeks cancellation of Manash Bora’s candidature

RTI activist seeks cancellation of Manash Bora’s candidature

Guwahati: In an application that was submitted to the Chief Electoral Officer of Assam, a city based RTI activist Dulal Bora has asked for the cancellation of the Congress party’s Lok Sabha candidate for the Guwahati constituency, Manash Bora. In the application, Bora has alleged that Manash Bora has concealed the true estimate of his......Complete details here 

Where the Election Commission (EC) has Failed

Where the EC has Failed

Over the years, the Election Commission (EC) has miserably failed the nation in barring criminals with serious charges against them from contesting elections to Parliament or the State Assemblies. It can be argued that the election laws of the country were incompetently framed so as to allow major loopholes to remain. Instead of being perceptibly harsh on those with serious criminal charges against them, the EC has consistently veered to the stance of giving such criminal elements and lawbreakers the benefit of..........Complete details here 

A Bit of Poetic Justice? - Electronic voting machines (EVMs

A Bit of Poetic Justice?

Ever since the Assam Assembly elections of 2011, we have been reiterating the demand for making electronic voting machines (EVMs) illegal as in most civilized democracies. The Assam Assembly elections of 2011 were a watershed of sorts in this regard for two reasons. In the first place, the declaration of the election results came a month and six days after the conclusion of the second phase of the......Complete details here

Train to New Delhi from Kamakhya station

Northeast Frontier Railway to run special train to New Delhi from Kamakhya station

Guwahati : With an aim to provide fast and comfortable journey to the commuters during summer and to avoid rush in the other regular trains, the Northeast Frontier Railway has decided to run a.....Complete details here 

Demographic Influx in Assam

Demographic Influx in Assam

The statement issued by the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) on Wednesday that the number of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh is increasing at a rapid pace and is endangering the existence of the indigenous people is absolutely correct. This grave danger owing to illegal influx from Bangladesh is a matter of great concern. In fact, owing to......Complete details here

Enough talk of empowerment of women, but no focus on their participation in elections

Enough talk of empowerment of women, but no focus on their participation in elections

SILCHAR, April 3: The electoral politics in South Assam as in other parts of the country has been male dominated. The number of women contestants both in Lok Sabha and Assembly elections has been always low in this remote part of Barak Valley. Of course, women voters no..............Complete details here

District Election Officer declares April 12 as paid holiday

District Election Officer declares April 12 as paid holiday

SILCHAR, April 3: The Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer, Hailakandi in pursuance to the order of the Governor of Assam has declared that April 12, the day of the Parliamentary elections, is a paid holiday in Hailakandi district for all the.......Complete details here

EVM sealing starts in Hailakandi in view of the Lok Sabha Election

EVM sealing starts in Hailakandi in view of the Lok Sabha Election 

HAILAKANDI, April 3: The district of Hailakandi in view of the forthcoming Parliamentary elections 2014, have started sealing of EVM in the premise of Government VM Higher Secondary School, Hailakandi today. General Observer Abdul Azeem, Shamsher Singh, Deputy Commissioner and......Complete details here 

Election Commission of Indi - Village and ward level awareness groups formed

Village and ward level awareness groups formed

SILCHAR, April 3: As per direction of the Election Commission of India (ECI), village level and ward level awareness groups have been formed at polling stations of each expenditure sensitive pockets, as identified by the sector officers and police officers based on the experience across.....Complete details here

Sara Assam Bengali Jatiya Parishad (SABJP)’s poser before MP candidates

Bengali Jatiya Parishad’s poser before MP candidates

SILCHAR, April 3: Sara Assam Bengali Jatiya Parishad (SABJP) based here has posed a set of demands before the candidates contesting for the Lok Sabha seats of Silchar and Karimganj and demanded an assurance if elected would he or she commit himself or..........details here

Man throws ink on Kanad Purkayastha; BJP holds Congress responsible for people’s frustration

Man throws ink on Kanad Purkayastha; BJP holds Congress responsible for people’s frustration

SILCHAR, March 2: Cachar BJP dubbed the whole incident of throwing of ink on Kanad Purkayastha, son of the Silchar MP Kabindra Purkayastha, by the agitated residents of Shantipur–Belakona area of Borjatrapur under Borkhola Assembly constituency on......Complete details here 

Hailakandi prepared for Karimganj Lok Sabha Election

Hailakandi prepared for Karimganj Lok Sabha Election 

HAILAKANDI, April 2: The district of Hailakandi is all prepared to go for the ensuing Parliamentary elections 2014. At DC’s conference hall, the District Election Officer convened a meeting with all Sector/Zonal Officer along with Officer in–charge of MCC Cell & Transport Cell and reviewed election preparedness in the.......Complete details here 

Load–shedding in Barak Valley adds more heat to electioneering

Load–shedding in Barak Valley adds more heat to electioneering

SILCHAR, April 2: With frequent power–cuts and blackouts, reaching its extreme from the midnight of Tuesday across the valley of Barak, there is much heat added to the growing pitch for electioneering by political parties. In fact, the prolong load–shedding with brief pause has made normal life difficult in the.......Complete details here

Independent Candidate Shuvodeep Dutta on fast - Silchar Lok Sabha Election

Independent Candidate Shuvodeep Dutta on fast - Silchar Lok Sabha Election 

SILCHAR, April 2: Shuvodeep Dutta, who is contesting as an Independent in the Lok Sabha elections to Silchar seat with ‘television’ as symbol, is on fast which has entered third day, demanding separation of Barak Valley from Assam. With a handful of supporters, Dutta has been on.......Complete details here

ECI’s caution against dummy candidates - Silchar Lok Sabha Election

ECI’s caution against dummy candidates - Silchar Lok Sabha Election 

SILCHAR, April 2: Apart from the political parties and their candidates under the scanner of Election Commission of India (ECI) for any violation of ‘model code of conduct’, the dummy contestants have also come under its surveillance. The Returning Officers and Observers have been.......Complete details here

The EC on Opinion Polls - Lok Sabha Election 2014 News and updates

Lok Sabha Election 2014 News and updates

The EC on Opinion Polls

It will be recalled that the Election Commission of India had, at one time, proposed that there should be a prohibition on publication and broadcast of the results of opinion polls starting from the date of notification of elections to the completion of the last phase of polls to the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies. However, on.....Complete details here

People in Glass Houses...Lok Sabha Election 2014 News and updates

Lok Sabha Election 2014 News and updates

People in Glass Houses...

As is the case before every general election, the campaigning for the 16th Lok Sabha elections due to be held this month onwards is getting noisier, shriller and often totally devoid of any objectives assessment of any situation. In other words, the speechmaking and the verbal attacks on rival political parties is getting less and less civilized with each......Complete details here 

Time to Revamp our Electoral System - Lok Sabha Election 2014 News and updates

Lok Sabha Election 2014 News and updates

Roti, Kapra Aur Makaan: Time to Revamp our Electoral System 

By Col (Retd) PM Goswami

Unfortunately the elections are just a few days away. Otherwise suggestions of this nature i.e. to provide Kapra after Roti and Makaan would have been a hit amongst the political bosses to expand its vote–banks. Indira Vikas Yojna, Rajiv Vikas Yojna, Food security bill and Mid–day meals are some of the flag–ship schemes of the government to......Complete details here 

Foundation Day of Manipuri Diaspora, Assam observed

Foundation Day of Manipuri Diaspora, Assam observed

SILCHAR, April 1: The Foundation Day of Manipuri Diaspora Assam, an apex Manipuri organization, was observed at Rongpur part II near this town on the other bank of river Barak recently. The celebration began with the hoisting of flag by L Tezomani Singha, president of the organization, followed by the open session under the......Complete details here

Health awareness camp organized by Radhamadhab College

Health–cum–medical awareness camp organized by Radhamadhab College

SILCHAR, April 1: A health–cum–medical awareness camp was organized by Radhamadhab College in co–ordination with its women cell in the campus of the Institution on Sunday in order to make the female students know their health.....Complete details here 

Campaign for the elections to Silchar LS seat picking up

Campaign for the elections to Silchar LS seat picking up

SILCHAR, April 1: Campaign and canvassing for the Silchar Lok Sabha seat slated for April 12 is gradually picking up. To begin with, the political parties in the reckoning have started with door to door campaign and street corner meetings in order to make sure that their....Complete details here