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Verdict not a win or loss for anybody: PM
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Verdict not a win or loss for anybody: PM

NEW DELHI, Nov 9 - The Supreme Court judgement on the Ayodhya issue has heralded a �new dawn� and should not be seen as win or loss for anybody, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday, stressing that India�s credo of unity in diversity was visible in its totality as all sections of society...
Temple on disputed Ayodhya land, alternative site for mosque
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Temple on disputed Ayodhya land, alternative site for mosque

NEW DELHI, Nov 9 - Settling a fractious issue that goes back more than a century, the Supreme Court in a historic verdict on Saturday backed the construction of a Ram temple by a government trust at the disputed site in Ayodhya, and ruled that an alternative five-acre plot must be found for a mosque...
UNLF chief released from jail after 10 years
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UNLF chief released from jail after 10 years

GUWAHATI, Nov 10: Chairman of the proscribed UNited National Liberation Front (UNLF) Rajkumar Meghen alias Sanayaima was released from the Guwahati Central Jail on Saturday after serving a ten-year imprisonment.The UNLF chief was booked and subsequently convicted in 2016 along with 17 others under...
Cong stir in N Lakhimpur against economic slowdown
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Cong stir in N Lakhimpur against economic slowdown

NORTH LAKHIMPUR, Nov 8 - The Opposition Congress party today took to the streets in North Lakhimpur protesting against economic slowdown in the country along with price rise of essential commodities, unemployment problem and overall failure of the ruling BJP-led governments at the Centre and the...
Agitating Cong workers arrested in Dibrugarh
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Agitating Cong workers arrested in Dibrugarh

DIBRUGARH, Nov 8 - Police today arrested over 100 Congress workers including former Ministers� Prithibi Majhi, Atuwa Munda and Pranati Phukan from RKB Path after they staged blockade of the road as mark of protest against various failures and policies of the BJP-led governments, both at the Centre...
Protest against presence of insects in midday meals at Laluk
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Protest against presence of insects in midday meals at Laluk

NORTH LAKHIMPUR, Nov 8 - The Laluk regional unit of the All Assam Students� Union (AASU) protested on the NH-15 on Thursday, at Laluk in Lakhimpur district against the reported presence of insects and pests in the midday meal by served by an NGO for schools there. Large insects like cockroaches and...
Schools in Chirang district go without midday meal
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Schools in Chirang district go without midday meal

BONGAIGAON, Nov 8 - Lower primary and middle school students in Chirang district have been attending their classes without meals after the NGO assigned to supply midday meal to these schools stopped its service from Thursday.Uttar Pradesh (UP)-based NGO Saghan Kshetra Vikash Samiti had stopped its...
Honour to Kaziranga Forest Guard
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Honour to Kaziranga Forest Guard

KAZIRANGA, Nov 8 - A Forest department personnel, Dimbeswar Das, working in Kaziranga National Park was awarded the �Earth�s Hero, 2019� under the category of �Green Warrior� by Royal Bank of Scotland at New Delhi recently.According to official sources, Das currently serving as Forest Guard in...
�Historians of mainland India do not consider NE significant�
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�Historians of mainland India do not consider NE significant�

DIBRUGARH, Nov 8 - Eminent historian and former chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), Professor David Reid Syiemlieh, recently said that the North East has been neglected in the Indian history because historians of mainland India do not consider the region significant. �In history...
Several key IWT posts in Upper Assam lying vacant
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Several key IWT posts in Upper Assam lying vacant

JORHAT, Nov 8 - On one hand, the State Government talks about the need to boost connectivity including waterways in the State, but on the other, an opposite picture has emerged in Upper Assam.The water transport means of communication which is a vital and the only mode of transportation in several...
Exhibition on India�s achievements in space science
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Exhibition on India�s achievements in space science

DOOMDOOMA, Nov 8 - As a part of the centenary celebration programme of Dr Vikram Sarabhai, the founder of Indian space programme, a state-of-the-art mobile space museum has been developed by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on a bus. The bus along with a team of scientists from North...
Assam couple completes first Ironman 70.3 held in Goa
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Assam couple completes first Ironman 70.3 held in Goa

GUWAHATI, Nov 8 - A young couple from Assam� Parijat Guha and Angana Gohain Barua � completed the 1.9 km swim, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km run in the first-ever Ironman 70.3 held in India recently. Angana won the third place in her age category.Over 900 participants descended from 27 countries to...
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