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Anup Chetia taken to Guwahati; remanded in five-day CBI custody
India | Nov 18, 2015, 06:20 PM ISTGuwahati: Runaway ULFA leader Anup Chetia alias Golap Baruah, extradited from Bangladesh, was on Wednesday presented before a Guwahati court, which remanded him in five-day CBI custody.Chetia, who was lodged in a Bangladesh jail ever
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IIT-Guwahati student found dead
India | Sep 18, 2015, 08:08 PM ISTGuwahati: A final-year student of the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati (IIT-G) was on Friday found dead near his hostel, police said.Security guards at the institute found the body near the IIT-G's Brahmaputra Hostel. The staff
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Non-Muslim immigrants should be given citizenship: Assam Governor
National | Sep 08, 2015, 11:19 PM ISTGuwahati: All non-Muslim immigrants should be given Indian citizenship with voting rights while those from the Muslim religion can "slog and stay" in the country, Assam Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya today said."Hindus have the birth
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Assam flood situation worsens, rivers rising
India | Aug 21, 2015, 04:19 PM ISTGuwahati: The flood situation in Assam worsened today following incessant rainfall in the upper catchment areas of Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh, affecting more than three lakh people in 13 districts and hit road communication in several places. The
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India airlifts food, medicines to flood-hit Myanmar
India | Aug 07, 2015, 01:24 AM ISTNew Delhi: India today airlifted several tonnes of rice, noodles and medicines to Myanmar which has been severely affected by cyclone Komen.12 regions and states of Myanmar have been severely hit by the cyclone, which
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Louis Berger bribery case: Goa water project director suspended
India | Jul 26, 2015, 05:56 AM ISTPanaji: Goa government today suspended project director A Wachasunder who was heading the Water augmentation and sewerage line project which has run into controversy over bribery charges."I have directed that Wachasunder be placed under
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NDFB (s) militant arrested, arms seized
India | Jul 22, 2015, 08:30 AM ISTGuwahati: A hardcore NDFB(S) militant was arrested and a cache of arms and ammunition was recovered yesterday by a joint team of Assam Police, Army and CRPF in Kokrajhar district of Assam."Based on an input
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US firm paid $976,000 bribe to win Indian water project
World | Jul 18, 2015, 09:53 PM ISTWashington: A New Jersey-based construction management firm has been charged with bribing Indian officials several crores of rupees to win two major water developmental projects in Goa and in Guwahati.The bribery of USD 976,630 for
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Tarun Gogoi inaugurates Guwahati-Dhaka bus service
India | Jun 06, 2015, 09:37 PM ISTGuwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today inaugurated the Guwahati-Dhaka bus service from the city.Speaking on the occasion, Gogoi said a new chapter in India-Bangladesh relations has begun with the commencement of the bus service
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Tantrik lynched in Assam for beheading boy
India | May 29, 2015, 12:59 PM ISTGuwahati: Simmering tension prevailed in Assam after a tantrik sacrificed a five-year-old boy to appease God and was later lynched by an irate mob, police said on Friday.The incident took place at Tarajuli tea estate
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'New funding pattern cost Assam over Rs.7,000 crore'
India | May 15, 2015, 05:07 PM ISTGuwahati: The central government's delinking of several centrally-sponsored schemes and changing the funding pattern in some of them has cost Assam over Rs.7,000 crore in the 2015-16 fiscal, said Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday.Gogoi
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8 persons killed in road accident in Assam
India | May 13, 2015, 11:58 AM ISTRangia: Eight persons, including a woman and a child, were killed and another man was seriously injured in a road accident in Kamrup district of Assam, police said today.The car in which seven persons were
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Relief materials from FICCI to Nepal
India | May 11, 2015, 03:57 PM ISTGuwahati: The FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO), North East Chapter in association with the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has organised a mobilisation exercise of relief materials for the earthquake survivors of Nepal.Essential items like rice, dal,
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Guwahati, Srinagar at highest earthquake risk
India | Apr 28, 2015, 01:02 PM ISTGuwahati and Srinagar are the two Indian cities at highest risk of being devastated by an earthquake, with 36 other cities in areas prone to earthquakes, according to government data.Guwahati and Srinagar fall in what
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Is China shadow over ambitious for Guwahati-Tawang connectivity?
India | Apr 01, 2015, 12:44 PM ISTTawang: India may again approach Bhutan for an early clearance to a crucial road passing through its territory that connects strategically important Tawang with Guwahati as the neighbouring country has put on hold the project
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77 killed in witch hunting incidents since 2010 in Assam
India | Mar 23, 2015, 05:01 PM ISTGuwahati: At least 77 people were killed and 60 others injured in witch-hunting incidents in Assam since 2010, the Assembly was informed today.In a written reply to a query by BJP MLA Prasanta Phukan, Parliamentary
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Swamy's mosque comments create uproar in Rajya Sabha
National | Mar 17, 2015, 01:11 PM ISTNew Delhi: There was an uproar in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday over comments by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy in Assam where he reportedly said mosques are not religious places."Secularism is the biggest strength of
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21-year-old Assamese student beaten up by locals in south Delhi
India | Mar 09, 2015, 08:11 AM ISTNew Delhi: A 21-year-old Assamese student was allegedly beaten up by locals in south Delhi's Amar Colony when he was trying to break the lock of someone else's house, mistaking it to be his own,
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Praveen Togadia not allowed to hold meeting in Guwahati
National | Feb 12, 2015, 05:12 PM ISTGuwahati: Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Praveen Togadia was not allowed to address a VHP meeting here today nor a recording of his speech played over microphone as the police clamped Section 144 CrPC.Guwahati Police Commissioner
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Assam governor cuts short Bengal visit, leaves for Guwahati
India | Dec 24, 2014, 04:39 PM ISTKrishnagar (WB):Assam Governor Padmanabhan Balakrishna Acharya today cut short his visit to West Bengal and left for Assam following the death of 65 persons in a series of attacks by NDFB(S) insurgents there. Acharya, who