Cancer awareness programme held at International School

New traffic rules revoked within hours

AGP blames state for deteriorating law & order

Burdwan blast: Gogoi govt faces new security challenge

Drug dealers allege graft in state pharmacy council

State’s adolescent girls denied basic health rights

Bezbaroa’s 150th birth anniv celebrated in state

Dramatist adds new dimension to Kalidasa’s play

Shillong festival to celebrate winter

Medal winners felicitated

Resolve stapled visa issue by Dec, Arunachal body to Centre

Manipur’s WW II heroes to get pension

Political heavyweights to attend conclave on NE

CM applauds Nobel peace prize winners

Police crackdown in Goalpara inhuman: Ajmal

GNLA, Ulfa (I) cadres surrender

Nagaland governor’s wife to teach in ‘adopted’ school

PLA rebel, linkmen arrested in Thoubal

BJP buoyed by byelection results ahead of ’16 polls

16 arrested for ransacking vehicles

Cancer awareness programme held at International School

The students of the International School, Guwahati, have resolved to create cancer awareness in their homes and neighbourhood in order to bring down the number of cases in the state
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State’s adolescent girls denied basic health rights

A seminar was organized here on Saturday to improve the health of adolescent girls in the state on the ocassion of International Girl Child Day
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Bezbaroa’s 150th birth anniv celebrated in state

Students on Saturday paid glowing tributes to Lakshminath Bezbaroa, one of the pioneers of modern Assamese literature, on the doyen’s 150th birth anniversary
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Dramatist adds new dimension to Kalidasa’s play

Thespian Kshetri Jugindro showcased perfect blending of traditional art forms and energized body movements in his presentation of the third version of Kalidasa’s ‘Abhigyanam Shakuntalam’ in Imphal’s Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy auditorium recently
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Shillong festival to celebrate winter

A three-day event organized by the state government to celebrate winter,
18 Degrees Festival, concluded here on Saturday at the State Central
Library
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Medal winners felicitated

The Manipur government on Saturday felicitated Asian Games medal winners and officials with cash incentives at a programme held in the Khuman Lampak Sports Complex here
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Drug dealers allege graft in state pharmacy council

The Assam Drug Dealers’ Association on Saturday accused the Assam pharmacy council of harassment and indulging in malpractices while renewing licences of dealers
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New traffic rules revoked within hours

The Kamrup (metro) district administration’s on Saturday withdrew new traffic rules within hours of their implentation
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AGP blames state for deteriorating law & order

In the wake of arrest of six militants of Jamaat-ul-Mujaheedin Bangladesh (JMB) from Barpeta for their involvement in the Burdwan blast in West Bengal, AGP on Saturday slammed the state government for failing to maintain law and order in the state
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Burdwan blast: Gogoi govt faces new security challenge

For a state that has struggled through more than three decades of insurgency, the Bangladesh-Burdwan-Barpeta terror link has thrown up another security challenge for the government
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Manipur’s WW II heroes to get pension

The state cabinet has decided to help 18 World War II veterans of the state by starting a monthly pension scheme for them
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Resolve stapled visa issue by Dec, Arunachal body to Centre

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Political heavyweights to attend conclave on NE

Guwahati: A
host of Union ministers and policy-makers will gather in the city during
October 17-18 to highlight the investment potential of the northeast’s
infrastructure sector.
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CM applauds Nobel peace prize winners

Guwahati: Chief minister Tarun Gogoi congratulated the winners of the Noble prize for peace, Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai, on Friday. The CM said the honour would motivate both winners to carry on with their work on children’s rights
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Police crackdown in Goalpara inhuman: Ajmal

Guwahati: Even as the state government launched an enquiry into the recent protests by flood victims in Goalpara’s Bolbola area, and the subsequent police crackdown, All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) president and Dhubri MP Badruddin Ajmal accused the Assam government of being intolerant of democratic agitation.
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GNLA, Ulfa (I) cadres surrender

A Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) cadre and an Ulfa (I) militant surrendered before the state police at Williamnagar, headquarters of East Garo Hills district in Meghalaya, on Thursday
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Nagaland governor’s wife to teach in ‘adopted’ school

Kavita Acharya, wife of Nagaland governor PB Acharya, will work as a guest teacher in the Government Middle School (GMS), Kohima, which she has ‘adopted’
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PLA rebel, linkmen arrested in Thoubal

One militant and four linkmen of the banned People’s Liberation Army (PLA) were arrested with three IEDs and materials to make explosives in Thoubal district on Thursday
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BJP buoyed by byelection results ahead of ’16 polls

The byelections to the three assembly constituencies in September were a sort of litmus test for the newly-appointed BJP president, Siddhartha Bhattacharya, to prove his ability and lead the saffron party to the 2016 assembly polls
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16 arrested for ransacking vehicles

Goalpara Police
on Thursday arrested at least 16 persons who allegedly ransacked
vehicles, pelted stones on policemen on duty and blocked NH-37 on
Wednesday
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Communalism, biggest threat facing state: AGP

Eastern fringes of state see dark side of the moon

Smriti push for social uplift

TU completes 1st phase of translation project

Students lend helping hand to flood victims

City conclave to discuss jumbo conservation

RTI reply belies Assam govt’s wetland promise

Kuki bandh halts trade with Myanmar

Indian envoy reviews projects in Tripura

KMSS march to lower Assam on October 20

Wreckage sites of 3 WWII planes spotted in Loktak

Aasaa seeks wage hike for tea workers

Tea worker dies, dispensary ransacked

Partial traffic movement on GS Road

Rockybul promises rhino revival

NRL observes maintenance month

Five militants nabbed in Udalguri

Forester converts lake into tortoise habitat, felicitated

NGT asks mine owners to pay royalty in instalments

3 found dead in Guwahati

RTI reply belies Assam govt’s wetland promise

At a time the government’s priority is conservation of wetlands across the state, a reply to an RTI application filed by environment activist Rohit Choudhury has revealed a startling fact
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Kuki bandh halts trade with Myanmar

Trade between India and Myanmar has come to a grinding halt because of an indefinite bandh on the Imphal-Moreh section of NH-2 by Kuki students.
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Indian envoy reviews projects in Tripura

Indian deputy high commissioner to Bangladesh Sandeep Chakravorty is on a three-day visit here to review the progress of four ongoing Indian projects in Bangladesh
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KMSS march to lower Assam on October 20

The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS)has said it will launch a padayatra to lower Assam this month to assess the problems faced by people there. The KMSS plans to launch an agitation to solve the issues after with the people
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Communalism, biggest threat facing state: AGP

Ahead of its national political convention on October 14 and 15, leaders of Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) said increasing polarization along religious lines is the biggest danger facing Assam.
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Eastern fringes of state see dark side of the moon

People in Assam’s eastern fringes, like those in Sadiya in Tinsukia district, witnessed this year’s second total lunar eclipse in totality on Wednesday, The northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya and Mizoram witnessed this cosmic phenomenon partially.
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Smriti push for social uplift

A meeting was organized at Assam DownTown
University this week to release the proceedings of a conference among
various vice-chancellors organized in November 2013 in New Delhi on the
occasion of Swami Vivekananda’s 150th birth anniversary. The meeting was organized in collaboration with Bharatiya Shikshan Mandal.
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TU completes 1st phase of translation project

In a move that is sure to please bibliophiles, Tezpur University (TU)’s project of translating the works of Kalaguru Bishnu Prasad Rabha into English is partially complete.
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Students lend helping hand to flood victims

A team of students and faculty members of Assam Don Bosco University (ADBU), under the initiative of the department of social work, utilized their Puja holidays to organize relief work in the flood-hit Garopara village of Hahim, along the Meghalaya-Assam border
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City conclave to discuss jumbo conservation

Conservationists, environment activists, green gurus and policy makers
from India, Bhutan, Myanmar and other parts of the world will gather
here next month to work out a trans-border jumbo conservation plan.
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Wreckage sites of 3 WWII planes spotted in Loktak

An Imphal-based
World War II excavation and research team has identified the wreckage
sites of one British and two Japanese fighter aircraft, which were shot
down and had fallen into the Loktak Lake during a pitch aerial fight during the war in June, 1944.
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Aasaa seeks wage hike for tea workers

All Adivasi Students’ Association of Assam (Aasaa)
has vowed to intensify its protests seeking adequate wages for tea
garden workers. It has demanded that the state’s tea garden workers be
given a minimum wage of Rs 330 per day based on profits made by tea companies.
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Tea worker dies, dispensary ransacked

The workers of Kanchanpur tea estate in Assam’s Hailakandi
district on Tuesday ransacked the dispensary of the garden following
the death of a worker. They alleged that the worker died owing to the
negligence and wrong treatment by the health workers of the garden.
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Partial traffic movement on GS Road

Light vehicles began plying along the stretch of the Guwahati-Shillong (GS) Road, on NH-40, which was damaged after Sunday’s landslide at Umling in Meghalaya’s Ri Bhoi district.
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Rockybul promises rhino revival

State forest and environment minister Rockybul Hussain on Tuesday said the Assam government is taking steps to ensure better wildlife conservation in the state.
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NRL observes maintenance month

The Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) observed the month of September as ‘Maintenance Awareness Observance Month’.
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Five militants nabbed in Udalguri

Four militants of National Democratic Front of Bodoland’s Songbijit faction (NDFB-S) and a Rabha National Liberation Army (RNLA) rebel were arrested in Udalguri district on Monday night in a joint operation by Army and Assam Police. The militants were arrested from Murabari village under Harisinga police station.
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Forester converts lake into tortoise habitat, felicitated

A lake located in the dense forests of Assam’s Dima Hasao district has turned into a tortoise habitat and a tourist attraction, courtesy the hard work and dedication of a lone forester.
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NGT asks mine owners to pay royalty in instalments

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday asked coal mine owners in Meghalaya
to pay three equal installments of royalty on the extracted and
assessed coal even as the interim ban will continue prohibiting
unscientific, unregulated and impermissible rat-hole mining in the
state.
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3 found dead in Guwahati

At least three persons, including a woman, were found dead in different parts of the city on Tuesday.
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