By Anirban Kalita on September 27, 2013
Assam, Assam Health Minister, Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma, Brahmaputra, congenital heart defect, Himanta Biswa Sharma, IGP G P Singh, Narayana Hrudayalaya, Ranjan Bhuyan, Riyasmita Kalita, suicide
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By- Staff Reporter For most of us, it was just another suicide. Well, Suicides have become so common in news today that they hardly make it to the inside pages of newspapers, leave alone breaking news headlines. But the recent incident where a couple in Assam committed suicide by jumping into the River Brahmaputra with […]
By Anirban Kalita on May 16, 2013
Andaman and Nicobar, Assam, Barak valley, Brahmaputra, Cyclone Mahasen, Deputy Director General of Meteorology Mahesh Kumar Gupta, Mahasen, Mahesh Kumar Gupta, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Regional Meteorological Centre, Tripura
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By- Staff Reporter An alert has been sounded across Assam as cyclone Mahasen is likely to hit the North-Eastern states tonight, officials said today. All boats and ferry services on Brahmaputra have been closed for the next three days and fishermen have been directed not to venture out to the river. A control room has been […]
By Priyankan Goswami on December 16, 2012
2G scam, AFSPA, Assam, Brahmaputra, Gujarat, Jammu-Kashmir, Kashmir, Nira Radia, Photon, Punjab, Ratan Tata, Tamil Nadu, Tata Docom Photon, Tata Docomo, Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata, Tata Indicom, Tata Photon, Tata TeleServices close, Tata TeleServices closed, TTSL
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During a TV interview on July 9th, 2012 Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata had regretted for his failure in creating a truly open, flat, transparent organisation. It was evident that he was deeply pained because of Tata group getting dragged into the 2G spectrum allocation controversy (after the tapes of corporate lobbyist Nira Radia were […]
By Anirban Kalita on November 21, 2012
Ali Jinnah, Andrew Buncombe, Beyond the Lines, Bhupen Hazarika, Bom Di La, Brahmaputra, Brahmaputra valley, China, Chinese PLA, Cuba, Cuban Missile Crisis, Defence, defence force, Fidel Castro, Gauhati Radio Station, Guwahati, Hajjara Pukhuri, India, India China war, Indian Air Force, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jinnah, Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Kuldip Nayar, Lahore, lingua franca, Major General Prem Sing Bhagat, NAN ZANG, National Cadet Corps, NCC, NCC cadet, NEFA, Nehru, Padum Pukhuri, Pakistan, Pragjyotishpur, Russian Bear, Soviet Union, State Bank of India, Tawang, tea, Tezpur, Tezpur Mental Hospital, United States of America, War, Washington, XuwonSiri, Yunnan
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By- Dilip Dutta STOP: An apology for an error in this paragraph, “After the Establishment of the Peoples Republic of China on 1 October 1949,Chairman Mao took steps to secure Chinese territories and as the Upshot from this policy on 29 April 1954 India had to accept that Tibet belongs to India” India should read […]
By Anirban Kalita on May 16, 2012
Australia, Brahmaputra, Jayanta Hazarika, Laili Dutta Hazarika, Mayukh Hazarika, Queensland Assamese Association
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By- Correspondent | Date- May 16, 2012 Talented Assamese singers Mayukh Hazarika and Laili Dutta Hazarika have returned to their home city after performing in a number of functions in Australia. Only Son of legendary singer Jayanta Hazarika, Mayukh (and his wife) thus become the first Assamese artiste couple to be invited by the Assamese […]
By Anirban Kalita on May 1, 2012
Army, Assam police, Brahmaputra, Dhubri, Dhubri ferry, Manmohan Singh, National Disaster Relief Force, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
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By- Staff Reporter | Date – May 01, 2012 Search and rescue operations are in full swing for more than 100 people who are still missing after a steamer carrying at least 350 passengers sank in the Brahmaputra river in Assam on Monday after being caught in a severe storm. The steamer had left Dhubri […]
By Anirban Kalita on March 29, 2012
Brahmaputra, Dr Abhijit Asom, Dr Abhijit Bormon, Dr Abhizeet Bormon, Dr. Abhijit Barman, Dr. Abhizeet Asom, John Hume, Kaziranga National Park, Majuli, Rhino, Rhino Horns, South Africa, ULFA, ULFA Acting Chairman, United Liberation Front of Asom, wildlife
BREAKING NEWS, HEADLINES
By- Staff Reporter The banned militant outfit ULFA tried taking a new role, this time of wildlife conservationists, calling upon the state forest department to involve international experts in removing horns of rhinos and prevent poaching of these majestic animals. In a statement e-mailed to Times of Assam, the outfit’s Acting Chairman thanked the NGO […]
By Anirban Kalita on March 21, 2012
AGP, Arunachal Pradesh, Bangladesh, Bijoya Chakrabarty, Biren Baishya, Biswajeet Daimary, Brahmaputra, Brahmaputra River, Congress, CRPF, infiltration from Bangladesh, Joseph Topno, Kumar Deepak Das, mega dams, MP, North East India, NRHM
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By- Staff Reporter | Date- March 21, 2012 The debate on the President’s Address saw MPs from North East India bring out their share of grievance and anger against the injustice by the center, long claimed as the Step Mother of the Region. China’s suspected plan of diversion of the lifeline of the region Brahmaputra […]
By Anirban Kalita on January 26, 2012
Bhupen Hazarika, Brahmaputra, Late Bhupen Hazarika, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Vibhushan Award
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By- Staff Reporter | Date – January 26, 2012 Late Bhupen Hazarika, the Bard of Brahmaputra has been chosen posthumously for Padma Vibhushan Award, the second highest civilian honour of the country, along with four others. Apart from late Bhupen Hazarika, former civil servant and Governor TV Rajeswar, late cartoonist Mario De Miranda, 88-year-old eminent […]
By Hiranya Saikia on January 24, 2012
Ahom, Amber, Army, Assamese army, Assamese king, Aurangzeb, Badan Barphukan, Bhaskar Varman, Brahmaputra, Brahmaputra valley, British, British territory, Burmese king, Chakradhwaj Singha, Chandragupta Maurya, Chandragupta Mauryan, Charaideo, Chinese scholar, East India Company, Hiuen Tsang, India, invade Assam, Jahangir, Jayadhwaj Singha, Kamarup, Kamarupa, King of Assam, Lachit Barphukan, Maurya kingdom, Mauryan kingdom, Mirjumla, Mughal army, Mughal Empire, Muslim rulers, Pragjyotishapur, Pragjyotishapura, Purnanda Buragohain, Ram Singha, Sankardeva, Saraighat, Shan, South Western Yunan, Srimanta Sankardeva, Sukapha, Tai, Tai Ahom kingdom, Vasco-Da-Gama, Yandaboo, Yunan
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After the death Bhaskar Varman in 650 A.D, Kamarupa came under the rule of the Salastambha dynasty till 900 A.D. Then the Pallas ruled the kingdom from 900 A.D to 1100 A.D. With the fall of Pallas, Kamarupa disintegrated to a number of principalities with the emergence of powerful landlords known as Bhuyans till the […]
