No major ailment was reported among the media persons who went for a daylong health check-up camp organized by Down Town Hospital today in Guwahati Press Club. However, most of the participants in the health camp were diagnosed with gastrotriches, back pain and spondylitis. Over hundred participants joined in the health camp, where their BP, blood […]
By- Staff Correspondence, Jorhat A sudden operation jointly conducted by Times of Assam and an independent news channel in the office of the Assistant Executive Engineer, Jorhat Irrigation Sub- Division, has resulted in a show of complete 0% attendance of departmental staff starting from the peon to the SDO (Sub Divisional Officer), Mr. Pabitra Ingti at […]
By- Staff Reporter Former DHD Chief Dileep Nunisa arrested in Guwahati by Assam police for possessing an endangered gecko lizard in Guwahati on Wednessday, August 14, 2013. SSP(Senior Superintendent of Police) of Guwahati Anand Prakash Tiwari said Dileep Nunisa, former chairman of Dima Halam Daogah (DHD), was arrested after a gecko was found in his […]
By- Staff Reporter Fifteen persons, including two police personnel, were injured in a grenade blast near Guwahati railway station, police said on Sunday. The blast took place at around 7:55 pm near the Paltan Bazar police station, which is next to the railway station. Six persons have been injured, two of whom are police home guards. […]
Priyankan Goswami and his bride Sujata Das on their marriage ceremony held on May 14, 2013 at Uruli Bibah Bhawan, Guwahati. Mentionable that Priyankan Goswami is the lead writer and one of the Editors of Times of Assam. His wife Sujata Das is also a noted writer here in Times of Assam. Times of Assam wishes […]
By- Staff Reporter United Liberation of Asom (ULFA) today condemned Assam’s popular singer Zubeen Garg for singing Hindi songs in Rongali Bihu functions and warned they would not be responsible for any consequences following the singer’s refusal of their warning. In an e-mail press release sent to Times of Assam, the Assistant Information and Publicity […]
By- Dilip Dutta It is official that in India a rape takes place currently every 22 minutes and my calculator gives 65.45454545 in a 24 hour period and in one year 786.45454544 of the fair gender damaged for life. These are the cases that reported to the police. I am pretty certain there are many […]
Hunger demands food. When a poor fellow sleeps without food and dies in hunger, it is often termed as a simple incident. But, when a rich fellow do’s the same, it becomes a revolution. It was on this fateful night of December 31, 1991 when a great son of this soil, Heerak Jyoti Mahanta laid […]
By- Abhishek Dey The recent rape disaster in the capital of India seems to have evoked the emotions of both the enlightened and not enlightened class of the world’s largest democracy. The act, certainly, was pathetic to such an extent that no sane human mind could dare think of. The barbarians, not only assaulted the […]
By- Kiron Kakoty How long before the mountain of rubbish in Chennai outskirts, the rubbish dumps of Bangalore streets with the nauseating rotten smell is going to be repeated in the so called metropolitan Guwahati and Towns and suburban spaces of Assam? Do we have a policy on rubbish disposal? Or are we wanting to […]