Irritated by irregular and erratic power supply, the people of Oyan village of East Siang district have threatened to launch rigorous democratic movement against the department concerned if the situation is not improved.
The villagers led by Oyan-II Gram Chairperson Suraj Pait alleged that the power department, despite repeated pleas, did not take any initiative to provide regular power supply in...
Flood and erosion in Assam have left many displaced, who have lost their land and property over the past decade.
Teturam Mili (40), once a self-sufficient farmer, is no longer able to cultivate his small agricultural plot at Dhiri Mising Gaon in Dhemaji district on the northern part of Assam. He is now a manual labour after his farmland was buried under thick layers of sand during last year's flood...
A May 23, 2010 cables accessed by whistle-blowing site Wikileaks reveals that global intelligence agency firm Stratfor had once reported about an arrest of five insurgents in Jonai belonging to the doomed Liberal Democractic Council of Mising land ( LDCML). The firm is engaged in giving intelligence inputs to the US Department of Homeland Security including the marines and defence intelligence age...
Local MLA Tako Dabii inaugurated two high mast lighting towers at Namey and Nari yesterday evening in presence of ADC T Mibang, engineers of PWD, Power, RWD, host of officers and leaders.
Dedicating the lighting systems to the people of Namey and Nari, Dabii informed that Rs 90 lakh was sanctioned under SPA for installation of the systems. He said that more such lighting systems would be installed...
Hundreds of villagers and students took part in road blockade today in Baikuntapur sector in Laimekuri, about 24 kilometres away from Jonai of Dhemaji district, demanding allotment of land for proposed Tezpur University campus.
It is alleged that local Congress legislator Pradan Baruah is behind the dilly-dallying the project. Angry public shouted slogans against Pradan Baruah and burnt tyres on N...
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