Politics / Assam

GUWAHATI, June 10 ? The Assam Police and the BSF today decided to establish a monitoring system for joint cooperation along the international border, reports PTI. In a meeting between top Assam policemen and BSF officials here, it was decided to jointly work on detection work with coordination with other law-enforcing agencies, official sources said here. All the watch posts required to check infiltration across the border would be geared up and emphasis would be given for maintaining better records in the concerned watch posts. The meeting decided to give top priority to check infiltration...

GUWAHATI, June 10 ? Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar, a former judge of Rajasthan High Court, was today sworn in as Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court. State Governor Lt Gen (retd) SK Sinha administered the oath of office to Naolekar at a simple function at the Darbar Hall of the Rajbhavan here. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, Chief Secretary Pramab Kumar Bora and Director General of Police HK Deka were present at the function.

GUWAHATI, June 10 ? The Minority Department of the Assam Pradesh Congress (I) Committee (APCC-I) is critical about the procedure followed by the State?s forest department in evicting the encroachers from forest lands. Addressing a press conference here today chairman of the APCC-I Minority Department A F Golam Osmani said that at its meeting on June 8, the Minority Department had decided to move both the Government in the State and at the Centre with the plea that they should submit a plan on the eviction procedure before the Supreme Court in connection with the case leading with the Apex...

GUWAHATI, June 10 ? Large-scale encroachment of railway land all over the State has turned out to be a major problem not only for the railways but also for the society as a whole as both sides of the railway tracks in Guwahati city have become dens of anti-social elements. Encroachment of railway land is not a new problem but the issue has come into focus once again in the wake of the eviction drive launched by the forest department against the encroachers of forest land and the concerned citizens are of the view that if the forest department can launch eviction drive, there is no reason why...

DIBRUGARH, June 10? The current spate of evictions from forest lands by the authorities have not only been criticism but was also condemned by the All Assam Small Tea Growers? Association (AASTGA). AASTGA general secretary Hemanta Kumar Gohain said that in the name of eviction of encroachments in ?so-called reserve forests?, several small tea growers of the State now face a bleak future, as their plantations too have been destroyed. He called for a proper compensation and rehabilitation plan for the eviction-affected person. He also questioned why the ?so-called reserve forests? were allowed...

GUWAHATI, June 9? The Chief Minister, Sri Tarun Gogoi, today allocated the portfolios to his expanded team of Ministers by trimming the portfolio of all the senior Ministers, while giving some key portfolios like Industries and Education to several of the newly inducted Ministers. The Chief Minister has kept with himself the key departments of Home, Finance, Tourism and Culture and all other departments not specifically allocated to any other Minister. He has also trimmed the portfolios of several senior Ministers including Dr Bhumidhar Barman, Sri Sarat Barkataky, Dr Hemoprova Saikia, Sri G C...

GUWAHATI, June 9 ? The obstruction put up by the Ri-Bhoi district administration and Meghalaya Police to the survey operations carried out by the Kamrup district administration in Pilingkata area has threatened to embitter the otherwise cordial relations between the Governments of Assam and Meghalaya.

According to Kamrup district administration sources here, one EAC from Ri-Bhoi district held pubic meetings in the localities Pilingkata and Moukhuli of Maidam village on the southern fringe of Guwahati city on June 6. The next day, when the Kamrup District Revenue officials went to the...

GUWAHATI, June 8 ? Notwithstanding the ?best? effort made by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to give representation to all communities of the State having a heterogeneous population in his 36-member Council of ministers through the expansion, there are whispers of resentment in the ruling party over not the quantity of the Ministers but quality of some of those who got ministerial berth. Question is being raised in the party circles about merit of selection of at least three Ministers from religious minority community although the Chief Minister?s effort to give adequate representation to the...

GUWAHATI, June 8 ? The State Government?s bid to put a check on alleged ?extortion? by the police on roads by engaging mobile squads of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has not gone down well with police officials below the rank of district superintendent in the State although it is generally appreciated by different quarters. By and large the police officials below the rank of SP feel that junior officers will be made scapegoat in the entire exercise while no questions will be asked to SPs sans whose approval nothing moves in a police district let alone setting up of non-sanction...

DIMAPUR, June 8: The differences between the stands of the Nagaland government headed by chief minister SC Jamir with that of the Naga Hoho has once again emerged when the Naga Hoho termed the statement made by Jamir on the occasion of the 7th general conference of Nagaland GBs Federation at the Town hall, here on Dimapur, June 5: The differences between the stands of the Nagaland government headed by chief minister SC Jamir with that of the Naga Hoho has once again emerged when the Naga Hoho termed the statement made by Jamir on the occasion of the 7th general conference of Nagaland GBs...