The Gorkhas living in different parts of Barak Valley

Valley Gorkhas to keep alive traditional song and dance

SILCHAR, July 24: The Gorkhas living in different parts of Barak Valley have always been conscious of their traditional way of living, thinking and behaving. Their socio–cultural and literary bodies with their limited means and resources are committed to keep alive the......Complete details here 

ABVP urges Vice–Chancellor of Assam University, Silchar

ABVP urges VC to increase number of seats and conduct open election

SILCHAR, July 24: A delegation of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) met the Vice–Chancellor of Assam University, Silchar on Wednesday evening in the varsity campus.

The delegation led by Manoj Nikhra, Northeast organising secretary of ABVP, requested the Vice–Chancellor Prof Somnath Dasgupta to increase the number of seats in each of the departments so that the students of..............Complete details here 

’Hindu Bengali refugees’

Union Home Minister moved for protection of ’Hindu Bengali refugees’

SILCHAR, July 23: The clamour for protection of refugees or displaced persons belonging to minority communities of Bangladesh settled in different parts of the State of Assam and grant of citizenship to them has been reaching its pitch with the coming to power of Narendra Modi led NDA Government in..........Complete details here 

East-West Corridor Mahasadak and repair Silchar–Haflong Road

Sangram Committee stages dharna outside NHAI office

SILCHAR, July 23: Members of Silchar–Lumding Broad Gauge Rupayan Sangram Committee staged a protest demonstration in front of the office of the National Highway Authority of India, located at Ambicapatty of the town. They raised slogan for the immediate completion of East–West Corridor project and repair Silchar–Haflong Road in............Complete details here

Hmar Students’ Association, Barak Valley, Assam

Hmar Students’ Association presses for water supply arrangement

SILCHAR, July 23: Despite repeated reminders and memoranda on the hardship faced by the general public and students regarding non–existence of water–supply points in Digar village by the Hmar Students’ Association, Barak Valley, Assam, and Digar Village Council to the authorities concerned for..........Complete details here 

Poor transport and communication facilities in Barak Valley

Nitin Gadkari impressed upon for improvement and completion of road communications

SILCHAR, July 22: People of Barak Valley located in the southern most part of Assam have always suffered due to poor transport and communication facilities. This has in turn badly affected the development of the region with 80 per cent population still under the shadow of economic...........Complete details here 

Silchar Alia Madrasha conducting ’Quran Sharif’ training

Silchar Alia Madrasha conducting ’Quran Sharif’ training

SILCHAR, July 16: Darul Kariat Silchar Alia Madrasha has been conducting Quran training in its true spirit from the first of Ramdan till 27th of Ramdan. Under the guidance of 12 qualified teachers, 150 students have participated in the training. The training in Quran is imparted free of any.............Complete details here

Bengali Jatiya Parishad welcomes refugee status to Hindu Bengalis

Bengali Jatiya Parishad welcomes Gogoi’s move

SILCHAR, July 19: Sara Assam Bengali Jatiya Parishad, south Assam, has welcomed the decision of the State Cabinet to give refugee status to Hindu Bengalis who have been the victims of persecution on social, political and religious grounds in Bangladesh, erstwhile East Pakistan, and forced to take shelter in the.......Complete details here

Improvement of NH 6 & East-West Corridor (Mahasadak) sought

Improvement of NH 6 and completion of Corridor sought - East-West Corridor (Mahasadak)

SILCHAR, July 20: The communication problem of Barak Valley remains unresolved with no move from the Centre or the States of Assam and Meghalaya for improvement of the NH 6, earlier NH 44, and completion of the East–West Corridor. With mega–block by NF Railway on Silchar–Lumding MG for gauge conversion................Complete details here 

Baharul gets bail, walks out of Silchar Central Jail

Baharul gets bail, walks out of Silchar Central Jail

SILCHAR, July 20: After spending seventy seven days in Central Jail, Baharul Islam Barbhuiya was granted bail yesterday evening in a case related to the ransacking of MV gate at Lailapur and the attack on the police personnel on..........Complete details here

Move for self sufficiency in fish production in Cachar district

Move for self sufficiency in fish production

SILCHAR, July 20: In order to make the district of Cachar self sufficient in fish and avoid its import from other States like West Bengal, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, definite and positive move has been made by the Fishery Department here under Assam State Plan. As a first step towards it...........Complete details here

Martyrdom of Jaganmoy Deb and Dibyendu Das today

Martyrdom of Jaganmoy Deb and Dibyendu Das today

SILCHAR, July 20: The preparations are going on in full swing to observe the martyrdom of Jaganmoy Deb and Dibyendu Das tomorrow across the valley to pay tribute to Karimganj Sammilitho Bhasa Shahid Smaran Mancha, an umbrella of 20 social and cultural organisations, took out a march this evening from...........Complete details here

Cachar BJP for immediate action on Silchar air connectivity

Cachar BJP for immediate action on air connectivity

SILCHAR, July 21: In view of the poor rail and road communication and lack of better infrastructure, Cachar district BJP has demanded increase in the frequency of flights for increased connectivity to Silchar Airport. The existing rail connectivity through metre–gauge and the uncertainty over completion of BG project as........Complete details here 

Adhivakta Parishad welcomes Assam Cabinet decision on Bengali refugees

Adhivakta Parishad welcomes Cabinet decision on refugees

SILCHAR, July 21: Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad (ABAP), Cachar district unit, has welcomed the decision of the State Cabinet for granting asylum to refugees uprooted from their homes and lands in Bangladesh due to religious persecution and discrimination. In fact, the Cabinet decision has been propelled by the assurance given by..........Complete details here

Adhivakta Parishad on Silchar-Lumding broad-gauge project (BG line)

Adhivakta Parishad seeks Railway Minister’s intervention in completion of BG

SILCHAR, July 18: Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad sought the intervention of the Union Railway Minister DV Sadananda Gowda in the expeditious completion of the much–awaited Silchar–Lumding broad–gauge project which is yet to see the light of day even after 18 years........Complete details here

Two martyrs Jaganmoy Deb (Jagan) and Dibyendu Das (Jishu)

Barak Valley remembers Jagan–Jishu

SILCHAR, July 21: With deep emotion and profound respect, the people of Barak Valley today remembered the two martyrs– Jaganmoy Deb (Jagan) and Dibyendu Das (Jishu), who laid down their lives on July 21, 1986 in Karimganj for the sake of their mother........Complete details here 

Silchar–Lumding BG (Broad-Gauge project) by March, 2015

Sangram Committee hopeful of completion of Silchar–Lumding BG (Broad-Gauge project) by March, 2015

SILCHAR, July 16: Silchar–Lumding Broad–Gauge Rupayan Sangram Committee hoped that the much awaited Silchar–Lumding BG project would be completed by March, 2015. Addressing the media–persons here today in the hall of Madhya Sahar Sanskritik Samiti, the members of the Sangram Committee briefed their observations regarding their recent visit to different sites of the.......Complete details here

Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (CCHRC) need help

Ministers, MPs and MLAs moved to help Cancer Hospital

SILCHAR, July 15: All the Ministers, MPs and MLAs of Barak Valley have been approached through letters of appeal by Prof Dilip Kumar Dey, a distinguished educationist and social activist as well as secretary of Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (CCHRC), and Niharendu Purkayastha, vice–chairman, CCHRC, to..............Complete details here

The 80th Foundation Day of Gurucharan College was observed

Foundation Day of Gurucharan College observed

SILCHAR, July 15: The 80th Foundation Day of Gurucharan College was observed here today with all solemnity. The function began with the hoisting of the College flag by Samar Kanti Roy Choudhury, president of the Governing Body. The function was held in the College Auditorium.......Complete details here 

White revolution in Barak Valley

Stepping stone to a ’white revolution’ in Barak Valley

SILCHAR, July 15: With all the resources and potentiality, Barak Valley could become a hub of milk production and achieve the distinction to bring about a sort of ‘white revolution.’ Though it is like a dream come true, but the initiative and dynamism of the Dairy Development Department could make it.......Complete details here

Scrap ‘D’ voters’ tangle in Assam

’PM and Cabinet Ministers pleaded for ’D’ voters’ solution’

SILCHAR, July 14: Though Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, committed himself to scrap ‘D’ voters’ tangle and grant refugee status to Hindu Bengalis, victims of persecution in Bangladesh, erstwhile East Pakistan, after coming to power, there is no indication of any..........Complete details here 

VHP concerned at infiltration along India-Bangladesh border

VHP concerned at infiltration, border management, opposes land swap

SILCHAR, July 7: All India Secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Rajesh Singh Pankaj said his organization was totally against transfer of land to Bangladesh and this stand during the UPA regime remained unchanged under NDA Government as well. He made this statement while addressing a press–meet here on Sunday to announce the.......Complete details here 

Ankiya Nats Bhaona will be staged in Silchar

Bhaona to be staged

SILCHAR, July 7: The traditional Ankiya Nats Bhaona will be staged here in Rajib Bhawan on July 26. Bhaona is a traditional art form with religious message popularized by Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankardev in Assam. A meeting was recently convened by Silchar Naamgarh to chalk out the strategies to hold the programme. In this meeting, a committee was........Complete details here 

ACKHSA fumes chaotic admission test of Assam University

ACKHSA fumes chaotic admission test of AU

SILCHAR, July 8: All Cachar–Karimganj–Hailakandi Students’ Association (ACKHSA) central committee has expressed its serious concern at the chaotic situation centring round the admission test for admission in Assam University (AU) held on Sunday..........Complete details here

Revival of Gumrah-Rymbai-Ladrymbai Road demanded

Revival of Gumrah–Rymbai–Ladrymbai Road demanded

SILCHAR, July 8: In view of the critical condition of NH 6 and Silchar–Haflong Road, demand has been raised for the revival of the century old parallel alternative to NH 6 by the people of Barak Valley. Badarpur–Jowai–Guwahati NH 6 earlier NH 44 has been in the grip of frequent mishaps........Complete details here

Hike in rail budget for North East India

Hike in rail budget for NE, PMG to look after implementation

NEW DELHI, July 8: Being aware of the fate of pending railway projects in the northeastern States, the Railway Minister DV Sadananda Gowda accorded maximum priority on implementing the 23 railway projects in the land–locked region........Complete details here

Silchar Central Jail inmates motivated for fish culture

Jail-inmates motivated for fish culture

SILCHAR, July 10: The 483 inmates of Silchar Central Jail were shown the demonstration about fish culture after they are set free for their economic sustenance and self–sufficiency by exploiting the available natural resources in their areas. Around 2000 fish–lings of varieties of fish like Rohu, Catla, Mrigala among others were released in........Complete details here 

Bamboo & Coal-crisis looms large over Cachar Paper Mill

Coal–crisis looms large over Cachar Paper Mill

SILCHAR, July 11: After overcoming the bamboo crisis, Cachar Paper Mill, a unit of Hindustan Paper Corporation Ltd, a Government of India Enterprise, located in the southern part of the district, is now faced with the impending coal shortage and subsequent depletion of stocks which might lead to interruption in production. Expressing this apprehension........Complete details here

World Population Day observed in Silchar City

World Population Day observed in Silchar

SILCHAR, July 11: In sync with other parts of the globe, World Population Day was observed here today. To mark the occasion, the District Health Department organised an awareness programme in the premises of Satindra Mohan Dev Civil Hospital. The Deputy Commissioner of Cachar Gokul Mohan Hazarika was present at the programme as the.........Complete details here 

AASU for expeditious completion of East–West Corridor project (Mahasadak)

AASU organises human chain for expeditious completion of East–West Corridor project (Mahasadak) 

SILCHAR, July 13: All Assam Student’s Union (AASU), Cachar district committee, organised a human chain on Saturday here demanding expeditious completion of East–West Corridor project. The students’ body organised the human chain in various corners of the State on the same day, same time in support of the......Complete details here

Barak Valley Gorkha Dukha Nibarak Samiti remember Kavi Bhanubhakta

Gorkhas remember Kavi Bhanubhakta

SILCHAR, July 13: Barak Valley Gorkha Dukha Nibarak Samiti, Ramkrishna Mission Road here, celebrated the 200th birthday of their first and the greatest ever poet, writer and artiste, Kavi Bhanubhakta Acharya and recalled his contributions towards the formation and flowering of Nepali literature and its enrichment. One of his greatest achievements........Complete details here

Silchar Water logging due to blocked outlets

Silchar Water logging due to blocked outlets

SILCHAR, July 6: “Water logging in the vast areas of the new township is due to ill planned digging and non–clearance of the outlets known as khals up and downstream,” pointed out the residents. Besides, unauthorized construction of culverts by people over the outlets without any system and planning add to the problem. In fact, the......Complete details here 

Involvement of a syndicate in BEd admission at Assam University

Organisations allege involvement of a syndicate in BEd admissions

SILCHAR, July 6: Different students and political organisations alleged involvement of a syndicate in the admissions to BEd courses under Assam University and an ‘unholy nexus’ exists between the authorities of Assam University and the five BEd colleges of......Complete details here 

Cachar BJP has not learnt anything from the defeat of Kabindra Purkayastha

When will Cachar BJP wake up?

SILCHAR, July 6: It appears that Cachar district committee of BJP has not learnt anything from the defeat of Kabindra Purkayastha in the last Parliamentary elections. He lost to Sushmita Dev of Congress against all expectations and projections. It is all the more surprising that when NaMo wave swept across the country including the unknown BJP zones, Barak Valley, once a......Complete details here