India
Republic Day: Strengthening India’s Border Defenses, Overcoming Terrain and Other Challenges
Republic Day Defense Preparedness Diphu January 28 2023: The state of defense preparedness. India, even on this Republic Day, continues to reel under the varied conditions of terrain and climatic vagaries of the international borders to defend. "You do not win a war...
India’s Dangerous ‘Golden Triangle’ Expands
Diphu December 27 2022: US president Obama, in 2016, categorically named India amongst other countries as one of the world's top bracket producers of illicit narcotics. A Golden Triangle operating in India's northern states. Continuous seizure of narcotic substances...
The Caste System Is a Problem to Be Considered Inferior or Superior
Caste is a system of social stratification that originated in the pre-modern era in India in the form of the Varna system. The varna system is based only on occupation which serves as Brahmins (priests), Kshatriyas (guards), Vaishyas (traders), and Shudras (sewage...
Why Are We Not Seeing the Best in Life?
Another free gem of our life is the nature around us. We have the sun that brings a new dawn every day. We have green pastures to make those mornings pleasant, birds chirping to wake us up, flowers blooming to see the beauty of life, and flowing water to soothe our...
NorthEast
Mukhroh Incident – Beyond the Unmarked Boundary
In a sequel to the firing incident at the Jaintia Hamlet of Mukhroh located at the border between the states of Meghalaya and Assam, the Border Security Force is being deployed on the side of Assam’s Hamren District.
Large Drug Hauls Continue To Be Intercepted By Alert Police
Diphu 30 November 2022: Dillai police station continue to intercept large drug hauls in their area. Police personnel in Bokajan subdivision, Karbi Anglong district yesterday seized a large quantity of opium from a Guwahati-bound truck from Manipur. Police received...
Lachit Barphukan Prevented Aggressive Mughals
It was a crowded Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi with a large number of distinguished personalities from Assam as participants on 25 November, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the closing ceremony of the year-long celebration of the 400th birth anniversary of 17th-century Ahom army general Lachit Barphukan.
The Line, the River and the Forests
River Boundary Diphu 17 September 2022: The winding river named the Dhansiri or the Dima river forms the mutual boundary between the state of Nagaland and Assam’s Karbi Anglong District vide the notification number R 3102 dated Shillong 25th November, 1925. However,...
Business
Surajit Roy New Head of Eastern Region Services Of IOCL
Diphu December 2 2022: Surajit Roy joined as Head - Regional Services of eastern region in Indian Oil. A Mechanical Engineer by profession, Roy has experience of more than three decades in various domains of Indian Oil. He has been pivotal in setting up state of the...
Second Quartzite Mine Opens In Karbi Anglong
The Chief Executive Member of Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council Tuliram Ronghang on Thursday formally began the mining of a quartzite mine at Bey Village, Koilamati, Bokajan subdivision of Karbi Anglong district.
Death of Oil Refinery Based Power Projects
Diphu August 19: Two thermal power projects based at both the Guwahati oil refinery and the Bongaigaon oil refinery were abandoned as loss making and inefficient in utilizing the ‘tail gas' produced in these two refineries. The power plants are the Bongaigaon Thermal...
Bank Manager Accused of Deceptive Withdrawal
Alleged Deceptive Withdrawal by Bank Manager Diphu July 26: A police case has been registered against Dibyajoti Kalita, Manager of Assam Gramin Bikash Bank (ancillary of State Bank of India), Lahaorijan branch of Bokajan subdivision, at Khatkati police station...