Everything you need to know about Barpeta Road: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Barpeta Road: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Guwahati, April 16 (IANS) Two moderate intensity earthquakes hit Assam and other parts of the northeast region Tuesday. There were no reports of any casualty.
Guwahati, March 19 (IANS) The process to update the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam will start in April.
New Delhi, Jan.24 (ANI): The Centre has proposed to construct eleven new foodgrain godowns in different locations in Assam to strengthen the public distribution system in the state.
Leeds, Nov 22 (IANS) Leeds United's owner Ken Bates announced the takeover of the club by Bahrain?based investment bank GFH Capital.
Guwahati, Oct 30 (IANS) Assam Tuesday observed the fourth anniversary of the devastating serial blasts that killed 90 civilians and injured over 300 across four districts in the state.
Barpeta (Assam), Oct.17 (ANI): Railway and police officials in Assam's Barpeta District on Wednesday removed a powerful explosive from a train track at the Barpeta Road Railway Sstation.
Guwahati, Oct 11 (IANS) Acting strictly against ragging, a college in Assam's Barpeta district Thursday expelled 16 students from its hostel for torturing junior students in the guise of ragging, college officials said.
Guwahati, Aug 30 (IANS) The Assam government has initiated the process of updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The first phase of the project will be completed within the next three years, said Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Thursday.
Karachi, Aug 19 (ANI): Referring to the recent blast on Karachi's University Road that killed two people, an editorial in a Pakistani daily has said it should be clear that there is no phantom Jewish or Hindu conspiracy out to get the Pakistanis.
Islamabad, Aug 8 (IANS) A hitman who killed at least 40 people has been arrested in Pakistan's Karachi city, a media report said.
Pajarbhanga (Barpeta), July 12 (IANS) Floods in Assam are almost over but not the problems of the victims.
Guwahati, June 21 (IANS) Eight persons have been killed in the floods in Assam that have affected at least 15 districts, a minister said Thursday, adding that large tracts of land are submerged uprooting vast populations.
Guwahati, June 18 (ANI): The flood situation continues to remain grim in Nalbari and Barpeta districts of Assam. Twenty-five villages at Mayanag and Bhuragaon in Morigaon district were flooded by incessant rain and land erosion created havoc in Chirang and Dhubri districts.
London, June 3 (ANI): Part of the London 2012 Olympics' opening ceremony has been labelled a "travesty" after it emerged that the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) will be miming instead of delivering a live show as the participants will parade around the stadium in front of a 4 billion audience.
Pathsala (Assam), May 2 (IANS) People from all walks of life of Bajali area in this Assam township are gearing up to celebrate 200 years of a banyan tree that is spread over four bighas or about one hectare of land.
Guwahati, May 23 (IANS) At least six people, including a woman and two children, were killed and over 40 others injured Wednesday when two buses collided in Assam, police said.
Islamabad, Apr 17(ANI): Pakistan is making arrangements for the deportation of 16 family members of former Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden after they completed their 45-day jail term.
Guwahati, April 9 (IANS) Two skins of endangered clouded leopards have been seized and two people have been arrested near the famed Manas Tiger Reserve in Assam, an official said.
New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) Terming his talks as "very fruitful", Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari Sunday said he was hoping to see Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Pakistan soil soon.
New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari reached Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 7, Race Course Road residence here a little after noon Sunday.
Islamabad, Mar 7 (ANI): The Pakistan Government has reportedly made arrangements to extradite the family of killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Sydney, Feb 28 (ANI): Angelina Jolie's dramatic pose at the 2012 Oscars has made her right leg an instant hit on the internet with the exposed limb being riotously superimposed into a range of pictures across the web.
Guwahati, July 19 (ANI): The overall flood situation still remains unchanged in Assam's Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Golaghat and Sonitpur Dhemaji Districts.
London, July 14 (ANI): Danielle Lineker looked glamorous in a pair of skinny leopard-print jeans and white long-sleeved T-shirt during a shopping trip.
London, Apr 7 (ANI): A man in Britain was so drunk that he never noticed his car was missing a wheel and drove 4 miles before he was stopped by police.
Melbourne, Mar 25 (ANI): Australian model Lara Bingle has let slip on-air that she had illegally copped demerit points for her friends, which caused her to lose her driver's licence.
Melbourne, Jan 30 (ANI): Police used capsicum spray and Tasers to break up a brawl that happened outside a wedding reception in southwest Sydney.
Barpeta (Assam), July 22 (ANI): At least four students were killed and over a dozen others injured, when the police opened fire on rampaging protestors attempting to stop updating of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam's Barpeta town on Wednesday.
New Delhi, Apr 22 (ANI): All Assam Students' Union (AASU) Advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya on Thursday claimed the Government has assured them about sealing of 272-kilometer-long porous India-Bangladesh border area in Assam by April 2012.
New Delhi, Feb 13 (ANI): Craftsmen and artisans from the north east who participated in the grand Surajkund Craft Fair here have earned appreciation from visitors for their skills and creations.
Washington, Dec 16 (ANI): David Bowie's 'The Rise and Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars' has been named the gayest album ever recorded.
London, Nov 15(ANI): Jennifer Bernard, driver of the Ford Fiesta which was involved in a serious road accident with Tottenham goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini in Walthamstow, England, will be quizzed by police on Monday.
London, Nov 13(ANI): Tottenham goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini has fractured his wrists and injured his pelvis after being involved in a serious road accident in Walthamstow, England.
Guwahati, May 28 (IANS) One person was killed and thousands were affected as flash floods, caused by the release of water from dam reservoirs in China and Bhutan, submerged low lying areas of three districts in Assam, officials said here Thursday.
London, May 25 (ANI): Pakistan's former president General (retired) Pervez Musharraf has bought a flat in the Edgeware Road neighbourhood where former British premier Tony Blair lives and Interior Minister Rehman Malik possesses a house, sources have said.
New York, Apr.4 (ANI): Two fast-food joints here are calling themselves Obama Fried Chicken, and this has ruffled some feathers. The eateries in Brooklyn and Manhattan plastered the new President's last name on their awnings recently.
Baksa (Assam), Mar 7 (ANI): People of Barpeta district have expressed hope that the national highway connecting Pathsala town in Assam to Bhutan border would be a road to their prosperity.
London, Mar 5 (ANI): It was certainly a case of an intoxicating intimate moment turning sour, when a woman bit off her boyfriend's tongue during a drunken kiss on his birthday, a court has heard.
Guwahati, Dec 23 (IANS) More than 400,000 poultry have been culled so far in Assam after an outbreak of bird flu three weeks ago. But authorities were unable to complete the killing in some areas due to resistance from locals, officials said Tuesday.
Guwahati, Dec 17 (ANI): The first phase of culling operation has been completed in the bird flu-affected Kamrup, Nalbari, Barpeta and Dibrugarh districts of Assam.
Guwahati, Dec 12 (IANS) Health authorities in Assam have placed under surveillance about 300,000 people in bird flu affected areas with reports of some 150 people suffering from fever and upper respiratory infections, fuelling fears of the deadly virus spreading to humans, officials said Friday.
Guwahati, Dec 11 (IANS) The Assam health department Thursday expressed serious fears about strains of the deadly bird flu virus spreading to humans and sparking a pandemic in the northeastern state.
Guwahati, Dec 11 (IANS) The deadly bird flu virus is spreading to new areas in the northeastern state of Assam although over 200,000 poultry have been culled in the past two weeks, officials said Thursday.
Kamrup (Assam), Dec 8 (ANI): At least 100,000 birds have been culled in Assam after bird flu began to spread in an alarming manner.
Kamrup (Assam), Dec 6 (ANI): With a fresh outbreak of bird flu in poultry being detected in Assam, authorities are prepared to start the culling of thousands of chickens.
Guwahati, Nov 21 (IANS) The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the serial explosions in Assam is likely to carry out narco analysis tests on two blast suspects, officials said Friday.
New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) Photographer and filmmaker Samar Singh Jodha has captured the life and times of the Tai-Phake people - an endangered tribe in Assam, in his new exhibition of portrait photographs, 'Phaneng: A Journey Into Personal Engagement', that has opened in the capital.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on November 8, 2008 was at his belligerence best while addressing a Press Meet at Guwahati claiming to have entered the
Guwahati, Nov 3 (IANS) It was a shocking study in contrasts. Soon after last week's deadly serial explosions in Assam, scores of passers-by carried the injured in their arms to hospitals while a hoodlum fringe was busy picking pockets of the dead, stealing mobile phones and wallets, besides attacking fire tenders and ambulances.
Guwahati, Nov 3 (ANI): The Assam Government has decided to constitute a Special Task Force headed by an Inspector General of Police (IGP) rank officer to deal with militancy and combat Jehadi forces in the state.
Guwahati, Nov 2 (IANS) Middle-aged Kuddus Ali and young Biplap Das are both writhing in pain and still look dazed with most part of their faces and limbs bandaged - victims of the murderous terror strikes in Assam last week.
Guwahati, Nov 1 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Saturday strongly rejected the charge that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government was soft on terrorism and said there will be no compromise on this account.
Guwahati, Nov 1 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi visited the victims of Assam blasts at a hospital in Guwahati on Saturday.
Guwahati, Nov 1 (ANI): The Centre has assured its full cooperation to the Assam Government on Saturday in finding and punishing the perpetrators of the serial blasts in the state.
Caracas, Nov 1 (Xinhua) Venezuela has strongly condemned the deadly serial bomb attacks in India's Assam state, which killed at least 77 people and injured some 300.
Dhaka, Nov 1 (IANS) While condemning the serial blasts in India's Assam state, which claimed 77 lives and left over 300 injured, as a 'cowardly act of terrorism', the Bangladesh government is bristling at the Indian charge that the blasts were the handiwork of Harkat-ul Jehad-i Islami (HuJI) militants based in this country.
Guwahati, Oct 31 (IANS) Assam woke up Friday with a steely resolve to fight back terror with people anguished, but not shattered, over the serial bombings that killed 71 people and wounded 300 more Thursday.
Guwahati/New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) At least 64 people were killed and over 300 injured Thursday as a series of carefully coordinated bombings shattered the midday bustle of markets in Guwahati and three other districts of India's Assam state, the latest victim of targeted terror that has taken over 400 lives in the country since 2006.
Guwahati, Oct 30 (ANI): The death toll in the Assam serial blast that rocked different parts of the state has touched 61 and over 300 have been injured.
Guwahati, Oct 30 (IANS) 'Why did I come to the market?' an inconsolable Rupali Bora sobs. She was unwilling to go to the Ganeshguri vegetable market, but her husband persuaded her. Now he was lying dead - one among the 61 killed in a string of serial blasts to rock Assam Thursday.
Guwahati/New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) At least 61 people were killed and over 300 injured Thursday as a series of carefully coordinated bombings shattered the midday bustle of markets in Guwahati and other areas of India's Assam state, the latest victim of targeted terror that has taken over 400 lives in the country since 2006.
Guwahati, Oct 30 (IANS) At least 61 people were killed and about 300 injured, several of them critically, after 12 powerful bombs went off within a span of an hour in parts of Assam Thursday. Authorities said the blasts were a coordinated strike carried out by jihadi forces in collaboration with local militant groups.
Guwahati, Oct 30 (IANS) The death toll in the serial bombings in Assam Thursday has risen to 45, the authorities said.
Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh), August 2 (ANI): Activists of Bajrang Dal ransacked dwellings of people, whom they claim to be of Bangladeshi origin, in Ayodhya on Saturday.
