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Sonia rushes team to visit Udalguri, Darrang

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has rushed a three member team to the violence-hit Udalguri and Darrang distircts where 62 people were killed, over 200 injured

Assam is facing turmoil of Bangladeshi Immigration

Assam has witnessed continuous violence and unrest throughout the last few decades, but the recent ethnic clashes in some of its districts have been significant

Bodofa Upendra Nath Brahma, the Great visionary leader of Bodos!

Remebering the charismatic leader 'late Bodofa Upendra Nath Brahma' in the context of communal flare-up in Udalguri, Darrand and Chirand District of Assam.

Ahmed submits report to PM on Assam violence

Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed has submitted his report on the communal clashes in lower Assam’s Darrang and Udalguri districts where 62

Gogoi orders judicial probe into communal clashes

The Assam government has ordered a judicial probe into the ethnic violence in Darrang and Udalguri districts that has claimed 62 lives even as normalcy

The Wrath Of God

The wrath of gods seems to be descending on the religious Indian masses with perilious frequency as stampedes at pilgrimages kill more people (361 in

Tragedy on Vijaya Dashami - 2 youths drown

In a tragic incident, today, 2 youths namely Rajiv Rajkumar aged 28 years and Hemanta Tantadai aged 23 years were drown while immersing the idol

Gogoi visits Darrang, Udalguri to pave the way for normalcy

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday visited the violence-hit areas of Udalguri and Darrang districts in where at least 62 people were killed, hundreds

Violence strikes on Non-violence Day

The International Day of Non-violence and the holy Id-ul-fitre festival, both observed simultaneously on October, 2, 2008 and perceptive to communal harmony did not prove

8 injured in blast near Guwahati puja function

Despite an elaborate security arrangement, a minor blast rocked Japorijog area in Guwahati on Thursday evening near a puja pandal leaving 8 persons injured. According

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Poems by Parineeta Sharma

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Dr. John C. Mather, Nobel Laureate (2006) addresses Techniche ’08 at IIT Guwhati on September 5, 2008

A live video conference, the first of its kind in the region attracted a huge crowd in excess of 1000 people to IIT-Guwahati on September 5, 2008. Held in the newly inaugurated auditorium at IIT, Guwahati, the place was jam-packed with enthusiastic students, participants, faculty members and even school kids, who were a part of [...]

Assam Day 2008

During the weekend of 23rd and 24th of August Assamese community in the UK celebrated the most liked annual Assamese event, Assam Day, in Yorkshire. The event was held in the Brooklands Hotel in Barnsley. The function begun solemnly with three minutes silence observed in respect paid to three Assamese, Dr. Era Saharia, Dr. Tapan [...]

Premier Show of an Assamese Film Prem Joubonote

The premier show of the Assamese movie "Prem Joubonote" was held in Cinema 2 of Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, Washington, USA, on September 13, 2008. For the first time, the premier show of an Assamese movie was organized in the USA. Prem Joubonote is being produced by Vavani Sarmah, a Non-Resident Assamese (NRA) and [...]

Menaka PP Bora Assamese traditional dance and folklore in British museums

I take this opportunity to introduce my new ongoing dance project for Posoowa e-magazine. The details of the project are outlined below. I have also attached the official flyers. The main idea is to introduce and elucidate the contemporary relevance of Indian traditional dance and literature (in 2008 the focus is on Assamese traditional dance [...]

Snehalaya: from scourge to life, from darkness unto light

The train came to a standstill after several hours. It was total darkness outside; I still knew that we were hours from Guwahati. I was sitting by the window trying to get some sleep. I had a difficult time sleeping - the excitement of the impending event was tremendous. I never thought that this train [...]

Your Work is a Manifestation of Yourself

You had come home during the summer break. You were having a good time with your old friends till one day something unusual but ordinary happened. This was this. You encountered your mother on your way out of the big old rambling house. Your mother asked you right way to re-string a rope tightly between [...]

Jugal Kalita inducted into Millionaire Club

Jugal Kalita, Professor of Computer Science, was recently inducted into the Millionaire Club for obtaining more than a million dollars in contracts and grants to the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Jugal’s areas of research are artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and bioinformatics. Jugal has published more than fifty refereed papers in [...]

Will  outsourcing harm India and also the USA?

In the current US presidential debates, one of the agenda items is to stop outsourcing and how outsourcing is harming the US workers. I wonder if any of us have some answers. Of course, much has been written about how it would help the global corporations and also make the US competitive while helping developing [...]

Santonu Goswami at the two ends of the Earth!

Santonu Goswami been involved in climate change research in the polar region for the last three years. He is a doctoral student in the environmental science and engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso and is working under the supervision of Dr. Craig E. Tweedie at the Systems Ecology Lab in the University [...]

No – A Tool of Management

The sakhaas (friends) came to Jasoda and told her about Krishna eating and swallowing soil in hunger. When Krishna returned home in the evening, Jasoda questioned Him why He ate soil. Krishna replied, "Mother, I have done nothing wrong; I never ate soil. My sakhaas have lied to you." Jasoda caught hold of Him and [...]

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