Letters to The Editor
Letters to The Editor
The coming Assembly elections in West Bengal and Assam are do or die for the TMC, Congress and the CPI(M).
Strange bedfellows
The coming Assembly elections in West Bengal and Assam are do or die for the TMC, Congress and the CPI(M). The TMC and the CPI(M) were draggers drawn politically a few months back. The scenario changed dramatically with the emergence of the BJP in West Bengal. Suddenly both the TMC and the CPI(M) are trying for a poll alliance along with the ever-sinking Congress which once again proves beyond doubt that there is no permanent enemy in today s politics. Ideology of the parties is thrown into the waste bins also evidenced in Assam s political scenario where one can witness the pre-poll tie-up of the Congress and the AIUDF. Who can forget the thunderous statement of Ex Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi WHO IS BADRUDDIN?
January 5, 2021
On January 1, an assistant professor of Assam’s Dibrugarh University shared a small video clip on Twitter claiming, “Chinese radio broadcast in the highways of #Assam. A crash course on #Chinese language in English.
The radio propaganda needs to be juxtaposed with the scenario of #AIR stations here either getting shut or sized down. Stronger reception of radio China compared to Indian stations.”
There is nothing serious or unusual about it except the fact that China would keep resorting to such propaganda vis-a-vis India’s Northeast, especially Arunachal Pradesh, which Beijing calls ‘Southern Tibet’.
Chinese radio broadcast in the highways of #Assam. A crash course on #Chinese language in English. The radio propaganda needs to be juxtaposed with the scenario of #AIR stations here either getting shut or sized down. Stronger reception of radio China compared to Indian stations. pic.twitter.com/Vimtoispf3
ecosystem of bigotry, overseen by the governing BJP and enabled by much of the
media, has weaponised even the pandemic to fuel
Islamophobia. But it hasnât succeeded in dismantling the solidarities that have emerged in resistance, mostly notably amid widespread protests against the citizenship law at the turn of the year. And at the heart of this resistance have been students.
Along with the Muslim woman at Shaheen Bagh and elsewhere,
students play a key role in the public pushback against the Citizenship Amendment Act, or CAA, and the National Register of Citizens, or NRC. In retaliation, they were
Assam app to increase farm productivity The application aims to work through AI helping cultivators in making decisions and managing farm activities
An Assam-based start-up has developed a multilingual smartphone application for farmers to smartly manage their farms and remotely monitor distress activities.
AgSpert, the agri-tech startup co-founded by IIT Guwahati students and alumni of NIT Silchar and Dibrugarh University, Assam, have developed the application called AgSpeak. It has an Assamese language option as well, a first among all the agri-tech apps available in the market.
The app aims to optimise in-farm productivity through artificial intelligence (AI), helping farmers in making decisions and managing farm activities by the click of a single button on their smartphone or computer.
CID conducts a raid at the house of former Assam Police DIG PK Dutta in connection with the case
GUWAHATI: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Assam Police on Friday filed a chargesheet against 36 people in connection with the sub-inspector recruitment exam paper leak scam.
Addressing a press conference here at the CID headquarters in Guwahati, IGP Surender Kumar said that the 2,621-page chargesheet has been filed in the court of special judge, Kamrup (Metro) in 87 days starting from the date of the first arrest in the case. A 1,271-page case diary has also been submitted by the CID in addition to the chargesheet.