Gandhinagar: The Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) celebrated Independence Day 2023 today with great patriotic fervour. The Institute community, including students, faculty and staff members, and their families, enthusiastically part
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Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma visited historic Jorhat Central Jail and interacted with the jail authority as well as a few of the jail inmates and took stock of their grievances.
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When Kali Murmu left his hut for the forest with a bow and quiver in hand to pluck some fruits, he hardly knew it would be his last day in Pakur.
The year was 1837, when the trade war over Chinese tea raged dangerously with England, America, France, Spain and Netherlands flexing their muscles against each other.
In Europe, tea then was rich men’s status symbol and poor men’s dream.
Kali, a 21-year old Santhal, will soon be at Chabua in Upper Assam where Charles Alexander Bruce, an Irishman, was creating tea gardens and needed working hands.