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Top Assamese litterateur Homen Borgohain dies at 89 after post-Covid complications By IANS | 2 Views Top Assamese litterateur Homen Borgohain dies at 89 after post-Covid complications Image Source: IANS News Top Assamese litterateur Homen Borgohain dies at 89 after post-Covid complications Image Source: IANS News Top Assamese litterateur Homen Borgohain dies at 89 after post-Covid complications Image Source: IANS News Guwahati, May 12 : Sahitya Akademi awardee, renowned litterateur Homen Borgohain died here on Wednesday following post-Covid-19 complications, doctors said. He was 89. The celebrated Assamese litterateur and journalist, who breathed his last at a private hospital here, is survived by two sons. He has been separated from his wife Nirupama Borgohain, also a well-known writer and journalist, for several years. ....
The second phase of the Assam Assembly polls held in 39 constituencies on Thursday was marked by brief stoppages in a few polling stations in Silchar and Nagaon owing to malfunctioning electronic voting machines (EVMs) and police firing to disperse a group of protesters in Sonai constituency of Cachar district which left three injured. The voter turnout was over 77 per cent. Sources said the trouble in Sonai was triggered by an argument between a polling official and a youth who had come to vote. This led to a protest which flared up with the arrival of the Sonai BJP candidate Aminul Hoque Laskar, who is also the deputy Speaker of the state Assembly, eventually leading to the firing incident late in the afternoon. ....
As BJP fields Himanta Biswa Sarma from Jalukbari, Assam CM debate heats up SECTIONS Share Synopsis Sarma, who heads at least five major ministries in Assam and who manages BJP’s affairs across the eight Northeast states has, on several occasions, said that he is not keen on contesting the 2021 assembly polls and wants to work for the party. He, however, added that the final decision in this regard will be made by the party. Himanta Biswa Sarma BJP’s decision to field seasoned politician Himanta Biswa Sarma from Jalukbari has kept alive the chief ministerial debate in poll-bound Assam. ....
The Congress’ ongoing efforts to reach out to the tea tribes before the polls in Assam suffered a setback with Rupesh Gowala, the general secretary of the influential Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha, joining the ruling BJP here on Saturday afternoon. ACMS is the apex body of tea workers in Assam affiliated to the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC). It has over eight lakh members. It participates in talks with the government and the management over daily wage and other welfare issues of the workforce. The BJP will field Gowala from Doomdooma constituency in Upper Assam in the upcoming Assembly polls, at present held by Congress’ Durga Bhumij. ....
The Arunodoi Age, 1840-1880: Assam’s Monthly Magazine of News and Views Rise of the rationale The recent decision of the Asom Sahitya Sabha to tell people about the 175 year old monthly magazine Orunodoi (Sunrise) really is gratifying as it will give us a glimpse of what the world of journalism was in those days. Mind you, an annual subscription to Orunodoi in 1846 was quite costly: one rupee per annum. That was not the time of paper currency. You could pay your annual subscription in coins issued by the British East India Company, or maybe, coins minted by the local maharajas and rajas of Assam. ....