Times of Assam

Joymoti, Assam and Crime against Women – Biggest shame for us Ever

Priyankan Goswami — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:48:35 +0000

By- Priyankan Goswami Assam takes pride itself as the land of Sati Joymoti, the brave Ahom Princess who laid down her life standing undaunted against inhuman autocracies to save her husband (and thereby her motherland). For our non-Assamese readers and those neo-Assamese readers whose parents took pride in not teaching them anything of their motherland’s history, [...]

New US Immigration Bill discriminatory – NASSCOM

Times of Assam — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:22:27 +0000

By- Staff Reporter Seems like the newly drafted Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernisation Act, 2013 pushed by the Government of Unites States of America (or commonly being called as US Immigration Bill) has not gone well to the analysis of NASSCOM. The NASSCOM today called the bill as discriminatory, stating that the body [...]

Contaminated blood & Summer Drinks at a huge cost

Times of Assam — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:47:31 +0000

By- Kiron Kakoty I am so fortunate that I have not had a misfortune yet to need a blood transfusion. I hope that it will never happen. No, No. I do not wish to be blessed by Himanta Biswa Sarma’s department where a generator operator has been reported to have been carrying out critical blood [...]

Armed Forces Special Powers Act – Challenge to Democracy

Times of Assam — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 03:01:39 +0000

By- Hiranya Saikia The Indian Constitution which came into force on 26th January 1950 guaranteed the Right to Life and the Equality before Law to the people of India along with social, economic and political justice, freedom of thought and expression on which Indian democracy thrives. These pillars of democracy on which India claims to [...]

Summer of 2013

Times of Assam — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 04:25:32 +0000

Photo By- Luit Chaliha

Care for Hunger

Times of Assam — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 04:16:34 +0000

Photo by- Ankur J Das

India as Democratic – Uncountable Questions

Times of Assam — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 02:00:17 +0000

By- Krishna Kingkar Kakati Democracy, derived from the Greek dēmokratiā, literally means rule by the people, as stated in the Britannica. Here dēmo stands for people and kratos for rule. India emerged as a democratic republic nation on January 26, 1950, a fact known to one and all. And in 1952, you have the spectacle of [...]

Who is ruling the North East

Times of Assam — Fri, 31 May 2013 04:15:44 +0000

By- Ayekpam Basanta Mangang What more can I write about the North East, which I must here, used the term Prison of Nations? While New Delhi continues to wait and watch like a jailer since her independence, she let AFSPA complete 55 years, turning the entire north east region into a slaughter house. Heirangoithong Massacre, [...]

Enquiries into Islam and Islamic Practices – The Crimson pair of hands of Islam in Woolwich

Times of Assam — Tue, 28 May 2013 04:09:21 +0000

By- Dilip Dutta NDTV appears to have been very quick in reporting of the ghastly incidence in a sunny afternoon in a township in England on 22 May 2013. In this remote village, the name of the place did not mean much to me, till I Google mapped the name. With the WICH ending I should [...]

Enquiries into Islam and Islamic Practices – The World Oldest Profession made Halal

Times of Assam — Fri, 24 May 2013 04:14:47 +0000

By- Dilip Dutta Listeners to BBC World Service Radio may have listened to an interesting broadcast of unmarried British Shia Muslimas using Nikah Mut’ah as a form of ‘Halal Dating’, last week. (Listen and read here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22354201 , http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018rv2l , http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01sdpfp , and http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018rrzs ) To find out more about it I had to dig deep and what I [...]