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October 2007

Barak Valley Cements Limited of Assam

The Barak Valley Cements Limited (BVCL) was incorporated as a public limited company in the year 1999, under the Companies Act, 1956. The company is located in Assam and all the operations of the company are concentrated in the North Eastern region.
The company was promoted by Mr. Prahlad Rai Chamaria, Mr. Bijay Kumar Garodia and [...]

IPO from Barak Valley Cements Ltd

The Barak Valley Cements Ltd is set to become the first company from the Barak Valley of Assam, to enter the capital market. The Rs 75-crore Cement company will come out with a initial public offer (IPO) to finance its expansion plans.
The IPO of 56,60,000 equity shares of Rs 10 each opens on Monday and [...]

Fertile land of Assam gone to Bangladesh

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Govt. of India, alleged indifference has led Assam to lose large stretches of fertile land to Bangladesh. In a bid to check illegal influx and movement of jehadis and militants, the MHA, had in 1987, undertaken Phase I of a massive project comprising 857 km of fencing, nearly 3,000 [...]

World’s Hottest Chilli Pepper - ‘Bhut Jolokia’

A good news for Assam! Researchers at New Mexico State University have announced the discovery of the world’s hottest chilli pepper, Bhut Jolokia, a variety found in Assam, India. The variety of chilli pepper has won ‘Guiness World Records’ recognition by beating the previous champion Red Savina.
In replicated tests of Scoville heat units (SHUs), Bhut [...]

Protestors set ablaze a Bus in Assam

At least 22 people were injured, three of them critically, in Assam on Saturday when a group of tribal student protestors set ablaze the bus they were travelling in, officials said.
About 50 protestors of the All Koch Rajbonshi Students’ Union (AKRSU) stopped the crowded bus near Golokgang in Dhubri district, about 300 km west of [...]

AASU calls to update NRC

The All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) today pleaded for an impregnable provision to prevent the illegal migrants from entering their names in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) with misleading information. The student’s body urged the State Government at a formal meeting on the updating of the vital document, to amend some of the provisions [...]

New World Record from Shillong

A year after drumming up a record with the largest percussion ensemble, Shillong strummed its way into Guinness World Records by assembling 1,730 guitarists to play the Bob Dylan classic Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door for over five minutes.
The audience roared in approval when police chief B.K. Dey Sawian announced that the Guinness-appointed adjudicator, Lapynshai Syiem, [...]

Mamoni Raisom Goswami’s Centre for Ramayan Studies

Only a few people are aware that Assamese is the first modern Indo-Aryan language into which the epic ‘Ramayan’ was translated in the 14th century. Now, with the efforts of writer Mamoni Raisom Goswami, many more have to come to know about this fact.

By setting up a first-of-its-kind Centre for Ramayan Studies in Assam at [...]

Two Assam Rifles jawans killed in Arunachal Pradesh

Two Assam Rifles jawans and a civilian were killed and eight others injured in an ambush by ultras in a remote jungle in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tirap district on Thursday night. Defence sources said that the ultras targetted the 23 Assam Rifles commanding officer and three vehicles moving from Kunsa to Panchu by exploding a powerful [...]

Music album from a three-year-old Assamese girl

A good news from the world of music! Asthajitananda Bordoloi, a three-year-old girl from Assam has created history by cutting a musical album under the banner of HMV Saregama India Ltd.
By releasing the nine-track Assamese VCD titled “Tumar Ganor Kulaat”, Asthajitananda is said to have become one of the youngest Indian singers ever to have [...]

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