By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Two Assamese books were released in a glittering function held at a city hall on 15 May 2016, where audience from different walks of life graced the occasion. The chief editor of Niyamia Barta, an Assamese daily, and also a celebrated writer Phanindra Kumar Debchoudhury,  a motivation worker Dr Minati Barthakur […]

 By Our Correspondent Guwahati: With rising incidents of drug abuse among youths across Assam in northeast India, a leading non-government organization of the region launched a mass awareness campaign about it with an aim to save the upcoming generation from the impending danger. We are deeply concerned about the growing drug menace in Assam. The […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Four books related to healthcare initiatives, published by the city based down town hospital, were released at Guwahati Press Club on 4 May 2016. All the books, written by medical consultants of the pioneer private hospital in northeast India, were officially released by Kanaksen Deka, former president of Asom Sahitya Sabha […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Senior journalist of northeast India and a member of Guwahati Press Club,  Naba Sarma (79) passed away on 3 May 2016. Sarma, who worked both in regional and national media outlets, breathed his last at Gauhati Medical College  Hospital on Tuesday morning after a massive heart attack. He left behind his […]

Major General Mrinal Suman Source: World Hindu News (WHN) While studying Indian history in school days, one was repeatedly told that the foreign invaders resorted to ‘divide and rule’ policy to gain control over India. They were painted as unscrupulous schemers who exploited the simple, trusting and gullible Indians. It is only at a much later […]

By Harriet Alexander, and Peter Foster in Washington A long running campaign over redacted pages of a Senate report into 9/11 which allegedly reveal Riyadh as the principle financier is gathering new momentum The Obama administration is facing renewed pressure to release a top secret report that allegedly shows that Saudi Arabia directly helped to finance the September 11 attacks. […]

President Mugabe’s speech in African Union. Very relevant to Sri Lankan situation The 26th AU Summit is called to discuss Human Rights in Africa focusing mainly on the Rights of Women. But Africa’s security concerns will dominate the two day meeting. AU Chair President Robert Mugabe thanks Ban Ki Moon got helping Africa tackle Malaria […]

ALI SUKHANVER Kul Bushan Yadev, the terrorist of the RAW is now-a-days very prominent in all newspapers and on all media screens; prominent as a person whom humanity must be ashamed of. His arrest is no doubt a wonderful achievement of the intelligence agencies of Pakistan but it must be kept in mind that history […]

Courtesy RT Finian Cunningham (born 1963) has written extensively on international affairs, with articles published in several languages. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, he is a Master’s graduate in Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a career in newspaper journalism. For over 20 years […]

By Rick Moran Courtesy www.americanthinker.com Clashes between militias trained by the CIA and the Pentagon are intensifying as bitter fighting has broken out near Aleppo and the Turkish border. Chicago Tribune: The fighting has intensified over the past two months, as CIA-armed units and Pentagon-armed ones have repeatedly shot at each other as they have maneuvered through contested territory […]

Courtesy RT American soldiers never used to shoot at our CIA agents, and vice-versa, but that’s what’s reportedly happening in the northern part of Syria, former CIA officer Ray McGovern told RT from Washington, DC. In February, the CIA-armed group ‘Fursan al Haq’, or Knights of Righteousness, were apparently forced out of their positions by […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Eminent Kannada author Professor Santeshivara Lingannaiah Bhyrappa, who is widely regarded as one of modern India’s foremost novelists, will attend the ‘Guest of the Month’ program of Guwahati Press Club [GPC] on Monday [28 March 2016]. The interactive session with the Saraswati Sanman awardee is scheduled to start at GPC auditorium […]

By Garikai Chengu Countercurrents.org http://www.countercurrents.org/chengu020713.htm Contrary to the Westernized popular belief that Zimbabwe is synonymous with ‘Mugabe’s dictatorship’, it is one of Africa’s most democratic states. If Robert Mugabe is indeed a dictator, he has a peculiar way of showing it: the President liberated Zimbabwe from white minority rule and established a thriving parliamentary democracy, which […]

A source at the White House claims they were ‘f****ed over’ on Libya and Syria Courtesy The  Independent David Cameron’s actions over Libya have been condemned by a former Tory chairman as doing an Iraq” while his decisions on both Syria and Libya left the White House feeling f****ed over”, according to revelations made in […]

The US president says the PM’s attention was not held by the conflict for long Courtesy The  Independent  Barack Obama has accused David Cameron of being distracted” in the aftermath of the invasion of Libya – contributing to the current deadly mess” in the north African country. In a wide-ranging interview with The Atlantic magazine […]

By Afshain Afzal New Delhi behaved courteously by merely confining to refusal of Indian visa to the members of United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). In the same regard, Indian Foreign Office has played diplomatically and did not offend Washington for its misdeed as New Delhi could have announced sending reciprocal fact-finding team […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Expressing serious concern over a brutal attack on a Manipuri film-maker by separatist militants, the Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) urged the authority to take serious note of the situation where the banned armed militant outfits continue targeting civilians for not entertaining their extortion notices. According to Imphal based media outlets, […]

Source:Pravda.Ru  Former heads of NATO doubted combatant value of the North Atlantic Alliance. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, ex-Secretary General of NATO and British General Richard Shirreff, who served as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, assert that combat equipment of many members of the block, including the key ones, suffer from “chronic underfunding” and “critical deficiencies”. […]

Source: Pravda.Ru  Vladimir Putin said about Western intelligence agencies’ preparations for autumn elections to the Russian State Duma at the meeting with the Russian Federal Security Service. According to the documents, there are indications that our enemies abroad are getting ready to these elections. “Thus, everybody should know that we will work hard on the defence […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Activists across the world demand that no political prisoners should (must) be left behind in Burma’s jails. Burma Campaign UK, while carrying out its mission to support human rights in Myanmar, called the Burmese home minister Lt Gen Ko Ko for immediate release of high profile activist Nilar Thein, who is […]

Courtesy RT China will be helping out the Syrian government in the fight against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIL/ISIS) by sending military advisers,” media reports have claimed. TrendsIslamic State The Chinese will be arriving in the coming weeks,” a Syrian army official told the Lebanon-based news website Al-Masdar Al-‘Arabi. The report claims that a Chinese naval vessel […]

by Selvam Canagaratna Courtesy The Island February 20, 2016, 7:22 pm “Boys and girls, / And women, that would groan to see a child / Pull off an insect’s leg, all read of war, / The best amusement for our morning meal.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fears in Solitude, 1798. Pulitzer-prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) has hailed the initiative to raise the national flag in Jawaharlal Nehru University premises prominently as it would help erasing the unwanted impression about the prestigious institute in New Delhi that it had virtually turned into a hotbed for anti-India activities. The Assam based patriotic forum […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati:  Expressing shocks over the recent developments erupted from the New Delhi based Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus with a section of students indulging in anti-national activities, a forum of patriotic people urged the authority to take stringent actions against the anti-India elements. Regretting that a prestigious institute like JNU has virtually […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: With an aim to protect the lands against excessive resource extractions in Cambodia, an influential rights body urged the authority to maintain indigenous land rights for the natives. The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), while releasing a report recently at Phnom Penh, fervently called  the Cambodian royal government  to accelerate […]

Media Release  Citizens Electoral Council of Australia The cascade of write-downs, defaults and bankruptcies now sweeping the oil and gas sector worldwide is well on the way to triggering the final, deadly implosion of the London/Wall Street-centred financial system. Like the smaller, 2007-08 mortgage debt bubble, the threat lies in the derivatives trades that are […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Nearly eighty percent city based scribes of northeast India have shown satisfactory outcome when they were exposed to a general health check-up on 8 February 2016 at Guwahati Press Club. Over eighty journalists participated in the daylong health check-up camp, organized  by the city based ‘down town hospital Limited’ at the […]

By Paul Craig Roberts Reprinted from Paul Craig Roberts, The Neoconservative Threat to World Order (Clarity Press, 2015) Are Nixon’s and the Reagan administration’s crimes noticeable on the scale of Clinton’s, George W. Bush’s, and Obama’s? January 25, 2016 “Information Clearing House” -Not much remains of the once vibrant American left-wing. Among the brainwashed remnants […]

Aboriginal Tent Embassy Canberra Each year Indigenous Australians march to remember the uncounted thousands whom were massacred during the British colonial invasion of Australia. The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is demanding the honour, respect and dignity be afforded to those slaughtered during the colonisation of Australia to be acknowledged in a National Day of Remembrance for […]

Courtesy RT A UN General Assembly committee has passed a resolution combating glorification of Nazism,” with 126 countries voicing their support. Meanwhile, the US, Ukraine and Canada voted against,” raising eyebrows. Moscow has called the decision regrettable.” The resolution, which was initially proposed by Russia and co-authored by 52 states, including Brazil, China, India, and Kazakhstan, […]