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Silchar bound bus meets with an accident in Panchgram

By gupta • Oct 21st, 2008 • Category: Local News

A Silchar bound bus met with an accident on Sunday afternoon in which 32 people have been injured. The accident took place in no. 10 colony area adjacent to Panchgram ASEB substation.
Assam State Transport corporation bus (AS-01-9584) was headed for Silchar from Dharmanagar.The onlookers reported that there was another private bus that was following […]



Lightning takes life in Katlicherra

By gupta • Oct 10th, 2008 • Category: Local News

Thunder and lightning caused injury and death in Lala and Katlicherra.Two people named Jaynul Hak Barbhuiya and Manik Uddin Laskar got injured and one person named Manik Uddin Barbhuiya died after they were struck by lightning.
Manik Uddin Barbhuiya who was a resident of Krishnapur Village, LalaBazar was on his way home when he was […]



Fraud in the name of religion exposed in Dullavcherra

By gupta • Sep 26th, 2008 • Category: Local News

Police arrested four people from Krishnanagar village of Dullavcherra on Sunday early in the morning.They are Babu Sinha(26) who was posing to be Lord Shiva, Neelima Sinha(25) who was posing to be Goddess Durga, Jaya Sinha(22) posing to be Goddess Lakshmi and Prameela Sinha(17) who was posing to be goddess Saraswati along with four accomplices […]



ATM bank fraud in Silchar

By gupta • Sep 16th, 2008 • Category: Local News

A total of 24,500 Rs has been fraudulently withdrawn from the account of an aged lady who is a resident of Nazirpatty, Silchar.This incident took place in the Silchar bazar branch of the State Bank of India.
The victim named Sabita Endow filed a report in Silchar police station on Sunday. Ms. Endow informed police that […]



Four shops and a Tata Sumo gets burnt in a fire in Ratabari

By gupta • Aug 21st, 2008 • Category: Local News

In the late hours of Monday night, there was a big fire in Anipur in Ratabari



Repair work to fix potholes on Shonai road

By gupta • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Local News

Silchar district administration has decided to take action regarding the repairing of the disastrous road condition of Shonai road. Gautam Ganguly, the DC assured that BRTF would commence the work shortly.
Some voluntary orgaisations including the ‘Agragami club’ of Shonai announced a ‘road block’ on 21 st of August when numerous memoranda provided to the district […]



Silchar Police raids houses of two dacoits

By gupta • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Local News

Silchar police confiscated three guns in Nagatila,a suburb of silchar.The incident took place on Tuesday night.



A businessman drowns in Chatla Haor

By gupta • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Local News

A 42 year old businessman named Seetu Ranjan Paul drowned in Chatla on Sunday.Though he was a resident of Rajpur near Kathal Bagan,he was renting a room in Shyamananda Ashram road in silchar.
Seetu paul boarded a boat on Sunday from shilkuri to go to Rajpur.Unfortunately,the boat capsized in the middle of the Chatla Haor.Ganesh Das,the […]



Police arrests notorious car thief

By gupta • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Local News

The notorious car thief Bapan Paul alias Keti has been arrested.The police arrested him from his house situated at 2nd Link Road at around 11pm in the night on Tuesday.
When police raided his house,Bapan tried to deceive the police by hiding in the bathroom.Eventually,he was arrested.



Karimganj police rescues a kidnapped girl

By gupta • Aug 19th, 2008 • Category: Local News

Karimganj police retrieved Mumpy Das,a 15 year old kidnapped girl from Kanishail on Friday night.The girl is a resident of Haflong and was handed over to Haflong police on Sunday.Mumpy was presented before the Magistrate for recording her statement following a physical check up.
Mumpy stated that she was abducted by Bapan Khan alias Akhtar Khan […]