Flood situation refuses to improve in Sonitpur, Kokrajhar, Tinsukia, Goalpara and Dibrugarh districts on Saturday as the rivers are still flowing above the danger marks.
The water levels in Dibang, Lohit, Subansiri and Siang in Arunachal Pradesh have been rising because of excessive rain during the last one week.
On the occasion of his birth centenary this year, Jyotiprasad Medhi Award in Mathematical Sciences is announced by his family. Professor Jyotiprasad Medhi was a world renowned scholar in Statistics who was born on 1st July 1924 in Ramdia, Assam. He received his D.Sc. (with Tres Honorable) from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in 1956 and returned to Assam to teach at Gauhati University where he later became the Head of the Department in Statistics, Dean of Faculty of Science, and Acting Vice-Chancellor. His textbooks on Stochastic Processes and Queueing Theory are widely used for teaching in many academic institutions around the world. He passed away on 3rd February 2017 at the age of 92...
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