A security alert is in place across the state apprehending strike by al-Qaeda. Quoting intelligence sources Chief minister Tarun Gogoi told reporters on Saturday the international terrorist group has been planning to strike in a number of places during the Durga puja festival. Gogoi suspects that al-Qaeda is likely get to support from ULFA to strike in the state alleging both the groups have secret understanding. He, however, said that there is no proof to substantiate the allegation but, according to him, ULFA has never criticized the terrorist groups who has been unleashing violence across the globe. He said al-Qaeda earlier too tried to set up base in the North-East which they could not. Gogoi’s revelation assumed significance days after al-Qaeda took the name of Assam in a video threat.
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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