Sivasagar police have arrested nine people on Wednesday in a day after they inflicted torture on a woman branding her a witch. Police officials told Assam Times that they picked up the villagers, including seven women from Gorbhanga area hours after they singled out the elderly woman and torture her whom they rescued before being rushed to a local hospital. The villagers were arrested on the basis of the FIR filed before police by her family members.
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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