February 17: Hydroponics is an approach of soil less agriculture where water is considered as the basic medium of plant growth with inputs of nutrient into water. This is an age-old technique, which was also the base of famous Babylon’s hanging garden. Presently, demand for hydroponics practices increases globally with the increase of population pressure on land and crisis of land.
Techniques of hydroponics provide opportunity for agriculture in small space along with scope for utilization of third dimension of space. A workshop on hydroponics was organized by Centre for Science and Development Communication (CSDC) of Society for Socio-economic Awareness and Environment Protection (SSEAEP), Nagaon, in association with College of Education, Nagaon at College of Education, Nagaon on February 16.
Main objectives of the workshop was to popularize concept of hydroponics as educational tool to understand plant‘s growth and development, as an approach to agriculture and gardening and also as an opportunity for entrepreneurship. The workshop was inaugurated by the Ms Monasikha Baruah, Principal, College of Education, Nagaon. Md. Jawied Alom , Coordinator of Nature Club of India, Patna participated as the master resource person and Dr Dinesh Hazarika, Senior Scientist of Regional Agricultural Research Station of Silagani,Nagaon participated as the resource person. Programme was coordinated by Jayanta Kr Sarma, coordinator of CSDC of SSEAEP. The activities and deliberation of the workshop covered theoretical briefing about material and methods of hydroponics, demonstration on different methods, film show on application of hydroponics, hands on practices on nutrient solution preparation, pot setting, medium management and plantation, along with group exercise on costing and pricing.
The workshop also highlighted the scope of application of hydroponics in flood affected areas of the state. Total 60 participants from different parts of Nagaon district participated in the programme including student of College of Education, Coordinator of Aryabhata Science Centre of different educational block of the district, individual teacher, farmers and unemployed youth.
Guwahati: Fani, neither the name of a lady nor a snake struck Odisha leaving a trail of devastation in the form of a storm and rains before it entered the north eastern region with relentless rains.
Originated in the Bay of Bengal at the coastal areas of Puri, it swept across Bangladesh leaving mile impact in the north east where incessant rains continue to wreak havoc in many parts of the region.
Guwahati, the capital city of Assam remained in a zone of darkness amid heavy downpour that disrupted electricity and Telecom network where the denizens are being trapped on Saturday.
Many roads and lands have been submerged by rainwaters forcing the people to remain confined to their...
PURI: As many as 250 pilgrims from Assam are said to have been remaining stranded in Odisha since the coastal state are hit by the ravaging Feni. According to official information received from Bhubneswar, most of the people were on a visit to Puri, the most visited Jagannath temple who are waiting to leave the state back.
“We came to the temple town 7 days back. Then the weather was very nice. Now we are worried. But the local authorities are helping. We are waiting to leave,” said Ashmita Deka from Guwahati over phone.
Jairaj Panda, a local resident in Puri said they have shifted to a safer place along with dozens of pilgrims they kept with them. “We kept the pilgrims much to their...
The Supreme Court has made it plain that Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi will hear the foreigners detention centres case. Dismissing a plea moved by lawyer Harsh Mander seeking recusal of CJI Gogoi on Thursday, a division bench of the top court comprising CJI Ranjan Gogoi Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna said that the institution won’t be allowed to damage. The court appointed Prashant Bhushan as amicus curiae in the case and asked Legal Service Authority to go on would come up on May 9. It further decided to look into the issues of living conditions and the long periods for which foreigners are detained in the centres. Mander, the social activist moved the petition saying...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court needs to reaffirm India’s constitutional and international obligations to rights on complex issues of nationality, detention and deportation and not be unmindful of its own commitment to these duties, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has urged.
The following is the text of the statement, issued today, and signed by a group of eminent citizens including former Supreme Court Justice Madan Lokur, Wajahat Habibullah, CHRI’s Chair and former Chief Information Commissioner, Justice AP Shah, former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, and a number of senior former officials and civil society leaders:
As concerned citizens, we look to the Supreme...
Guwahati: A wild confused wild jumbo wreaked no less havoc among the Guwahati denizens on Tuesday evening forcing the authorities to resort to tranquilizer.
The strayed animal which managed to enter into the city from the nearby hill areas was spotted in the busy GS Road forcing the people to flee.
Police and para military forces and forest guards took resort to tranquilizer to drive out the animal at 7 in the afternoon much to the respite of the people who were left unharmed.
Guwahati: Chennai based exert on Sri Lankan affairs, N Sathiya Moorthy will interact with Guwahati scribes tomorrow (Monday, 29 April) at 3 pm where he is expected to highlight the socio-political background of the island nation and also the implication of Colombo terror attacks for India as a whole.
A former journalist and presently a senior fellow & Chennai chapter director of Observer Research Foundation (www.orfonline.org), Sathiya Moorthy will be available to members of Guwahati Press Club through video-conferencing.
Sathiya Moorthy has developed expertise on Indian politics, elections, public affairs along with political affairs of Maldives and Sri Lanka. After writing...
Guwahati: Even after alliance with BJP, AGP founder president and former CM Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is targeting BJP president Amit Shah.
Mahanta, the 2 time CM is preparing to take Amit Shah to the Supreme Court for his recent announcement that Citizenship (Amendment) Bill would be enacted before completing NRC in the state.
Mahanta called it a case of contempt of court since NRC works are in progress at the instance of Supreme Court.
He would represent the family members of the Assam Agitation leaders who are least satisfied with Amit Shah's statement.
New Delhi: In a major setback for Tripura BJP, Niti Deb, the wife of chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb has moved a Delhi court with a divorce plea.
According to what she has alleged, Deb has alleged that she was the victim of domestic violence.
CNBC-TV18 reports suggested that Niti has moved the Tis Hazari court in Delhi and filed a divorce petition.
New Delhi: The BJP-led Assam government was left red faced in the Supreme Court when it apprised the top court of the move to free some of the detention camp inmates identified as immigrants 5 years back.
A division bench of the court presided over by CJI Ranjan Gogoi who took potshot at the government as it was hearing a petition alleging untold torture on the detention camp inmates.
Gogoi used a number of harsh words on Chief Secretary Alok Kumar and said he had no rights to continue his post. Then Kumar tendered apology before the court for making such proposal unheard of.
CJI further slammed the government for missing of 5 lakh identified illegal settlers and...
Guwahati: Finally state Congress has admitted the party's failure to make the Citizenship Bill in the Lok Sabha poll with full forces.
This was what former CM Tarun Gogoi said as he was addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Thursday.
Gogoi said they tried their best but it failed to reach the people in the grassroots level.
"We tried. But we could not concentrate only on it since many issues were on the store," said the former chief minister.
He further said that the pressure groups who organized the state wide protest could not help the issue reach the rural areas.
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