It was a homely meeting organized at Guwahati Press Club that witnessed the release of a travel fiction titled Ontarior Seuj Dalisat (Over Green Carpet of Ontario) and penned by Dr Jagadindra Raychoudhury in presence of several senior journalists. Inaugurating the book, Swapnaneel Barua, a scholar and also a senior bureaucrat of Assam, pointed out that the writer not only documented various events related to his visit to Canada, but also painted a humanist reminiscence with his created characters.
The function, held on 1 July 2015, was also addressed by senior journalists like Hiten Mahanta, Rupam Barua, PJ Barua, Mukul Kalita, Ranen Kumar Goswami, Nava Thakuria and Pramod Kalita. Moderated by journalist Sabita Lahkar, the meeting was graced by acclaimed story writer Jyotish Sikder, professors Anup Talukder & Nirmali Medhi, singers Anindita Choudhury & Kishor Giri and Bitopan & Sneha. A prolific writer, Dr Raychoudhury is an associate professor of B Barua College, Guwahati and contributor to various Assam based newspapers and magazines. A smiling personality Dr Raychoudhury is also a regular participant in various radio programs and television talk shows. Published by Basundhara publication of Hatigaon in Guwahati, the book has 192 pages with a nice cover designed by prominent artist Padma Singha. It is priced at Rs 250/- per copy.
PermalinkSubmitted by Bitopan Ray Cho... on Thu, 02/07/2015 - 20:32
we know or have read many travel related books but "Ontario'r heuj dolisat" is not only a travel experience but is a travel fiction..A great experience as you keep on reading this book and gain new knowledge & issues..we expect many new books from him and wish him success..
In a bizarre incident a South Korean national has gone missing in Golaghat district on Sunday.
Identified as IM King Bum, he has gone missing from Lotabari area in Bokakhat. He remains clueless immeditely after he got down from the Guwahati bound bus from Dimapur on Sunday midnight.
He was on his way to Shillong from Dimapur via Guwahati. Search operation is underway in Bokakhat from where he went missing. Details are awaited.
Massive water logging in many parts of Guwahati paralyzes norml life in the city on Monday.
Many roads and by lanes in the city have been submerged in waters following a downpur in the wee hours which lashed the city for nearly one hours.
The worst-hit areas include Chandmari, Anil Nagar, Zoo Road, Nabin Nagar, Lachit Nagar where rain waters wreaked no less havoc in the morning.
Parts of the Guwahati-Shillong Road also came under the rainwaters on Monday morning causing much inconvniance for the people in this premier north eastern city.
The massive waterlogging is resulting in the traffic snarl in the RG Baruah Road, GS Road where normal life remains disrupted. ...
Narendra Modi is believed to have inducted an Assam MP in his cabinet would are expected to take oath on Monday.
According to sources, state BJP president Sarbananda Sonowal has been inducted in the new council of ministers.
Sonowal, who ensured a huge successin in Assam apaprt from defeating Union minister Ranee Narah from Lakhimpur in the recent Lok Sabha polls are set to get a crucial portolio in the new council of ministers.
Meanwhile, all state BJP top leaders along with the newly elected MPs have been camping in the capital to attend the swearing in ceremony.
Chief miniser Tarun Gogoi is scheduled to attend Narendra Modi’s swearing in ceremony in New Delhi on Monday.
Gogoi will be among several other top Congress leaders and chief minister to attend the ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi are alsoscheuled to attend the ceremony where President Pranab Mukherjee will administer oath to Modi as prime minister along with around 50 other ministers.
In yet another setback for the state’s aviation sector, the Indian Airlines will pull out of Tezpur and Jorhat within a few days.
According to sources, a team of the country’s premier domestic career has decided to stop its operation in Lakhimpur after the receipt of the assessment report prepared by a special team. The assessment of the Jorhat and Tezpur operations are underway to pave the way for the closure in Jorhat and Tezpur.
If it takes place, it will further result in the infrastructure bottleneck in the state where yawning communication gap has been a matter of concern.
The dissident Congress leaders skipped their visit to the governor after the AICC announced CLP meet by May 28 to sort out the difference.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi was believed to have told Sarat Borotoky that AICC would depute Motlal Vora to attend the CLP meet forcing them to halt for a few days.
Top AICC sources told Assam Times that Vora, Congress treasurer has yet to schedule his much-hyped fence-mending visit to Guwahati. It has become clear that the CLP meet is unlikley by May 31.
In a move that signalls a temporary ceasefire, a group of dissident ministers and MLAs is on a visit to Bihar. Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma, the front face of the dissident group is leading the 10...
Amid the height of dissidence, the ministers and MLAs camping in New Delhi to lobby for Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi have left the capital on Sunday.
The senior ministers including Rockybul Hussain, Pradyut Bodoloi, Nilomoni Sen Deka left the national capital after Gogoi asked them to go back to Guwahati.
Gogoi in a statement which is available to Assam Times made it clear that he had not invited anybody to New Delhi to lobby on his behalf.
The stages are set. The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council is all set to announce the results of the HS examinations on May 30.
The council told Assam Times that the results of the examination conducted in February and March thus year would be available for the 2,60,000 candidates acorss the state at 10 in the morning.
The results for arts, science and commerce streams would be available on www.ahsec.org from 10 in the morning. This is apart from the result booklets to be available for the schools and colleges in the district and sub divisional headquarters.
Notbly, the Board of Secondary Education, Assam will annunce the results of HSLC examinations on Wednesday...
Racial discrimination towards the north east people refuses to die down in New Delhi where the students from the region have been bearing the brunt.
In yet another case of racial discrimination in the capital, goons in New Delhi assaulted a Nagaland student at a court premises. The incident took place on Friday evening when the Naga student moved the Tis Hazari Court in protest against an incident on Thursday where a Naga girl was beaten up by the goons at a metro station in the capital. The North East Students association in New Delhi will chalk out a series of agitation to protest the recurrence of the incidents.
A sensational revelation seems to have generated no less heat within the Assam Congress these days. That too in the time of deepening dissidence within the Congress legislative body.
Trouble seems to have brewed for a former Union minister who is believed to have been harbouring dissident activities in the state. The former union minister is one among the twenty political leaders who are accused of holding account in foreign bank.
His name figures in a list submitted before the Supreme Court by senior leader Ram Jethmalani who charged him with stashing Rs 3,025 crores in foreign country.
The development assumes significance at a time when dissidence has paralyzed the Tarun Gogoi cabinet...
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