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..
A full scale combing operation is going on in the trouble torn BTAD areas after 36 people lost their lives in a string of attacks on the religious people.But there is no report of any notable success.Army, police and para military forces have cordoned off a huge area in worst-hit Salbari, Gossaigaon, Kokrajhar and Narayanpuri areas in search of the miscreants who have been mongering trouble for the last couple of days.Indo-Bhutan border has been sealed to restrict the movement of the NDFB-S militants apart from the round-the-clock vigil along the Kokrajhar-Dhubri inter district border. A parallel operation is also in progress to seize the illegal arms in the entire BTAD areas....
In a bizarre incident, local residents in an interior area in Dhubri district lynched a miscreant on its way to attack a political leader.The incident took place at Patakata in South Samara sub division on Monday morning where local residents caught three armed youths as they were trying to attack a local leader.One of the armed youths died on the spot while two others, who are in police custody, have been battling for life in the hospital.
A four member is on a stock-taking visit to the BTAD areas on Monday.Consisting of top ranked officials of the investigation agency, the team is set to tour the entire trouble torn spots in BTAD areas to assess the ground situation.The agency would broaden the ambit of the probe in the later stage. After collecting the initial inputs from the civil and army officials deployed in the BTAD areas, the NIA officials would leave back for New Delhi.NIA on Friday agreed to probe the cases of BTAD violence after the chief minister recommended the probe./
Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said on Monday that the move for allowing arms to the villagers in the name of self defence would result in a disaster.Talking to reporters in New Delhi, the former Union finance minister said that infusion of arms among the villagers would create nothing but civil war.He further said that the government has been failing to firmly deal with the situation and that’s why, it is a move to surrender before the trouble mongers by allowing arms among the villagers.
The Assam Government will not allow any arms for the BTAD villagers. This was what chief minister Tarun Gogoi told reporters in Dispur on Monday.Talking to reporter, Gogoi said that he has already rejected a proposal he received on Sunday for allowing arms to villagers in BTAD areas to face the miscreants.Forest minister who has been closely monitoring the situation proposed arms among the villagers in some BTAD areas for self defence. /
Caught in a barrage of criticism, Chief minister on Monday ordered a judicial probe into the BTAD violence.Gogoi has asked Chief Secretary JS Khosla to proceed for setting up a commission of a judge to probe the allegations of lapses resulting in the violence where 36 people were killed in three days.According to Gogoi, NIA would indict the culprits while the judicial commission will study the allegations of inaction and lapses.
Its confirm. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi will visit the BTAD areas on Wednesday.Disclosing this Chief Minister’s Office told Assam Tines that Gogoi would be on a day long visit to the trouble torn areas on Wednesday.During his stock-taking visit, the Chief Minister is scheduled to visit the refugee camps.Apart from it, Gogoi would review the overall law and order situation in the violence-hit areas with senior police, army and para military officials. /
Repeated rhino poaching incidents seem to have riddled the Kaziranga National Park. Despite round-the-clock vigil, poachers have killed yet another rhino on Sunday.The incident took place at Bordolini under Bagori range where the forest guards spotted the carcass of a hornless female rhino on Monday morning.With this, the world heritage site has lost 18 rhinos during this this year. In May alone, the poachers have killed 2 rhinos for horns.
Simmering tension refuses to die down along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border in Sonitpur district. The epicenter is again the Chauldhuwa area in Bihali.A group of IRBN personnel from the neighbouring state disallowed a team of Assam forest officials to set up a camp in Chauldhuwa even within the territory of Assam.This could again lead to yet another incident of attack on Assamese people by the Arunachalese miscreants.
In a stepped up counter insurgency operation, security forces claimed to have killed a hardcore NDFB-S militant at an encounter in Udalguri district on Sunday.The encounter took place at Bhoiraguri with police and army where the hardcore militant was killed on the spot.Before that on Sunday morning three dreaded NDFD-S militants were killed in a four hour long fierce gun battle in Sonitpur district bordering Arunachal Pradesh.
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