Local residents in large number in Elengmari area launching an operation in search of the children and women who were washed away on Thursday night.
Before that they did not allow the SDRF personnel to launch the search operation alleging inordinate delay.
The local youths recovered the ill fated vehicle which met with the mishap when it was carrying a marriage party on Wednesday night before slipping into the flood waters. Four people escaped the death while 8 others went missing. On Saturday 5 bodies were fished out. The search is going on for the remaining bodies, mostly, the children.
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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