The city based media persons are suffering from various pain related ailments relating to their neck, shoulder and backs. It was found during a daylong physiotherapy camp, which was organized at Guwahati Press Club on 12 September 2015.
Organized by the College of Physiotherapy and Medical Sciences Rehabilitation & Research Centre, Bamunimaidam (a unit of Purbanchal Educational Welfare Society), the camp covered more than 50 scribes who were offered on spot treatment and consultancies.
Attended by physicians Dr Trailokya Saikia & Dr NN Sarma with physiotherapists Dr Ujwal Bhattacharya, Dr Abhijit Kalita, Dr Pooja Saikia and Dr Kritika Boruah, the camp also helped the scribes to check their blood sugar and blood pressure levels.
Other medical team members included Ms Mileng Suile Jeme, Bhupali Bhattacharya, Arundhati Sengupta with Jerryfer J Warjai, Esther Vanrammawii and Ilawansuk Ristam.
Flood and erosion, mega dam deadlock and Doubtful voters’ were among the crucial issues that came up for discussion in the cabinet meeting prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh convened at the Raj Bhawan in the afternoon on Friday. The prime minister asked the cabinet to proceed with the mega dam deal despite the storm of protest. After attending the cabinet meeting, Dr Singh left for New Delhi.
Steadfast in its commitment to safeguard the health of its citizens from the menace of chewing tobacco products, the Government of Madhya Pradesh from April 1, 2012 onwards has banned the sale and manufacture of products like Gutka, Khaini...
ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) a trained female community health activist selected for every village with a population of 1000 is one of the key strategies under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). ASHA selected from the village itself remains accountable to the local community. ASHA’s are required to undergone a total period of 23 days training in five episodes to work as an interface between the community and the public health system. However, it is clarified that ASHA training is a continuous one and that she will be developed the necessary skills...
Security forces found a powerful Improvised Explosive Device from railway tracks in Chirang district on the eve of ULFA’s 12-hour Assam Bandh call.
Weighing 3 kgs, two detonators and some fused wire were recovered at Maneswari near Bijni railway station during routine patrolling by a joint team of the police and army personnel.
The security forces have cordoned off the area and the IED defused. Train services have been temporarily halted in the section as security personnel launched a massive combing operation in the area to detect whether any more explosives have been planted or not.
Meanwhile, security along the railway tracks have been tightened with several trains...
Chief justice with Punjab and Haryana high court Ranjan Gogoi is set to be sworn in as Supreme Court Judge on Friday.
The high court has already received warrants regarding elevation of justice Gogoi as the apex court judge. The decks were cleared after the Supreme Court collegiums approved Justice Gogoi's name last month. Hailing from Dibrugarh district, Gogoi, the son of former chief minister Keshab Gogoi, started legal practice in 1978 in Guwahati high court and was appointed as permanent judge of that court in February 2001.
He was transferred to Punjab and Haryana high court on September 9, 2010, and later elevated as chief justice on February 12 last year after the post fell...
The heavy presence of security forces seems to have failed to bail out Guwahati from the criminals who continue to unleash terror in the city.
A businessman sustained bullet injury when armed miscreants sprang upon him to loot money near Dispur on Wednesday night.
The incident took place at 10 at night at Hatigaon when businessman Vikram Chaurasia and his son were on their residence from Ganesguri. The shoot out took place when the miscreants looted money from him.
Later police officials arrived in the scene but the miscreants managed to disappear from the spot. Police called it an incident to dacoity.
A rhino calf continues to unleashe panic in Sarbhog on Thursday leaving at least ten persons injured during the last 24 hours.
Angry local residents gheraoed the nearest police station, alleging inaction to push back the rhino who has already injured a few forest guards. The
calf recently got separated from its mother, strayed out of Manas National Park and stormed in to human habitations.
Forest authorities said that efforts were on to chase the rhino from areas of human habitation into the forest. A section of local residents on Thursday came to see the rhino swimming in the nearby Beki river.
One person died and several others have been injured when a hailstorm lashed Sonari in Sivasagar district on Thursday.
It was at in the wee hours on Thursday when severe hailstorm ravaged a huge area of Charideo subdivision when hundreds of houses collapsed. The deceased was identified as Kunda Singh who was killed when his house collapsed on him when he was in deep sleep.
Surface communication has been totally disrupted when hundreds of trees and electric posts fell on the roads. The injured people have been rushed to the hospital.
One person died and several others have been injured when a hailstorm lashed Sonari in Sivasagar district on Thursday.
It was at in the wee hours on Thursday when severe hailstorm ravaged a huge area of Charideo subdivision when hundreds of houses collapsed. The deceased was identified as Kunda Singh who was killed when his house collapsed on him when he was in deep sleep.
Surface communication has been totally disrupted when hundreds of trees and electric posts fell on the roads. The injured people have been rushed to the hospital.
The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the government and chairperson of the 59th National Film Awards on a plea seeking quashing the decision of the jury for not accepting the nomination of an Assamese film for the awards.
The court issued notice to the information and broadcasting ministry and Rohini Hattangadi, chairperson and jury, Hiren Bora, jury of the 59th National Film Awards, and the Central Board of Film Certification.
A division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw sought from all the respondents the reason for not treating the film as an Assamese film.
The petitioner said that inspite of the certification received from the CBFC to...
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