The 5th Jeevan Kite & River Festival kicks off with the theme "Brahmaputra Campaign" from January 1, 2016. This campaign is an effort to connect the urban generation with the river. The event will continue till January 7 at Rajaduwar Ghat, near Sukreswar Park, Guwahati. Kite flying, adventure sports, cultural shows are some attractions of the event.
The Kamrup (Metro) district administration in association with Guwahati Press Club organized an awareness program on Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail with Electronic Voting Machine for the benefit of scribes. Addressing the media persons on Wednesday at press club auditorium, the district election officer (also Kamrup-M district magistrate) M Angamathu informed that the VVAT EVM facility would be available for the electorate belonged to all four Assembly constituencies of Guwahati. Answering queries from the scribes, Angamathu also revealed that he had received a formal request from the city based media fraternity, who are non-native to the city, for providing the facility of postal...
A health and weight management program, organized by 4 Seasons Wellness Centre, attracted many media persons to analysis their BMI, BMR, SF, Organ Fats, Biological Age etc parameters. Held at Guwahati Press Club on Wednesday, the health camp also helped the participants to get free consultations. The camp was conducted by wellness & fitness coach Chumi Thakuria, Manabjyoti Das and Bandana Pathak.
Sammasati, a 3-days Osho Meditation Camp will be held in Guwahati on April 21-24. The proramme will be facilitated by Swami Anand Tathagat ta Simanta Sankardev Kalakshetra, Guwahati. For details, please contact: Swami Anand Bhairav-9864148024 Swami Ravi Batra-9435010985 Swami Dhyan Nirav- 9435731074.
Launching massive poll campaigns in eastern Assam for the State Legislative Assembly elections scheduled for 4 and 11 April next, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday chanted the slogan ‘A for Assam’. “Assam was one of five advanced States in the country during the time of independence, but today the natural resource rich State is identified as one of the five backward provinces in India,” said PM Modi, while addressing a massive poll rally at Tinsukia in the morning hours. Starting his speech in Assamese, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrity campaigner elaborated that Assam is full of natural resources including plentiful of water. He assured that once the State gets a young...
Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE) Guwahati and Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce (FICCI) jointly organized an Interactive session with a 35 members delegation from Royal Institute for Governance and Strategic Studies (RIGSS), Bhutan on 23rd March, 2016 at IIE Auditorium. The meet was a platform for sharing of possible scope and opportunities for mutual benefits for both the countries in trade and commerce, particularly with emphasis on NER, the immediate neighbor of Bhutan. A welcome remark was given by Manoj K Das, Director, IIE. He mentioned that Bhutan has a higher Per Capita Income and more happiness than India. NER and Bhutan coexisted since time immemorial. This...
Eminent Kannada writer Professor Santeshivara Lingannaiah Bhyrappa, who is widely regarded as one of modern India's foremost novelists, will attend the ‘Guest of the Month’ program of Guwahati Press Club [GPC] on 28 March 2016. The interactive session with the Saraswati Sanman awardee is scheduled to start at GPC auditorium by 3 pm. Padma Shri Prof Bhyrappa, who is coming to Guwahati to receive the Mamoni Raisom Goswami National Literature Award 2016, constituted by Asom Sahitya Sabha, will also be felicitated by the GPC. Member journalists of the press club are requested to participate in the program.
Dear Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Regarding the Indo-Naga Peace Talks, the effort to end the war for between India and Nagaland, the Naga International Support Center, NISC, just sent an open letter to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This letter deals with the legitimacy of that Kingdom, then Great Britain, of transferring all of Nagaland to India and then Burma. In that letter we requested the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to show the Naga Peoples with conclusive evidence that indeed the British Government transferred all of Nagaland to the Union of India and to what was then Burma. We asked that because we know that around 65% to 75% of all Naga lands were never...
A video compact disk tiled Tomake Napale Jaan Oi comprising new Assamese songs by popular singer Debojit Saha was released on Sunday at Guwahati Press Club. Legendary singer Sudakshina Sarma, national award winning filmmaker Manju Bora, academician Usharanjan Bhattacharya, writer Dilip Bora, journalists Nava Thakuria and Gautam Sarma graced the occasion and appreciated the SaReGaMaPa Challenge 2005 winner for coming out with the CD on the even of Rongali Bihu. Produced by DS production, the CD has its music by Tarun Tanmoy and choreograph by Uday Shankar where the cast include Debojit and Pallavi. All the speakers termed Debojit as a cultural link between the Brahmaputra and the Barak...
The United Liberation Front of Asom(I) reiterates its pledge to get back a sovereign land of historic truth where natural and organic resources will matter. In a joint address to their fellow rebels on Wednesday on the occasion of the Army Day, the outfit's chairman Abhijit Asom and Commander in Chief Paresh Baruah said that they have no place for arrogance. Here is the full text of speech. __________________________________________ 16-03-2016 Joint Speech by Supreme Commander & Chief of Staff On the Occasion of Army Day 2016 [Translated version of the original statement in Assamese] Our dear freedom fighters of Assam, Please accept our hearty congratulations on observance of this...
Dhenkulus is composed and sung by Rupam Bhuyan and Tridip Basumatary, Guitar by Sumit Baruah, Drums by Biraj Baishya, Bass by Chandanjyoti Hazarika, Percussions by Bidyut Bordoloi, keys and overall design by Rakesh Baro. This beautiful song portrays a woman named Jomuna who is betrayed in love by a rich man and her strength to give birth to the child of that man without marrying him.
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