The mortal remains of Anjan Dutta were consigned to flames on Friday a day after the APCC president died of cardiac arrest in New Delhi. After last respect to the lifeless former minister in Guwahati and Sivasagar, Dutta’s body was taken to Gaurisagar where he was cremated with full state honour in the afternoon. Former Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and forest minister Pramila Rani Brahma, MP Ripun Bora were prominent among those who were present at the cremation ground. Before that thousands of bereaved Congress men received Dutta’s body at the Jorhat Airport in the morning and was taken to Sivasagar to facilitate his fans to pay their last respect in Sivasagar town and his birth place Gayan gaon.
Dutta died of cardiac ailment on Thursday morning at the All India Institute of Medical Science a couple of weeks after he was rushed to it. The party in rank and file have condoled his death and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family members.
Punjab National Bank (PNB) in a credit disbursement camp held recently at NIRD, Guwahati, disbursed loan amounts up to rupees 51.20 crore to 408 customers. These loans were given for self employment activities under Mudra, Stand Up India & other MSME schemes, where the entrepreneurs from different parts of Northeast attended the camp. “PNB will focus on collateral free loans to small entrepreneurs to create self employment in a big way,” said Ved Mathur, general manager of PNB adding that the bank sanctioned rupees 2628 crore loans on pan India basis to 365000 customers under Mudra and rupees 735 crore loans to 3400 borrowers under Stand Up India Scheme. Speaking on this occasion, PNB...
Physicians from the city based Hayat Hospital conducted the Saturday evening OPD at Guwahati Press Club (GPC) on 7 January. Dr Anjan Saikia (Gastroenterology), Dr Daboo Patowari (Internal Medicine) and Dr Abhisek Lohia (Dermatology) offered free consultations after checking their blood pressure & sugar. Over 35 participants joined in the evening clinic. Hayat Hospital has also announced various concessions in treatment for press club members along with their families. Paragjyoti Dutta, assistant general manager of the hospital informed that they would get special discount on OPD/Doctor Consultation Charges (100%), Room Rent (25%), Lab Investigation (20%), CT/USG/X-Ray (20%), MRI/MR...
Congress leader and Kaliabor MP Gaurav Gogoi thrashed NDA Government at the Centre for allowing the common people to suffer because of the demonetisation policy. Participating at an anti demonetization protest meeting at Digholipukhuri area in Guwahati, Gogoi said that a section of BJP leaders managed to know the sudden demonitization policy and got the instruction to purchase land. He demanded justice for the people who died due to demonetization policy. Before that the party leaders and activists took out a huge rally in protest against the policy where the common people have been bearing the brunt. APCC president Ripun Bora along with many senior party leaders were present in the...
Good news for Assam on sport’s front. Akankhya Deka from Guwahati fetched huge pride and glory struck silver medal in the ongoing national table tennis in New Delhi. Deka, the student of a private school put up a wonderful performance in the tournament.
Meghalaya police have finally nabbed MLA Julius Dorphang on Guwahati on Saturday who was wanted in connection with a sex racket. The independent legislator was arrested from a building in Guwahati city with the help of Guwahati police whom the Meghalaya counterpart requested for help to nab the MLA to be charged with running a sex racket in Shillong. Immediately after the arrest, he was brought to Shillong where a team of senior police officials has been interrogating him. A local court in Shillong on January 4 issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Dorphang forcing police to intensify the operation. His involvement came to light after the employee of a guest house was caught...
Professor Gangmumei Kamei, a member in North Eastern Council (NEC) passed away on Friday at the age 77 years in Imphal. His demise was condoled in a meeting held at the Shillong based NEC Secretariat. Born in the Manipur capital city on 21 October 1939, Prof Kamei was associated with several socio-cultural organizations in the country. He was a member of the advisory committee of the Anthropological Survey of India (1984-87). Prof Kamei was awarded the platinum jubilee honour by Manipuri Sahitya Parishad in 2010 for his contribution to the history & tribal culture. He was also honoured with National Fellowship by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (2010-2012). The former...
The next evening OPD at Guwahati Press Club (GPC) will be conducted by physicians from Hayat Hospital of Guwahati. The 7 January camp will be attended by Dr Anjan Saikia of the department of Gaestroantology, Dr Dabu Patowary (Medicine), and Dr Abhishekh Lohia (Dermatology), organizers informed here on Tuesday. The participants will get the facility to check their random blood sugar, HBA1C, ECG, blood pressure along with necessary consultations, informed Ayas Chakrabarty, general manager of the city-based private hospital. The Saturday camp will start at 4 pm and continue till 6pm. Till date, practicing physicians from Dispur Hospitals, Down Town Hospitals, GNRC Group of Hospitals, Narayana...
The Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) will keep mounting pressure on the government on every passing day demanding full autonomy, dual citizenship and innerline permit system. In a press statement issued in Guwahati on Friday, AJYCP president Biraj Kumar Talukdar said they would be more aggressive this year to ensure that the demands are properly discussed both in Delhi and Dispur to act accordingly. “Never will we budge an inch from our decade old demands under any circumstances. We have fought in 2016 outlining the three demands and we would not halt in 2017 and instead we will intensify the struggle to mount more pressure on Dispur and Delhi.” Strongly advocating full...
Indo Nissin and Manchester United is going to train school children between the ages of 13-17 years by Manchester United Soccer Schools coaches in India. There will be six selection camps across India including Guwahati. Five children from Guwahati would be selected for the finals at Bangalore. 30 finalists will be undergoing training under Manchester United Soccer Schools coaches. The Guwahati selection programme will be held at North-East Frontier Railway Stadium, Maligaon on January 14. Interested participants may register online at http://soccerschool.lehlehsports.com.
Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses shock at the murder of a Bihar based journalist and the mysterious death of a Jharkhand based scribe within 24 hours. The Assam based media rights body reiterated its old demand for a national action plan to safeguard the media persons and ensure justice to the media victims. Local media reports confirm that a working journalist (Brajesh Kumar Singh, 28) was shot dead at Salakhni village under Samastipur district of north Bihar on 3 January evening by some unidentified goons. Brajesh, who received serious injuries on his head, died on the spot. Earlier on 2 January, another young journalist of Hazaribag in Jharkhand (Hari Prakash, 31) was found dead...
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