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.
The city based Wintrobe Hospital will conduct the next ‘Evening with a Doctor’ program at Guwahati Press Club on 19 November 2016. Dr Nitin Gupta (Urology) from the centre for advanced urology & kidney diseases will be available for free consultations to the GPC members along with their close relatives from 4 pm to 6 pm. Earlier Dispur Hospitals conducted the last Saturday evening clinic at press club, where Dr Raj Dutta (Medicine) from the well-known private healthcare institution offered free consultation to over 25 participants. Staff-nurse Puja Missong and Pratima Lahkar assisted the physician in the clinic on 12 November, where the participants also got their blood pressure...
Federation of Industry & Commerce of North Eastern Region (FINER) welcomes and support the move of withdrawing the Legal tender status of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000, by the government on. Hailing this demonetization move, FINER cautioned that the necessary follow – up has to be done by the Centre so that there are no lapses in the exercise that aims to curb black money¸ corruption and counterfeit currency, and the benefits outstrip collateral damages which is bound to happen in a decision of this magnitude. Small time traders, mostly in the unorganized sector have been hit by the move, but this is a temporary phase. It is a bold step by the centre but the follow up has to be done.
Former Assam Governor (Red Lt Gen) SK Sinha passed at a hospital in New Delhi on Thursday. The end came at the Tata Referral Hospital at 1 in the afternoon where he was undergoing treatment for a couple of weeks. Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal condoled Sinha’s death. In a statement, he said that the state has lost a true friend. Sonowal said that Sinha always stood by the people of Assam even after his departure from the state. He was Governor of Assam from 1997 to 2003.
A two-day 'State Level Conclave with Student Organizations on 'Youth and Social Development' began from November 12 in Guwahati. Organized by the Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (ASCPCR) in partnership with UNICEF Assam, the event efforted to familiarize student organizations with critical aspects of development priorities of the state like health, hygiene, nutrition, education and child protection in alignment with child rights and conclude with a Call to Action for them. The aim is to sensitize the youth of Assam and infuse in them essence of responsibility of being agents of change by creating awareness in the society on issues related to holistic social development...
Noted journalist Arnab Goswami Sunday said that it is important for legislators to put people first in their agenda. “We are all here because of the people. People should come first whether it is in politics or media,” said Goswami while addressing legislators on the topic: “Legislators and Relationship with Media” during the third phase of Sabal Bidhayak, a series of orientation programmes initiated by the Assam Assembly. The series that will continue on select days until January 2017 next year have been designed and coordinated by Guwahati based think-tank Centre for Development and Peace Studies.Describing the quality of journalism Goswami said that Indian journalism is stronger than...
Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expressed shock over the killing of one more scribe in Bihar on 12 November 2016. The unidentified criminals shot dead Dharmendra Kumar Singh, who was associated with Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar, at Amra Talaab locality of Sasaram in Rohtash district. Singh, 38, was at a tea stall outside his residence during the morning hours, when three motor cycle-borne criminals fired at him indiscriminately. He was brought to the hospital, but Singh succumbed to his injuries on the way. Local journalists suspect that the stone-crusher mafia was involved in the killing as Singh used to expose their illegal activities. The Indian robust media fraternity thus lost sixth...
Journalist Anuradha Sengupta recently interviewed Human Rights Activist Irom Sharmila who ended her almost sixteen-year-long fast in August. In the candid conversation, Irom talked about her struggles and acknowledged the fact that since her unique way of protesting for getting the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act repealed from Manipur did not fetch her the desired results, she decided to enter electoral politics. In her first full-length TV interview, Irom also talked about the hardships faced by Manipur residents and her future strategy to achieve what she has been aiming for nearly two decades.
A Swachch Abhijan drive was carried out at Banglabari Ashurline along the Banglabari Tea Estate today in Kokrajhar district. Over 200 villagers from grater Banglabari area participated the swachch abhijan to clean the village road, which was organized by Injot self help group in association with NERSWN NGO, Kokrajhar. The drive clean out all link roads along the Ashurline,Banglabari colony, Bhowmik basti which covered nearly 20 kms of the area. Local villagers appreciated the initiatives taken away by NGO in the area. 'The cleanliness drive has been taking up to make dirty free among the society', said an NERSWN NGO activist.
All banks across Assam along with the other parts of the country are heavily busy with responding to the customers who have been making long queue to change the Rs 500 and Rs 1000 demoninatios following the RBI directives. Customers thronged in thousands in the bank premises from early in the morning to get their demonitions changed from Thursday. In many places the bank officials found it difficult to function normally in the face of the irate customers who clashed with each other. “We are busy with the task of changing the demonitions. We have to complete it within a next couple of days. But we find it difficult. A section of the customers lacks patience and have clashed with each other...
The city based ARH Diabetes Centre, a branch of Chennai based Dr A Ramachandran’s Diabetes Hospitals, has organized a free diabetes screening & awareness camp for the member-journalists of Guwahati Press Club (GPC) on 14 November 2016. Organized on the occasion of World Diabetes Day at press club premises, the camp will facilitate the participants various investigations like sugar test, lipid testing, blood pressure, BMI, diabetes screening, nerve testing and diet counseling. The participants are requested to arrive at press club at 9 am on Monday with empty stomach. Otherwise, they can go for random sugar test and other experiments, informed Dr Rupam Choudhury of ARH Diabetes Centre...
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