In a move that fetches joy for Assam and its people, a top ranked ONGC officer from Assam will head the Oil India Limited.
He is none other than Utpal Borah who is all set to sit in the helm of affairs of the oil public sector unit.
Borah, now Executive Director (Asset Manager) ONGC, who has been finalized for the post of OIL chairman cum managing director is expected to join within this month.
OIL has been running functioning without a full-time CMD since July 1 last year.
Public sector top management personnel recruiter Public Enterprises Selection Board last year conducted two interviews to select its head where Rupshikha Saikia Borah was selected. But the Prime Minister’s Office rejected the selection. The MoPNG search committee shortlisted 15 candidates for the interview. These 15 include three Baruah and Anil Kumar Jain, Pramod Kumar Sharma, Rahul Dasgupta, Utpal Borah, PK Rao, Dr Ashutosh Karnataka, Saumendra Kumar Baruah, Dr Sunil Y Bharati and Bedanta Sarmah, Robin Deka, SB Buragohain.
Governor JB Patnaik approved Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's recommendation to drop Ardhendu Dey and Siddeque Ahmed from the council of ministers. Patnaik further cleared Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma’s resignation acting on Gogoi’s recommendation.
Caught in a grim crisis, chief minister Tarun Gogoi gets more tougher with the dissident ministers. Gogoi on Tuesday dropped ministers Siddique Ahmed and Ardhendu Dey a day after dissident leader Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma put in his papers as education and health minister. The chief minister dropped the duo from his council of ministers for publicly taking on him and supporting dissident activities. This may follow action against the duo from the party high command.
Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma’s resignation has been accepted. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi has suggested Governor JB Patnaik to accept the health and education minister’s resignation leter he submitted on Monday. Dr Sarma on Monday put in his papers saying that he was not physically and mentally prepared to work under Tarun Gogoi as chief minister. After the receipt of the letter, Gogoi sent the letter to the party high command seeking final seal of approval.
Normalcy is back to Rangapara town a day after the Sonitpur administration imposed curfew following a clash between police and protestor. Talking to Assam Times, district administration officials said that curfew has been lifted from 10 in the morning on Tuesday. The district administration was maintaining a strict vigil to prevent any further incidents. Indefinite curfew was clamped after police lathicharged protesters, who were holding a road blockade demanding improvement in communication facilities to the place. The agitators, comprising 25 organisations were protesting alleging pathetic condition of the Misamari-Balipara road.
Japanese Encephalitis continues to wreak havoc in the state where the death toll has gone up to 52. Barpeta district remains worst affected after the death toll has gone up to eight apart from the rise in then number of confirmed positive cases which stands at 54. Barpeta is followed by the rural Kamrup district with 34 cases. Four patients died. Darrang, Sivasagar and Nalbari have all registered six deaths. Nalbari has recorded 20 confirmed positive cases while Kamrup (metro) district has recorded 31 positive cases but no deaths so far. The total number of positive cases registered in the state is 323. This is for the first time that lower Assam has recorded so many...
Normal life in Dima Hasao district comes to a grinding halt from Tuesday after 48 hour came into force in the morning. Schools and colleges, shops and markets, banks and offices, mostly, are remaining closed under the impact of the bandh called by the NC Hills Indigenous Students’ Forum and the NC Hills Women Forum. The two organizations have given the band call demanding bifurcation of NC Hills into two autonomous districts, payment of seven months’ pending salary to the council employees, implementation of all the minority development schemes and speedy investigation into the Rs 1,000 crore scam. Talking to Assam Times, the leaders of the organizations alleged that the name of the...
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi is preparing to accept Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma’s resignation a day after the education and health minister quitted the cabinet. Reliable sources told Assam Times that the chief minister has sent the copy of Dr Sarma’s resignation letter to AICC conveying his decision to accept it. Dr Sarma put in his papers on Monday saying that he was not prepared to work under Tarun Gogoi as chief minister.
The dissident ministers and MLAs are running the risk of stern action from the party high command. State Congress committee on Monday has urged the AICC to take stern action against outgoing education and health minister alleging anti party activities. APCC along with 13 ministers have jointly urged the party leadership to take action against the dissident MLAs and ministers who accompanied Dr Sarma in his journey to the Raj Bhawan. The Gogoi camp finalized their strategies after they met at the residence of social welfare minister Akon Bora.
AICC on Monday downplayed Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma’s resignation saying that it would have hardly any impact on the ruling party. Hours after Dr Sarma put in his papers as health and education minister, AICC spokesman Manish Tewari said that the developments would do any harm for the party. Tiwary said that there was nothing really to be worried about it ad that everything got sorted out amicably.
Finally Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma put in his papers as health and education minister on Monday. Dr Sarma, who has been spearheading the dissidence drama in Dispur shot off his letter to chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday morning. Talking to reporters after he sent his resignation, Dr Sarma said "I have decided not to compromise with my conscience any more. Mentally, physically & politically it is not advisable to be in Gogoi government," Sarma said. He said,"We do not want to defy Congress President Sonia Gandhi. We are going to play the role of constructive opposition in Assam now," he said. Monday - a new week,new challenge,new hope and a better assam — Himanta Biswa...
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