Luitpar Club in Narengi Campus of Oil India Limited recently organized a unique initiative for encouraging reading habit among the residents, primarily the young people in the colony. The club supplied various books in Assamese, English, Hindi and Bengali language to the households under Rasaraj Lakshminath Bezbaruah mobile library.
The program was launched by journalist Nava Thakuria on 21 July in presence of Luitpar Club president, its secretary Narayan Majumder, senior members including Padmeswar Kalita, Haren Sarma, Jadav Kalita, Tapas Bhattacharya, Hira Rajbongshi etc.
NEW DELHI: A soon to be convened tripartite talks over the Assam Accord is expected to clear the citizenship controversy. This was what the impression of Dr Samujjal Bhattacharya after the AASU adviser along with Dipankar Nath and Lurinjyoti Gogoi called on Union home minister Rajnath Singh in the capital on Thursday. The three member AASU delegation has warned Singh that they were not prepared to compromise the implementation of the Assam Accord and the cut off date for detecting and deporting the Bangladeshi immigrants. The AASU team told the reporters here that they have made it plain before the home minister that they won't allow the Centre to proceed with the Citizenship (Amendment...
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Rajnath Singh said no Indian living in Assam would be left out in the updated NRC in Assam. Replying to Saugata Roy of Trinamool Congress in Parliament on Thursday, Singh said process is on to update NRC in the north eastern state under the direct supervision of the Supreme Court. Singh was responding to Roy who alleged that NRC is a conspiracy in Assam against the Bangla speaking people in the state. His party chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asked her MPs to go all out against NRC in Parliament. She in her address in a public rally in Birbhum called it a conspiracy to drive out the Bangla speaking lots and said that if...
Guwahati: Expressing utter dismay on a responsible politician’s communal remarks over the ongoing process of National Register of Citizens (NRC) updaion in the State, the Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) urges the politician in power to exercise restrain while making a public statement. The Assam based forum, while reacting sharply to a recent outburst of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee claiming that the NRC updating process in the State was a ‘conspiracy to drive away Bengalis’, also appeals to the conscious people of the neighboring State to prevent their talkative chief minister from making such inflammatory statements. The much waited updation of NRC of 1951 is...
GUWAHATI: The Dibrugarh police probing the APSC scam have indicted 25 more civil and police officers in its next charge sheet filed before a special court on Thursday. The special operation unit set up to probe the cash for job scam has chargesheeted all the accused they have arrested already whom the court sent to the Guwahati Central Jail. The police have enclosed the details of the forensic reports, answer scripts of the accused officers in the civil service examination along with the charge sheet filed before the court. This is said to be the third charge sheet in this nefarious case where the candidates who bribed chairman Rakesh Paul and his associates to ensure selection and with...
MARGHERITA: More than 200 AASU leaders and activists blocked the National Highway No 38 in Margherita on Thursday for one hour demanding immediate steps to repair the vital road which has been lying in a shamble for years. Talking to reporters, Margherita AASU unit president Dipankar Buragohain and General Secretary Bulbul Saikia said the vital road which has been playing a pivotal role in the surface communication network has been remaining in a dilapidated condition only because of the lackadaisical attitude of the government. The protestors slammed chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who before the assembly polls promised to rev up the road sector, has gone back to his own promise....
KOKRAJHAR: Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju has drawn no less ire in BTAD areas on Thursday a day after he told in Parliament that the Centre has no plan for separate statehood. Many BTAD organizations have categorically slammed the junior minister saying that his information in Parliament was unwanted in view of the ongoing tripartite talks in Delhi. All Bodo Students Union has pledged to go all out against the minister saying that his remarks in Parliament was irresponsible indeed.
Guwahati, 4 January 2018 — In a historic development northeast India gets its first Skill Development Center of Excellence, an initiative through industry-academia participation under government facilitation when Electronics Sector Skill Council of India (ESSCI) signed an MoU with Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati to jointly set up a state of the art Center of Excellence (CoE) at the University campus in Guwahati. ESSCI is one of the sector skill councils setup as an autonomous body by Nation Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) under MSDE (Ministry of Skill Development). The MoU was signed by Chief Executive Officer of ESSCI Mr. N.K.Mohapatra, and Vice...
GUWAHATI: West Bengal Chief Minister strikes a huge controversy in Assam when she called the ongoing process to update NRC a campaign to drive away the Bangla speaking people in the north eastern state. All political parties, organizations and individuals in the state have slammed Banerjee for her irresponsible comment alleging it a conspiracy to create communal riot in Assam. The All Assam Students Union has strongly criticized her alleging that her comment might strike communal tension and threatened to move the Supreme Court against her. Banerjee in her speech on Wednesday at a public meeting in Birbhum said that NRC process is a step against the Bangla speaking people which would...
NALBARI: Five youths were found dead under mysterious circumstances in Nalbari sending huge shockwave across the state on Thursday. All the five youths were found dead inside the vehicle on which they were on their way back from Bhutan. Towards the evening they halted in Mukalmuwa where they had a feast and then went out on the vehicle. On Thursday early morning, they were found dead inside the vehicle. Details awaited.
GOLAGHAT: After a brief silence, tension erupts along the Assam-Nagaland border where a gang of Naga miscreants unleashed terror at a border hamlet in Golaghat district on Wednesday. The incident took place at Rangpur village in Dhansiri sub division where a local resident and tea planter had an initial tussle with one of Hus counterpart from Nagaland. Towards the evening a gang of Naga miscreants came and set afire the tea planter's house first and then destroyed his tea garden and fled. Local residents here have alleged that despite repeated complaints the security forces have not been doing enough to defuse the tension.
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