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.
TANGLA: Don't underestimate the poor and wage earners. It sticks only to the lips of the public leaders. In practice the things are different. But of late, something seems to have started changing if the recent initiative of the Rabha Sahitya Sabha is any indication. The literary organization of the tribal group recently honoured a few rickshaw-pullers and handcart pullers in Tangla evoking widespread appreciation in the society. The All Rabha Sahitya Sabha with the help of a social activist & contractor Girin Deka and noted comedian Bipul Rabha felicitated as many as 90 rickhsaw-pullers and handcart pullers at a function organized at the Satish Chandra Rabha Memorial...
GUWAHATI: ULFA (I)’s military head Paresh Baruah finds place in the first updated NRC draft released by the Registrar General of India in Guwahati on Sunday midnight. Baruah, a resident of Jeraigaon in Chabua who left home nearly four decades back. Same it is in the case of Arunodoy Dohotiya whose name of figures in the updated NRC draft. Baruah is Commander-in-Chief while Dohotiya is the Central publicity head of the rebel outfit fighting for an independent and sovereign Assam. Registrar General of India Sailesh along with coordinator Prateek Hajela released the first updated NRC draft at a crowded press conference in Guwahati at 00.00. The first draft...
GUWAHATI: Altogether 2500 NRC centres are teeming with hundreds of people who are lined up to catch a glimpse of their names in the first updated NRC draft a day after the Registrar General of India in Guwahati. From early in the morning these people started waiting in the serpentine queue in front of the Seva Kendras where the employees helped them check out their names. Some others in the semi urban areas are lined up infront of the cyber cafes to check their names in the NRC draft. “I came here early in the morning to check my name in the updated NRC and I got immense joy as I found out my name with the help an official at the NRC,” said Tularam Bora at Rangajan in Titabor....
GUWAHATI: The All Assam Students Union leaders and activists are no less upbeat over the publication of the first NRC draft on Sunday midnight. The influential student organization is opening a centre in its headquarters' Swahid Nyash to help the citizens find out their names in the NRC draft. Many AASU leaders and workers spent the night at the centre helping the citizens providing necessary information. "We have opened this centre to help those who have moved us seeking our help. Since 8 in the morning people are making long queue in front of our office to check their names in the draft. We are helping these people," said an AASU activist. AASU adviser Dr Samujjal Bhattacharya said...
GUWAHATI: Amid unprecedented security arrangement and round-the-clock-vigil the Registrar General of India has published the names of 1.9 crore Indian citizens living in Assam in the first draft of the updated NRC on Sunday. Registrar General of India Sailesh and NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela released the much awaited first draft at a crowded press conference in Guwahati at 00.00 on Sunday. The draft has 1.8 crore names of Indian citizens living in Assam and the remaining applicants of the total 3.50 crore are being scrutinized. Apart from four websites, the draft of the updated NRC are available in each of the seva kendras to help the people see their names. The authorities have...
GUWAHATI: Defying a pinching cold wave millions of people in the north eastern state of Assam bade good bye to 2017 and welcomed 2018 amid much fanfare and night long extravaganza. Sounds of firecrackers, church bells, prayers from the temples mingled in the air as soon as the clock struck 00.00 marking the exit of '17 and entry of '18. This was followed by feasting, dancing and what not to mark the occasion. Mobile phone networks remained jammed for a couple of hours as the consumers started exchanging new year wishes to their near and dear ones. Most of the houses in the urban and semi urban areas started dazzling in the colourful light decoration from dusk to welcome the new...
GUWAHATI: An unprecedented security arrangement is in place in the nook and corner of the state in view of the brisk preparedness to publish the first NRC draft. Security forces are fanning in the sensitive and hyper sensitive areas to deal with the possible outbreak of untoward incident in the post NRC draft publication period. The Centre has already rushed additional forces to ensure peace and normalcy after the publication of the draft. Top ranked police and civil officials are constantly monitoring the situation. At the stork of midnight the authority would publish the first NRC draft in four websites and the print outs would also be kept in the seva Kendras for display....
Guwahati, December 30: Assam Governor Prof. Jagdish Mukhi assured a delegation of Kagajkal Majdoor Sangh of taking its demand to the Centre for the revival of Nagaon Paper Mill at Jagiroad in Morigaon district. The four member delegation led by the President of Kagajkal Majdoor Sangh Ashok Kumar Roy representing Kagajkal Majdoor Sangh of Jagiroad Paper Mill, a unit of Hindustan Paper Corporation, met Governor Prof Mukhi at Raj Bhavan here today and submitted a memorandum and sought his intervention for the revival of the paper mill. Governor Prof Mukhi while enquiring about the backdrop against which the Paper Mills in Jagiroad and Panchgram faced the closure, assured them to...
GOLAGHAT:The Golaghat police achieved a huge breakthrough into a number of major theft cases when they recovered electronic materials worth lakhs of rupees in the town on Saturday. Acting on a tip off, a police team conducted a search operation in the Municipality Market on the Old Jail Road where these pilfered items were recovered. These include six huge sound systems. No one has so far been arrested. Investigation is going on.
BOKAKHAT: Union surface transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday claimed to taken up the biggest one package for the north eastern region after the Independence. Addressing a Press conference in Kaziranga in the morning, Gadkari flanked by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal announced Rs 2.5 lakh crore to uplift the road communication network in Assam. He said the Centre has already cleared the decks to construct 35,000 km road in the state in 2018. This is in addition to the proposal for five more bridges over the river Brahmaputra. Sonowal formally handed over to the Union minister the detailed project report for the Brahmaputra Express Highway and he urged the Centre to go...
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