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.
A 3.6 magnitude earthquake jolted Assam on Wednesday. But the people in the north eastern state, mostly, failed to feel it. According to a seismological Centre, originated in Nagaon, the tremor jolted the central parts of the state at 1. 15 midnight.
The police team probing the APSC job selection scam has arrested altogether 4 ACS grade 1( junior ) officers and 4 deputy police superintendents along with three officers charging them with resorting to forgery in the state civil service examination. All these civil and police officers were arrested in the wee hours on Wednesday from different placed and were taken to Guwahati for custodial interrogation. “They are being interrogated. We are preparing to produce them before the special court seeking police remand. Beyond that we can't divulge anything,” said a police officer in the capital city. All of these officers appeared in the hand written test conducted...
A local lower court in Guwahati remanded Ranjit Gogoi to three days police custody after police probing the ₹30 crore ad scam arrested the publicity and public relations director alleging his involvement in it. Gogoi was arrested after marathon interrogation by a team of top ranked police officers who did not received satisfactory reply and wanted his custodial interrogation. After medical check up in the evening, Gogoi, the Janasanyog director wad brought before the court asking for five days police remand. The court sent him to police remand for only three days. “Interrogation is going on. That’s all. Beyond that we can't divulge anything in detail,” said a police...
The police probing the ₹30 crore ad scam have arrested publicity and public relations director Ranjit Gogoi alleging his involvement in it. After medical check up in the evening, Gogoi, the Janasanyog director wad brought before the top ranked team of police officers who has been interrogating him. “Interrogation is going on. That’s all. Beyond that we can't divulge anything in detail,” said a police officer who refused to be named. Gogoi is expected to be taken to a special local court in Guwahati on Wednesday for police custody. The multi crore scam took place towards the fag end of the erstwhile Congress government where a section of officers...
In its bid to bridge the industry-academia gap, an industrial talk on “Installation, Maintenance and Protection of Transformers” was organised by the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Assam Don Bosco University on Monday which evoked an encouraging response. Former Deputy General Manager of AEGCL Karuna Sarma was the speaker of the event, where a total of 50 students attended the talk. In his deliberation, Sarma stressed the importance of the transformer as the nerve of the electric power systems. He dwelt at length the types of transformer, its design, its different components and accessories. Further, he also discussed about the installation of...
In a bid to hon the skills, Our ABC Academy had organised a day long workshop on career planning and skill development recently at its campus at Santipur in Sadiya. It was organised to sensitise students on various attributes required for vibrant careers and how one may plan their careers. Ranjan K Baruah from North East Youth Foundation was the resource person where he focussed on different attributes like qualification, communication, hard work, passion, language, working in team, etc for a better career. The interaction programme which was like flipped classroom discussed on many other aspects of skill development. Students were told that one may build their careers even without...
In a bid to strengthen the north east India, Tangkhul Naga Football Centenary (TNFC) is holding huge rally at Teinem village in Ukhrul District. With the “strong Northeast, strong India" theme, theme the rally started on Sunday and was attended by Teinem village populace along with the 12-member TNFC team from Ukhrul led by Rinshang Pheiray, District Swachh Consultant, Ukhrul. The marathon for centenary will run across the globe including US, South Korea, Singapore, Bangkok and China. Besides, Run For Centenary will take place at various metropolitan cities of India, including Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangaluru, Goa and some states of North East...
The Players from Centre for Excellence in Taekwondo , Assam (CETA) have struck medals in G-1 Ranking International Open Taekwondo Championship. In as statement, the organization said 3 of its students participated the 2017 Kimunyong Cup International Open Taekwondo Championships at Seoul (a World Taekwondo accredited G1 Ranking Event) held at Hanyang University Olympic Stadium, Seoul from 28.10.2017 to 01.11.2017 where more than 3000 participants from 60 countries participated and bagged 4 MEDALS - 2 SILVERS & 2 BRONZES. The Medal winners are : Individual Poomsae (Children Under 11 years) : SILVER - Anoushka Jyoti Kalita Individual Poomsae (Male...
Assam stole the limelight with it's agriculture products in the ongoing World Food India in New Delhi. Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi graced the event at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi as Chief Guest, where representative from various countrieslike Germany , Japan , Denmark, Italy, Netherlands etc participated in the mega event . A global event to facilitate partnerships between Indian and international businesses and investors, World Food India (WFI) is a gateway to the Indian food economy and an opportunity to showcase, connect, and collaborate. Organized by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, WFI is the largest gathering of investors, manufacturers, producers, food processors...
One of the acclaimed cultural personalities of Assam, Kula Barua will grace the ‘Guest of the Month’ program of Guwahati Press Club (GPC) on Thursday (2 November 2017). Commended Assamese singer and music director Barua will interact with the member-journalists in the program (staring at 11.30 am). Barua’s singing career started with Chemoniar Chora of All India Radio and later he was recognized as a radio artiste in 1968. He has sung in several Assamese movies like ‘Paap Aru Praychitta’, ‘Srimati Mohimamoy’, ‘Sadori’, ‘Bristi’, ‘Sendur’, ‘Bishes Erati’, ‘Prabhati Pakhir Gaan’, ‘Banahansa’ etc. Barua contributed for ‘Srimoti Mohimamoi’ and ‘Sadori’ as a music director too. Barua directed...
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