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.
RSS seems to have invited more and more wrath for its highly questionable presence at the Kareng Ghar premises. The Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) has raised doubts over the intention of the organization where activists recently thronged the historic premises raising Bharat Mata Ki Joi slogan. In a statement issued to media in Guwahati on Friday, AJYCP president Biraj Kumar Talukdar slammed RSS alleging that the hue and cry at the Kareng Ghar premises has generated no less undercurrent of hatred and disturbance among the people in the area. Taking a dig at RSS for the Bharat Mata Ki Joi sloganeering Talukdar said, “Since the people of Assam are firstly proud of their...
In a high voltage political drama Pema Khandu is set to quit as Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister hours after he was suspended along with four others by the Peoples’ Party Of Arunachal alleging anti party activities. Khandu and his camps are in touch with BJP leaders in New Delhi seeking support while another camps is projecting Takam Tagore as the next chief minister.
Caught in a paralyzing controversy Dr Dhrubajoti Borah is understood to have resigned as the Asom Sahitya Sabha president. The resignation was on expected line in view of the stinging controversy over the functionings of a circle of officials who are allegedly defaming the country’s greatest literary organization. Dr Bora tendered his resignation hardly a week after his secretary general Dr Parama Rajbanshi put in his papers.
Yet another crisis seems to have paralyzed the functionings of the Dima Hasao Autonomous Council where Debolal Garlosa might lose the chair of Chief Executive Member.A group of 15 council members on Wednesday met Assam Governor BL Purohit to convey the loss of confidence over Garlosa. They formally proposed the name of Prakant Warisa as the Chief Executive Member of the autonomous body.The Governor is learnt to have listened to them to take necessary step to end the deepening crises.
Assam Governor Banwarilal Purohit sought the Centre’s assistance in improving and revamping the inland waterways to propel State’s development. Calling on Union road transport & highways and shipping minister Nitin Gadkari yesterday in New Delhi, the Governor also cited that the mighty Brahmaputra and Barak rivers along with their tributaries constitute the life-line of the people of the State. Giving highest priority to develop National Highways in Assam and to use it to act as a force multiplier to the State’s development, Governor Purohit drew the Union minister’s attention to the existing road conditions in the State especially in Barak valley and demanded Centre’s immediate...
One of the active environment NGOs of Assam, Aranya Suraksha Samity today released a list of birds seen in Majuli river island today at Guwahati Press Club. An honest forest official of the State, Bhupen Talukder officially released the book in presence of Janardan Goswami of Dakshinpat Satra, Krishna Goswami of Sakopara Satra, Aranya Suraksha Samiti-Assam president Krishna Bora & secretary general Haricharan Das, journalist Nava Thakuria etc. It may be mentioned that Aranya Suraksha Samiti-Assam was formed in 1996 at Orang in central Assam by a group of journalists and social activists. They started this organization to fight against rhino poaching in Orang forest reserve. It...
The All Assam Students Union(AASU) demanded early implementations of all clauses of historic Assam Accord along with deportation of illegal migrants from Assam. The students union obsrved Centenary Foundation Day today at Rashmela ground in Kokrajhar district along with rest of the state. Gambhir Nath,retired principal of Kokrajhar DIET hoisted the Centenary Flag of AASU on the occasion. Nabajyoti Roy,assistant general secretary of AASU(central committee) paid floral tribute to martyrs,who laid their lives for the cause of Assam during agitation. The Centenary day was observed under the guidance of central committee of AASU across the state to mark the foundation day of formerly Assam...
Christmas festivity grips Assam on Sunday where churches across the state pulled huge crowd of people who participated in the special prayer in search of global peace.Defying a pinching cold wave the Christian people of all walks of life thronged the church premises' for the special prayer in the morning. People in large number in the north eastern city of Guwahati rushed to the Panbajar based Baptist church in the morning after the end of the midnight carol to mark the birth of the Jesus.Similar rush of people was in sight at the Don Bosco premises and the Christianbast Church where the people held special prayer in search of divine help to restore global peace. Anju Haokip, a Manipuri...
City based physicians from Barthakur Clinic private limited namely Dr Manabendra Goswami (Surgery) and Dr Arunima Goswami (Medicine) conducted the last Saturday evening OPD at Guwahati Press Club in northeast India for the benefit of scribes along with their dependents. Over 30 participants received healthcare related consultations from the senior doctors, where Kapila Lama and Jyotish Sarma supported them in conduct the clinic. The participants also got their blood pressure & sugar checked in the camp. The 17 December 2016 evening clinic was attended by Dr Jayanta Sarmah, Dr Neelakshi Devchoudhury, Dr Chiranjib Mahanta, Dr Ruman Hussain, Dr Purnima Deuri and Dr Susmita Pegu from the...
A heard of wild elephants unleashed a reign of terror in Guwahati where a person died in attack on Saturday.The incident took place in Panjabari area where a heard of around 20 elephants came down from the nearby hills striking panic button among the people of a weekly market in Batahghuli where one person was trampled to death.A team of forest guards arrived in the spot which took three hours to drive out the elephants from the human habitat till midnight. Local residents' in Panjabari have blamed it all on the department for the deepening menace. “We informed the forest department at 2 in the afternoon. But the guards took two hours to reach the spot. Had they arrived in time, the tragic...
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