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.
The much-vaunted Durga puja gets underway on Monday with the installation of the idols of the goddess of strength. Guwahati gets a fresh look with most of the puja pendals are being decorated with varieties of light and sound system to pull crowd.Markets in Ganeshguri, Fancybazar, Lakhtokia are teeming with people for shopping. The flower vendors are vanishing from the Sukershwar Ghat because of assigned task of supplying flowers in the various puja pendals.The Kamrup (Metro) district administration has asked the puja committees across the city to install CCTVs to monitor the movement of the visitors. The idols are set to be immersed on Thursday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation probing the sensational Sheena Bora murder case has questioned the family members of Indrani Bora in Guwaahti on Monday.A CBI team arrived in a building in Sundarpur where her parents and son have been housing. The team is believed to have questioned Indrani’s father and son Mikhile in connection with the sensational murder case in Mumbai. CBI recently took over the case grilled Indrani.
Stunned by the repeated incidents of farmer suicide, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday asked Chief Secretary VK Pipersenia to probe into the circumstances responsible for the suicide of Dibakor Kalita in Nalbari district on Sunday. In an order, Gogoi asked the Chief Secretary to find out the reasons behind the suicide of Dibakar Kalita of Tihu area. The chief minister also asked the farmers to contact the Deputy Commissioners if they face any problem. The deputy commissioners have been asked to resolve farmers' issues immediately.
Amid traditional religious fervor of Kati Bihu, a poor farmer in Nalbari district committed suicide on Sunday sending shock and anger across the state.Identified as Dibakar Kalita, the 48-year-old farmer of Nakhara village in Tihu has been remaining disappointing for the last couple of days after repeated flood waves ravaged his croops. He left behind his wife and two daughters. This is the second suicide committed a farmer in the state in one month.
Rows and rows of earthen lamps dazzled on Sunday evening when people from old to young, towns to villages, hills to vallies observed Kati Bihu with traditional pomp and gaiety.People in their households and paddy fields offered pujas to the tulsi plants with earthen lamps on the occasion. Cultural programmes are also being organized on the occasion. My hearty Kati Bihu greetings to all the people of Assam. pic.twitter.com/oFukIX051h— Apurba Hazarika (@ApurbaHazarika4) October 18, 2015
Within a short spell of time Rakesh Paul has amassed properties worth crores of rupees. This was what the vigilance department report informed the Gauhati High Court. The report listed the properties Paul procured after he took over the APSC chairman a few years back. Paul, who currently resides at his own house the in Bhangagarh area in Guwahati has owned flat in the Mandakini Apartment in Kalapahar area. In the same city of Guwahati, he owns a commercial complex at Dakhingaon near Krishna Mandir. The APSC chairman has procured two flats in New Delhi’s South Extension are and in Gurgaon.He further procured a flat in Srimantapur area in Bhangagarh. But he did it in the name...
The Kamrup(rural) police have arrested three more people on Saturday two days after the along with four others gangraped a woman in Rangiya on Thursday. The trio were arrested after the victim’s niece identified them on Saturday. Yet another person is on the run.The incident took place when the victim along with her husband from Tamulpur were on the way to their relatives’ house in the evening. Three persons thrashed the husband and took away the woman to be repeatedly by a gang of seven youths. The couple have been undergoing treatment at the hospital. Police caught three of the gang hours after the incident while three others were held on Saturday.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has accused the home ministry of compounding the vexed foreigners' problem by amending the Passport (Entry into India) Rules, 1950 and Foreigners' Order 1948 in a haste. In a statement issued on Saturday, Gogoi said that the Centre has amended the Passport (Entry into India) Rules, 1950 and the Foreigners’ Order 1948 through a notification on September 7, 2015 by exempting persons belonging to minority community in Bangladesh or Pakistan who have been compelled to seek shelter in India due to religious persecution or fear of religious persecution and entered into India on or before December 31, 2014, it did not mention specifically about their acquiring...
The Kamrup(rural) police have arrested three persons on Friday a day after the trio along with 4 others gangraped a woman in Rangiya after beating up her husband. According to police, Pankaj Das, Tilak Das and Nareshwar Das have been held in this connection while search operation is on to nab Sonmoni Das, Prabhat Das, Satish Das and Dipak Das.The incident took place on Thursday night when 7 persons stormed into a house in Kekenikuchi where a newly-wed couple from Baska stayed for the night. They assaulted the husband and took away the woman to a nearby jungle to be gang raped. Hours after the FIR was filed, Kamrup (rural) police nabbed three of the gang. The four others who have...
Senior most Gauhati High Court judge Justice Tinlianthang Vaiphei will take over as the Chief Justice on October 21. Assam Governor PB Acharya will administer Vaiphei the oath of office and secrecy at a function in the Raj Bhawan on that day.President Pranab Mukherjee appointed him to replace acting Chief Justice Kazarian Srecdhar Rao who is retiring on that day.
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