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 Gauhati High Court has asked chief secretary VK Pipersenia along with a top bureaucrat to file affidavits on a number of alleged anomalies in the ACS examination conducted by the state public service commission. Hearing a PIL filed by Okram Prasanta Singha on Thursday Chief Justice (acting) K. Sreedhar Rao issued notices to chief secretary Pipersenia and additional chief secretary Subhas Chandra Das. Das was probing the allegations of corruption in the civil service examination. In his PIL, Singha alleged that the committee had not inquired into the allegations against the APSC and made the commission the judge of his probe. The next hearing of the PIL will be held on...
CBI gets remand of Manoranjana Sinh for five days a day after the media baron was arrested in connection with the Sharadha scam. A special court of Alipore remanded Manoranjana to CBI custody on Thursday when she was produced before it alleging her involvement in the multi crore scam.The country’s premier investigation agency arrested her on Wednesday at Kolkata CGO Complex for allegedly taking money from Saradha Group chairman Sudipta Sen in the name of a satellite channel. CBI has levelled charges of misappropriation of funds, cheating and criminal conspiracy against her.
CBI is all set to produce Manoranjana Sinh before the Chief metropolitan magistrate on Thursday a day after the country’s investigation agency arrested the media baron in connection with the chit fund scam.Sources told Assam Times that the CBI special investigation team probing the multi crore deal has been interrogating Sinh whom they are expected to seek in their custody for ten days.CBI arrested Sinh on Wednesday for refusing to cooperate when she was questioned at the CGO Complex in Kolkata on her deal with Saradha chief Sudipto Sen. Enforcement directorate and CBI separately questioned her several times in Kolkata and New Delhi earlier.Sen in his purported letter to the CBI...
In a major boost for the state’s cycling segment, Anu Chutiya has arrived in Thailand on Thursday to participate in the Asian Cycling Championship.Anu, cyclist from Titabar in Jorhat district of Assam has been undergoing the training of the Indian national coaching camp in New Delhi.
The Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has condemned the killing of yet another scribe in Uttar Pradesh and demand a national action plan for justice to those journalists. In a statement, the organization said the murder of Hemant Yadav increased the tally of slaughtered media persons to four this year in the country.Yadav, a middle aged journalist who worked for Hindi news channel TV 24, was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne miscreants on the night of October 3. The incident took place at Dheena area of Chandauli district, where Yadav faced the brutal attack. The last incident of killing of a journalist was reported from Maharashtra, when a Thane based journalist...
Manoranjana Sinh’s arrest in the chit fund scam seems to have created no less flutter in both Congress and BJP. CBI is believed to have been closely examining the role of BJP leaders Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma along with Tapan Gogoi and Shankar Prasad Roy who were allegedly to have taken money from the chit fund. The country’s premier investigation agency has already interrogated the trio a couple of months ago. Same situation grips APCC where president Anjan Dutta is worried over fate hours after a team of CBI arrested the media baron from Guwahati on Wednesday. CBI has already questioned Dutta for his alleged involvement in the scam. Dutta was also alleged to have taken Rs 6 crore...
The Central Bureau of Investigation probing the Saradha scam has arrested media baron Manoranjana Sinh on Wednesday. The former managing director with North East Television has been arrested in Kolkata where she was interrogated for several hours for her alleged involvement in the multi crore chit fund scam. The CBI team will produced before the metropolitan court on Thursday.The jailed Saradha chief Sudipto Sen in her purported letter alleged to have paid for over Rs 20 crore to Sinh to set up a channel in Guwahati. CBI and ED have separately grilled her several times in Kolakta and New Delhi.
One person died and another sustained serious injury when a bike rammed into another biker in Duliajan on Tuesday. The mishap took place at Chiringkhat where Phuleswar Lahon who was riding on his bike hit another biker Apurba Phatowal from the back side. The duo were rushed to the hospital. But Phatowal succumbed to his injury. Lahon is battling with death at the Assam Medical College Hospital.
Assam Boat Racing & Rowing Association on Wednesday sent a 12 member team consisting of 7 Men and 5 women for 36th Junior National Rowing Championships in the Upper Ganges Canal at Saulani Park, Roorkee which begins on Wednesday.According to Assam Boat Racing & Rowing Association General Secretary Nababuddin Ahmed, the 12 member squad has left Guwahati under the leadership of Chiranjit Phukan as Coach where Shanghita Lahon is the team manager.The team comprises Nafisa Sadiq, Shreyanshi Kashyap, Prerna Basnet, Jyestha Dipak, Nupur Chetia, Ridhwaan Azeem, Akash Deep Rajkhowa, Shankhanil Tamuli, Sreyash Kashyap, Paul Rajkonwar, Pervez Sadiq, Aryan Lahon.
The Assam movement martyrs’ family members and Assam Agitation leaders on Tuesday have solemnly pledged to fight the Centre’s move to roll red carpets for the non Muslim Bangladeshi refugees.Speakers after speakers at a meeting in Guwahati said that the NDA governments move will make the entire Assam Accord on a sheet of irrelevant papers. They said warned the Centre of dire consequences if it proceeds with the deal. Former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta said that if need be they would launch yet another massive agitation across the country.Elder brother of first Assam Agitation martyre Khargeswar Talukdar was prominent among those who were present in the function. ...
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