Dr Madan Mohan Reddy, senior consultant on orthopedic surgery from Apollo Hospitals, Chennai attended the 'Evening with a Doctor' program on Saturday (26 November 2016) at Guwahati Press Club (GPC). Over 25 GPC member-journalists along with their relatives participated in the evening OPD and got free consultations on various ailments like back-neck- knee pain, major fractures, arthritis etc. Apollo’s marketing officer Roopjyoti Baruah assisted in conducting the camp.
The next evening clinic on 3 December at GPC premises will be attended by eye specialists Dr Subhra Kinkor Goswami & Dr Bijuli Goswami of Sight First. The camp will begin at 4 pm and continue till 6 pm for the benefit of GPC member-journalists.
Assam Governor Banwarilal Purohit greeted the people on the occasion of the Magh Bihu. In his message on Friday, he said Bihu symbolises the spirit of integrity, brotherhood and camaraderie among all irrespective of caste, creed, religion or language which epitomises the highest example of unity amid diversity. Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, his ministerial colleagues and various parties and organizations have wished the people on the occasion. Bamboo Mejis are shining with dried leaves and hay by the people irrespective of caste, creed and language where they together cook for the feast. The Mejis are burning amid chanting of prayers marking the end of all evil for a new positive...
Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA), while appreciating the Myanmar police for arresting three persons suspecting their role in the murder of Ko Soe Moe Tun on the night of 12 December last, urged the authority for stringent action against the culprits. The northeast India based scribe’s forum argued that killing a journalist because of his reporting on environmental issues must be dealt with utmost seriousness as it is against the Mother Nature. It may be mentioned that the Sagaing region based Burmese journalist was targeted by the goons for his extensive investigation & coverage over the wood smuggling, illegal logging and mining in northwest Myanmar. The reporter, engaged with Daily...
Magh bihu festivity grips Assam on Friday across the state where people of all walks of life are preparing to celebrate the much vaunted occasion. Huge preparation is underway in the open field to hold uruka on Friday night with community feasting under a make shift house of straw and bamboo. Cultural functions are lined up for the night in many urban and semi urban areas to be accompanied by jam kirtan on the occasion. Magh bihu falls on Saturday to be marked where the people would lit up the meji, a huge structure of wood and bamboo early in the morning to offer puja to the firegod. Traditional Assamese sweets and delicious items are flooding the household to be served to the near and...
The employees of Janasadharan, an Assamese daily published simultaneously from Guwahati and Dibrugarh, demanded their dues as the management decided to close down its publication since November last year. Under the banner of Janasadharan Newspaper Employees Union, they addressed the media persons at Guwahati Press Club on Thursday morning and later participated in a demonstration in front of it. It may be mentioned that the owner of the newspaper (former Congress minister Rockybul Hussain) in October 2016 expressed his inability to continue publishing the daily as the newspaper was losing readers rapidly. Later a closure notice, though without anybody’s signature, was also put on the...
Louis Berger episode seems have resurfaced to embroil fresh trouble for Himanta Biswa Sarma giving much ammonition to Congressmen to target their former fellow.The US department of justice is understood to have agreed to provide the evidential documents to substantiate the multi crore Louis Berger kick back to procure the award of contract in Guwahati metropolitan city a couple of years back.Amid much hue and cry, the erstwhile Tarun Gogoi government ordered a CID probe which is going on. But the probe refused to progress in the absence of crucial documents justifying the kick back allegations where the name of Himanta Biswa Sarma was involved who was GMDA minister during the Gogoi regime....
Volunteers’ association Jeevan Initiative is organizing Brahmaputra Campaign Carnival on January 19-23. This is the sixth annual Jeevan Kite & River Festival to be held on the riverside at Rajaduwar Ghat in Panbazar. The objectives include offering tribute to the epic river, celebrating Brahmaputra as the Unity River which has nurtured and guarded all ethnicity and diversity, sensitizing people about swachchata around the river and exploring explore potential of tourism and livelihood by the river. Several programmes are being line up. There will be various contests on the occasion. Cultural Parade is a contest among various schools/ colleges/ University/ hostels/ clubs/ associations...
Stunned by widespread criticism, the Centre is understood to have been preparing to clear the decks for deporting 17 Bangladeshi immigrants by Thursday. According to sources, the clearance if received in time, the Karimganj district authorities would hand over these immigrants in the morning at Steamerghat near Karimganj town to the Border Guards Bangladesh jawans. Then they would be formally accepted at Zakiganj. Those include Bhagabati Goala, Rahul Das, Mou Das apart from other 13 Muslim immigrants who have been languishing in the Cacahar Central Jail since 2015. Notably, they were to be deported to Bangladesh on Monday morning. But the non receipt of the necessary clearance from home...
Home ministry’s confusion over the move to deport 3 Hindu Bangladeshi immigrants draws no less flak from Congress and AGP leaders. Talking to Assam Talks in Guwahati, a senior Congress leader who refused to be named said that the NDA Government is not at all interested to deport the Hindu immigrants even before the amendment of the Citizenship Act. “Herein slips the musk of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who asked these immigrants to packl their bags and baggage two years back before coming to power. Now the same Modi rolls out red carpets for the immigrants on the basis of religion.” He said that the party will not keep silent. “We will vehemently protest the move. If Congress kept in mind...
Union home ministry is believed to have been caught in an utter confusion when the Karimganj district authorities were preparing to deport 17 Hindu Bangladeshi immigrants. Highly placed sources told Asam Times that the district authorities were well prepared to deport these 17 immigrants who were lodged in jail for the last one and half year. They were to be deported from Steamerghat near Karimganj town and the Border Guards Bangladesh jawans were ready to accept them at Zakiganj on Monday. But the Union home ministry failed to issued the required clearance in time and it has forced the authorities to suspend the process. Again they were taken back to the Cachar Central Jail until...
Punjab National Bank (PNB) in a credit disbursement camp held recently at NIRD, Guwahati, disbursed loan amounts up to rupees 51.20 crore to 408 customers. These loans were given for self employment activities under Mudra, Stand Up India & other MSME schemes, where the entrepreneurs from different parts of Northeast attended the camp. “PNB will focus on collateral free loans to small entrepreneurs to create self employment in a big way,” said Ved Mathur, general manager of PNB adding that the bank sanctioned rupees 2628 crore loans on pan India basis to 365000 customers under Mudra and rupees 735 crore loans to 3400 borrowers under Stand Up India Scheme. Speaking on this occasion, PNB...
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