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.
Acting on a tip off, ChildLine with the help of CID rescued 22 children bound for a Himachal from the Guwahati Railway station today. The children in the age group of 4 to12 were brought from various districts of Assam, Manipur and Tripura were gathered at the Guwahati platform before their final send off to a monastery in Himachal, said a ChildLine official. Two persons were held in this connection.
Alert was sounded in Assam over the dreaded swine flu after a student of the Fakhruddin Ahmed Barpeta Medical College was detected with the H1N1 virus today. The student is currently undergoing treatment at a private nursing home in Guwahati and will be shifted to the Guwahati Medical college Hospital tomorrow. This is the first case detected so far in Assam but there could be more, revealed a health department source.
The death of eminent educationist, social scientist, renowned geographer and author Mohammad Taher has been widely condoled across the state. Professor Taher breathed his last in a private hospital in Guwahati yesterday morning after a prolonged illness. He was 83. After obtaining his PhD degree from the Auckland University, Newzealand he joined the Gauhati University as a teacher. Described as a doyen of Indian Geography,Mohammad Taher retired from the Geography Department of the Gauhati University as Head and Dean of Faculty of Science in the 1990s. He authored more than 20 text books for geography students besides books on other subjects.
Dr Syed Iftikar Ahmed, chairman of Guwahati based NGO ‘AIDS Prevention Society’ and a member of Lions Club of Narangi (District 322D) has been invited to attend the Lions Day program at United Nations’ headquarter in New York. The theme of Lion International program, to be held in the first week of March 2015, is ‘Children in Need’ and it will be addressed by key UN speakers dwelling deeper into the subject matter.Dr Ahmed, who designed and implemented a flagship project in India for preventing the children from acquiring HIV from their infected mothers, is scheduled to present the outcome of the project at the UN meeting. The European Commission in Brussels had already honoured the...
Tension prevails in the Assam-Nagaland border today after Naga miscreants opened indiscriminate firing upon villagers forcing them to flee their homes Seleng Amtolia in Mariani near here. A 12-member suspected NSCN militant group also burned down a small tea garden in the area. Police and district administration officials rushed to the spot after the incident.
Sensation prevails in the Gauhati University campus after a student was found hanging at his rented house at Sunderbari, near the GU campus early today. Arnabjyoti Talukdar was a student of B Tech 4th semester.
Ashraful Hussain Laskar, a student from Hailakandi in Assam was found dead in the Madhuwala police station area in Bangaluru. Ashraful died after he fell from a building. Police has been investigating any foul play in the incident.
Tension prevails in Behali, near the Assam-Arunachal border in Sonitpur district after the India Reserve Battalion (IR Bn) allegedly opened fire on innocent people yesterday. The incident occurred at around 11 am at Chawaldhowa in the Behali Reserved Forest when forest officials accompanied by Sonitpur district administration engaged a group of labourers to start building work of the border outposts. According to sources, the battalion stationed in the area opened fire upon the innocent labourers forcing them to flee the spot. The Behali RF is part of the Sonitpur Elephant Reserve notified in 2003 on the Assam-Arunachal border. Encroachment has threatened the very existence of this...
The All India United Democratic Front has put a stop to all speculations on a pre poll alliance with the ruling Congress party and made it clear that it will continue to go alone. In a statement, the AIUDF supremo Badruddin Ajmal said his party will continue to follow its “Ekla Chalo” policy. He further alleged that the speculations on the AIUDF entering into an alliance with the Congress are intended to sow confusion among party workers as state polls are drawing near.The AIUDF leader added that his party has maintained equidistance from both the Congress and the BJP. However, there is every possibility that AIUDF would extend its support if there emerges a third front.
Pradyut Bordoloi, Gautam Roy and Nilomoni Sen Deka were today appointed cabinet advisers to the Chief Minister. While Pradyut Bordoloi has been made adviser to the Chief Minister on Education, Sen Deka will hold the post of agricultural adviser. Gautam Roy has been made adviser on Barak development. The three advisers will enjoy cabinet rank category.It may be recalled here that Bordoloi, Sen Deka and Gautam Roy lost their ministerial rank during the latest reshuffle of Gogoi’s ministry.
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