A novel on conservation movement, penned by Pankaj Govinda Medhi, was released at Guwahati Press Club on Sunday afternoon. Titled ‘Charai Chuburi’, the novel in Assamese elaborates a distinctive part of the movement to preserve the forest & wildlife across Assam.
Published Banalata, Dibrugarh, the book was officially released by Phanindra Kumar Devchoudhury, editor of Niyamiya Barta, award winning author Bipul Deuri, conservation personality Soumyadeep Dutta and journalist Nava Thakuria. The program was moderated by Manjit Rajkhowa, who designed the cover of the novel.
Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has morally supported the concern of Assam Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya for the conservation of wildlife, particularly the one-horned rhinoceros and demanded the State forest department to come clear on the rhino horns in its custody.Unlike many Constitutional Heads of States in India, newly sworn-in Assam Governor (in addition to Nagaland and Tripura) has been raising voices for the conservation of rhinos in various forest reserves of Assam.Governor Acharya has termed the rhino poachers as the enemy of the nation, who ‘dared to challenge the authority’. The Governor even opined that the State forest minister must take the moral responsibility to...
Thousands of people travelling on two trains had a narrow escape when security forces recovered an IED on the railway tracks in Goalpara district on Friday.The powerful IED was recovered just fifteen minutes before a passenger train was scheduled to cross the spot.Security forces had a routine check on the railway track just a few km away from Dudhnoi where they spotted a suspicious packet where the IED was planted.N outfit has so far claimed the responsibility. Both ULFA and NDFB-S have been remaining active in the area.
Girl students from the BPL families have reasons to heave a sigh of relief. They need not go to their schools n foot. Courtesy Dispur.The Assam government has distributed 2,93,413 bicycles to the girl students from the BPL families to help the regularly attend the classes.Talking to Assam Times, official sources said that the scheme has been percolate benefit for lakhs of BPL school girls.In yet another dose of good news, the government has also distributed free school uniform to 1,63,68,581 students.
The Assam government will address the grievances of farmers to help them get a fair price of their produce.Talking to Assam Times in Guwahati, department officials said the government is working on a slew of measures to ensure a profit for the farmers who often complain of being deprived of the due price.Minister Rockybul Hussain on Thursday told mediapersons that within the next 15 days the government will purchase the produce at the source and will sell the same in the capital city.
The Ministry of Information &Broadcasting (MoIB) is organising a regional consultation on Community Radio (CR) in Guwahati, Assam, in collaboration with OneWorld Foundation India. Despite being one of the culturally rich region,North-Eastern region has just twoCommunity Radio Stations.The three-day workshop being organized on 27th, 28th February 1st March 2015, with local partner Radio Luit – a Community Radio station being run by Gauhati University. The consultation also coincides with fourth anniversary of Radio Luit.The consultation is part of a series of awareness workshops that the Ministry is holding to popularise community radio movement and to encourage potential organisations...
Sankaradeva Nethralaya in association with Guwahati Press Club has organized an eye check-up camp for scribes and their families on 4th March (Wednesday) 2015. Th e day long camp will start at 10 am and may continue till 3 pm. The participants can get the consultations from the doctors regarding the eye care and precautions to preserve the eye sight. Dr Harsha Bhattacharjee, medical director & trustee of Sri Sankaradeva Nethralaya is also expected to grace the general screening of eyes in the press club premises.
Huge amount of explosives were recovered from the busy Inter State Bus Terminus (ISBT) in Guwahati today.Three bags containing the explosives that included gelatin sticks, bar coils etc were found in a waiting room of the terminus during a regular check by the police. Police has taken into custody two persons for interrogation.
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.
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