Shankardev Shishu Vidya Niketan School at Dadara near Hajo is ready to get another facelift with the financial support from Guwahati Round Table 235, the Guwahati chapter of Round Table India (www.roundtableindia.org). The completed phase two section, comprising three classrooms, verandah & staircases with a total area of 2,750 square feet, will be inaugurated on 8 January next. Kamrup (rural) district magistrate Vinod Seshan has consented to inaugurate phase two part on Sunday in presence of district police chief PS Mahanta. “The foundation stone for development was laid on the 7 February 2016, where the project was planned to be completed in a phased manner with the first phase has already been completed. It was inaugurated by Assam education minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma,” informed Parveen Goyal, chief of Guwahati Round Table 235.
Addressing the media persons on Wednesday, Goyal also added that they would soonstart the construction of phase three and expected to get it completed by the end of 2017. He described his mother organization as a non-religious and non-political entity. The Round Table India has over 4,500 chapters across the country comprising young businessmen, entrepreneurs, technocrats and other professionals. Mukesh Chokhani, secretary to the Guwahati chapter of Round Table India disclosed that they adopted the Dadara Shishu Niketan school under its flagship freedom through education project. He also added that they planned to develop around 10,500 sqft in the school premises with a total outlay of rupees 80 Lakhs.
Project conveners Avishek Kejriwal, Shwet Agarwal, Rahul Sethi with few others were also present on the occasion. Soon after the press meet the Guwahati Round Table 235 office bearers donated two galvanized steel chairs for Guwahati Press Club, which were accepted by the GPC secretary Nava Thakuria in presence of other member-journalists.
Amid massive water logging two persons died in Guwahati sending huge shockwaves across the premier north eastern city on Tuesday. The incident took place near the Assam State Zoo in the evening where Pushan Kalita, a school boy was suddenly electrocuted as he was wading through the rainwater. Then Anowar Hussain, who by profession was a vegetable vendor rushed to thr spot to save the teenager also died of electrocution.
Three people of a family died and another sustained serious injury when the vehicle carrying them hit at a roadside tree in Goalpara district on Sunday. The mushsp took place in the afternoon at Hadalapara when thr driver lost his control over the vehicle and hit the roadside where Lyaqot Ali, Nazia Sultana and Wasim Afzan died on the spot. Local residents in large number came and extricated the three bodies from the mangled vehicle and rescued Shamim Afzal to be sent to bye nearest hospital where he is battling for life.
Senior Naga rebel leader Khango Kanyak will succeed SS Khaplang, the NSCN-K chairman who passed away at a Myanmar hospital on Friday. Kanyak, who is known for his relentless revolt in search of thr greater Nagalim is set to take the reign of the outfit in a day or two. Top rebels are believed to have agreed to put Kanyak, the vice chairman in the helm of affairs. He joined the outfit in 1963 and visited China and Pakistan and in 2011 he was selected as the second in command of the decade old Naga rebel outfit who has been responsible for a number of dreaded attacks on the security forces in the north eastern region. The bereaved north eastern rebels bade a tearful farewell to...
Veteran Naga rebel SS Khaplang died in Myanmar on Friday sending shockwave across the nation. He is believed to have died in Taga in the afternoon. Details awaited.
Around 500 people, mostly, Dimasa from North Cachar staged a huge dharna in Guwahati on Friday demanding exoneration of the former DHD (J) rebels whom a recent NIA court convicted in the infamous terror funding scam. Raising the demand to exempt the former rebels, the protesters who represented twenty local organizations said violence will erupt in the hills district if Juel Garlosa and Niranjan Hojai are sentenced to life imprisonment. Deepak Hafila, a protester said,” peace will be disturbed again in our district. We don’t want it to happen. Let them remain free.” “Since they eschewed violence and came back to the national mainstream why should the duo be jailed again,” said Goju Hojai...
A team of Dibrugarh police probing in the APSC scam on Friday questioned around two dozen civil and police officers who were alleged to have bribed the commission authority to ensure selection in the combined competition examination in 2014/15.They include the son of a former Cabinet minister Nilomoni Sen Deka who were questioned on their alleged link with APSC chairman Rakesh Paul whom police arrested last year.These officers,mostly, were summoned to the special branch headquarters in Kahilipara near Dispur on the basis of the confessional statements of Paul apart from some other sensational evidences suggesting their unfair means to get selected for the state’s top category civil and...
The United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) has admitted loss of its three fellows in the recent gunbattle with security forces in Nagaland.In a statement emailed to Assam Times, the outfit fighting for independence said the trio who were moving in the area near Tizit were attacked by the security forces who were hiding in the place acting on prior information.The outfit has named the deceased trio as Bipul Asom, Santosh Asom and Phanindra Asom. According to them, eight army and para military force jawans sustained injury in the encounter apart from the death of a major.The gun battle that lasted for nearly ten hours took place at a remote Naga village of Oting in Mon district.Acting...
Amid the ongoing probe into the APSC bribery scam, KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi demands a thorough probe by CBI alleging that a section of candidates recommended by political leaders and journalists has yet to come under it's ambit. Gogoi, who broke the allegations for the first time three years back told reporters that many candidates who managed to be selected and recruited this way have not been summoned. “Barring former minister Nilomoni Sen Deka’s son, others have not been summoned to be questioned on Friday. We earlier alleged that Sumitra Patir’s son was involved in it. But since she joined BJP her son is let off,” said Gogoi. He said,” the entire investigation is being micro...
A special court in Guwahati has allowed Dibrugarh police probing the APSC to extract specimen signature of a deputy superintendent of police to ascertain the allegations against him. The police team on Wednesday moved the court seeking it's approval to probe the allegations against Himanta Hillol Saikia, a probationary DSP in Jorhat. Sources told Assam Times, some marked discrepancies in Saikia’s answer scripts suggest his involvement in the scam which benefitted him. The court asked police to go ahead. Saikia, the former television journalist has been asked to come down to the Assam Administrative Staff College in Guwahati to be questioned along with 25 other ACS, APS officers, DTOs and...
After a huge gap peace initiative with United Liberation Front of Asom is set to move fresh. Newly appointed peace interlocutor Dineswar Sarma hunkered down with a team of pro talk rebel leaders in Guwahati on Wednesday. Sarma, who earlier served as inspector general of police in the state had a close door meeting with the ULFA delegation led by Anup Chetia where both sides agreed to carry forward the peace process to find out a solution to the decade old conflict. Sarma, who replaced PC Haldar recently hoped that the solution is not far provided help and cooperation ate received from the stakeholders.
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