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.
A constitutional bench of the Supreme Court set up to look into the petitions on the Assam Accord and citizenship controversy will start hearing from May 8. A bench of the country's top court on Wednesday asked for supporting documents from the stakeholders by May 1 to examine by the constitutional panel comprising Justice Madan B Lukur, Justice RK Agarwalla, Justice P C Pant, Justice DY Chandra Chud, Justice Ashok Bhushan will hear a few petitions clubbed together. A number of petitions has been pending before the top court on the vexed issues of infiltration, citizenship and the base year in the Assam Accord. The court on Thursday is expected to hear another petition to review...
Four senior Homeopathic physicians namely Dr SK Das, Dr Susanta Malakar, Dr Gayatri Dutta, Dr Ramanand Gupta will be available for free healthcare consultations at Guwahati Press Club on Saturday, 22 April 2017. The camp is open for all the honorable members of the press club along with their dependants, where they will also get the opportunity to check their blood pressures. The evening OPD clinic will start at 4 pm and continue till 6 pm. Earlier two doctors from MMC Panbazar hospital namely Dr Madhab Rajbongshi and Dr Hitendra Nath Chakravarty conducted the Saturday clinic at the press club premise on 8 April. The 1 April camp was conducted by Dr Prerit Sarma and Dr Ayona Barthakur from...
Security forces claimed to have shot dead a hardcore ULFA-I rebel at an encounter in Dibrugarh district on Tuesday. According to army, a group of rebels who were hiding at a house in Rongpuria village in Kakopothar targetted an army vehicle with firing. The army jawans who were travelling on the vehicle retaliated where the encounter took place. One of the rebels who initially sustained injury died later. Others managed to flee from the spot. Later security forces arrived in the spot and launched a joint operation in search of the rebels.
An emotional moment with pensive conclusion embraced nearly hundred participants as they assembled at Makhibaha HS School in Nalbari district of central Assam on 16 April on the occasion of Satirtha Samaroh. Over fifty former students belonged to 1982-83 high school leaving certificate examination batch along with their family members participated in the function with various programs like the plantation in the school premise, commemoration to their school friends, felicitation to former teachers, vivid interactions among the participants etc. The felicitated teachers including Trailokya Choudhury, Prafulla Goswami, Narayan Sarma, Jogesh Sarma, Naren Das, Rameswar Kalita, Mathur Thakuria...
Witch hunting incidents in Assam strikes global attention when the United Nation has invited a crusader from the state to a workshop slated for Geneva in September this year. Birubala Rabha, who has been running the anti witchery show down for the last right years will be making it to Geneva to participate a workshop where the cancerous superstition will get a prominence. Many parties and organizations' have called up her for being invited to the UN workshop and called it a huge stride to end with hunting cases in Assam.
Assam continues to erupts in joy of Rongali Bihu on the second day of the much vaunted spring festival reviving the hopes of a bounteous crops this year. Sounds of drumbeats and cymbals, flute, bamboo made instruments accompanied by song and dance have given the north eastern a different look. Dressed with traditional attire, boys and girls have started performing door to door Bihu huchori while cultural functions are lined up in the nook and corner of the state during the week long festival. Temples across the state are teeming with visitors and devotees seeking divine help for the new year Assamese year which begins on Saturday. “ I got up early in the morning and with have visited...
Bohag Bihu, the much vaunted festival of the Assamese kicks off on Friday amid no less traditional pomp and gaiety across the state marking an entry into a new Assamese calendar year. The week long festivity began early in the morning with Goru Bihu, where the cow was bathed in pool and rivers to be worshipped. Traditional Assamese sweets and pastries are flooding every household to be served to the near and dear ones. Dressed in traditional attire people in the open spaces are busy with egg fights other games to mark the annual spring festival. With drums and cymbals, flute and buffalo horn pipes the young boys and girls are performing door to door Bihu Huchori wishing divine bliss...
BJP candidate Ranoj Pegu won the Dhemaji assembly by election defeating his nearest rival Congress candidate Babul Sonowal by a margin of 9,253 votes on Thursday. Pegu, for whom high profile party leaders campaigned got around 69, 253 votes while despite low key campaign Congress candidate Babul Sonowal pulled 60,000 votes. When the BJP candidate took the final leader the party leaders and workers started celebrating the victory. With drums and symbols, they started singing and dancing saying it a real occasion a day before the Rongali Bihu.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Assam twice this year if he accepts the invitation from chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal. Sonowal called on Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday and invited him to attend the Dhola-Saniya bridge opening ceremony next month. The chief minister further invited him to attend the global investment summit in Guwahati on November 9,10,11.
A group of villagers in Lakhimpur district inflicted inhuman torture upon a couple charging them with practising black magic hardly a week after a couple were killed in Kokrajhar sending shockwaves across the state. The incident took place at Moinahuri in Dhakuakhana where a group of villagers dragged Brojen Doley and his wife to a sandpit to be beaten up before allowing them to be remained half buried alleging witch craft. Acting on complaints police came and rescued the couple and registered a case. But by then the villagers fled from the spot. “The incident took place in the midnight where some youths picked up the couple and brought near a jungle where they were severely...
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