BJP legislator from Jorhat Hitendra Nath Goswami will be the Assam Assembly Speaker replacing Ranjit Das, who has already taken over as state Party president.
Goswami’s name was formally cleared at the party’s legislative body meeting at the Brahmaputra Guest House on Saturday evening. Before that the party leaders from New Delhi suggested Goswami to replace Das.
The MLA from Jorhat will take oath from governor B Purohit very soon to preside over the upcoming budget session.
On the occasion of his birth centenary this year, Jyotiprasad Medhi Award in Mathematical Sciences is announced by his family. Professor Jyotiprasad Medhi was a world renowned scholar in Statistics who was born on 1st July 1924 in Ramdia, Assam. He received his D.Sc. (with Tres Honorable) from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in 1956 and returned to Assam to teach at Gauhati University where he later became the Head of the Department in Statistics, Dean of Faculty of Science, and Acting Vice-Chancellor. His textbooks on Stochastic Processes and Queueing Theory are widely used for teaching in many academic institutions around the world. He passed away on 3rd February 2017 at the age of 92...
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