Caught in a barrage of criticism, forest minister Pramila Rani Brahma has blamed NDFB for repeated rhino poaching incidents in the state. Virtually expressing utter helplessness, she said that it was not possible for the government to check the rhino poaching incidents where the rebels strike the national parks at regular intervals to smuggle rhinos at Vietnam.
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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