An Assamese professor in New Delhi has fetched huge pride to the north eastern region when she received a prestigious award in the national capital for her outstanding works for the country and it's people.
She is none other than Dr Arti Barua, who has received the Mother Teresa Global Award for Excellence and Gold Medal for 2017.
Baruah, who teaches Philosophy in the Deshabndhu College, University of Delhi received thr coveted award at a glittering function in IIC , New Delhi attended by former Sikkim Governor Ch. Randhir Singh.
Dr Barua was awarded for her excellent work done which is something extra – ordinary for her country and countrymen and has attained greater excellence in her field of activity and enhanced the image of India.
Assam observed Sukafa Diwas across the state on Friday to commemorate the advent of the first Ahom king Chaolung Sukafa way back in 1228. In many places, people of all walks of life thronged and paid tribute to the great Ahom king who came down from a Chinese province through a hilly terrain of Patkai to settle the 600 year long Ahom Kingdom in Assam. The occasion began with the puja offering to the first Assamese who happened to be the descendent of the god Khunlung. Open meetings, music, drawing and quiz competitions along with cultural functions are lined up throughout the day. The central function is holding at the Sukafa complex in Jorhat where thousands of people are attending to...
Security forces are fanning in a huge area Charaideo in search of ULFA-I rebels who were believed to have been hiding to exchange the old currency notes. Detaining the youths and old alike at an open space, army, police and para military forces have been conducting house to house operations in the remote villagers in search of the ULFA rebels who is leant to have been preparing for a massive strike. “The operation has cause immense inconvenience. We can’t concentrate on the crop cutting as we are detained from drown to dusk,” said an old villager in Charaideo who is being detained at an open field along with hundreds of villagers. “We have nothing to say against the operation against any...
Senior Assam Public Service Commission member Ranjit Barthakur will head the autonomous body after Chairman Rakesh Paul was sent to jail for his alleged involvement in the cash for selection scam. Barthakur, the senior member of the commission has been promoted after the authorities gave the required consent. Barthakur’s tenure is set to end after six months. Notably, sitting chairman Rakesh Paul has been removed after he was arrested along with a few others including a member.
The additional amount of the electricity tariff runs into a hail of anger and protest. Many organizations are believed to have been preparing statewide protest demanding an immediate roll back. “We won’t allow it to happen. We are well prepared for a protest,” said a local AASU leader in Guwahati. AJYP, KMSS along with many other local organizations are also preparing for a massive protest for hiking the electricity tariff which comes into force from Thursday. “The government is least bothered. We are annoyed a lot with frequent power cuts. Does the government has any shame to have hiked the tariff?,” said Porinita Saikia, a housewife in Six Mie areain Guwahati. Rupam Das from Jaya Nagar...
Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) welcomes the ruling of the Supreme Court of India for playing the National Anthem in all cinema halls across the country before the screening of a movie. The nationalist peoples’ forum also expresses happiness over the verdict, which asks the audience in theatre halls to rise when the anthem is played and the National Flag be shown on the screen. It may be mentioned that the apex court on 30 November also directed the Centre that the order should be given effect in a week's time and be circulated to all the States and Union Territories. The verdict clarified that ‘there should not be any dramatization of the anthem and it should not be printed or...
Two eye specialists from Sight First namely Dr Subhra Kinkor Goswami and Dr Bijuli Goswami will be available for free consultation and preliminary treatments to the member-journalists of Guwahati Press Club (GPC) on 3 December next. Organized at the press club premises under the series of ‘Evening with a doctor’ programs on every Saturday, the camp will begin at 4 pm and continue till 6 pm. The last evening clinic on 26 November was graced by Dr Madan Mohan Reddy, senior consultant on orthopedic surgery from Apollo Hospitals, Chennai. Over 25 GPC members along with their close relatives participated in the camp for consultations on various ailments like back, neck & knee pain, major...
The killer AIDS seems to have taken a deep grip in Assam with 928 new HIV cases. According to the statistics available with the Assam State AIDS Control Society (ASACS), the disturbing scene has come to light when more and more people have come for test. Kamrup (Metro) alone has the highest HIV positive cases which stands at 38 per cent to be followed by Cachar, Dibrugarh and Nagaon districts. ANC attendees basically hail from Karimganj, Tinsukia and Karbi Anglong while Cachar and Sonitpur —record more than one per cent HIV prevalence. According to the experts, since Assam is the gateway to the north east, obviously it is the highly vulnerable for HIV transmission where many young...
The police team set up to probe the APSC scam have been interrogating three ACS officers and an APS officer on probation in Guwahati to extract more clue on the scam. The three extra assistant commissioners along with the Deputy Superintendent of Police appeared the SIT in Kahilipara on Tuesday night where they have been facing marathon interrogation. More ACS and APS officers are expected to be grilled by the SIT to probe the scam where APSC chairman Rakesh Paul along with a few of his members and officers allegedly made money.
At least four people died and several others sustained injury when the bus carrying them collided its head on a truck in Dergaon on Wednesday. The accident took place at 2 in the wee hours when the passenger bus from Guwahati reached Ronganati near Dergaon where the driver was believed to have lost the control over the bus. But local residents blamed the fog for poor visibility. Three people died on the spot while the injured passengers were sent to the Jorhat Medical College Hospital.
A local court in Guwahati on Tuesday remanded Basanta Doley to 14 days police custody a day after the APSC member was arrested in connection with a selection scam. The police team probing the scam produced Doley before the court in the afternoon and sought him in their remand for further interrogation. Then the court allowed the police to take the APSC member in their custody for the next 14 days. Doley was arrested after 10 hours of interrogation in this connection. Dutta caught the attention after he damaged some official documents in the office premises a couple of days after chairman Rakesh Paul was arrested by Dibrugarh police.
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