A retail shop for carbide free banana at Krishakor Dukan, Six Mile, Khanapara, Guwahati was inaugurated by Prabin Hazarika, Director of Horticulture and Food Processing on Thursday.
Mowsam Hazarika, Agriculture Officer informed that fruits are loved by everybody; extremely good for your health as they are loaded with vitamins and other nutrients that are essential for our growth and development. However the health benefits of fruits are being threatened by human greed. A potentially harmful compound believed to have carcinogenic properties is being used to ripen fruits by corrupt business men and shady market traders who are looking to make a quick buck.
Calcium carbide is a chemical compound that is industrially used in the production of calcium cyanamide for fertilizer and also in welding. When calcium carbide comes into contact with water it produces acetylene gas that hastens the ripening of several fruits such as mangoes, bananas and apples. This chemical is extremely hazardous because it contains traces of arsenic and phosphorus which both have dangerous effects on the human body.
However, Hazarika expressed that, use of ethylene gas exogenously is considered safe when used in concentration of 10-100 PPM ( 0.001-0.01%) depending upon the crop, variety and maturity, in ripening chambers at 18-24 Degree Centigrade with 90-95% relative humidity for ripening of fruits.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi mires in yet another controversy over the proposed AIIMS two days after his government cleared a huge plot in the outskirt of the city for the project.Talking to reporters on Sunday Nagaon MP Rajen Gohain accused Gogoi of shifting the AIIMS site to North Guwahati from the central part of the state.“This a dirty conspiracy by none other than Chief minister to shift the project from Nagaon district,” alleged Gohain. Gohain said that he would take up the matter with the authority to ensure that the hospital is set up in central Assam. Notably, the revenue department in consultation with the health and family welfare department cleared a huge plot of 571 bigha in...
The youth who sustained injury in the Paltanbazar city bus accident died on GMCH.GMCH sources told Assam Times that he died on Saturday afternoon 24 hours after the ABVP leader was rushed to it.Notably, a Khanapara bound city bus rammed into his two wheeler after the driver lost his control over the bus on Friday.Since then he was battling for life at the ICU at GMCH.
In yet another exemplary action to trim witch hunting, a local court in Udalguri sentenced life term jail for 15 accused a years after they brutally killed a tea garden worker branding her as witch. According to allegation, these 15 people killed Gigra Oraon of Butiachang after dragging him out of the house on March 19 last year. The district session judge cleared the judgment on Saturday in their presence giving millions of people a ray of hope in the fight against witch hunting.
The man who has reasons to smile in the north east chief minister’s conference in Guwahati on Saturday was none but Tarun Gogoi.Union home minister Rajnath Singh appreciated the chief minister for firmly dealing with the Adivasi carnage in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts last year.Singh said that the carnage was stopped from blowing out of proportion only because of his immediate intervention. He further lauded the role of security forces to deal with these incidents where over 80 people lost their lives.
The Centre has set up a special unit to step up better coordination with Myanmar. Led by Joint intelligence committee chairman RN Ravi, the team would take a slew of issues with the neighbouring country to weed out the insurgent outfits from the soil of Myanmar. Union home minister Rajnath Singh announced the team when he was addressing the north east chief ministers’ conference in Guwahati on Saturday.
Union home minister Rajnath Singh announced a special investigation cell to firmly deal with the rising militant activities in the north eastern region.In his speech at the NE CMs’ Conference in Guwahati on Saturday, he said that there has been steep rise in the incidents of extortions and abductions in Meghalaya. “These incidents should be firmly dealt with and these elements should be flushed out without any delay,” said Singh.
The Centre will not allow the north eastern region to be the haven of anti-national elements. Union home minister Rajnath Singh disclosed it at when he was opening the NE Chief Ministers’ Conference in Guwahati on Saturday.Singh asked security forces to firmly deal with the anti-national activities. He further announced zero tolerance to transborder crimes. All north eastern chief ministers along with DGPs along ITBP, SSB, SIB chiefs attended the meeting at the Khanapara Administrative Staff College.
After Congress, BJP is set to court yet another controversy over the ongoing process to update NRC.The party strongly advocates the inclusion of the names of Hindu Bangladeshi immigrants in the updated NRC.Senior BJP leader Ramen Deka formally raised the demand before Rajnath Singh when the Union home minister arrived in Guwahati on Friday.He further alleged that the Assam government has not been able to deliver the goods.
A massive extortion drive by ULFA is likely to hit a section of businessman in near future. The banned insurgent outfit is set to gear up it to contain the grim financial crisis plaguing it for the last couple of months. Sources told Assam Times that the outfit has asked Jibon Moran to manage the crisis that cripples the leaders and cadres alike in the dense jungles of Myanmar. “If the crisis remains unplugged a grim food crisis would cripple the entire banned outfit. Many insurgents will have to remain starved,” said sources. Moran, who is camping in Toga region of the neighbouring country is desperately trying to micro manage the crisis with a team of dreaded...
AICC is closely watching Dr Himanta Biswa Saram who is believed to have been aiding and abetting the dissident Congress leaders who are set to be axed in a day or two. AICC leaders told Assam Times that they will never take any hasty move against the former cabinet minister. Before taking any decision party vice president Rahul Gandhi will hold yet another meeting with Dr Sarma along with Anjan Dutta and chief minister Tarun Gogoi net month. The meeting is scheduled in Guwahati.
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