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.
A team of police from Guwahati is seeking transit remand for four NDFB militants two days after they were apprehended in Bengaluru.Identified as Tonon Basumatri, Sundun Basumatri, Nerson Basumatri and Jibnal Nersary, they would be brought to Guwahati for interrogatin by police and other investigation agencies.According to police, they were hiding in their Laggere house, near Peenya to be raided on Friday. They have been working in a bag-manufacturing unit at Srigandhakaval, off Magadi Road.
Outgoing AJYCP president Manoj Baruah has joined BJP on Sunday after he was assured of ticket to contest from Pattacharkuchi in Barpeta district in the next assembly polls.Baruah joined the party before state unit president Siddharth Bhattacharya at a brief function organizaed at the party headquarters in Guwahati on Sunday.Several senior party leaders attended the function who hope that his joining would boost the morale of the party.
The Kamatapur Liberation Organization has made it plain and simple that Jiban Singha is still alive three days after the army claimed to have killed the outfit’s chairman at a sytrike in Myanmar. KLO told a section of media on Saturday night that Jivan is keeping fine and that army have been spreading lies to confuse the people. KLO made its position clear hours after ULFA confirmed that the KLO chief was not dead as it wa claimed by army. Notably, army on Friday claimed to have killed the KLO chief at a strike inside the soil of Myanmar along with several other insurgent leaders.
Yet another student leader is preparing to join politics. He is none other than Aswini Chetia. The president of All Tai Ahome Students Union is all set to join Congress shortly. APCC sources told Assam Times that Chetia is in constant touch with party president Anjan Dutta. Sources confirmed that Chetia will seek to contest from Sivasagar in the assembly polls early next year.Chetia’s preparation to join the ruling party assumes significance after a circle of AASU and AJYCP leaders are joining BJP.
The flood situation threatens to take further grim turn if the weathermen are to be believed. Meteorological centre in Guwahati has predicted more rainfall in the state during the next 48 hours. It would further compound the scene in 10 districts. These flood hit districts have received excess rain during the last ten days. Chirang and Goalpara recorded 312 per cent and 243 per cent excess rain respectively.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi reviewed the overall flood scene at a meeting with senior bureaucrats in Dispur on Saturday. Gogoi, who arrived in Guwahati from New Delhi on Friday hunkered down with chief secretary VK Pipersenia along with other senior officers where he asked the officers to expedite relief and rescue in the flood hit areas to mitigate the misery of the flood hit people. Food and civil supply, health department officials apprised the chief minister of the current stock of food and medicines for the flood hit measures.
The death of Jiban Singha is shrouded in confusion on Saturday a day after army claimed to have killed the KLO chief in the strike on the soil of Myanmar.In his e-mail, ULFA-I spokesman Arunodoy Dohotiya said on Saturday that the Jiban is fine and healthy and that army have been resorting to blatant lies. Army on Friday said that KLO chief was killed in strike inside the Myanmar territory along with more than a dozens of insurgents. Army further said that the bodies would be flown to New Delhi for confirmation through DNA test. His family members in Coochbehar are caught in utter confusion in the absence of any confirmation from the government. ...
The overall flood situation has gone from bad to worse following the incessant rains that cripple normal life in the state during the last one week.More and more areas in ten districts have come under the surging waters of the river Brahmaputra and its tributaries during the last 24 hours.Flood waters on Saturday inundated new areas in Barpeta, Lakhimpur, Dhemaji and Sonitpur districts. Over one lakh people have been reeling under flood in Barpeta district damaging 2,800 hectares of crops.The Brahmaputra is still flowing above the danger mark in Nimatighat in Jorhat and Dhubri where roads, embankments and bridges were washed away.
The authorities have restricted water transport services on the Brahmaputra in Nimatighat and Majuli island because of a rising water level of the mighty river.Official sources told Assam Times that the plying of boats and other vessels after sunset has been banned in other segments of the Brahmaputra.
Flood situation refuses to improve in Sonitpur, Kokrajhar, Tinsukia, Goalpara and Dibrugarh districts on Saturday as the rivers are still flowing above the danger marks.The water levels in Dibang, Lohit, Subansiri and Siang in Arunachal Pradesh have been rising because of excessive rain during the last one week.
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