Acclaimed medicine specialist Dr Brajen Lahkar will conduct the next weekly evening OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club on 21 October 2017. The practicing doctor from the State’s well-known healthcare institution Dispur Hospital will be available for free consultations to the participants from 4 to 6 pm at the press club premises.
The last Saturday camp, organized under the ‘Evening with a Doctor’ program for the benefit of press club members along with their dependants, was graced by Dr Siben Dutta and Dr Santos Reddy from the city based Down Town Hospital.
Launched in August 2016 with initial supports from Dr Jayanta Bardoloi, managing director of Dispur Hospital in raising a doctor's chamber at the press club premises, the series of camps have emerged as a ‘healthy & rewarding hangout’ for the media persons. Many working journalists with high blood pressure & sugar were diagnosed in the camps and they were advised for follow up actions accordingly. Till date, practicing physicians from Apollo Chennai Hospital, SIMS Hospital Chennai, Manipal Bangalore Hospital, Fortis Hospital Bangalore, Medanta the Medicity Hospital, GNRC Hospitals, Hayat Hospital, Ayursundra Hospital, Nemcare Hospital, Sun Valley Hospital, Sight First Eye-Clinic, Barthakur Clinic, Wintrobe Hospital etc have attended the camps.
Even though the camps are primarily organised for the benefit of press club members with their close relatives, any journalist of the region (also the country) with their family members may take the advantage of the clinics, said a statement from the pioneer press club of northeast India adding that similar initiatives are also encouraged in other parts of the region.
On June 12, 2019 FAsCE India observed the World Day against Child Labour at Mermier Hall, SFS School campus, Narengi with the 110 children between the age group of 6-14 yrs of FAsCE India Supplementary Education Centre, Narengi.
The aim of the FAsCE India Supplementary Education Centre is to create “A Child Labour Free Neighbourhood through Education and Community Participation”. To commemorate this day in a befitting manner an Animation Programme on the theme “Children shouldn’t work in fields but on dreams!”
The programme began with an inaugural ceremony, Ranjan K Baruah, Founder of North East Youth Foundation the resource-person for the programme and Rev. Fr. Saji George MSFS,...
Tezpur: A free career counselling programme was organized by the initiative of 'SAHYOG' -the social welfare club of Girijananda Chowdhury Institute of Management and Technology (GIMT) located at Dekargaon, Tezpur. The programme was held at Assam Valley Academy, Tezpur.
The programme was conducted by career counselor and Principal of GIMT-Tezpur, Dr Buljit Buragohain. Apart from clearing the doubts of the students while choosing the right career path, Dr Buragohain also successfully responded to all the questions.
Dr Buragohain gave detailed explanation on how with hard work and dedication, the arts and commerce stream students can mould a successful career for themselves and also...
World Environment Day was observed by Assam Higher Secondary Education Council Assam in its office premises at Bamunimaidam, Guwahati on Wednesday.
A seminar on 'Conservation of Water' was held to mark the occasion. Secretary, AHSEC, Kamal Jyoti Gogoi moderated the proceedings.
Advisors to AHSEC Satyen Gogoi (rtd IGP Assam), Dr Dipankar Chakravarty, Controller of Examinations Pankaj Borthakur also spoke on the occasion.
Environment journalist and conservationist Mubina Akhtar highlighted the threats posed by climate change and various other anthropogenic factors that has led to severe water crisis with reference to the Brahmaputra Valley.
She appealed the AHSEC...
World Environment Day was observed by students and faculties of Radiant International School, Sonapur in Kamrup District in collaboration with Kaziranga Wildlife Society with the message ' Plant more trees, fight Air Pollution'.
A plantation programme was carried on in the school premises followed by interaction with the young students.
Journalist Chandan Kumar Duarah, Padum Borthakur, Mubina Akhtar and Anup Sarma - office -bearers of Kaziranga Wildlife Society, Shabori Purkayastha, principal of Radiant Int School highlighted the need to protect the environment by every individual.
Sushil Tamuly and S Roychoudhury CMD and Director respectively of the school also took...
Guwahati: Assam’s premier health care institute, Barthakur Clinic organized a media OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club on 1 June 2019, where practicing physician Dr Jury Das was available for free consultations to the participants. Nurse Lucy Songbai from the city based hospital helped over 30 scribes to get their blood pressure checked in the camp.
Next media OPD clinic for the benefit of working journalists along with their families will be conducted by a newly launched super specialty healthcare institute Excelcare Hospitals on 8 June at the press club premises.
The tenth Manash Borah Memorial North East Inter Institutional Debating Competition was concluded successfully on 31 May 2019 at Pragjyoti ITA, Machkhowa, Guwahati. More than twenty teams from across the state participated in the hard fought competition. The Competition is sponsored by the Manash Borah Memorial Trust (MBMT) and is organized by Old Boys Association, Sainik School Goalpara (OBASSG), the apex body of the alumni of Sainik School Goalpara, a premier residential school of the region. Manash Borah was an alumnus of SSG and was very instrumental in the formation of OBASSG. It is noteworthy that the Competition has completed a decade of glorious organization (2010-2019).
The...
Guwahati: One of the oldest nursing homes of Assam, Barthakur Clinic will conduct the next media OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club on 1 June 2019 for the benefit of its member-journalists.
The participants will get the opportunity to consult with experienced doctors from the city based hospital and also blood pressures checked in the camp (between 3.30 pm and 5 pm).
In yet another deadly attack Naga rebels killed 2 soldiers in Mon district on Saturday.
The incident took place at Tobu in Mon district of Nagaland at 1.45 in the afternoon where 2 Assam Rifles jawans died on the spot and 3 others sustained serious injury.
According to reports, as the soldiers reached Tobu the rebels were hiding on the roadside lobbed a powerful grenade at the vehicle and this was followed by indiscriminate firing.
The rebels fled from the spot before the arrival of army, police and para military forces. The injured have been shifted to the hospital.
A massive combing operation is in progress to apprehend the rebels.
The incident took place hardly a...
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