The much awaited boxing carnival 4th Asian Women Boxing Championship got off to a colourful start at the Karmabir Nabin Chandra Bordoloi Indoor Stadium in the Sarusajai Sports Complex here yesterday evening in Guwahati. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi inaugurated the boxing extravaganza. Beijing08' Olympic bronze medal winning famed boxer Vijender Kumar along with his teamates Jitender Kumar and Akhil Kumar were the star attractions of the inaugural function.Though 12 counntries had confirmed participation but altogether 11 countries are taking part in the meet leaving Indonesia who did not turnup. The participating country teams - China, DPR Korea, Kazakstan, Korea, Macao, Mongolia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Chinese Taipei, Vietnam and host India - took part in the march past programme in the function while thrice world champion MC Mary Kom took oath on behalf of all the participants. India made a bad start as local girl Pranamika Borah lost to her Chinese opponent Dong Cheng 1-4 at the KNCB Indoor Stadium in the Sarusajai Sports Complex .. The bronze medallist in the Turkey world invitational meet in 2005, Pranamika even went pointless in the first and third round.Earlier in the opening bout of the championship Mala Rai of Nepal was beaten by Pin Meng Chien of Chinese Taipei 1-5 in the 46kg category. The boxing meet ends on 28th Sept. 2008. World class infrastructure of the sporting venues after the 33rd National Games has helped Assam to host international events in the city.
PermalinkSubmitted by Anish on Thu, 25/09/2008 - 09:38
Come on India, you can win it!!! Hopefully the national media takes interest in this event so that non-cricket sports are promoted in our country.
Best of luck girls!!!
This is regarding the report submitted by the 6thAssam Pay Commission. From the partial report made public by the Govt., it is apparent that apart from Grade-IV employees of Assam, no one is going to benefit from it. The so-called experts of the Pay Commission with Mr Bhaskar Barua (retd. IAS) and the Mr H S Das, Finance Secretary of Assam at the helm of affairs, have deliberately recommended a report with lot of discrepancies which may be summarised as follows -
1. Employees of the rank of Junior Engineers, Sub-Inspectors, others who are in the equivalent pay scale of 3490-8100...
Security forces are fanning the areas across Assam-Arunachal pradesh border in Dhemaji district a few hours after NDFB kidnapped a top ranked railway officer on Saturday. According to information, railway construction form BAPL's project manager Anchal Modi was whisked away at gun point by a group of miscreants from Simenchapori in Dhemaji district who are suspected to be the cadres of NDFB's Ranjan Daimary faction at around 12 noon on Saturday.
In yet another incident the Bodo rebel group kidnapped an irrigation SDO Nur Ahmed from Tangla in Darrang district on Saturday. Ahmed was kidnapped from Kawadanga area. Details are awaited.
An earthquake, the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust, can be due to either a natural phenomenon or human activity. The ravaging activities on the womb of the mother earth like drilling, blasting, digging and establishing coal mines, oil fields, Uranium extractions are posing a life threat to the very existence of mother earth. and South East Asia and as such Assam is definitely threatened. Large oil pipelines passing through the heart of the guwahati city and suction pumps of high velocity is delicately adding woes to worry and we Guwahatians are spending sleepless nights The energy that gets released in an earthquake reads from 1 – 10 on the Richter scale....
An eye-check up camp for the media persons in Guwahati Press Club has made shocking revelation that most of the participants were advised for further course of treatment. Organized with the support from Sri Sankardeva Nethralaya on October 29 in the press club premises, the health camp was an eye-opening experience for the scribes, who had not used spectacles earlier (and now they are being advised to do so). A group of physicians from the Nethralaya hospital including Dr Jiten Bhattacharya, Dr Debojit Deka with Niranjan Bezbaruah, Dibyajyoti Das, Mrinal Medhi attended the camp, where nearly 100 media persons participated.
The Journalists’ Forum, Assam (JFA) on Tuesday hailed the Gauhati High Court decision to admit a revision petition on the Parag Kumar Das murder case as a glimmer of hope for those who still believe in the rule of law and expect a logical end to the lingering case. It was stated in a JFA statement.
The JFA also thanked the people of Assam for writing letters to the high court in the form of an appeal seeking a review of the sessions court verdict. It may be recalled here that a JFA-organised citizens’ meet on August 7 at Guwahati Press Club, had called upon the people to issue such an appeal through letters. The meeting on that day requested the people to hand over to the...
Thousands of AGP leaders and workers gathered in Dispur on Monday demanding government action to bring down the price level. The workers who arrived in the city of Guwahati in the morning from different places of the state gathered at Khanapara and later took out a procession to Dispur alleging the government's failure to deal with the price hike. Talking to reporters, AGP leader and former minister Atul Bora said the government has been failing on all fronts and that the protest will continue untill and unless steps are taken to control the prices of essential commodities. Former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta was present in the protest programme along with party president Chandra...
Sri Sankardeva Nethralaya, in association with Guwahati Press Club has organized an eye check-up camp for scribes on October 29. The camp, to be held on the press club campus will begin at 9.30 AM. Eye specialists Dr Kasturi Bhattacharjee, Dr Pankaj Bhattacharyya will attend the camp with other staffs, informed Dr Jiten Bhattacharya of Sankardeva Nethralaya. The camp is open to all media persons of the State.
A one day national Conference is being organised on "Strengthening Development Processes in North East India: Identifying Scope & Challenges in Development & Governance” on October 30 in New Delhi. The Conference will deliberate on key development and governance aspects pertaining to the region. Representatives from the Public, academics, private and civil society are participating in the deliberations towards a framework highlighting key development and governance parameters vis-a-vis North East India. The event will be held at Scope Convention Centre (Adjacent to CGO Complex...
NDFB's pro truce faction secretary S Sangjarang was seriously injured when two suspected cadres of the breakaway faction attacked him in Udalguri on Wednesday. According to information, the incident took place in Udalguri at around 10 in the morning when Sangjarang was riding on a motorcycle. Two motorcycle born youths suspected to be the cadres of NDFB's third battalion started sprayed several rounds of bullets on him where he fell injured. The miscreants left the spot immediately after the incident. Later the pro truce NDFB leader was rushed to Nemcare Hospital for treatment. Police investigation is in progress.
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is all set to visit Asam soon. The confirmation came up as Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi called on the Prime Minister Manmohan at New Delhi on Tuesday where they discussed the move by China to build a dam on the Brahmaputra.
Dr. Singh conveyed the Chief Minister that he will soon visit Assam to attend the Assam Agriculture University Convocation and foundation stone laying ceremony of Petroleum Technology Institute at Sibsagar.
Talking to reporters after his meeting with Dr Singh, Gogoi said there was no definite proof regarding setting up of dam by China.
Gogoi discussed at length the border problem between Assam and Bangladesh, cross border...
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