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!!!
In a tragic road mishap at least seven Assam Rifles personnel were killed, when their vehicle slipped into a deep gorge in Nagaland on Thursday.
Tne incident took place in Peren district as they were travelling on a routine duty on Thursday when their vehicle fell down into a gorge nearly 18 km away from Tenning.
The victims are a Junior Commission Officer and six jawans of the paramilitary force, officials said, adding some other jawans also received injury.
Police claimed to have averted a major string of strikes by ULFA on the eve of the Independence Day after recovering around seven bombs from Guwahati on Friday.
According to information, six powerful bombs have been recovered from a hill near Basistha bordering Meghalaya at around 10 in the morning during a joint operation by police and army.
before that a huge cache of arms and ammunition were recovered from Sadiya which were believed to have been kept ready to explode during the Independence Day celebrations. Investigations are in progress.
There isa no let up in the over all flood situation in Assam where surface communication still remains disrupted in the worst hit Lakhimpur and Dhemaji district. The situation took a grim turn on Thursday when the floodwater breached National Highway 52 at three places and the rail line at two places after the incessant rain for the past few days. The district administration, however, is on a drive to evacuated the affected people to safer places. More than 100 villages in Dhemaji were inundated while in Lakhimpur district, the Kakoi river burst its banks at three places, affecting ten villages.
A National Disaster Response Force contingent was assisting the administration in evacuation...
There is more disturbing news. An ULFA team is at work in Guwahati to strike in the city during the Independence Day salted dor Saturday. This has forced police to gear up to dela with this hardcore team of women ULFA cadres. What is more disturbing is that the women cadres are bomb experts who are joined by their counterparts in NDFB. These cadres have managed to sneak in to the city a few days back.
According to police sources, the city is put on alert in view of these disquitening inputs that the insurgent outfits are desperately trying to foment trouble in Guwahati. Notably, ULFA along with four other rebels outfits operating in the north eastern regional have called for a boycott of...
Influenza A ( H1N1) has become a matter of concern in our country, where over 15 people had already died. The WHO has cautioned that the number of cases will be rising in the coming days. Now it is already a near panic situation in the country. Though Assam has not reported any confirmed cases till date, Meghalaya, West Bengal and also Bhutan reported confirmed H1N1 cases. As it can be expected that thousands of people from Assam would move to other parts of the country (or vice versa), the vulnerability of the State remains high. The media, print as well as the visual and web, has to play a very important role in a dressing this issue. There is a need to provide scientific , un-biased and...
Heavy precipitation in the upper reaches of Subansiri River basin and Jiadhal river basin for the last 24 hours has triggered flood emergency in Dhemaji and Bordoloni Block of Dhemaji District. Jiadhal River Basin: Breached on the embankment on Jiadhal at Nepali Pathar and Adarsha Gaon point at the wee hours of 13th August 2009 has severely affected numbers of villages of Dhemaji Development block. The report received at 9.00 a.m. from the field reflects that the following Panchayats are severely affected- (1) Samarajan (2) Naruathan (3) Ghughuha (4) Ajuha (5) Batgharia. Report has received that the flood water has hit the Ghilamora Block of Lakhimpur District.
Na-Nadi River basin:...
We hereby appeal to the people of Assam and Northeast India to celebrate the Independence Day on 15th August to pay tributes to the patriots and martyrs who suffered and sacrificed their lives for the freedom of the Nation. It is observed that a section of separatist elements in the region have made it a habit to impose a ban on the celebration of both the Independence Day and Republic Day (of India). We must not forget that the immense sacrifice of those martyrs of Northeast who laid down their lives in the Freedom Movement. Because of their supreme sacrifice we are an independent Nation today and we have the moral duty and responsibility to pay tributes to the martyrs and salute the...
The Assam government is taking a slew of measures to battle with the killer swine flu which has already taken a toll of 17. Addressing press conference, Assam health minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma said 100 doctors are undergoing a two day special training in Guwahati to offer efficient treatment. He said these doctors would be dispatched in various places. Separate isolation wards would be set up one each in the three medical college hospitals in Dibrugarh, Guwahati and Silchar by Thursday, he said adding that these isolation wards would be available in Jorhat, nagaon, Tezpur, and Kokrakjar.
Assam powerful students’organisation Assam Students Union will sit in hunger strike on August 14 and 15 in protest against the failure of the government to implement the Assam Accord.
Addressing a press conference in Guwahati in Wednesday, AASU leaders said only this will over the years, the government has been failing to deal with influx of Bangladeshi immigrants, border problem, along with some other burning issues. AASU general secretary Tapan Kumar Gogoi said Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi have been failing to do the needful.
A group of ULFA cadres is waiting along the Assam- Nagaland border to monger trouble in upper Assam in the run up to the Independence Day. These are what the inputs available with the intelligence agencies forcing the authorities to go for a beefed up security measures in these areas.
According to information, a group of militants had entered Nagaland from Myanmar and were trying to enter Assam to cause disturbances ahead of the Independence Day.
The police has also received information that two ULFA militants Rupantor Kakoty and Niren Sarma who entered Sonari from Mon district in Nagaland have also brought three Improvised Explosive Device (IED) with them.
Meanwhile, Security has...
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