Guwahati: Come March 22 Arunachal Pradesh is preparing to host a bird festival, atop the blue hills to promote tourism by giving a big push to wildlife conservation. Courtesy Arunachal Pradesh Art & Culture Eco-Tourism Society, this organization dedicated to promote wildlife conservation is holding the festival for three days from March 22 at Rupa and the Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in West Kameng district.
According to the organizing secretary Ms. Kesang Khrimey, the event aims at conserving the wildlife with a massive participation of the people and thereby to promote the tourism sector which provides livelihood for many in the state.
Interaction with wildlife experts and tourism entrepreneurs apart from heritage walk and seminars would be the salient features of the event, said Khrimey.
“We have already got confirmation of participation form experts in the field of nature conservation from the country and abroad, including Dr.Anuj Jain of BirdLife Asia (Singapore), Mr Paul Insua-Cao of Royal Society for Protection of Birds, UK and Director of The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) Dr Deepak Apte”, she added.
Khrimey further said that it would be an occasion for the people of all walks of life to share their views and ideas with the wildlife experts and the tourism entrepreneurs will have the same amount of benefit to boost their means of livelihood.
ULFA’s Paresh Baruah faction has asked the Dalai Lama not to speak ill of China during his upcoming visit to Assam. In a statement, ULFA(I) chairman Dr Abhijit Asom said that his anti-China remarks on the soil of Assam might trigger a 1962 like aggression on the state. He made it plain that ULFA-I has nothing to oppose Dalai Lama’s visit to the state if he tries to revive the Buddhist culture which existed in the ancient Assam. But he must not utter any word against China on behalf of India saying that China has no hostility with the state. On the other hand, the IIT-Guwahati has disallowed a function at its premises proposed to release the Assamese version of his book. The authority with...
Dhemaji police got remand of Soobodh Biswas for nine days after the main accused in the Silapothar incident was produced a lower court on Monday. The Chief Judicial Magistrate agreed to sent him to the police remand after the investigating officers wanted more time to probe the allegations against the NBBUSS president who allegedly incited the violence on March 6 Before that Biswas was brought to the court premises with tight security to be greeted by huge protest on the streets from the Dhemaji Sadar Police station to the CJM court a day after Biswas was flown from Guwahati. Many people flashed festoons and play cards demanding his exemplary punishments on both sides of the road as a...
The Gurgaon based Medanta-the Medicity Hospital on Saturday (25 March 2017) conducted the weekly evening clinic at Guwahati Press Club, where Dr Prasun Ghosh (Urology) and Dr Nabajit Talukdar (Cardiology) checked the health status of around 25 participants and advised them accordingly. The health camp, open for the press club members along with their dependants, was supported by Manoranjan Kalita of the acclaimed hospital. It may be mentioned that the press club launched the unique healthcare program titled ‘Evening with a Doctor’ with initial supports from Dr Jayanta Bardoloi, managing director of Dispur Hospitals in last August. The city based hospital also conducted the first evening...
The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has strongly opposed the move to link the Brahmaputra with the Ganges alleging it an attempt to deprive Assam of it's rights over the water resources.In an email statement, the proscribed outfit appealed to the people to unitedly oppose the riverlinking move. It further said that the huge upcoming festival to invoke the Brahmaputra is unwanted at a time when the state is caught in a grim crises in many areas.
The Dhemaji police team set up to probe the Silapothar arson early this month has been interrogating Soobodh Biswas a day after the main accused was caught in West Bengal on Wednesday.Police officials are tightlipped on the revelations but the physician turn social activists for the Hindu Bangla-speaking people is believed to have invited the clash where a section of the protestors ransacked a local AASU office triggering statewide protest.But the investigators would ascertain the charges against him after corroborating with the statements of 45 other people now under police custody.Biswas, whom, police kept at a police guest house after tbd arrival on Wednesday would be flown to Dhemaji to...
President Pranab Mukherjee will be on a day long visit to Assam on March 31 to open the Namani Festival in Guwahati. Assam governor B Puruhit, chief minister Sarbanabda Sonowal along with many central minister's are scheduled to attend the opening ceremony in Guwahati. Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan and Dalai Lama are also scheduled to attend the festival to pay tribute to the river Brahmaputra.
An Assam police team has landed in Guwahati with Soobidh Biswas whom they arrested early in the morning on Wednesday 16 days after he allegedly incited violence in Silapothar. Immediately after it, Biswas and his associate were taken to an undisclosed location to be grilled on the allegations of inciting violence in Silapothar on March 6. By Friday, Biswas and his associates are likely to be taken to Dhemaji where he would be produced before the CJM court seeking further remand. Dhemaji police have registered case against Biswas under Sect 147/148/149/448/325/427/153(A), IPC charging him with spreading communal hatred apart from damaging public property. Before that a local court in...
Sarma, the former health minister of state in the PK Mahanta council of ministers in 1985 breathed his last at 9 in the morning at the Gangaram Hospital in the capital where he was undergoing treatment for a couple of weeks. His body would be flown to his home town in Jorhat on Thursday where many political leaders, social activists have been waiting to pay him their last respect. AGP, BJP and Congress in rank and file have condoled his premature death and conveyed deep sympathies to the bereaved family members.
The Gauhati High Court on Wednesday directed the Assam Government to compensate Rs 3.50 lakh each top five people who lost eye eights after undergoing a government sponsored cataract surgery at MMCH in Guwahati two years back. A division bench of the court comprising Justice Manjit Bhuyan and Justice Ajit Singh, who heard the petition passed the directive under the Public Law much to the huge respite for the people.
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal held a high level meeting in Dispur to review the state’s law and order situation after police arrested Soobodh Biswas in West Bengal on Wednesday.He asked Chief Secretary VK Pipersenia and DGP Mukesh Sahay who attended the meeting to ensure normalcy in the state when the NIBBUSS president would be brought in the afternoon. According to sources, the authorities have asked the Dhemaji district administration to ensure normalcy when Biswas would be there for interrogation by the special interrogation team set up to deal with the case. A police team from Assam produced Soobodh Biswas at a local court in Barasat in West Bengal hours after the main...
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