This music institute created quite a buzz in Bangalore in 2009, by being the groundbreaking “First Registered Music Institute to be commenced by an Assamese”. With the festive spirits still vivacious, Eastern Fare Music Foundation had more than one reason to celebrate. Thanks to the trailblazing initiative by Jim Ankan, a music composer from Assam, the institute has not only completed a year but has done extremely well in the Trinity Guild Hall Exam for music. The students of Eastern Fare scored record percentages in the whole of Bangalore City (Shreya Krishnaswamy 98%).
The anniversary celebrations were conducted on 12th February at the Furtados Music Showroom in Koramangala. The event "Euphony - a winter nocturne" also marked the launch of the official website of institute www.easternfare.com. The show took off with some quick and crispy piano recitals by the beginners; while the intermediate students did some covers like “Heal the world” by MJ and “To be with you” by Mr Big. The institute’s band Eastern Fare really got the temperatures rising with some original tracks like “Personally Your’s” and “Least Liked Best”. Vocalist Siddharth Tanti and Faheeda Fahad made the crowd groove to some equally nifty covers like “Friday”, “Wild World”, “Heart Shaped Box”, “Give Me Some Water” and “Animal Instinct”. However it was the featured performance by Chief Guest Suchetan Rangaswamy with his fusion band “Veenar”, whose melodious phonation touched some meticulous Carnatic notes leaving the crowd awe struck. Mr. Rangaswamy also felicitated the top performers of the institute. Parmita Borah anchored the show with her usual panache.
Eastern Fare Music Foundation is a full-fledged music institute and is recognized by the Trinity School of Music. The courses offered are purely western classical, but the management has decided to foray into Carnatic and Hindustani classical music towards the second half of this year. The foundation also has a club, Eastern Fare Music Club, where the members are provided with facilities like jamming room, studio and library. The members of the club have been associated with charitable causes like ‘blood donation’, ‘helping the poor’ and ‘teaching the under priviledged’. The director of the institute Jim Ankan has composed music for many albums, films and south Indian television serials. He has also been featured in Radio Channels like Radio Indigo (Bangalore) and Gupshup FM (Guwahati).
More trouble awaits NHPC. Yet another social activist ups his ante on the power giant alleging flouting of norms laid down by the ministry of forest and environment and the Brahmaputra Board. Releasing RTI documents the social activist JN Khatoniar said that NHPC has spent a huge Rs 7000 crore since 2004 in the name of the Gerukamukh-based project. Khatoniar alleged that the state sector power giant mislead the people with false advertisements in media. “In media advertisement, NHPC claimed to have secured statutory and regulatory clearances for the project from ten bodies. These included Ministries of Environment and Forest as well as Power, the Brahmaputra Board, Central Water...
Assam is in the grip of a severe power crisis which cripples normal life across the state. This is following the reduced generation of power by hydel and thermal power stations in the state. According to official sources, the state is facing a shortage of 403 MW of power with the peak load hour power demand being 1100 MW as against the available 497 MW.
The problem has been further compounded with the damage of transmission towers due to storm on the night of May two in Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal that supplies 300 MW power to Assam. The scene is expected to improve within a couple of days as work was going on to restore the transmission towers though the gap between the demand and...
The owner and pilot of the double-decker ferry that capsized on April 30 in the Bramhaputra river in Assam's Dhubri district have been arrested as one more body was recovered on Tuesday. Owner of the ferry Syed Ali Bepari and pilot Golabuddin, ticket checker Syed ur Rahman and helper Shah Alam Sheikh have been arrested on the charge of plying the ferry after expiry of its licence.
Meanwhile, with search continuing since the mishap, one more body was fished out today, taking the official count of bodies recovered so far to 40. The body was found from Patakata, downstream from the accident site, and close to Indo-Bangladesh border.
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday called on several UPA heavyweights in Delhi amid speculations of an impending cabinet reshuffle. Gogoi met Union finance minister Prabnab Mukherjee and discussed the state’s financial health. Before that he met defence minister AK Antony and home minister P Chidambaram where he discussed the state’s law and order. On Monday, he called on Congress president Sonia Gandhi a day after he attended the chief minister’s conference on NCTC.
The All Assam Tai Ahom Students Union on Tuesday called off its 36-hour Assam Bandh called in protest against the killing of its leader in Sivasagar district affecting normal life.
Incidents of road blockade, stone pelting, burning of tyres and damage of vehicles by bandh supporters were reported from different parts of Jorhat, Golaghat, Sivasagar, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia and Lakhimpur districts.
Several other students' organisations of the state, including Tai Ahom Yuva Chatra Parishad, Adivasi Student Association, Koch Rajbongshi Students Union, Chutiya Students Union, among others, have extended their support to the bandh ending on Wednesday morning.
The other 36-hour Assam bandh...
The National Symposium on High Performance Computing was held at Assam Engineering College, Guwahati on May 5, 2012 was aimed at creating awareness on HPC and its potential benefits in academia and industry. The technical sessions by expert speakers in various engineering domains provided a perfect incubation platform for faculties, engineers and researchers to indulge in advance research using HPC.
High-performance computing (HPC) is the use of parallel processing for running computationally intensive application programs efficiently and reliably. It is considered synonymous with the term supercomputing. Research on HPC started in the late 1970s and has gained importance in recent times...
Normal life in Sivasagar has been thrown out of gear under the impact of the 24-hour bandh call by AATASU on Saturday. Roads across the district wore deserted look, schools and colleges,shops and markets remained closed under the impact of the bandh. Government offices and banks witnessed thin attendance. The All Assam Tai Ahom Students union called for the 24 hour bandh in protest against the killing of Debojeet Lahon by a gang of miscreants in Sivasagar on Thursday.
A mild tremor jolted the entire upper Assam on Saturday creating panic among the people. The tremor shook Sivasagar, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Jorhat, Lakhimpur and Dhemaji district at 1.39 am. The earthquake was of 4.4 magnitude in Rickhtar scale and the epicentre was the Assam -. Arunachal Pradesh border. This is the second quake to have struck Assam in the last 10 days.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday said that unemployment is the biggest problem facing Assam and imparting modern skill to youths can eradicate it to a large extent.Addressing a function in Guwahati on Friday, Gogoi said that lack of expertise among our youths means that Assam has to bring even semi-skilled workers from other states for working in major projects like Gas Cracker in Lepetkata.He said that the state government is planning to upgrade ITIs and all such centres within the 12th Plan period. The target is to get over the problem of skill shortage within the next five years, he said.Industry and Commerce Minister Pradyut Bordoloi said that the government is planning to set up...
Assam has every reasons to cheer. Altogether five candidates from the state have been declared to have passed the Indian Administrative Service Examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission.The results have been announced on Friday. The five candidates hailing from Assam are Dhrubashis Deka, Satyakam Dutta, Priyanka Das, Mukesh Pandey and Ananya Saikia.
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