Maria’s Public School, Guwahati, Assam sent a delegation of six students and two teacher advisors to UNIS-UN, 2013. They set off on 3rd March to attend the Global Conference at UNIS-UN, New York and returns on 18th March. An initiative, taken by Mrs. Nellie Ahmed Tanweer, the Managing Trustee, to send students to UNIS, UN so that they interact and become global students. It has become an annual feature in the diary of the Marians since its first team visited in the year 2007.
An endeavour close to the heart of Mrs. Nellie Ahmed Tanweer, this year the six students who had gone were Antareep Hazarika, Surya Prakash Medhi, Srijani Roy Chaudhury, Phameinao Shaiza and Filzah Belal, and the teacher advisors are Mrs. Arnavi Chakraborty and Mrs. Nandita Barua. The students had worked on a film entitled “Awakening” which was screened ‘second’ at the conference. They had also written a poem entitled “The Change”, which had also been selected on this global platform. Phameninao Shaiza had recited the poem in front of the international delegates and participants at the United Nations general assembly hall. The students had also prepared on a debate keeping “Youth quake” in mind, as that is the theme for this year’s conference. They had won accolades and honours at the conference, winning at the Poem and Short Film Competitions.
Not only students, Mrs. Tanweer has never deterred from encouraging the faculty to excel.
This year Mrs. Alpana K. Phukan is going to London to attend the Graduation Ceremony to be held at the University London on May 16th. She has received a diploma of Educational Studies for a course in Action Research from the college of Teachers, Bedford, London, and this was sponsored by the British Council as a reward for having received the Global Teacher Accreditation from the Council in collaboration with the Cambridge Education foundation.
Abhishek Mehendi a Commerce teacher at the Maria’s Public School left for Central Institute of Technology (CIT) Australia on 23rd of February to attend the Vocational Training programme organized by the CBSE Board. The aim of this programme is to initiate Skill Development in India.
With such outbound programmes Maria’s soar high with quality faculty and global students.
Guwahati: The Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti (MASS) is disturbed and dismayed by the Supreme Court of India's decision to allow for the detention of civil rights activist Gautam Navalakha and Anand Teltumbe after August 14,2020. Both had been implicated in Bhima Korgoan case of 2018, where many Dalit activists were hurt in rioting by mobs supported by powerful local politicians. The subseauent arrests of civil right activists testimony to the dubious processes that were followed in order to implicate persons fighting for social justice in the Indian sub-continent.
In a press release, issued by MASS demands immediate release of the two rights activists.
Both Navalakha and...
Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses its profound grief at the untimely demise of senior sports journalist Pranjal Hazarika, who breathed his last today (13 April 2020) morning in Jorhat.
Lived at Jorhat with his extended family, Pranjal (45) was suffering from serious liver ailments for some time. He was hospitalized last night with major complications.
Pranjal left behind his parent, wife with a son, other relatives and a host of well-wishers.
“Pranjal left all of us at a time when the human race on planet Earth is fighting against the deadly novel corona virus under full or semi lockdown,” said a press release issued by JFA president Rupam Barua and secretary...
For almost 3 weeks now, Salesian College Sonada and its Siliguri Campus have been using on-line facility for teaching-learning as well as research.
An on-line Longitudinal Study on the Attitudinal Changes to the Covid -19 lockdown both for students and faculty is into its 3rd week. The Google Form containing 20 questions is send out each week, to both students and faculty to assess attitudinal changes caused by Covid 19 related lockdown.
Using Open Source Moodle platform (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) the faculty is able to reach out to some 1,900 students in both campuses for teaching-learning activities.
Founded and developed by Martin Dougiamas in...
GUWAHATI: A huge hailstorm accompanied by thunder and lightening on Thursday night heavily disrupted normal lives in many parts of the state on Friday.
The storm started lashing the capital city of Guwhati at around 9-30 in the evening where roads were submerged with rainwaters. In the lower Assam districts of Goalpara, Barpeta also the stormed disrupted the surface communication.
Same reports are coming from Sivasagar, Jorhat, Golghat and Tinsukia and Sonitpur and Nagaon where the uprooted trees blocked many roads apart from disrupting the electricity and tele communication network. Efforts in many areas are going on to restore the telecom network and electricity but it...
Silchar: The state registered the loss of it's first COVID19 patient when Faizul Islam Borbhuyan passed away at the Silchar Medical College Hospital on Friday.
Borbhuyan, the 28th patient COVID 19 patient, who was around 65 years of age, shown some strange symptoms and was rushed to SMCH a couple of years back from Hailakandi.
According to health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, he died in the week hours since he was having some breathing problem since he was admitted to the hospital.
Notably as many as 24 patients who have tested negative a number of times might be released on Friday or Saturday.
The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) is celebrating its 70th Foundation Day on 9 April. However, the grand celebrations planned earlier are now postponed by a year in the wake of Covid-19.
“ICCR is all about cultivating an enlightened understanding of Indian culture and when the entire Global community is facing an unprecedented challenge, feeling lonely and disconnected, the message of Indian philosophy i.e. Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam or the world is a family has become more relevant than any time in the past. Even in this lockdown situation, ICCR is conducting e-tutorials in Yoga, classical dances and even Hindi and Sanskrit. We are working with a ‘show must go on...
Guwahati: The All India United Democratic Front has stood by Aminul Islam after a lower court in Nagaon jailed the party from Dhing on Tuesday.
Talking to media state party president Champak Kalita said that the party will challenge Islam's judicial custody in the appropriate court of law.
Kalita said that Islam had done no wrong and only what he said was his only apprehension and that he was arrested only because of an opposition party MLA who has been critical of the government for it's many anti people policies.
Islam was arrested after interrogation by police charging him with spreading rumour on the quarantine of some people apprehending COVID19 infection.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Assam Government and Centre asking for an affidavit on a plea to release the detention camp inmates who have already spent 2 years.
Taking up a petition on Tuesday, the country''s top court said that the issued could be settled only after considering the response from the Centre and state.
The petitioner has strongly urged the court to direct the authorities to release half of the inmates in view of the killer COVID19 outbreak which could claim their lives since they have been detained inside a room.
The state has over 750 inmates in 6 detention camps set up inside the jails.
Earlier the top court has...
Nagaon: A local court in Nagaon has sent Aminul Islam to 14 days judicial custody on Tuesday after the police arrested the AIUDF MLA for spreading false rumour on quarantine.
When the police produced the MLA from Dhing before the Chief Judicial Magistrate producing evidence against him, Islam had no convincing statement to counter it and then he was thrown to the Nagaon Central Jail.
Earlier on Monday night a team of police picked up the senior AIUDF leader to the police guest house where he was grilled for nearly 2 hours.
Islam was quizzed after he told one of his aacquintance that the isolation wards set up by the government are like the detention camps...
Nagaon: Police have arrested AIUDF MLA from Dhing Aminul Islam charging him with misleading the people in the time of COVID-19 outbreak.
A team of police men on Monday afternoon picked up the senior AIUDF MLA to the office of superintendent where he was grilled for nearly 2 hours.
According to police sources, Islam could be arrested as soon as they get green signal from the state assembly Speaker since he is a sitting MLA.
Islam was quizzed after he told one of his aacquintance that the isolation wards set up by the government are like the detention camps alleging a conspiracy to kill a section of the people. Now policemen are in the possession of all these...
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