Tarun Saikia and Manish Kumar Deka were accorded a heroic welcome as they reached their homes in Guwahation Tuesday.
Both the mountaineers, who were the first Assamese duo to have scaled the Mt Everest were taken to the city with a huge procession after they landed at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi Internation Airport. The Assam Government received both the heroes at the Lokapriya Gopinath BordoloiInternational Airport immediately after their arrival. Several other organisations also greeted the duo and joined the rally along with their family members. Then mountaineers were taken to RG Baruah Sports Complex to be felicitated. The Assam Government will accord the mountaineers a warm felicitation at the auditorium of Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra in the evening on Thursdaywhere Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain, MLA Debabrata Saikia and host of dignitaries will be present. Saikia climbed the peak on May 18, Deka completed his venture on May 24.
Three city based physicians will conduct today's evening OPD at Guwahati Press Club for the benefit of scribes along with their dependents. Dr Manabendra Goswami (Surgery), Dr Arunima Goswami (Medicine) and Dr Ayona Barthakur (Gynecology) from Barthakur Clinic, Kharghuli will be available for free consultations from 4 pm to 6 pm at the press club premises. The participants will also get the facility to check their blood pressure & sugar too in the Saturday camp. Earlier, a group of physicians from the Government Ayurvedic College, Jalukbari conducted the last weekly evening OPD at the press club. Led by Dr Jayanta Sarmah and Dr Neelakshi Devchoudhury, the group comprising of Dr...
In a bid to minimise the man-elephant conflict in the greater Numaligarh area the Kaziranga Wildlife Society conducted interaction programmes between the villagers of affected villages and wildlife experts at Kacharigaon, Porajungle and No.1 and No. 2 Napathar.Padum Borthakur, president of Kaziranga Wildlife Society;Kali Prasad Buragohain, Editor, Rhino; Rudra Goswami, former CCF, Assam; Mubina Akhtar, secretary, Kaziranga Wildlife Society; Pranab Saikia and Samarjit Sarma, wildlife activist and journalists of Golaghat district; Dr. Satya Dutta Choudhury accompanied the visiting team.Sharing his experience in dealing with wild elephants in Udalguri district, journalist Jayanta Kumar Das...
The Sahitya Akademy on Wednesday announced its awards to three promising poets in Assam for 2016. In Assamese, the award goes to Gyan Pujari whose Meghmslar Kobita has stolen the march. The country’s top literary organization has named Anjali Narzary for her poetry in Bodo. Gita Upadhyay has been announced as the recipient of the award in Nepali language.
In yet another setback for the poll hit Assam Congress, senior leader Robin Bordoloi is believed to have been preparing to join BJP. Bordoloi, the elder son of Lokpriyo Gopinath Bordoloi is learnt to have finalised the move after a few rounds of close door meeting with state BJP leadership. The three time MLA has confirmed his on going confabulation for joining the ruling party on Tuesday. Talking to reporters in Guwahati, he said,” I keep waiting for good offer and would join BJP the moment I get.” Bordoloi and his daughter are expected to join the party very soon at the initiatives of a former Congress leader who is a senior cabinet minister in the Sonowal government. Congress leaders...
Caught in an orgy of simmering violence Manipur might come under President’s rule at any moment. The home ministry is believed to have been closely monitoring the law and order situation on every passing moments in the poll bound north eastern state.Before going through the report from the governor, the home ministry officials' have been regularly monitoring the real law and order situation in the state where massive economic blockade and counterblockade have thrown normal life out of gear.Home ministry sources told Assam Times that union home minister has been in touch with chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh and assured him of all help to deal with the situation. Singh has been very...
Security forces are fanning on the highways in Manipur to deal with the violent protestors who torched many vehicles during blockade and counterblockade on Monday. Policemen along with CRPF jawans have been patrolling on the vital roads to disperse the protestors from early in the morning. The authority had already instructed police and para military forces to firmly deal with the protestors who blocked the vital roads disrupting the normal surface communication. Naga protestors on Monday torched many vehicles on the streets in protest against the move to create seven New districts in the restive north eastern state. Tribal protestors in large number spilled to the highway to block the...
Amid an escalating tension, the Manipuri students bodies in Delhi have asked the people of all walks of life to exercise restraint. In a statement released on Monday, the Manipuri Students Association in Delhi along with two other orgsnizations have condemned the ongoing orgy of violence and blockade and counter blockade in the plains and hills. The New Delhi based orgsnizations are lighting candle on Tuesday evening in the capital with a clarion call to end the violent protest where many vehicles were torched on Monday.
Minutes after he walked out of the jail on Monday, AKhil Gogoi vowed to take on BJP in the battle of ballots in 2021. Addressing his fans outside the jail where he spent more than two months, the peasant leader said that the ruling party must be thrown out from Dispur. According to the KMSS leader, “enough is enough. We must take on these political parties in the next polls to ensure our safety and security.”Gogoi’s pledge drew huge applause from his fans who kept waiting from early in the morning in front of the jail to catch a glimpse of their leader whom the government arrested in connection with two cases two months back.Towards the end of November, Gogoi procured the bail in the...
Once again Manipur is burning where Naga protestors torched many vehicles on the streets in protest against the move to create seven New districts in the restive north eastern state. Tribal protestors in large number spilled to the highway to block the surface communication opposing the move on Monday who turned violent and attacked many drivers and passengers forcing the security forces to step in. “The situation is likely to go out of control if the authority fails to firmly deal with it in this stage ,” said a senior police official. The government has deployed more and more security forces to bring the situation under control. But the protestors have made it plain that they would go...
The Assam tourism front seems to have dressed afresh after the lucrative industry got Priyanka Chopra as its brand ambassador. Disclosing this at a press conference in Guwahati on Monday, Assam tourism minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the country’s prominent actor has given her consent to the proposal which would give the entire sector a fresh lease of life.
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