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.
Christmas festivity grips Assam on Sunday where churches across the state pulled huge crowd of people who participated in the special prayer in search of global peace.Defying a pinching cold wave the Christian people of all walks of life thronged the church premises' for the special prayer in the morning. People in large number in the north eastern city of Guwahati rushed to the Panbajar based Baptist church in the morning after the end of the midnight carol to mark the birth of the Jesus.Similar rush of people was in sight at the Don Bosco premises and the Christianbast Church where the people held special prayer in search of divine help to restore global peace. Anju Haokip, a Manipuri...
City based physicians from Barthakur Clinic private limited namely Dr Manabendra Goswami (Surgery) and Dr Arunima Goswami (Medicine) conducted the last Saturday evening OPD at Guwahati Press Club in northeast India for the benefit of scribes along with their dependents. Over 30 participants received healthcare related consultations from the senior doctors, where Kapila Lama and Jyotish Sarma supported them in conduct the clinic. The participants also got their blood pressure & sugar checked in the camp. The 17 December 2016 evening clinic was attended by Dr Jayanta Sarmah, Dr Neelakshi Devchoudhury, Dr Chiranjib Mahanta, Dr Ruman Hussain, Dr Purnima Deuri and Dr Susmita Pegu from the...
A heard of wild elephants unleashed a reign of terror in Guwahati where a person died in attack on Saturday.The incident took place in Panjabari area where a heard of around 20 elephants came down from the nearby hills striking panic button among the people of a weekly market in Batahghuli where one person was trampled to death.A team of forest guards arrived in the spot which took three hours to drive out the elephants from the human habitat till midnight. Local residents' in Panjabari have blamed it all on the department for the deepening menace. “We informed the forest department at 2 in the afternoon. But the guards took two hours to reach the spot. Had they arrived in time, the tragic...
The Christmas festivity grips Assam along with other parts of the globe on Saturday where churches are teeming with people for midnight Carole. Every households of the Christians are getting decorated with Christmas tree to be dazzled in the evening. Sweets and pastries are flooding the households to be served to the near and dear ones. The sounds of bells and carols are slowly emerging from the nicely decorated churches. “We are here to participate in the midnight carol and we do believe that Christ would help us restore peace across this planet,” said Zabini Naroh at the Christianbasti church premises.Henry Watson, a tribal college boy from Diphu who was on a visit to Guwahati is...
Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra is on a visit to Guwahati on Saturday a couple of days after the Assam government has named her as the brand ambassador of tourism. The shining Bollywood star left straightly left for the Kamakhya temple and offered puja to the shrine of strength immediately after she landed at the Lokariya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in the morning. Then she left for Dispur to be welcomed by several cabinet ministers since she would focus the Assam tourism across the globe. She further is scheduled to hold a couple of meetings in the evening during her maiden visit to the north eastern state after she was announced as the tourism brand ambassador in Assam.
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...
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