The Indo-Global Social Service Society (IGSSS), North Eastern Region in collaboration with Diocesan Board of Social Service (DBSS) Tezpur and Gana Chetna Samaj (GCS) Balipara, distributed Emergency Relief of food grains and medicines to victims of flood at Koilabari and Baithabanga on 18th August covering 489 worst affected families.
Relief materials consisting 35kg rice, 10kg dal, 1 kg Salt, 1 litre cooking oil, 1 mosquito net and water and sanitation kit were provided per household. The Emergency relief grant was made available by the German Agro Action (GAA) through the IGSSS. The district administration and the circle officer as well as the police outpost extended their co-operation in the relief distribution. Officials from the Circle Office visited the distribution sites. IGSSS with its professional experience in handling emergency situations made a smooth distribution which lasted less than 3 hours at Baithabanga to cover 434 households and less than one hour to cover 55 households in Koilabari.
18 Jan 2011 - 3:40pm | mridulburagohain
As part of its drive to create awareness and improve infrastructure, the army has been undertaking various projects under operation 'sadbhavana'. 287 field regiment of 2nd mountain artillery brigade...
6 Feb 2012 - 2:09am | editor
Three persons of a family were burnt to death following a gas cylinder explosion in Sonitpur district on Sunday. The gas cylinder exploded on Sunday afternoon at Darwanpatty area in Tezpur town...
17 Jan 2012 - 3:51pm | Anup Arandhara
Great sensation is created at Boniabari, Sivasagar when one tantric Md. Abdul Wahar in pretext of treatment came into the house of a woman and raped her. A case has been registered at the Sivasagar...
18 Feb 2014 - 10:56pm | AT News
Despite round the clock vigil, Guwahati city is still a den of thieves and robbers.Two motorcycle born youths looted Rs 6 lakh from a businessmen on Tuesday forcing police operation in search of the...
Delhi based Max Healthcare, a leading super-specialty hospital announced its landmark pubic-private partnership with the Assam Government to conduct Cardiac Surgeries and train the Cardiac surgery team of Gauhati Medical College Hospital during a press conference in Guwahati today.In the presence of the Health Minister of Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma along with Dr. Parvez Ahmed, Executive Medical Director, Max Healthcare, Indrajit Singh Virdi, Chief of Cardio- Thoracic Vascular Surgery, Max Heart and Vascular Institute, a memorandum of understanding was signed by Max Healthcare and Gauhati Medical College Hospital Society to establish this association.Speaking on this occasion, Dr. Parvez...
As the entire nation gears up for the much awaited sporting event of the universe Olympic 2008, one of the FM Station of India BIG 92.7 took a first-of-its kind initiative and keeping up with the "Vibe of he city" offers listeners to witness an Olympics, like never before in the form of an exciting "Radio Olympiad" across 35 stations.It unveils the biggest endurance challenge in the air, a 92.7 hours RJ marathon hosted single handedly by BIG 92.7 FM RJs across the country. In a an effort to escalate the relevance the relevance of the "Olympics" in people's lives, this offering from BIG 92.7 FM is an initiate aimed towards capturing the vibe of the event, and ensure...
A grenade was blast in North Bonagaigaon in Assam around 7:30 PM today. No one is reported to be injured in the blast till the reports came. The incident took place ahead of the Independence Day celebration.
Independence Day 3rd Invitational National Archery Championship has been scheduled to be held from the 13th August to 16th August 2008. The venue of the Championship will be SOS Children Village, near Airport, Guwahati.In the entire event, all total 18 teams have been invited by the Organizing Committee to take part in the championship and the championship will be in 30 Mts Double ranking and their after the elimination round. The top three individuals in men and women categories will be rewarded with medals, certificate and cash awards of Rs. 10,000, Rs.7000 and Rs. 5000.Until now 13 teams confirmed their participation in the championship. The date of arrival of the teams is on...
Two suspected Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA) has been arrested by the 43 Assam Rifles in a combing operation from the Koliabhumura area in Tezpur on 29-07-08 evening. The operation has been operated under the leadership of Gurinder Singh, Major, 43 Assam Rifles following a specific information. The arrested MULTA cadres are Sahabuddsin and Anand Ali. They belong to Karimganj and Nagaon district respectively.During that operation, they recovered 6 bullets, 2 mobile phones and 2 US Made revolvers from their custody. Later they were handed over to the Tezpur Police. This incident showing the increasing movement of the terrorist groups like MULTA and also alarmingly showing...
In tragic incident, three wild elephants have been found dead inside the Sengelijan Elephant Reserve Forest under Gohpur Sub-division near Sirajukli Karbi Village on 27th July morning. The dead bodies of the elephants have been found in almost damaged condition as the elephants were feared to be died in few days back. All the wild elephants are females and are age of 40, 20,10 Years approximately. The cause of the dead of these elephants was found to be come in contact with a naked electricity wire.Remarkably, in the incident place a 11 KV naked electricity wire seen passing over to the nearby Bihali Reserve forest from the Balijan Reserve Forest. The height of the naked electricity wire...
Chief Minister of Assam Tarun Gogoi released an Audio CD SPANDAN containing selected songs of Rupkonwar Jyotiprasad Agarwala and Kalaguru Bishnu Rabha in Bangla Version and Kabiguru Rabindra Nath Tagore in Assamese Version at Assam House in Kolkata on 26-07-08 evening. All total 9 songs are being included in the CD sung by the popular singers Pulak Banerjee, Anindita Pal. The CD has been produced by the Eminent Businessman from Assam, Sourabh Baruah. The prime motive of the venture is to popularize the songs of Jyotiprasad Agarwala, Kalaguru Bishnu Rabha, Kabiguru Rabindra Nath Tagore worldwide.
Like every year, the preparation for the Natsurya Phani Sarmah Nat Samaroh is going on full swing in the Cultural City of Assam, Tezpur. This year the Nat Samaroh is going to be held from July 31 to August 2 2008 at the historic Ban Theater Hall in Tezpur. Three drama's going to be staged during the Nat Samaroh. The Nat Samaroh will be opened with a drama called "MALOTI MAM" to be staged under the direction of Dramatist Deepak Mahanta. On August 1 Ghanashyam Bora's drama "SAKUNIR PRATISHODH" will be staged under the Direction Ganesh Gogoi where Prtthviraj Rabha, son of famous Kalaguru Bishnu, is going to act in the role of the Mythological Character "KARNA". On...
An electricity post was damaged due to the excavation work going on for construction of the widening process of the proposed four lane road in front of the Khetri Police Station, near Guwahati today. The resulted short-circuit in the electrical post damaged many electronics goods of that area used in the households. Following this, hundreds of angry people gheraowd the Khetri Police Station.They damaged the excavator used in the construction site. Following that incident, police has been deployed to stop any untoward incident. There is no report of any damage to human.Photo: UB Photos
In a crucial turn around, Top United Liberation Front of Assam leader Prabal Neog alias Benudhar Bora has been released from the Dibrugarh Central Jail this afternoon. At the time of release UFA Leaders, Jiten Dutta, Joon Bhuyan and Junaki Bora - mother of Prabal Neog accompanied him. Neog was arrested along with his wife and son by the police from Tezpur on 17th September 2008.This seems to be a significant step as the ULFA-Governments peace process, as the A and C Company of 28th Battalion of ULFA declared unilateral Ceasefire with the state Government some time back creating an environment for the peace. Later the ceasefire group led by the ULFA Leader Mrinal Hazarika have been expelled...
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