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The Board of Secondary Education announced the results of the High School Leaving Certificate and the Assam High Madrassa Examinations on Friday. Altogether 2,59,149 candidates emerged successful out of 3,66,476. The percentage of successful candidates stands at 70.71%.Ijaz Ahmed from Pathshala Shiksha Pith in Barpeta tops the HSLC examinations. Second position goes jointly to Gourika Bang, Little Flower School, Dibrugarh; Manas Jyoti Sarma, Anand Vidya Niketan, Nalbari; Pingal Pratyush Nath, Sophy Mercy School, Sibsagar , Saurav Paul, Don Bosco High School in Sonitpur. Nayan Jyoti Sarma, Sankardev Shishu Vidya Niketan, Nalbari secured third position. The fourth position goes to Bhargav...
Its high alert across the state as cyclone Mahasen is likely to hit the north-eastern states during the next 12 hours.
Areas near the Brahmaputra are on high alert and have been closed for the next 2 days and fishermen have been restricted in these areas.
Control rooms have been set up in several district headquarters to help the victims if required. The storm surfaced over the Andaman and Nicobar islands on May 10 and was moving in north-west direction but on May 14.
Decks are clear for Board of Secondary Education, Assam to announce the results of the High School Leaving Certificate and the Assam High Madrassa Examinations on Friday.The results will be available to the respective schools around 12 noon. The centres would be able to collect the results from Inspectors of Schools. Results are being dispatched in sealed covers to all the district headquarters. The centre in-charge will collect their respective results in the morning on Friday at 12 o’clock they will open the sealed envelopes. The results would also be available on the websites – www.resultassam.nic.in, www.indiaresults.com, www.examtec.com, www.myresultplus.com, online.assam.gov.in, www....
Maoist activists are spreading in the nook and corner of Guwahati. Jalukbari police on Thursday claimed to have intercepted a lady Maoist cadre in the city in the wee hours. Identified as Kabita Rabha, the women cadre was arrested from Udalbakra area in the city. A CD along with some incriminating document were seized from her possession.
A beefed up security in Guwahati is of no use when bombs are found in the hear of the city.Police recovered an IED at Lalmati area hours after Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and President Pranab Mukherjee left the city. Basistha police recovered the powerful IED from a vehicle after it was noticed by a passer by.
Protest over the NHPC-owned mega dams in Gurukamukh seems to have escalated further when KMSS blocked 14 trucks carrying turbines halfway.KMSS activists sent these trucks back to Guwahati on Wednesday night from Amoni in Nagaon district on way to Gerukamukh via Tezpur.
Police team probing the chit fund scam continues to grill Candan Das a day after the Jeevan Surakhsa boss was brought to Guwahati.Das is facing a number of cases n Guwahati and many other parts of the state. The owner of a chit fund company was arrested from Barasaton Tuesday night on charges of swindling investors' money. Das along with his wife Sangeeta Das were held in a joint raid conducted by officials of CID and that of Barasat police station.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday filed his nomination for a fifth consecutive term in the Rajya Sabha from Assam even as he draws media ire for refusing to speak to the waiting reporters in Dispur.
Later he came forwards and talked to the reporters for a minute only thanking the people for continuously electing him to the Rajya Sabha for all these years.
He arrived at the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in the morning and headed straight for the state assembly to file his papers.
His win would be comfortable as the ruling Congress and its allies have 94 legislators in the 126-member assembly.
President Pranab Mukherjee exhorted varsities to meet the requirements of moral challenges faced by society amid rising crimes against women.In his speech at the Convocation ceremony of Assam University in Silchar, Mukherjee expressed serious concerns over the inadequacies in the education sector.According to the President,“it underscores the need for society to introspect and find ways to arrest the moral decline."He said,” "if our country has to continue on its path of higher growth, then the relentless pursuit of higher educational standards is an indispensable requirement for its achievement."
The United Liberation Front of Asom has strongly criticized Sankadev Award for Sharmila Tagore a day after the film personality received the coveted award from president Pranab Mukherjee.In an e-mail statement, the banned insurgent outfit alleged that Tagore has hardly any contribution to Assamese language literature. According to ULFA, it has belittled the saint. ULFA further asked Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to explain the reasons for selecting Tagore’s name and to made the names of the panel members public.
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