Over 400 people have been remaining clueless in Goalpara district hours after the cloudburst in Meghalaya on Monday. These people hailing from atleast 10 villages along the Assam-Meghalaya border who have gone missing after the havoc. In Dudhnoi alone, atleast 300 people have yet to surface. The Army is on rescue and relief operations in the district where speeding water coming from Garo hills devastated a huge area. Army and NDRF have been working acting on the statements of the eyewitnesses who managed to escape death. The villagers told Assam Times that at least 13 bodies have been fished out till Monday night. The authorities have sought the help of the Indian Air Force to launch rescue operations in Goalpara and neighbouring Dhubri district where a large number of people were reported to have been marooned in the floodwater.
On the occasion of his birth centenary this year, Jyotiprasad Medhi Award in Mathematical Sciences is announced by his family. Professor Jyotiprasad Medhi was a world renowned scholar in Statistics who was born on 1st July 1924 in Ramdia, Assam. He received his D.Sc. (with Tres Honorable) from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in 1956 and returned to Assam to teach at Gauhati University where he later became the Head of the Department in Statistics, Dean of Faculty of Science, and Acting Vice-Chancellor. His textbooks on Stochastic Processes and Queueing Theory are widely used for teaching in many academic institutions around the world. He passed away on 3rd February 2017 at the age of 92...
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