The explosion of seven digital meters at a city apartment created panic among its residents in the city’s Beltola area on Saturday. It all took place at around 11 in the morning at the Ranibagan Apartment Housing Society’s Tarokeswar Block No 6. Initially a boy saw some sparks at a digital meter and told his father. His father Lokesh Agarwala came down with a fire extinguishing cylinder. But he saw the fire dispersed to six other meters. Some other residents also arrived with fire extinguishers and later on the fire was extinguished. On the other hand, after information the ASEB officials reached thr apartment only an hour later. But they said blamed it all on the flawed wiring. Notably, the the Assam State Electricity Board has been claiming that digital meters are safe and that there is nothing to be worried. This has once again proved that the digital meters run the risk of fire incident at any time.
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A voter awareness rally was taken out at Tangla today by Tangla College students, ASHA and Anganwadi workers with the help of Udalguri district administration. The rally was inagurated by...
One more rhinoceros was killed by poachers in the Kaziranga National Park on Saturday.
The poaching took place at Sohola camp in Agoratoli just before the forest guards engaged in a gun battle with poachers who later managed to escape.
An encounter followed with the poachers exchanging bullets with the guards but none from the security forces was injured. When the forest personnel searched around, they found the carcass of a rhino with its horn removed. A 303 rifle with ammunition belonging to the poachers was recovered from the area.
Army killed an United Democratic Liberation Front militant caught another in Karimganj district on Saturday.
Acting on a tip off, army conducted an operation near Munaphichherra area in the district bordering Mizoram where Mantu Reang was killed and One Bidhu Ram Reang was held.
Army recovered one 0.22 rifle, one hand made pistol, ammunition and 3 mobile sets from their possession. Six of them escaped. They were allegedly involved in the kidnapping of Shekhar Deb, a businessman of Cheragi, on September 2.
Unity Education Foundation (UEF) met Labor & Employment Minister Prithibi Majhi recently to press for the modernization of Employment Exchanges in both the rural and urban reaches of Assam. In a memorandum to Majhi, UEF drew his attention to the burgeoning problem of unemployment in the state which it held responsible for anti-social behaviour, increasing insurgency and terrorism in India's NorthEast; Assam in particular.
The proposal seeked online registration facilities for the issuance of employment registration, renewal, transfer and user-friendly digitized platforms in Employment Exchanges. It suggested networking with dedicated government and private websites to work as...
An Assamese Wikipedia Education Program is being organised at Gauhati University on October 14 by Center for Internet and Society (CIS) in collaboration with Department of Education, Gauhati University. As a part of this program, 15 PhD students will receive training in unicode typing and how to write articles on Assamese Wikipedia.This event is also open to the general public and invites participation from anyone who can write in Assamese.
For details, please contact: Noopur Raval - noopur@cis-india.org.
Handique Girls’ College, Guwahati has become the first college in the state to introduce Microbiology in the three year degree course from the academic session 2012. Dr. O.K. Medhi, Vice Chancellor, Gauhati University formally inaugurated this at an event held on September 29, 2012 at the college premises.
The meeting was presided over by Sri Dinesh Baroowa, President of the Governing Body and Ex Registrar of Gauhati University. In the welcome speech Dr. Indira Bardoloi, Principal of the College explained how the college had initiated the process of introduction of the subject. Vice Chancellor, Dr. Medhi inaugurated the subject and the Laboratory of the Department by lighting...
A strict college in Barpeta district expelled altogether 16 students from its hostel accusing them of ragging the new comers.
The incident took place at the Baushi Banikanta Kakati College where the college administration has dismissed three college staff. The hostel superintendent has also been suspended when the allegation was seriously taken up. Barpeta police have already registered a case in the incident. The parents of the victim students lodged the complaint but the hostel superintendent did not acted. According to police, they came to know about the incident through media reports.
Security has been beefed in Guwahati in the run-up to the Durga Puja next week.
Policemen are working at various levels and have carried out risk assessments. Additional forces have been sought to be deployed to deal with the anti-social elements. Raids on anti-social elements have been intensified.
The puja organizers and volunteers have been imparted training to deal with any untoward incident.
Vigorous operations have also been launched to tackle the problem of illicit liquor and organising committees have been asked to install CCTVs in pandals and take other security measures. Guwahati has over 500 puja committees organise this year.
The Northeast Frontier Railway restored rail services in Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur with the rest of the country on Thursday.
Trains started running normally withy additional security forces. The night trains were cancelled for an indefinite period after militants attacked the Agartala Express near Lower Haflong on October 5.
Centre’s peace interlocutor PC Halder met National Democratic Front of Bodoland chairman Ranjan Daimary at the in Guwahati Central Jail on Thursday and discussed the proposed peace process with the government.
The duo are believed have decided to strike a deal within this year. Notably, NDFB pro-talks faction and led by Gobinda Basumatary, earlier held several rounds of discussions with the state and central government representatives.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi turned 79. Gogoi, the third time chief minister celebrated his 78th birthday on Thursday at his official residence atop the Koinadhara hills in Guwahati.
His party leaders, cabinet colleagues, various parties and organizations wished him since morning on his birthday.
Gogoi, flanked by his wife Dolly, cut a huge cake in the presence of several well-wishers. He thanked God and the people of Assam for their blessings and good wishes.
Gogoi was born in Rangajan Tea Estate of Jorhat district.
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