The Golaghat district administration has ordered a high level probe into the claims of achievement by Arnab Kakoty, who came to hit the media headlines. Mr Kakoty was widely appreciated while he claimed to have crossed a few rounds of formalities for being nominated to the Nobel award. Further, he himself claimed to be associated with NASA projects. Very recently, he disclosed his 30 minute long discussion with US president George W Bush. But of late, he has failed to produce relevant documents to substantiate his claims. He was even felicitated by Assam Governor Lt general (Retd) Ajoy Singh following his claim of his outstanding achievement. According to sources, Arnab could be arrested if he further fails to substantiate his claims before the district administration.
Meanwhile, the whole Kakoti family is believed to be absconding. Yesterday, F. Ahmed, executive megistrate, had to return without meeting the family as the house was locked.
PermalinkSubmitted by Pinchas Hodi on Sat, 19/07/2008 - 14:40
It just shows how clueless Assamese journalists are! They are so used to telling (and then believing) cock and bull stories (since 1979; the great Prafulla-Bhrigu epoch), that none of them they ever once felt the need to cross check this guy's bombastic claims. All the news item pointed to just one source: A news item in The Assam Tribune, published in Jan, 2008, (the source of which was Kakati family itself).
Come on, guys, we are not living in the stone age; we have internet, we know what is an internet (google) search. A cursory check at the NASA website, or the Nobel Prize site, or the Royal Society site, or even his own institution could have proved fruitful!
This guy proving black hole theory wrong (which someone as brilliant as the late Fred Hoyle failed to do), A.P.J Abul Kalam urging him to join NASA, the Royal Society asking him to deliver 10 talks and promising to choose him for the Nobel Prize if the talks went well (and then choosing him based on 7 of them!), and then giving him a Rs. 20 Lakh worth car....if all these do not sound pure bullshit, then what does?
For those of you, who are fully ignorant of the ground realities, the youngest person to have ever won a Nobel prize was someone named Bragg, who, in 1915, won it at the age of 25, and that he got along with his father. There are many other brilliant guys: one in a wheelchair somewhere in England (I don't remember, it was some obscure place .. Cambridge or something), another at a little known place called "Center for Advanced Studies" in an unknown University called Princeton, for example, who have not yet won it, and belong to the age-range of mid 50's to mid 60s.
PermalinkSubmitted by sumanta kumar das on Sun, 29/08/2010 - 01:15
Mr.Arnob making newspaper headlines helps in creating awareness among people but your objective must focus on saving the
forest and wildlife of Assam .
Tension prevails in Golaghat district of Assam a day after Nagaland police asked the local residents of Merapani to leave the area. High level police and civil officials are camping in the area to monitor the situation and police and para military forces are put on alert. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi dispatched home secretary Jishnu Baruah who is overseeing security arrangement. Tension gripped the entire area after a bunch of Nagaland police asked the local residents of Kolaijan near Merapani to leave the area claiming that they possessed the area from the Assam government.
Meanwhile, All Assam Students' Union would launch a massive agitation in Golaghat in protest against the...
A lower court in Guwahati on Friday sent Ranjit Das to jail a day after he severed his wife's head and surrendered before a police station in Guwahati. Ranjeet who resides at Bikrampur in Japorigog chopped off his wife’s head walked to police station with the severed head and a blood-stained machete was caught by Central Reserve Police Force jawans in Ganeshguri Point and drove him to Dispur police station.
The police said that Ranjeet had confessed to have killed his wife during interrogation. He would be produced before the magistrate again on Monday. Amiya was a health department worker under the National Rural Health Mission posted at Orang in Udalguri district.
A train driver was injured when unidentified miscreants attacked a goods train in Dima Hasao district on Wednesday. According to reports, the incident took place at around 1-30 in the afternoon near Haflong when unidentified miscreants fired from the nearby hill-top at the goods train which was on its way to Silchar from Lumding. The driver suffered bullet injury in his legs and was admitted to the Haflong civil hospital. Details are awaited. Railway and police officials rushed to the area, they said adding that the identity of the insurgents was yet to be ascertained.
The entire Assam is in the grip of Durga Puja festivities. Maha Navami puja is being observed a day before the immersion of the idols. People of all walks of life young and old alike are lined up in the puja mandaps to offer Maha Navami puja from early in the morning. Prominent political leaders are also seen offering puja seeking divine help. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday visited a puja pandal in Ganeshguri a day after he wrapped up a foreign tour.
Talking to reporters, Gogoi hoped that the puja will help the state end the bloody chapter and that he would try to rein the in soaring price line to give the people some sort of respite. Replying to a question on whether he...
Two policemen have been injured and arms were looted when suspected Maoists sprang upon the 19th Assam Police Battalion. According tom information, a group of suspected Maoist cadres launched a sudden attack on the policemen namely Nitual Gogoi and Ajit Buragohain leaving seriously injured. Immediately after the incident the duo have been shifted to the Assam Medical College Hospital. Meanwhile, security forces are fanning in the entire area with a joint operation to nab the culprit. The incident is suspected to be a Maoist attack but the authorities are yet to confirm it. Details are awaited.
It was a colourful blend of young achievers from various parts of the Northeast as they gathered at the Bamboo Hall at Kisama on Monday for the first time in history under the banner “Young Leaders Connect”. In a day-long conference with about fifteen speakers, four moderators and over 200 delegates, leaders from the eight NE states came together under the theme ‘Connect, Exchange, Strengthen’ to deliberate discussions on a range of topics including “Governance as Leadership: Connecting policies with aspirations”, “Redefining Development through Social Entrepreneurship”, “The Role of North East in the growing economy of India”...
Electronic Media Forum Assam has expressed profound grief at the sudden and untimely demise of young television journalist Manideep Boro. The active journalist from Kokrajhar, who had vast experience of working for both print and electronic media in Assam, was suffering from hypertension and other ailments. Boro, 40, who worked The Telegraph, NE Television and later shifted to News Live channel, died at 5 pm of October 3 in GNRC Hospital. May his soul rest in peace, EMFA release added.
Assam is celebrating Durga puja across the state with much pomp and gaiety. Devotees are thronging in thousands to offer puja to the goddess Durga on Tuesday to end the evil dominance. Tuesday is Maha Navami where from early in the morning the devotees are visiting the pujas mandaps in different places of the state.
There seems to be an undeclared race of puja mandaps in the state where Guwahati city seems to have stole the limelight. The puja ,mandap at Laxmimandir in Beltola is teeming with visitors from morning till midnight to see the idol of goddess. Another striking feature this year there is a show to spread message of wild life.
Latasheel mandap is also pulling no less...
On the auspicious day of ‘International Day of Non- Violence’, various North East bands came together to appeal for Harmony in the North East Region at KASSA Indoor Stadium, Diphu, Assam on 2nd October 2011. The 3rd Indigenous Music Festival was organized by Abiogenesis Society, Dimapur in collaboration with North East Zone Cultural Centre, Ministry Of Culture, Government of India. The previous 1st and 2nd Indigenous Music Festival was held at Dimapur in 2007 and 2009 respectively. The bands that performed in this years festival are Ragga Muffin (Diphu), Rokrar (Diphu), Maestro ( Halflong), Jambili (Diphu) and Incipit (Nagaland) with Premson Bey taking the mic as host for the...
The death toll in the tragic mishap in the outskirt of the city has gone up to 8 with five more succumbed to injuries on Sunday night. Three persons died on the spot immediately after the Tata Sumo vehicle carrying them to Mancachar collided its head on a speeding truck at Kenduguri in Boko in the evening. All the three deceased who died on the spot were Tata Sky employees. All nine injured persons were rushed to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital where five of them died on Sunday night.
Meanwhile, a pall of gloom descended to the entire area following the incident that marred the Durga puja festivities in the area. The bodies were kept for post mortem. Investigation is on. The...
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