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 .
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Assam Governor J B Patnaik and Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday conveyed heartiest greetings to the people on the occasion of Durga Puja.
In a statement the governor appealed to the people to maintain peace and spread the message of amity and unity in keeping with the true spirit of such festivals and tenets of every religious faith and order.
The chief minister also appealed to the people to maintain peace and calm and hoped the festival would promote a bond of brotherhood among all sections of society.
The Gauhati High Court on Friday asked the Centre and the Assam governments to explain the system for identification, declaration and deportation of Bangladeshi immigrants from Assam.
Taking up a writ petition filed by one Mohammad Ataur alias Ataur Rahman, who has been on detention for being a suspected illegal immigrant, Justice B K Sharma observed that the petitioner was in a detention camp for last two years but the respondent (government) had been unable to take any action to deport him to Bangladesh.
The Kaziranga National Park would open from Nov 1 for the tourists. According to KNP authorities, maintenance of roads and other infrastructure are going on inside the park. He said that the tourist would have to wait for a few days to visit the whole park as some low-lying areas are still under water.The UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in Assam for domestic and foreign tourists, mainly due to the one-horned rhinos.According to government data, the park has been recording an increasing number of tourists every year.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has called upon the civil society to support the government in eliminating crime against women.
Inauguration the ceremony of the new office of Assam State Commission for Women in Guwahati, he said that along with the government, the NGOs and other social organisation will have to take initiative to struggle for eradicating crimes committed against women.
He said that steps were taken to increase reservation for women in panchayats of Assam to 50 per cent, from the current 33 per cent.
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Kamrup district (metro) administration has chalked out a two-layer traffic arrangement for the ensuing Durga Puja in Guwahati.Police (Traffic) has imposed certain restrictions on the movement of vehicles from October 21 to October 24.The goods-carrying vehicles have been restricted from 1 pm to 4 am from Jalukbari, Garchuk, Lokhara, Beltola, Khanapara, Hatigaon and Chandmari side.Trucks will be allowed to enter the city from 4 am onwards up to 10 in the morning. The RP Road will be one way only from the Ganesh Mandir side. There will not be entry for vehicles coming from the Zoo Road side to Ganesh Mandir. Vehicles will move via Service Road, GS Road and Supermarket Point.
One more rhino was found dead in Kaziranga on Thursday. KNP officials called it a case of natural death. Its horn was recovered by the park authorities in Bagori range. In yet another incident, a tusker was found dead after it was trapped inside the dense jungle at Burhapahar range on Thursday.
BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Thursday flagged off the BJYM’s rally organized to honour the Indo-Chino war heroes.In his address at the flag off function at Machkhowa, Gadkari said that the rally would be a source of inspiration for the youths. The rally left for Arunachal Pradesh and on Saturday the concluding function would take place at Bomla in Arunachal Pradesh.
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