In a move that fetches joy for Assam and its people, a top ranked ONGC officer from Assam will head the Oil India Limited.
He is none other than Utpal Borah who is all set to sit in the helm of affairs of the oil public sector unit.
Borah, now Executive Director (Asset Manager) ONGC, who has been finalized for the post of OIL chairman cum managing director is expected to join within this month.
OIL has been running functioning without a full-time CMD since July 1 last year.
Public sector top management personnel recruiter Public Enterprises Selection Board last year conducted two interviews to select its head where Rupshikha Saikia Borah was selected. But the Prime Minister’s Office rejected the selection. The MoPNG search committee shortlisted 15 candidates for the interview. These 15 include three Baruah and Anil Kumar Jain, Pramod Kumar Sharma, Rahul Dasgupta, Utpal Borah, PK Rao, Dr Ashutosh Karnataka, Saumendra Kumar Baruah, Dr Sunil Y Bharati and Bedanta Sarmah, Robin Deka, SB Buragohain.
Amid an escalating tension security forces are fanning in in Dhansiri along the Assam-Nagaland border in search of the two local school boys who went missing on Friday.Identified as Saddam Hussain and Adi Ali, the school boys are believed to have been kidnapped by the Naga miscreants on the way to their school.Local residents alleged that even after the complaint, SSB jawans have done precious little to rescue the duo.
An unprecedented landslide is posing a serious threat to the National Highway No 37 just before the entry into Guwahati. A huge hillock is waiting to collapse in the 13th Mile area which could block the vital road leading to the gateway to the north eastern region.Local residents in the area fear more such incidents of landslide in near future. Apprehending an impending danger many people residing the hill top are leaving for safe areas in the side of Meghalaya.The fear gripped the local residents when the landslip began on Sunday forcing hundreds of vehicles to remain stranded for several hours. Hours after the incessant rains that lashed the city and its adjacent areas on Saturday, it was...
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday made it plain and simple that his government wants 2014 voter list as one of the supportive documents to update the national registrar of citizens.Responding to the legislators who asked him to clear his position, Gogoi said that the list would be required if the documents earlier announced by the Supreme Court are not available for an indigenous citizen.He said that his government has already moved the Supreme Court for consideration which has not so far rejected the affidavit.
The wreckage of the Pawan Hans helicopter Tirap Deputy Commissioner Kamalesh Joshi was found at a remote area of Arunachal Pradesh where it crash landed on Tuesday.The rescue operation made with three choppers along with a Sukhoi Jet locate the wreckage at Thinsa in the wee hours tracing a phone calls from Joshi to his wife at 2-10 in the afternoon. Senior officials arrived in the crash site and recovered the decomposed bodies in the morning.The chopper went missing on Tuesday on its way to Khunsa from Longding. The last contact was established at 11-30 with Mohanbari airport. Initially, the search operation was concentrated at an area near Dalom where a section of local residents claimed...
Amid simmering allegations over the Naga peace pact, Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang said that it is not an accord.Talking to reporters in New Delhi on Sunday morning, he said that it is an effort to restore peace and normalcy in north eastern region.The chief minister further said that he would himself talk to his counterparts in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur to ally and apprehension. He said that the government would do no harm to the neighbours.
APSC selection scam, Naga peace accord and agriculture scam are likely to dominate the assembly session beginning on Monday.The parties are drawing up strategies to corner the government. The session will end on August 14 where the government is set to move several legislationDilapidated roads and bridges are also likely to figure in the discussion in the four day long session.
Tinsukia police on Sunday claimed to have arrested the culprit behind the Bijuliban trader killing who is an UFLA militant. Identified as Surajit Moran, the hardcore militant was captured from Dirak area during a combing operation on Saturday night.
The ailment of at least ten people after inhalibng a poisonous gas creates no less panic in Moran from Saturday.At least ten people have been taken ill after they inhaled fomelin gas which emitted from a tanker on the National Highway No 37 on Saturday night. The tanker carrying fomelin gas meant for Kolkata from Namrup Petrochemical halted near the Popo Ground at around 9 in the evening. But some people nearby inhaled the gas which emitted because of technical snag. Thus a huge traffic snarl took place on the highway for four hours. Later OIL officials arrived in the spot and took away the truck.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi is dead opposed to Naga autonomy in the Naga-dominated areas in the state.Talking to reporters in New Delhi on Saturday, he said that his government won’t accept it even if the Centre imposes.According to sources, Gogoi made the comment after he came to hear that the Centre’s Naga peace pact will talk of Naga autonomy in the state which he won’t be able to accept.
Preparations are afoot hold the North East Book Fair from October 30. Many outside publishers and depots have confirmed their participation in the annual event.Organizers told Assam Times that the nine day event would be held at the Assam Engineering Institute Playground in Chandmari.Seminars, quiz, book release and cultural functions would take place in the sidelines of the event.
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