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.
Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju on Saturday accused Congress of doing politics over the recently signed Naga peace pact.Talking to reporters in the sidelines of a function in Sonapur in the outskirt of Guwahati, he said that the pact would be made public in due course of time.He said, “Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi along with his Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur counterparts Nabam Tuki and Ibobi Singh welcomed the pact. Immediately after the meeting with Sonia Gandhi, they started opposing it.”He said that peace is top priority for the north eastern region. He claimed to have restored peace in the region during the last 14 months.
The Centre on Saturday made it plain and simple that the talks with ULFA(I) is not possible abroad.Talking to reporters at Sonapur in the outskirt of Guwahati, Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju said that sovereignty would be discussed in the talks, if ULFA-I comes forward.Before that Rijiju laid the foundation stone of a NIA office in Sonapur.His announcement assumes significance a week after Paresh Baruah reiterated three conditions for talks with the Centre.
Yet another army helicopter joins the operations in search of the Pawan Hans chopper which is believed to have crashed in the dense jungle of Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday.But there is hardly any trace of the chopper which went missing on its way to Lungding from Khunsa carrying Tirap DC Kamalesh Joshi.Three chopper along with a Sukhoi jet is concentrating on a jungle near Dimola where the neighbouring villagers claimed to have heard a huge explosion in the sky when the chopper went missing.
Police have arrested a BJP couple along with two others charging them with displacing Don Bosco statue in Bharalumukh on Friday.Police arrested a lady counselor from BJP and her husband along with two youths from Aathgaon area on Saturday morning.They were held minutes after Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi announced probe into the incident.Talking to reporters in New Delhi on Saturday, Gogoi said that the perpetrators should be punished and that anybody opposing it are free to protest.
Lakhimpur police caught two gunmen after they targeted security forces deployed on Saturday.The incident took place at Narayanpur where two youths started firing at a group of security forces when they were on patrolling duty in the wee hours.When the security forces started retaliation, they tried to leave the spot forcing the police men to chase them. Identified as Cerula Khan and Aswini Patir, they were overpowered. Police recovered a 9 mm pistol from their possession. Senior police officials have been interrogating the duo.
Rain waters are back in Guwahati to wreak havoc in the premier north eastern city on following heavy downpour on Saturday. Many parts of the city have come under the massive waterlogging in the wee hours when incessant rains lashed the city for two hours in the midnight. Anil Nagar, Navin Nagar, lachit Nagar, Six Mile areas are worst affected where sirface communications have come to a grinding halt. The rain waters are refusing to flow into the Brahmaputra through the river Bharalu. Local residents in these affected areas are blaming it all on the GMDA for poor drainage system which is why, the problem persists.
Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur chief ministers vowed not to compromise territorial integration in the name of peace of the Naga people.They jointly announced it after the trio talked to Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Friday.They further asked prime minister Narendra Modi to make the Accord public.Flanked by Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh and his Arunachal Pradesh counterpart Nabam Tuki, Gogoi said, “We welcome the Accord for restoration of peace in Nagaland. But ion the same breath we will not allow anybody to compromise the territorial integrity.”Gandhi was believed to have asked them to go all out against the prime minister who signed the Accord without any consent from the...
Imanuel Basumatary took oath as RTI commissioner on Friday. Governor PB Acharya administered him the oath of office and secrecy at a brief function at the Raj Bhawan in the morning.
Many parts of Manipur are still reeling under waters bringing brimful misery for lakhs of people in the north eastern state.The water level is receding marginally. But the level of woes has been increasing on every passing day. Roads and bridges in the affected areas stand completely ravaged. Crops in hundreds of hectares have been damaged. Thousands of people are still marooned in the relief camps. Surface communication will not be restored at least in this month. Fear of fresh landslide is likely to recur if the rain refuses to halt. “The scene is unprecedented. It may be the fatal impact of climate change. The situation can turn more worse,”say experts.At least 24...
Femina Miss India 2015 finalist from North-east Rewati Chetri and fashion designer and choreographer Chow Poran J Gogoi recently conducted a week long workshop based on activities leading to skilled behavior in association with Guwahati based fashion institute Mantraa Grooming Academy. Powered by Mantraa Grooming Academy, Mantraa Media and Events, conducted Grooming Guide', a week long grooming workshop from July 23 to July 30This was a kind workshop was carried on for the first time by Mantraa with an aim to groom the upcoming and emerging models and fashion industry individuals by providing them professional training in activities leading to skilled behavior. Apart from Rewati and...
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