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.
Noted singer Dipali Borthakur is improving her health condition. But she will need to undergo treatment in the hospital for a few more days.Doctors attending on her at the Nemcare Hospital told Assam Times that her condition is quite stable and that she is responding to treatment.Chief minister on Thursday announced government expenditure for her best possible treatment.
The Enforcement Directorate seems to have stepped up probe into the Louis Berger bribery scam where the foreign firm had to bribe a section of powerful minister and GMDA officers for a huge water supply scheme.According to information, the ED is examining the documents it procured recently. It is contemplating to quiz a circle of powerful former GMDA officers suspecting their involvement.Additional chief secretary SC Das also is probing the case to unearth the prima facie evidence before recommending the case for CBI probe.
Four days have passed since a Pawan Hans chopper carrying Tirap DC Avinash Joshi went missing on way to Longding from Khunsa. But the chopper which is believed to have crashed is still remaining untraceable. A Sukhoi Jet along with three other choppers have been trying to locate the ill fated chopper. But there seems to be no success.The officials deployed in the search operation are concentrating on a hugely dense jungle bordering Assam where the local villagers claimed to have heard a sound of explosion in the sky before the chopper went missing.Earlier the weather was not so comfortable. But now the sky is clear and that’s why, the authorities hope that the search operation will be...
Yet another incident of witch-hunting sends no less shock and anger in Golaghat district where local residents mercilessly thrashed an old couple for witchery.The incident took place at Bhagawan Tea Garden in Borpothar where local residents mercilessly beat up septuagenarian Ticksen Tati and his wife Ratani Orang at a public place on Thursday night.A section of local villagers told Assam Times that a group of people dragged the couple out of their homes in the evening and charged the couple with practicing witchery.They denied doing anything of the kind. A section of the people who thronged the spot thrashed them and vanished.Barpothar police rescued the couple in critical condition to be...
Finally, the statue of Don Bosco fails to install by the river Brahmaputra in Bharalumukh on Friday.Amid stiff protest, a group of unidentified persons displaced before installation on Friday morning. Later the Don Bosco authorities along with the district administration lifted it away from the spot. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi was scheduled to formally unveil the statue much to utter disappointment and anger of many people in the entire area.
People thronged in Bharalumukh area in Guwahati on Thursday in protest against the move to set up a statue of Don Bosco on Friday.Protestors told Assam Times that the statue, if allowed to be set up in Bharalumukh would lower the status of the Assamese real heroes who have made immense contribution to Assam and its people.Chief minister Tarun Gogoi is scheduled to lay the foundation stone on Friday.Notably, the venue was shifted from Dighali pukhuri following the protest of the Cottonians.
Tai Ahom, Koch Rajbanshi, Moran, Mutocks along with two others are likely to get ST status.The good news for the six communities has come from the Centre when the six ethnic community leaders hunkered down with Union tribal affairs minister Juel Ornam in New Delhi on Thursday.Flanked by sports minister Sarbabanda Sonowal, Ornam said the Centre will have to change the modalities in the soon to be held cabinet meeting.After the seal of approval from the cabinet, the modalities would be ready. It would take two or three months to complete the entire proceedings.Later the delegation talked to union home minister Rajnath Singh at his official residence.The move assumed significance despite...
Amid a pall of gloom, lifeless Mohan Boro has arrived in Bongaigaon three days after the Assam Regiment jawan was killed by alleged Pakistani terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir.His body was flown from his work place to his family members who broke down in tears as soon as they received the body of Mohan. Local residents have thronged in thousands at his home when the body arrived in the afternoon.Senior district administration officials also arrived in his home to facilitate the local people to pay their last homage to the soldier who was killed in an encounter with terrorists from across the border.
The Naga peace pact accord will hardly help the north eastern region restore peace and normalcy if the various parties, organizations and individuals are to be believed.Talking to reporters in New Delhi on Thursday, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said that the prime minister should not have struck the deal without consulting with the north eastern chief ministers. “It suggests his arrogance which will not help,” she said. Talking to Assam Times, another senior Congress leader said that it could foment trouble in Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh if the UPA government has compromised the territorial integrity of the neigbouring states. “The UPA government calls it...
A vigorous search operation is progress to locate the Pawan Hans chopper which has still been remaining traceless since Wednesday.Defying an inclement weather, two choppers along with a Sukhoi jet are hovering over the dense forest of Khunsa where the chopper carrying Tirap DC went missing on way to Lungding.
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