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.
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.
All India Patriotic Forum’s Assam unit yesterday paid rich tribute to former President of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam in a function held at Guwahati Press Club, where distinguished individuals and journalists rubbed their shoulders. The press members also joined in a chorus. Some of them also recited poems of the great scientist and patriot.Presided over by patriotic forum president Rupam Barua, the meeting was attended by senior journalist Dhirendranath Chakrabarty, social activist Col Manoranjan Goswami (Retd), former legislator Ahay Dutta, engineers Subhash Goswami, Triptikona Majumder with Ranen Kumar Goswami, Mukul Kalita, Sabita Lahkar, Nava Thakuria, Pramod Kalita etc.
Veteran singer Dipali Borthakur is stable and responding to treatment. This was what doctors said at the Nemcare Hospital where she is undergoing treatment.She was rushed to the nursing home on Tuesday for treatment. She would have to stay for a few more days for complete recovery.Her fans, many organizations have wished her speedy recovery.The hospital authority has asked the doctors attending on her to ensure best possible treatment for the singer.
After days of will-it-wont-it, the enforcement directorate has registered a case to probe the Louis Berge scam where a foreign consultancy firm allegedly bribed a powerful circle of people to get contract of water supply scheme.A team of enforcement directorate on Wednesday visited the Dispur police station and collected papers and complaints of the multi crore scam that rocks the state.Chief minister Tarun Gogoi has already asked an administrative enquiry by SC Das to find out the prima facie evidence before recommending a CBI probe.
Defying an inclement weather operations are on in search of the Pawans Hans chopper which went missing in Arunachal Pradesh carrying a senior officer on Tuesday.Operation is being concentrated on a dense jungle in the hills state bordering Assam where the chopper carrying Tirap DC Kamalesh Joshi was believed to have crashed in the air on its way to Lungding from Kunsa.
Various parties and organization across the state threatened to hit the street if the Naga peace deal is allowed to disturb the geographical map.Congress, AGP, KMSS, CPI, CPM wondered why the Centre has not held any consultation before striking the peace deal with NSCN(IM).They further urged the Centre to make public the entire peace deal to ally the apprehensions that gripped the people of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur.
Hundreds of people in Kaziranga hit the streets on Wednesday demanding withdrawal of eco sensitive zone in the entire are.GMSS president Akhil Gogoi, who joined the huge protest rally said that the people are fully prepared to hit back the government in the upcoming assembly
Amid an escalating controversy over the Victoria suicide, Dispur police grilled a doctor of the International Hospital on Wednesday.Police summoned Dr Sushil Agarwalla and was interrogated for nearly three hours. He was asked to come again if need be.Two security guards were also questioned in this connection. The interrogation assumes significance two days after a section of media revealed that the Meghalaya girl was killed.
The chopper carrying the Tirap Deputy Commissioner is believed to have crashed at a dense jungle in Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday.Local residents in Deomali near Tirap claimed to have seen something like a crashed chopper in the evening. But operation is not so easy in these hilly and forest terrain. There is no hope of any survivors.Earlier Kalugaon area bordering Arunachal Pradesh told Assam Times that they came to hear a huge sound of some explosion in the air at around 3 in the afternoon. But they failed to fathom it at all.The villagers claimed to have heard it only after the TV channels beamed the breaking news of the chopper missing.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi welcomed the Naga peace accord signed on Monday. In a statement he hoped that it would help the state restore peace and normalcy. But in the same breath he finds it surprising on the secrecy in the Prime Minister’s Office. He said,"the agreement has been reached after prolonged struggle by the Naga group and it will help in restoring peace and prosperity in Nagaland, but it is astonishing why the clauses of the agreement are kept in the dark," Gogoi said in a statement here.
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