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 Pawan Hans helicopter carrying a senior bureaucrat has gone missing in the sky of Arunachal Pradesh.The chopper which left Khunsa carrying Tirap Deputy Commissioner for Longding had last contact with the Mohanbari Airport in Dibrugarh at 11-30 in the morning. Since then the crew remains incommunicado. Details are awaited.
Recovery of three bodies at a public place creates no less sensation in Nagaon district on Monday.The epicenter is Kothiatoli area where local residents spotted three bodies early in the morning hours after a huge crowd left the spot holding a community bath marking a festival on every Sunday night.A section of local residents call it a case of excess drinks which was why the tragic incident took place. On complaint, policemen arrived in the spot and took the bodies for post mortem.
Dispur police are bracing up for a major trouble if the post mortem report of Victoria Dayoun Kharkongr is any indication.The post mortem report suggests severe assault on the head of the Meghalaya girl saying that her head bore a serious injury mark.Dispur police claimed to have found her body hanging at the washroom inside the police station in the first week of June.Police detained her acting on a complaint from the International Hospital authorities and the incident took place hours after she was kept inside the lock up.KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi added no less fuel to the fire alleging that she was repeatedly raped inside the police station to be killed later. Then she was kept hanging...
A full grown elephant was crushed to death when a passenger train rammed into two wild elephants in Sonitpur district on Monday.The tragic incident took place at Nagapathar in Rangapara area where Dekargaon-New Jalpaiguri passenger rammed into the herd of elephants when they were crossed the rail tracks in the wee hours.Local residents found the animal while the injured elephant is still believed to have been hiding in the nearby hillside.
Universities, schools and colleges will have to bear the brunt if ragging incidents are allowed to take place. In a recent letter, higher education director P. Jidung asked all the authorities of the schools, colleges and universities to firmly deal with the incidents of ragging.The authorities will have to submit report on ragging along with steps to deal with the menace during 2014-2015.
Utter lawlessness has become the order of the day in Dimapur where miscreants can attack anybody for refusing to pay ransom. A section of miscreants, of late, have been extorting money from a number of non Naga trader in the commercial town. Mention may be made of the Sunday’s where unidentified miscreants shot dead a trader from Assam for refusing to pay ransom they demanded earlier. Initial police investigation suggests it case of extortion where Ashis Saha, a trader who hails from Jorhat was killed only for refusing to pay money. The incident took place at Shyam bazar in the heart of the commercial hub where four miscreants had an altercation with Ashis where he refused to board on their...
Despite stiff resistance and impending legal hurdles, Dispur is preparing to appoint the selected candidates in the ACS, APS and allied services in a day or two.Sources told Assam Times that the process to issue formal appointment orders gathered momentum on Saturday after the government received a confidential suggestion from the advocate general AK Borgahain to go ahead.In his letter sent on Saturday, the advocate general said that the high court has not asked the government to keep the appointment process pending even after accepting Akhil Gogoi’s PIL alleging anomalies and corruption in the combined competitive examination to select candidates for ACS, APS and allied services. The high...
After a brief halt, Dimapur again hits media headlines for wrong reasons for yet another bizarre incident where miscreants shot dead a trader from Jorhat in broad day light on Sunday. The incident took place at around 1 in the afternoon at Shyam Bazar the commercial hub of Nagaland when four miscreants caught the saw mill owner Ashis Saha and asked him to board on their vehicle. A sudden altercation took place when the trader refused to board on the vehicle. Then the miscreants sprayed several rounds of bullets at him from a point blank range and disappeared from the spot. Saha was rushed to the hospital where he was declared brought dead. Search is on to nab the culprits. Initial...
AASU general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi mires in controversy when an AIUDF MLA accused him of striking a secret deal with RSS.The AIUDF legislator alleged on Sunday that Gogoi attended a recent RSS-sponsored training programme at Nagpur. He further alleged to have played an active role to invite Dr Subramaniam Swamy to Dibrugarh University where he was pursuing doctorate course in mathematics.
More than 200 people had a narrow escape when two planes carrying them avoided a runway collision in Guwahati on Sunday.The bizarre incident was averted in the afternoon at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport.The Spice jet flight SG 653 from Agartala was preparing to touch the runway simultaneously when the New Delhi bound Indigo flight 6E-571 was taking off in the same route allegedly because of signal error. The pilots of the flights had to buy 40 minutes in the mid air to avert the inevitable collision on the runway because of the faulty management of the Air Traffic Control. But the alert pilots managed to avert the mid air collision ensuring the safety of more...
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