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.
Dispur is firm on handing over the water gate probe to CBI. Sources told Assam Times that chief minister Tarun Gogoi has received some stunning inputs suggesting the multi crore scam in GMDA in 2001.“Gogoi keeps mum. But he is in a hurry to get the SC Das report. Once scam is formally confirmed the file is ready to be sent to CBI,” sources told Assam Times.
Security forces are fanning in the nook and corner of Tinsukia district to flush out ULFA militants who are believe to have been hiding to strike.Maximum vigilance is concentrated along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. Police and paramilitary forces are continuing a combing operation in view of the ULFA threat on the Hindi-speaking people who evoked wrath for blaming the outfit for the killing of the Tinsukia trader along with his daughter.All dense forest areas are teeming with security forces although no hardcore ULFA militant has been arrested so far.Vital areas like roads and bridges, oil and gas installations along with the Hindi-speaking people inhibited areas are being guarded to...
Incessant rains again wreak havoc in Guwahati in the form of massive waterlogging in parts of the premier north eastern city.Many areas in Zoo Road areas along with Chandmari, Lachitnagar, Nabin Nagar have yet to get out of the waterlogging.“The river Bharalu is full of water. There is little option to divert the rainwaters to the Brahmaputra through the river Bharalu. We have deployed three huge pump sets to send the waters to the Bharalu river after closing the sluicegate,” said the water resource development officials.“It would take time if the rains continue. But we hope the plight would be over within the next couple of hours,” officials told Assam Times. Notably, many areas in...
Panic grips the Hindi-speaking people a day after ULFA imposed ban on two groups for refusing to tender apology on the charges it levelled on the Tinsukia trader killing.Talking to Assam Times in Tinsukia, Anit Yadav said, “we are shocked to have heard the ban imposed by ULFA. We have been living in Assam for the last several decades. We don’t understand why Baruah targetted us.”Putul Prasad, who is a teacher by profession told Assam Times that “we need to live in peace and we should not allow others to be disturbed.”“We will urge Paresh Baruah for a second thought,” said Rabi Shankar Das who was among those to oppose the killing of the Tinsukia trader.Meanwhile district administration have...
Amid raging controversy of the Victoria suicide case, police arrested a person in Guwahati accusing him of abetting the Meghalaya woman to commit suicide early this month.Identified as Manbha Kumar Haijam Syiem, he hails from Laitumkhrah area in Shillong to be was arrested in connection with the case registered at Dispur police station, under Section 306 (abetment to suicide) IPC.The Hyderabad-based school teacher misbeheaved with her when she met her to be depressed later. Dispur police picked up her from the International Hospital on July 5 who later hanged herself in the toilet of the police station.
Sonitpur police have caught three youth hours after they allgedly took the lead in beheading a 60 year old woman branding as witch on Monday. According to the local residents in Bhimajuli where the incident took place identified as Deliram Bey and his wife instigated the villagers to kill the woman after dregging her out of the home to a river. Those accompanied Deliram namely Naren Ronghang and Raju Bey were also arrested.
The United Liberation Front of Asom has banned a Bhujpuri student organization amid an escalating protest over the recent killing of a Tinsukia trader.In a statement, the outfit has asked the common people to distance themselves from the Bhojpuri student leaders who have targeted the outfit bereft of any reason. Accoridng to ULFA, the Bhujpuri student leaders have crossed the limit when they staged protest against the Tinsukia incident where gunmen killed a local trader and his daughter at Bijuliban area last week.
Additional chief secretary SC Das will do a preliminary probe in the Louis Berger allegations.Disclosing this in Guwahati on Monday, chief minister Tarun Gogoi said his government is fully prepared to hand over the case to CBI on the basis of the of Das panel findings.Gogoi’s statement assumes significance amid simmering demand for probe in the allegations that a section of ministers and GMDA officers in 2001 received bribe for awarding contract to US based company in water sewerage project.
Various parties and organizations demand CBI probe into the multi crore watergate that touches off a seismic wave of reactions across the nation. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday gave hint of a CBI probe to unearth the scam while BJP MP Ramen Deka said that he would talk to the prime minister demanding a CBI probe. “I will raise the demand at the Parliament session which begins on Tuesday. We need a thorough probe into the scam to identify the culprits,” Deka told reporters.
The All Tai Ahom Students’ Union will gherao the MPs to raise their demands from July 27. According to ATASU president Pranjal Rajkonwar they will demand ST status to the Tai Ahoms along with five other ethnic groups. They further will demand proper steps to scientifically preserve the Ahom era historical monuments.ATASU is also dead opposed to construction of any mega hydel project dam unless the report of the expert committee.ATASU activists will wear black badges on July 28, stage a sit-in demonstration at Dispur Last Gate on August 10 and hold a three-day workers’ meet in Lakhimpur on August 21, 22 and 23 next. Apart from it, they will also stage a sit-in demonstration at Jantar-Mantar...
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