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.
The Centre has assured the Assam government of all help to firmly deal with the situation in Tinsukia after ULFA shot dead a local trader and his daughter in Bijulibon area.Talking to chief minister Tarun Gogoi over telephone on Friday morning Union home minister Rajnath Singh said that the Centre was prepared to rush additional forces to contain the situation.
The North East Support Centre& Helpline (NESCH) has extended its helpline services to metro cities in India.According to an official statement, the year 2014 had the highest record of racial attacks and incidents of discrimination against North East communities. The expansion of the North East Helpline was launched in a consultation meeting organized by NESCH in its national head office at Hyderabad on July 11 where key North East community elders, scholars, religious heads and student leaders participated. The National President of NESCH, Bishop Paothang Haokip, expressed the reason for expanding the reach of the NE Helpline: “The number of people migrating to metro cities...
ULFA supremo Paresh Baruah draws criticism from a number of parties, organizations and individuals for threatening to the Tinsukia protestors of dire consequences.“Paresh Baruah is not our ruler. Why does not he come out of the jungle?,” Ashish Kumar told Assam Times who hit the streets in Makum on Wednesday.Talking to Assam Times Deepika Das, a college student said every citizen of the country has the right to live anywhere in the country.“Those who are threatening the Hindi-speaking people themselves are hiding on the soil of Bangladesh, Myanmar, Bhutan. Do they have any courage to face the people?”ULFA supremo Paresh Baruah on Thursday asked the Hindi-speaking protestors in Tinsukia to...
A full scale coming operation is going on in Tinsukia and its adjoining areas against ULFA after it threatened the Hindi-speaking people of dire consequences.Police and para military forces are fanning in the vulnerable areas in search of ULFA militants who are believed to have been hiding to unleash more reign of terror in the form of extortion, killing and abduction.Security forces are concentrating on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border in the district which is known to be an escape route for most of the militants after any strike in Tinsukia area.Similar round-the-clock vigilance is in place along the Assam-Nagaland border areas in Sivasagar district acting on the inputs that a five...
Flood waters continue to wreak havoc in Lakhimpur district on Thursday. The situation took a grim turn when the surging waters washed away two parts of a road apart from breaching with two embankments.More than 15,000 people have been reeling under flood waters while more and more areas have come under the surging waters. State Disaster Response force and National Disaster Response Force are on relief and rescue operation.
In a rare honour of Assamese literature, the Centre has appointed award winning author Rita Chowdhury as the Director of National Book Trust. The wife of BJP leader Chandra Mohan Patowary will succeed M A Sikandar who retired in August last year. She is a Sahitya Akademi Award winner and a professor of political science at Cotton College in Guwahati.
Flood situation remains grim on Thursday following incessant rains that lashed Arunachal Pradesh during the last 24 hours. The water levels of the river Brahmaputra and its tributaries started surging to bring brimful misery for more than 70,000 people. The affected districts are Dhemaji, Lakhimpur and Sonitpur where flood waters have been wreaked havoc in 155 villages. Sonitpur district alone have more than 50,000 displaced people. This is followed by Lakhimpur where more than 15,000 people have been reeling under flood waters. Seven relief camps are operating in Sonitpur to accommodate 7,712 people.
In yet another setback for KPLT, the chief of the Karbi militant outfit bade farewell to arms before the authority in Diphu on Thursday.He is none other than Sarang Kiling who surrendered before Diphu police with his AK-56 rifle much to the major relief for the security forces.
Amid an escalating protest over Pengeri killings, the United Libration Front of Asom has threatens the Hindi-speaking people of dire consequences if they refuse to halt the tirade against them.Talking to a section of media over telephone on Thursday, ULFA supremo Paresh Baruah said that they won’t tolerate any protest against ULFA since they have no specific evidence in the Bijuliban incident where gunmen killed a local trader and his daughter two days back.“If they refuse to halt they will have to face the consequences and ULFA will not allow Tinsukia or Assam to become a mini Bihar or a mini Rajasthan.Notably, local residents in Tinsukia on Wednesday hit the streets in protest against the...
The Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva Aanmilani activists staged a dharna in Guwahati raising a slew of demands on Thursday.Protesters thronged at Dighalipukhuri in the morning demanding replacement of APSC chairman Rakesh Paul and immediate measures to contain Japanese encephalitis.Talking to Assam Times the protestors said that despite repeated promise Governor PB Acharya has been keeping silence to act against Paul who allegedly made money in the selection of candidates in the civil service examinations.They said that they are prepared to launch a statewide agitation if the authorities refuse to read their demands.
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