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.
Yet another north east organization has slammed the government for extending AFSPA to Nagaland. In a statement, Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign Team alleged that it proves the government incapability.“AFSPA is discriminatory and a kind of unconstitutional and harsh act that provides extraordinary powers to security forces in disturbed regions, without asking for any accountability,” the organization observed.It further said it keeps its faith upon non violence struggle of Irom Sharmila and consider her as its leader. Notably, SSSC has worked nationwide in last years to highlight struggle of Irom Sharmila and have organised numerous events, public demonstrations and other...
The Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) has expressed serious concern over the Jorhat district magistrate’s recent order preventing media persons from entering into the DC office without his prior permission. The forum commented that the Jorhat deputy commissioner Solanki Vishal Vasant has behaved like a feudal lord disregarding the spirit of the Indian constitution.The forum has however taken notes that some touts pretending to be scribes are allegedly making nuisance in Jorhat DC office and urged the local journalists to help the authority to identity those touts and book them under the respective laws.Finally, the EMFA has appealed to the State chief minister Tarun Gogoi, also in charge...
Gandhian Salem Nanjundaiah Subba Rao will interact with the media persons at Guwahati Press Club today afternoon at 5 pm. A fellow of Gandhi Peace Foundation and founder of National Youth Project, Dr Rao is known for his mission to uplift the spirit of youth in the world for building a new society based on love, peace, harmony and social justice. Affectionately called by everyone as ‘Bhai Ji’, Dr Rao is remembered for his enormous role in surrendering many dacoits in the Eighties.Born in Bangalore in 1929, Dr Rao was inspired by the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi since his childhood days. Eventually he became a Khadi-wearer. The freedom fighter Dr Rao was honoured with various awards including...
Dispur is preparing a set of papers to counter Arunachal Pradesh in the court of law over the 26 year old inter state border dispute.Sources told Assam Times that the Assam government is fully prepared to properly respond to the Supreme Court’s order by the next couple of days on the recent plea accusing Dispur of resuming construction within the disputed areas. A three-judge bench headed by Justice T S Thakur sought a response from Dispur within two weeks on the interim application of Arunachal Pradesh.
Amid simmering controversy over the ongoing process to update NRC, the Supreme Court will review the implementation of the progress to update NRC on July.A division bench of Justice Ranjan Gogoi will review the progress of the project considering a set of fresh applications by Dispur.Former minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma is set to move two plea in the court for consideration. On the other hand, health minister Nazrul Islam hoped that the Supreme Court will extend the last date for filing of forms and documents.Talking to reporters at the GMCH premises on Sunday, the health minister said the country’s top court would consider the difficulties faced by the people in filing the forms.“...
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi mires in yet another controversy over the proposed AIIMS two days after his government cleared a huge plot in the outskirt of the city for the project.Talking to reporters on Sunday Nagaon MP Rajen Gohain accused Gogoi of shifting the AIIMS site to North Guwahati from the central part of the state.“This a dirty conspiracy by none other than Chief minister to shift the project from Nagaon district,” alleged Gohain. Gohain said that he would take up the matter with the authority to ensure that the hospital is set up in central Assam. Notably, the revenue department in consultation with the health and family welfare department cleared a huge plot of 571 bigha in...
The youth who sustained injury in the Paltanbazar city bus accident died on GMCH.GMCH sources told Assam Times that he died on Saturday afternoon 24 hours after the ABVP leader was rushed to it.Notably, a Khanapara bound city bus rammed into his two wheeler after the driver lost his control over the bus on Friday.Since then he was battling for life at the ICU at GMCH.
In yet another exemplary action to trim witch hunting, a local court in Udalguri sentenced life term jail for 15 accused a years after they brutally killed a tea garden worker branding her as witch. According to allegation, these 15 people killed Gigra Oraon of Butiachang after dragging him out of the house on March 19 last year. The district session judge cleared the judgment on Saturday in their presence giving millions of people a ray of hope in the fight against witch hunting.
The man who has reasons to smile in the north east chief minister’s conference in Guwahati on Saturday was none but Tarun Gogoi.Union home minister Rajnath Singh appreciated the chief minister for firmly dealing with the Adivasi carnage in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts last year.Singh said that the carnage was stopped from blowing out of proportion only because of his immediate intervention. He further lauded the role of security forces to deal with these incidents where over 80 people lost their lives.
The Centre has set up a special unit to step up better coordination with Myanmar. Led by Joint intelligence committee chairman RN Ravi, the team would take a slew of issues with the neighbouring country to weed out the insurgent outfits from the soil of Myanmar. Union home minister Rajnath Singh announced the team when he was addressing the north east chief ministers’ conference in Guwahati on Saturday.
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