With an aim to address the periodical problems faced by lady member-journalists hygienically, a sanitary napkin-vending machine was installed at Guwahati Press Club (GPC) on 27 July 2016. The coin-based automatic Suraksha machine, sponsored by Junior Chamber International (JCI) Guwahati Angels under its national flagship Suraksha project was inaugurated by JCI India’s NE zone president Manish Khatuwala and GPC secretary Nava Thakuria.
JCI Guwahati Angels president Vinita Khakholia, while addressing the program informed that they had already installed 14 Suraksha machines at Cotton College (girls’ common room and hostel), Nichols School, Sisters Home, St Mary's School Maligaon etc.
It may be mentioned that JCI is a century old international organization of young people connecting over 100 countries in the world. The JCI India is an affiliated body for the country, which is registered under the Indian society registration act.
Inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hygiene & cleanliness drive, the JCI Indialaunched the Suraksha program under its community development initiatives to address the issue of women’s hygiene and cleanliness. It has taken a target of installing 1000 sanitary napkin disposal & vending machines in various important places of the region. The function, attended by JCI India’s active members like Silky Choudhury, Khakholia, Mitu Agarwal, Rajiv Ajitcharia, Manish Goenka, Gunjan Donthalia, Priyanka Gupta, Tina Aga etc also witnessed the assurance of installing an incinerator to destroy the used napkins by the JCI Guwahati at the press club premises very soon.
Guwahati: Three more people in the state have tested positive in COVID19. This was what health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in Guwahati on Friday.
The trio was among the 40 others who started Silchar from Ajmeer by a bus two days back. Five tested positive on Thursday while the trio received confirmation report on Friday.
Guwahati: The confirmation of 4 COVID19 cases apart from death by the killer virus is likely to put Guwahati into the orange zone. The Centre is expected to confirm it by Saturday.
Health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told reporters in Guwahati that the Guwahati Medical College Hospital, No 1 and No 5 GMCH Boy's Hostel apart from the B Barooah Cancer Institute have been announced as containment zones following the shocking emergence of the situation on Thursday.
Sarma further urged the stranded people outside the state not move to their homes which might help the state remain safe.
Sarma's statement assumes significance when the government has started lifting the stranded...
Guwahati: The killer COVID19 has claimed yet another life on Thursday which came to light only on Friday.
The victim is said to have been a 16-year-old girl who belonged to the family of a staff of B Barooah Cancer Institute who died on Thursday. But the virus was tracked out only after her death.
The entire premier cancer institute of the northeastern region has been sealed.
Apart from 4 other COVID19 cases have been confirmed in Guwahati on Thursday night. They include a post-graduate medical student at the Guwahati Medical College Hospital.
Identified as Dr. Litikesh Dutta, the doctor was engaged in the COVID 19 check-up at GMCH from May 2. For the last...
Six persons of Sarbhog, Barpeta district, who came in contact with a COVID-19 positive person were quarantined at Fakharuddin Ali Ahmed Medical College and Hospital on Thursday.
New Delhi: The killer COVID19 has claimed yet another life on Tuesday.
Identified as Ikramul Hussain, the CRPF sub-inspector died at a hospital in New Delhi five days after he was admitted in it.
Deeply saddened to learn of the demise of @crpfindia jawan Md Ikram Hussain who belonged to Barpeta, Assam.
Till his last breath, this brave son of Maa Bharti kept fighting against #COVID19. His undying spirit inspires us to sacrifice everything for the nation. My condolences.
— Sarbananda Sonowal (@sarbanandsonwal) April 28, 2020
This news was updated.
Kokrajhar: Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi has dissolved the Bodoland Territorial Council on Monday following the expiry of its term amid speculations of a widening gap between BJP and BPF.
Raj Bhawan issued the notification in the evening declining BPF's prayer for an extension following the COVID19 menace that forced the authority to countermand the council polls slated for April 4.
BJP president Ranjit Das on Sunday said that BTAD should come under the governor's rule as soon as the term of the BPF council expires.
But BPF MP Biswajeet Daimary said that the council has constitutional provision to get the extension. But that has not happened.
Apart from BJP, UPPL Congress...
Barpeta: Former headmaster of Juro Ram Pathak Girls' High School Himangshu Pathak breathed his last on Saturday morning at his residence at Gandhinagar, Barpeta. He was 87.
He left behind his wife, two sons, two daughters, grandchildren, and a host of his relatives, well-wishers.
People of Barpeta mourned for the demise of their beloved 'English Sir'.
Guwahati: Veteran Congress leader and former Bihar governor Devananda Konwar passed away after prolonged illness in Guwahati on Saturday.
Konwar, who was also a senior lawyer was 83 who breathed his last at his own residence in Guwahati early in the morning.
He started his political career in 1955 as he was a student and represented Thowra assembly constituency in Sivasagar district.
He was a senior cabinet minister during the Hiteswar Saikia and Tarun Gogoi regimes before being appointed as governor in Bihar.
For a short spell of time he served as West Bengal and Tripura governor.
After his retirement as governor he preferred to stay away from active politics and...
Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses serious concern over the physical attack on Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami along with his wife (Republic TV editor) Samyabrata Ray Goswami in Mumbai last night and condemns the incident with strongest words. The forum also urges Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray to punish the culprits under the law.
Goswami, who hails from Assam, described the incident in a video message that both of them were returning from the office by midnight of 22 April 2020 when the attack took place. Two motor cycle-borne goons tried to break the car window and threw some sort of liquid at the vehicle. His security guard has already caught...
Guwahati: Blows after blows seem to have hit the people hards. That too in the of a global endemic that claimed millions of people putting many others under the jaws of death.
Three days after the Assam Government resumed the toll plazas to collect road taxes, on Tuesday the BJP-led government hiked the prices of petrol and diesel prices by Rs 5 fuelling a hail of anger among the people.
According to sources, the government is cash trapped and has hardly any option to mop up revenue and the soft options include fuel prices hike and toll gate resumption which closed down because of the endemic.
A couple of days back., defying all hulloballo, the government ordered...
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