Humanity award for Aruna Roy
Noted social activist Aruna Roy will receive the prestigious Upendra Nath Brahma Soldier of Humanity Award 2016. The Jury Board of the Upendra Nath Brahma Trust (UNBT) headed by Dr. Anil Boro, Associate Professor, Gauhati University finalized Roy for the award to be given away at a function in Rabindra Bhawan in
Guwahati on August 26.
Roy, a social activist is the co-founder of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathana (MKSS), a social and grassroots organization for the empowerment of workers and peasants. It is a major civil rights movement in India and played a crucial role in the establishment of the Right to Information Act (RTI). She is also served as a civil servant in the Indian Administrative Service before deciding to dedicate herself fully to social and political campaigns.
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The nomination of Salkan Murmu of Jharkhand Disom Party (JDP) and Haricharan Basumatary (Independent) found invalid and rejected during scrutiny in No. 5 Kokrajhar Lok Sabha (ST) constituency. Kokrajhar DC and Returning Officer Nitin Khade said the nomination of Murmu and Basumatary were rejected.A total of nine candidates have filed nomination, of which seven found valid to contest in the ensuing election from Kokrajhar HPC.Kokrajhar Lok Sabha Constituency, the election to which is on April 24. The date of withdrawal is Wednesday (April 9).
Miscreants torched and vandalized houses of five families allegedly conversion of religion at Daloabari village in Kokrajhar district late last night.Affected families said that around 10 persons armed with sharp weapons vandalized the houses and gutted down of four houses of the two families and warned of the dire consequences as they recently converted religion.The miscreants torched the houses of Reven Basumatary and Binoy Brahma while the houses of Tani Brahma, Raja Brahma and Sarsing Brahma were vandalized and miscreants also looted property and domestic animals, they alleged.An FIR has been lodged with Kokrajhar police station against incident.Police said that strict measures have...
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Sensation created among society after a mother died giving birth of a baby at a private Nursing Home in Kokrajhar on Saturday.Sumita Brahma, a hand to mouth woman was admitted at a private Nursing Home on Friday and who gave birth a male baby in a caesarean section at around 9 am this morning.However, mother could not survive and died after an hour giving birth the baby.Family members of the Sumita alleged that mother of the baby was died due to wrong treatment of the doctors in the nursing home. They also slammed Dr A Narzary could not deliver his duty smoothly due to old age and there have been increasing deaths of mother in the nursing home.Sumita Brahma was the mother of a 6-year-old...
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