Shankardev Shishu Vidya Niketan School at Dadara near Hajo is ready to get another facelift with the financial support from Guwahati Round Table 235, the Guwahati chapter of Round Table India (www.roundtableindia.org). The completed phase two section, comprising three classrooms, verandah & staircases with a total area of 2,750 square feet, will be inaugurated on 8 January next. Kamrup (rural) district magistrate Vinod Seshan has consented to inaugurate phase two part on Sunday in presence of district police chief PS Mahanta. “The foundation stone for development was laid on the 7 February 2016, where the project was planned to be completed in a phased manner with the first phase has already been completed. It was inaugurated by Assam education minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma,” informed Parveen Goyal, chief of Guwahati Round Table 235.
Addressing the media persons on Wednesday, Goyal also added that they would soonstart the construction of phase three and expected to get it completed by the end of 2017. He described his mother organization as a non-religious and non-political entity. The Round Table India has over 4,500 chapters across the country comprising young businessmen, entrepreneurs, technocrats and other professionals. Mukesh Chokhani, secretary to the Guwahati chapter of Round Table India disclosed that they adopted the Dadara Shishu Niketan school under its flagship freedom through education project. He also added that they planned to develop around 10,500 sqft in the school premises with a total outlay of rupees 80 Lakhs.
Project conveners Avishek Kejriwal, Shwet Agarwal, Rahul Sethi with few others were also present on the occasion. Soon after the press meet the Guwahati Round Table 235 office bearers donated two galvanized steel chairs for Guwahati Press Club, which were accepted by the GPC secretary Nava Thakuria in presence of other member-journalists.
Dr Amalendu Guha is dead leaving the entire state in a pall of gloom on Thursday.The end came for historian and social scientist at his own residence at 3-45 in the wee hours where he was keeping unwell for the last couple of weeks.Guha, who is known for his thought provoking writings, was born in 1924 in Imphal. As soon as the sad new spread life wild fire his relatives and fans thronged his residence to pay him their last respect. His is known for a number of books in Assamese, English and Bangla including From Planterraj to Swaraj. The lifeless Guha would be taken to GMCH as he has already donated body for research.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi is camping in New Delhi to hold a series of meeting with the party high command on a number of issues.Gogoi who arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday evening, is scheduled to meet Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi where he would apprise them of the press poll scenario after the NDA government ensured the safe passage of the land deal pact in Parliament.Sources told Assam Times in Delhi that Gogoi would discuss the strategies to ensure poll victory for the fourth consecutive term. He believes that the U turn on the land deal would alone be a good issue to mar BJP’s poll prospect. Government’s fourth anniversary celebration and proposal for a brief expansion of his...
Congress will be more aggressive hardly a year before the assembly polls. The party will sharply take on BJP on a number of issues. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi has asked the ministers to go all out against BJP to expose the real face of the ruling party at the Centre. Gogoi further has asked his ministers to highlight the U turns on the main issues during the last one year. “We must capitalize the Narendra Modi government’s U turn on the land swap deal. Its time to be more aggressive,” he told the ministers on Wednesday.
Normal life comes to a grinding halt from early in the morning following AGP’s 10 hour statewide bandh in protest against the Indo-Bangla land swap deal a day after the Rajya Sabha cleared the bill.Vehicles, mostly, are off from the roads. Shops and markets, schools and colleges, offices and banks are not opening under the impact of the bandh.The bandh is partial in Guwahati along with the Barak valley districts. ASTC buses are plying in Guwahati apart from a few other private buses.
Police heads from 10 states are devising an effective mechanism to efficiently deal with the rising incidents of crimes in the cities at an ongoing convention in Guwahati. Speakers at the 3 days convention in the premier north eastern region stressed smart policing to help the cities get rid of the criminal elements.In his opening address on Wednesday Chief minister Tarun Gogoi said smart policing goes a long way to ensure safety and security of the common people. Apart from DGP Khagen Sarma, chief secretary JS Khusla, commissioner MGKV Bhanu along with senior police and civil officers attended the opening ceremony.
Despite a seismic wave of protest, the Rajya Sabha passed the Indo-Bangla land swap bill on Wednesday to operationalise. The bill would be passed in the Lok Sabha with the help of the main Opposition party. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj moved the Constitution (One Hundred and Nineteenth Amendment) Bill, 2013 in the upper House in the morning to be unanimously passed with 180 votes in favour and none against it.Brought by the UPA government in 2013, the Bill amends the First Schedule of the Constitution to give effect to an agreement entered into by India and Bangladesh on the acquiring and transfer of territories between the two countries on May 16, 1974.Then prime minister...
Hardly a month is left for New Dehli and Dhaka to implement the land swap deal. If an Indian in Bangladeshi enclaves want to stay there, he or she will get Bangladeshi citizenship. If a Bangladeshi national living in Indian enclaves want to stay, they are free to get Indian citizenship.This was more or less of what Sushma Swaraj told in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.Moving the Constitution (One Hundred and Nineteenth Amendment) Bill, 2013 in the upper House on Wednesday morning, the external affairs minister made it plain and simple that no movement of population was necessitated by the exchange of enclaves.The constitutional amendment bill to operationalise the agreement was introduced in...
Amid statewide protest over the Indo-bangla land deal, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for re inclusion of Assam in the treaty which was passed in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. In a letter, Gogoi told Modi that it would not only serve national and state interests but also help in finding a permanent solution to the long standing India-Bangladesh border disputes in the Assam. According to Gogoi, it would also facilitate erection of fencing in undemarcated areas and help prevent illegal infiltration of foreigners, subversive elements and smuggling etc by sealing the porous border.
The government on Wednesday made it plain and simple that there is no fresh peace process with the militant outfits operating in the state.Disclosing this before media in Guwahati, DGP Khagen Sarma said those willing to join the national mainstream are free to come forward for parleys.
Where is Ingti Kathar Songbijit? Is the NDFB-S boss preparing to foment fresh trouble? DGP Khagen Sarma has the information. Talking to reporters in Guwahati on Wednesday, Sarma said the dreaded militant leader has been hiding somewhere outside the country. “He is advising his fellow militants from outside the country,” said the DGP after he attended a function in Guwahati on Wednesday. But what about G Bidai alias Bishnu Goyari? The NDFB-S vice-president who unleashed the December-end bloodbath is believed to have been criss crossing between India and Bhutan if Sarma is to be believed.Sarma said there was no question of withdrawing operation against the Bodo militant ...
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