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.
The Kaimganj district sessions judge strongly questioned the shifting of Siddique Ahmed during his judicial custody which ended yesterday. After allowing the former minister to leave the jail on bail, the judge said that the way the former minister was shifted to SMCH from civil hospital is objectionable. Notably, Ahmed was initially taken to Karimganj Hospital when he complained uneasiness after he was sent to jail. But when he failed to recover the jail authorities shifted to the SMCH with out any permission.
BPF ruled BTC administration has announced nominated six members to the BTC Legislative Assembly after few days taking oath of office and secrecy for third consecutive terms on Tuesday after a threadbare sitting of the council and party office bearers in Guwahati. According to sources, the members are nominated from various communitites which were not represented in the eldction which comprises of four women and two men which included Puleswary Devi (Salakati), Purnima Chetry( Chirang), Amal Prabha Shutradhar(Bijni), Triven Sangma (Parbatjhora),Sabita Rubi Das (Bijni) and Gitima Das (Gossaigaon).The names of six nominated members have been sent to governor's office for node of approval...
The Dispur Hospital has organized another Hepatitis B vaccination camp for scribes at Guwahati Press Club today (5 May 2015). The city based media persons, who had already taken the first dose of Hepatitis B vaccine on 5 April last, attended the camp for second (and final) dose of Hepatitis B vaccine.As many scribes could not take the vaccine for various assignments another Hepatitis B vaccination camp is organized at Guwahati Press Club on next Monday (11 May). The camp will start at 11 am in the press club premise and continue till 1 pm. The interested member-journalists are requested to contact the press club office or Ujjal Saikia, public relation officer...
The Union cabinet has approved the land swap deal with Bangladesh a day after the party MPs and state unit president agreed at a crucial meeting in New Delhi.The cabinet which earlier decided to exlude Assam on Tuesday did not disturb and decided to go in its original format. It paved the way for the country to implement the deal where Assam will be a looser.
Do you want to know anything about the Assam assembly on the Internet? You would find it strange if you get some unwanted and unexpected something at the click of the mouse? Will you believe that on browsing http://www.assamassembly.nic.in/mla-all-list.html you will get to know lots of irrelevant and confusing materials. Searching the “list of Assam MLAs” on the website at a glance would fetch you all about the “Reliance Mart”, “Big Bazaar”, “Walmart” --all not unwanted for you. These are apart from some other marketing and promotional offers such as on line bachelor degree and cell phone procurement. And when trying to close the advertsements the random sites pop up.The...
Both Congress and BJP seem to have been feeling the heat of the Indo-Bangladesh land deal to be raised in parliament soon for rectification.Many parties and organizations across the state came to the streets on Tuesday and burnt the effigies of chief minister Tarun Gogoi, BJP president Amit Shah, state leaders Sarbananda Sonowal, Siddharth Bhattacharya alleging that they are going to surrender before Bangladesh even by shedding land.BJP central leadership on Monday apprised state leadership of its helplessness to oppose the land swap deal which is set to be brought to Parliament in a day or two.
Despite a set of stringent measures trafficking of north eastern girls refuses to die down in Delhi.Delhi police have rescued two girls from Assam at a brothel in the national capital on Tuesday. Sources told Assam Times in New Delhi that acting on a tip off police and a local non governmental organization conducted a raid at a house in the wee hours where the girls were rescued. Both the girls are believed to have hailed from Bongaigaon district who have been remaining untraced for the last couple of months. Delhi Police are in touch with their Assam counterpart to send back to Bongaigaon. Investigation is continuing.
Braving an unstoppable dissidence Assam Congress is gearing up for the assembly polls early next year. Party president Anjan Dutta who is camping in New Delhi for a series of meetings with the party high command is busy with dressing the party afresh. Over 20 sitting legislators are unlikely to get party ticket this time. According to sources these leaders, mostly, belong to the dissident group. Five of them who have been doing dissidence are likely to join BJP while 6 others would not get ticket citing age factor. Almost ten others will be dropped in the name of fresh blood. Dutta has got the high command’s seal of approval in his new executive body at the Rajiv Bhawan where the...
After months of intense debate and controversy, BJP has cleared the decks for the Indo-Bangla land swap deal in its original format triggering a massive protest across the state. State BJP leaders have blamed it all on the erstwhile Congress-led government after the central leadership apprised them of the position at a crucial meeting in New Delhi on Monday. “We don’t want Assam to give even an inch of land to Bangladesh. Since it was signed by the erstwhile NDA government we can’t change the format. Even if want we don’t have number in Parliament. Had Congress supported us we won’t have done it,” said state president Siddharth Bhattachaya.“It sounds strange. The BJP which has been...
Amid an escalating tension along the Assam-Nagaland border areas in Jorhat, Naga miscreants on Monday unleashed a fresh reign of terror atop Tiru hills on Monday. Naga miscreants set on fire as many as ten huts at the Tiru Hills reserve forest in Rongkham area inside the Assam territory on Monday evening. That too despite deployment of heavy security forces the Naga miscreants came and set the huts on fire before leaving the spot. The conflict took place after the security forces dismantled many houses illegally set up on the soil of Assam by the goons from Nagaland.
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