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.
Former AGP leader and cultural activist Kartik Hazarika passed away hours after he underwent liver surgery at the Apollo Hospital in Chennai on Monday.Chief minister Tarun Gogoi along with many organizations and individuals have condoled Hazarika’s death and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family members. Hazarika was one of the leaders of the Assam Agitation. The Asom Gana Parishad will keep its flag half mast for the next three days to condole the death of the founder leader of the party.
The Garo National Coordination Committee and Garo Sahitya Sabha a paralyzing politics over the move to nominate a Garo member in the BTC.Addressing the reporters in Kokrajhar on Monday, GNCC general secretary Madhunath Marak and GSS leader Livson Sangma said that the entire procedure seems to have mired in dirty politics.The duo have urged Mohilary to nominate Triben Sangma who was proposed from Garo community to the post. Triben Sangma, president of BTAD region GSU said that the students union was working for the all round development in the region and the community organisations has stepped to nominate him to the council on consensus resolution adopted involving ten organisations...
Simmering differences seem to have gripped the Garo people in BTAD over the nomination of an elected member from the community in the newly elected territorial council. A section of the people from the community wants Triben Sangma while some others have urged BTAD chief Hagrama Mohilary to nominate Karbinson Sangma into the council.A section of the Garo Students Union bats for its president for the post while its adviser Wetson Marak wants Karbinson Sangma for the post.The BTAD Garo Students Union and nine other community organisations have urged Mohilary to take Triben Sangma on board.
Siddique Ahmed is not keeping well forcing the Karimganj Central Jail authorities to rush the former minister to the Silchar Medical College Hospital on Sunday. The former minister who was remanded to judicial custody recently, complained of uneasiness on Sunday underwent a few test before he was rushed to SMCH in the morning. "His condition was deteriorating. But he is stable now. He is out of danger," doctors attending him at SMCH told Assam Times in Silchar. Ahmed was sent to jail by a local court in Karimganj a few days back in connection with an assault case.
Tension grips Tiru hills area along the Assam-Nagaland border following reports of simmering conflict among a section of local residents. Jorhat district administration told Assam Times that a war-like situation was prevailed in Rongkham when security forces dismentled over 50 houses built in Assam territory by a section of people from Nagaland. Both the states are deploying security forces to deal with possible outbreak of border flare up.
The Asom Gana Parishad on Sunday rolled out Vision 16 sounding poll bugle for the assembly polls early next year. In a huge rally at Amguri, party president Atul Bora said that the Congress era was over. Bora said corruption will send all ministers to jail one by one. Speakers in the rally said that a section of the party has joined BJP but it wont hurt the party's poll prospect.
All people on the way to scale the Mt Everest are set to come back. The decision was unanimously taken at an emergency meeting at the basecamp on Sunday. The climbers will again hunker down again on Monday to finalise the decision to cancel the Himalayan expedition following the massive tremor in Nepal.
A minor boy was killed and several others sustained injury when the bus carrying them rammed into a diveder on the road in Lakhimpur district on Sunday. The mishap took place at Hawajan near Narayanpur in the wee hours when the bus was on its way from Barpeta Road to Dhemaji. The driver was believed to have lost his control over the bus which turned turtle after ramming into the divider. A minor boy died on the spot while over 20 others sustained injury to be rushed to the Lakhimpur Civil Hospital.
Security forces claimed to have killed a top militant at an encounter the along Assam-Meghalaya on Sunday. The gunbattle took place during a joint operation by police and para military forces at Kherkutta where the hardcore militant died on the spot.
Over 50 people sustained injury when a huge storm lashed Sivasagar heavilly disrupting a bihu function in the town on Sunday. The storm lashed the district in the wee hours uprooting trees beside disrupting suface communication in parts of the district. Many people including the deputy commissioner sustained injury when the storm struck at a bihu function in the Boarding Playground. The uprooted trees blocked the road for several hours. ASEB and BSNL employees have working to restore the power and telephone services.
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