The city based Rahman Hospital conducted the Saturday (25 February) evening OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club (GPC), where Dr Hemen Ch Goswami & Dr P Rojer Singh (Medicine) checked the health status of over 30 participants and offered free consultations.
The member-journalists of GPC along with their dependants also got their weight, blood pressure & sugar checked by nurses namely Momi Begum and Asha Devi. Most of the participants were also provided necessary medicines.
Senior physicians Dr Muhammad Liaquat Ali Rahman and Dr MMM Kazi from the acclaimed hospital also graced the camp, where health workers Manab Deka and Nazrul Islam supported the participants in the process of consultations.
The next camp on 4 March 2017 under the GPC’s series of ‘Evening with a Doctor’ programs will be conducted by the Panbazar based Institute of Dental Science & Research Center, where Dr Deep Sharma and Dr Nirmala K Roy will go for oral & dental health diagnosis & treatment planning. The camp will begin at press club premises by 3 pm and continue till 6 pm.
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Guwahati: The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA-I) has alleged a nefarious conspiracy by police and the army to crush their spine, engaging a section of youths who were dispatched to the jungles to join the rebel outfit.
In a statement sent to media, the proscribed outfit claimed to have caught the conspiracy as they grilled a youth from Baihata Chariali in Kamrup who recently joined the outfit.
They have published a list of youths who were trained to target the outfit..
During interrogation by ULFA men inside the jungles, the youths allegedly named a few police officers who had a huge role in the entire conspiracy.
Dibrugarh and Diphu: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a day-long tour of Assam a couple of days after he tried no less to share the joy of Rongali Bihu at a function in New Delhi organized by Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
Modi's day-long visit comprises two big rallies in Diphu and Dibrugarh to open 7 cancer hospitals simultaneously. Towards the evening he is scheduled to leave back to the capital.
Dibrugarh and Karbi Anglong district administrators have already announced a public holiday to allow the common people to attend the events.
Both districts have arranged thousands of buses to carry people to the rally venues, causing immense suffering for...
New Delhi: More setback awaits state Congress hardly a month after an outgoing state president joined TMC.
A few tea community Congress leaders is learnt to have been preparing to join BJP when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a day long tour to Dibrugarh on Thursday.
Those who are waiting to join the saffron part include a former Union minister and a former state minister who was assembly Speaker.
When contacted, state Congress leadership refused to make any comment. Notably, former Khumtai MLA and minister Bismita Gogoi who is joining on Thursday called in CM Himanta Biswa Sarma along with Mariani MLA Rupjyoti Kurmi in Dispur....
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Raijor Dal, floated in 2020, has finally received the Election Commission of India (ECI) registration. The party won one seat in the 2021 Assam assembly elections contesting the majority constituancies. Akhil Gogoi, the former leader of the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity (KMSS) is the lone MLA party which has been trying hard to become a formidable ginger group in the state political arena.
Informing that Raijor Dal had received the ECI's registration, one of its vociferous leaders Gyanasree Bora urged the party workers to do more hard work so that the party's strength could be increased. She also stressed the need for the party's funding collection. “ Finally, our party has received...
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In his letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Bora alleged that he had no point of continue as Congress leader and former where a section of his party leaders has struck secret deal with BJP or Chief Minister.
Later in the afternoon, Bora joined TMC at a brief function in Kolkata where top TMC leaders were present. Bora is that ed second top lCobgress eader to have joined TMC after Sushmita Dev.
Guwahat: AAP has alleged a nefarious attempt by BJP in Guwahati to upset it's prospect for the upcoming GMC polls.
Talking to Assam Times, a senior leader of the party said that BJP/s youth wing has damaged a hoarding in Guwahati on Monday.
He said that this was followed by the removal of a few other AAP banners and hoardings in the Capital city by the administration.
Later in a statement, the newly emerging party said that BJP's the largest ever political party on the planet was rattling at the stepped up electioneering by a very small party which is in power only in two states.
AAP is contesting 40 wards out of 60 in the GMC polls slated for April 22.
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Hundreds of people in the nook and corner of the capital city have been joining the party on every passing day. Party banners and posters are flooding the city streets apart from meetings at ward level.
"Yes. I joined the party after I had noticed the schemes of things in Delhi and Punjab," said Antara Das from the Ulubari area.
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New Delhi: The Centre has withdrawn AFSPA 1958 from 24 districts in view of an improved law and order situation.
According to the notification, it would come into force from April 1,2022.
Apart from the hills districts, AFSPA will be in force in Sivasagar, Jorhat, Tinsukia.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma thanked the Centre for the decision and hoped that the Act would be a thing of the past for the entire state in the near future.
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