Media clinic concludes at Guwahati Press Club
Bangalore based kidney transplant specialist Dr Sankaran Sundar graced the Saturday evening OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club on 13 May and offered free health consultations to over 20 participants. The senior consultant Nephrologist and head of international kidney transplantation program of Manipal Hospitals Bangalore advised few of them to take further courses of treatment. The participants also got their blood pressure checked by Rahul Sarma from the hospital.
The next Saturday clinic, organized under the series of 'Evening with a Doctor' programs on 20 May, will be attended by Dr Dhrubajyoti Dutta from Down Town Hospitals. Open for the member-journalists of the press club along with their dependents, the camp will begin at 4 pm and continue till 6 pm. The 27 May camp will be conducted by Dr Ashwin Rajagopal, senior consultant on Surgical Oncology from the Manipal Hospitals.
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Kulashrestha (50) was associated with a prominent Hindi daily newspaper and succumbed to corona complications on the night of 7 May 2020 in a local hospital. The authority has already quarantined the office, where the brave media warrior used to work and taken samples from every one for screening of the deadly virus. The soft-spoken scribe left...
Guwahati: Northeast Futsal League (NEFL) is being played in NC Bordoloi Indoor , Sarusajai Guwahati, Assam. It is India’s first-ever mixed-gender futsal league, which will feature six teams in total, will be played over a period of seven days (25th-31th August, 2019).
In the third match of the ongoing North East Futsal league presently going on in Guwahati, Apurba Manipur drew with Assam Titans in a 2-2 draw. While the Scorers for Manipur were Md Shah Jahan and Md Yasir, Atlanta Basumatary and Arman Singha netted the ball for Assam.
In the other match between Mizo falcons vs Meghalaya Thunders, Mizoram won by a handsome margin of five goals. All the matches will be streamed online on...
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