TANGLA: The Prestigious Madhavdev Award was ceremoniously confered to Litterateur, Devoraj Sapkota who is also the president of Udalguri chapter Zila Sahitya Sabha, at Sundaridiya Satra, Barpeta on Monday last on the grand occasion of three day long celebration of 530th Avirbhav Mahotsav of Mahapurush Madhavdev. The award carries a commendation certificate,a phulam japi,a seleng chador and a cash prize of Rs.10,000. Satradhikar Jagannath Dev Adhikari, Satradhikar of Sundaridiya Satra of Barpeta,Dhireswar Bayan, secretary of Satra Parichalana Samiti presented the award to Sapkota in recognization of his contribution to the Satriya art and culture by way of translating Kirtan Ghosha,Gunmala, Borgeets and Bhakti Pradeep by Mahapurush Sankardeva, Namghosha by Mahapurush Madhabdeva into the Nepali literature. Nirmal Adhikari,Deka Satriya of Sundaridiya Satra of Barpeta and Rosy Devi Bhuyan, renowned singer enthralled the audience with Borgeets in Assamese and Nepali respectively. Udalguri Zila Sahitya Sabha and Udalguri Sahitya Sabha congratulated Sapkota for his achievement.
17 Sep 2008 - 2:10pm | editor
The family members of Prasanna Turung, who has been kidnapped with his wife 17 months ago from Margherita, staged a sit in strike in Guwahati on Tuesday demanding probe into it.
Prasanna Turung and his wife have gone missing from Margherita in Tinsukia district of upper Assam from April 8, 2007. But the president of the Tirap Autonomous district council demand committee and his wife have been remaining clueless.
The Tinsukia district administration has failed to find any breakthrough. Two names surfaced in the case. One is none other than Margherita MLA and senior minister in the Tarun Gogoin cabinet Pradyut Bordoloi while another is Juel Ali. A few months back, minister Bordoloi and Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi announced a CBI probe into it. But that has not happened.
On Tuesday the family members of Prasanna Turung including Prasanna’s two children staged a sit in strike demanding an impartial probe into the missing case. They have alleged that the Tinsukia police administration is going soft on the three persons who are believed to be involved in the case.
KOLKATA& GUWAHATI: Even after she was caught in a barrage of criticism, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee continues to take on the NRC issue in Assam calling it a conspiracy against the Bangla speaking people. Many political parties, organizations and individuals have slammed the Trinamool Congress chief a day after she appealed to the people at a rally to give shelter to people from Assam in case they are driven out from the north eastern state.
She said “You must remain alert. If someone comes here, give them shelter as your own, do not drive them out.” She alleged that many genuine Hindi and Bangla speaking citizens from Bihar and West Bengal have been targetted in the name of an updated NRC. She said, “There are many from the State from Alipurduar, Murshidabad, Malda, Jalpaiguri who have spent decades in Assam. There are many people from Assam who are living in Bengal, but we never discriminate.”
Tinsukia joined the Independence Day celebrations along with other parts of the state on Saturday. Amid water tight security arrangement parliamentary secretary Rajendra Prasad Singh unfurled the national flag in the morning.
In his address, he appealed to the people to help the government implement the schemes.
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