Mid April the major festival of composite Assamese society the Rongali Bihu begins, this also brings exuberance to the youths even to the aged and kids. As Assam and the Assamese people are gearing up with the preparation of Bihu; UB Photos – a premier news photo agency of North East India came out with full length commercial Bihu Video CD “Jaan Oi Zowan Doi” to be part of this gala celebration this year. The artists and producers released the VCD yesterday in a ceremony in UB Photos premises.
Speaking on the sidelines of the release Chief Photo Editor and Proprietor UB Photos Utpal Baruah outlined how and why UB Photos conceptualized on making of a Video Cd though it was a established name in still photography. Baruah reasoned that with visual media and editing set up being established in UB Photos; we tried to give a click with all freshmen in the technical setup. Directed by young director Kumar Sanjay Sarkar and freshman cameraperson Utpal Kalita the VCD is of standard quality. Most of composition through out the VCD has been given a second thought that is how the entire film becomes a good watching stuff. The fresh visual editor of UB Photos Pranab Bhuyan have done a wonderful job as well with sequence order, sound mixing and other editing activities. The entire UB Photos team has worked heart and soul to present a fabulous gift to the people of Assam this Rongali Bihu.
“Jan Oi Zowan Doi” has cast Kapil Borah as Jugal and Ratul Das as Pranab both ambitious village boys who come to Guwahati city to full fill their dreams. But they do not find any suitable employer or even a house to live in. In dilemma they lie and occupy a good accommodation in LP’s (Siddharta Mukherjee) house as tenants. Madhumita (Bhranti Medhi) is a pampered only daughter of LP who falls in love betrayal actor Pranab and her cousin Nandita (Zerifa Wahid) who comes to stay with them falls in love with Jugal an architect as lied to them. Alas! They (LP and family) come to know about their truth. The VCD however has a happy ending amidst tragedy, comedy and heart throbbing songs. Nishita Goswami appears as Guest Appearnce in a song. Acting by kid artist Rajhshree is really appreciable and it can be said from her skills that she owes a bright future in cine industry The other cast Lipika Bora Medhi, Kishor Choudhury, Debo Barman, Junali, Puspha Mishan and others. Bappa Ahmed, Ashim, Uday and Chandan have choreographed the dances and Ranjit Gogoi composed music. It is worth mentioning that songs have been sung by gen-X singer Zubeen Garg, Bollywood heartthrob Sonu Nigam, Jitul Sonuwal, Saswati Phukan and Sandhya Menon.
Actor Kapil Borah, Nishita Goswami, Sidhartha Mukherjee and the entire cast also spoke at length on their experience working with the UB Photos film unit. Produced by UB Photos the VCD has been supported by grassland, Reliance Mobile and co- produced by CEC Educational Group and Master (India) Brewing Company. The executive producer is Vinod Kumar Jain. During the release ceremony Dipankar Dutta, President CEC praised the efforts of all members of UB Photos and the film unit for their untiring effort behind the VCD. He expressed his desire to support and promote any group who is ready to come up with such commercial projects. A member of UB Photos termed it as leaning experience. A host of media persons, well-wishers and sponsors were also present during the release. The VCD is a must watch one this Rongali Bihu.
The boundary wall of the recently launched Mega Food Park at Nathkuchi (near Tihu under Nalbari district) collapsed. The newly constructed 150 meter of boundary wall of the park, which is first of its king in Northeast India, broke down last week. It is expected to create employment for nearly 30,000 people.Mentionable that, the Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi laid the foundation stone of the food park in February. The aim of the food park is to provide the basic facilities and common infrastructure to stimulate investment in the food processing sector.The project has been funded by the Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries with other sector participation like Assam Industrial...
Four person died, 15 others sustained injury as a bus was falling into a deep gorge in Kokrajhar on Wednesday. According to information, the incident took place at around 1 in the afternoon when the Dhubri bound Bus bearing No AS-16-0714 was falling into a deep gorge near a new RCC bridge at Narabari-Daokibari road under Kokrajhar Police station.Eyewitnesses here say, the bus carried overload passengers and approached the newly constructed bridge while it slipped into mud.Local residents of the area and police rushed to the spot and rushed the injured persons to the Rup Nath Brahma civil hospital in Kokrajhar.
One person died and atleast sixteen others injured when ULFA made powerful blast at Lalganesh area in Guwahati on Tuesday.According to information, the incident took place at around 5-30 in the afternoon near Shankar Hotel and the bomb was planted at a motorcycle which exploded to leave one dead and ten others injured. The injured were shifted to the Guwahati medical College Hospital.The blast rocked the area an hour before Union minister Pranab Mukherjee was to attend a function in the evening. Minutes after the incident, top ranked police and civil officials rushed to the spot and investigation is on. Some of the injured persons have been identified as Narayan Dutta, Bubu Gogoi, Raju Bora...
.Continuing the war of words, Congress has ridiculed the Asom Gana Parishad saying it had sold its regionalism to the BJP. Addressing the reporters, Congress spokesman Himanta Biswa Sarma said after its seat-sharing understanding with BJP, the AGP has surrendered its regionalism to BJP and that during the last assembly poll the AGP manifesto was based on core regionalism. In their earlier manifesto the AGP had said the people were their high command and that they had no bosses. He further said the AGP had earlier focused on price rise, but this time is silent on it. The health minister also said the AGP was critical of all other parties save the minority-dominated AUDF.
Over 50 rebels alid down thier arms before the Army in upper Assam's Tinsukia district on Tuesday. According to information, of these 44 rebels beloning to ULFA while other from NSCN and ANLA.The ULFA had four were rebels who surrendered on Tuesday before the GOC of 2nd Mountain division Maj Gen B S Sachar in the presence of Tinsukia superintendent of police Diganta Bora.Additional deputy commissioners of Tinsukia and Dibrugarh Vivekananda Phukan and Akashdeep were also present at the brief function. They further deposited a huge cache of arms and ammunition which include 44 pistols, five guns, one machine gun and huge quantities of assorted ammunition.In his address, Maj Gen Sachar...
An education institute is a place for nurturing the future of a society. Being one of the prominent institutes of the nation, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) has been working towards this goal in several ways. The students of IITG have been involved in various efforts like zero illiteracy zone campaign,distribution of used clothes,blood donation camps, visit to orphanages in Guwahati city , popularization of Gandhian philosophy,efforts towards e-governance ,mentoring of students from Kendiya Vidyalaya (KV), IIT Guwahati etc. to contribute towards the societal development of the nation in general and of the region in particular. "The zero illiteracy campaign was started in...
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The grassroot level AGP workers are not comfortable in the poll alliance with BJP. This was on display as the party was holding its general House meeting in Guwahati on Sunday.Several leaders in the district told Assam times, that they are leery of success in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in view of uncomfortable reputation of BJP in many places.The meeting was convened to make the grass root leaders prepared to face the pre poll situation.The meeting adopted a set of resolution stressing infiltration, unemployment, flood problems et al.Sources said the party convened the meting fearing that the grassroot activists might not cooperate during the campaigning process.
Assam's noted astrologer Amal Das, popularly known as Kero Young was arrested on Sunday by police four days after income tax officials conducted a raid at his residence and business establishments in Guwahati.According to information, the astrologer was absconding following his implications in tax evasion cases.Moreover, he was implicated under a few stringent wildlife Acts after the skins and bones of wild animals were recovered by forest officials from his business establishments during the income tax raid before it was sealed.
Several organizations staged a sit-in demonstration in Kaziranga demanding action against Jiten Gogoi and Kushal Duori for the recent incident of attack on forest officials of the Kaziranga National Park.The leaders of these NGOs in strike alleged government silence despite a week has passed after police registered against the militant turned political leaders charging them with assaulting the forest officials at Konhora on March 17.These NOGs include Aaranyak, EcoSystems-India, WWF-India, Dolphin Foundation, Early Birds.Notably, two FIRs were lodged at the Bokakhat Police Station in Golaghat against the MLA duo under Case No. 42/91 Under Sections 147, 148, 149, 447, 353 and 427 Indian...
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