Pinky Pradhan receives Atlas Services Corps. Fellowship
Pinky Pradhan of Jatia, Kahilipara, Guwahati has been awarded the prestigious Atlas Service Corps. Fellowship for the year 2009-2010. She will be based in Washington DC , USA and will serve Population Action International, one of the leading NGOs of USA as a Resource Development Fellow. She has been shortlisted among 500 applicants from 65 countries around the world.
Pinky is currently with United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Regional Office for South Asia as a Communications and Advocacy Officer. She did her graduation from Cotton College and her post graduation from Indian Institute of Mass Communications in New Delhi.
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The 13-member Women National Boxing team was named this evening by the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF) to represent India at the 4th Asian Sr. Women Boxing Championship to be held at Guwahati from 23rd to 28th September 2008. Abhay Singh Chautala Chairman of the Selection Committee said that the best team at the moment has been picked for the championship here at Sports Authority of India (SAI), Ground at Paltan Bazar Guwahati. Arjuna Jaslal Pradhan was the Government observer of the selection committee. G S Sandhu Chief National Coach (Men) and Arjuna awardee D. S Yadav, Mehtab Singh are the member of the selection committee.Names of the boxers, representing states/unit and weight...
Assam Kickboxing Association (AKA) will felicitate prominent and rising sports and sports related personalities next month. Noted critic Dr. Hiren Gohain as an advisor and Dr. Mamoni Raisom Goswami as the President addressed the media person on behalf of Assam Kickboxing Association (AKA) Felicitation Committee at Guwahati Press Club today. Kailash Sharma, President of AKA invited criteria of selection of nomination. Veteran kickboxer of the nation Bishwajeet Kakati also spoke on the aspects of kickboxing. Notably it is the only sports that is recognized as a part of syllabus in Assam Higher Secondary Education Council(AHSEC) and Directorate of Sports. "The Spirit Wins; Not Muscles...
Aankhi Goswami an undergraduate from Guwahati worked out of Pragjyotika ITA Machkhowa last night with the eclectic super model crown carrying a cash award of Rs.25,000/-, gift hamper worth Rs.10,000 and modeling contest entry to the Pantaloon Femina Miss India 2009 from Kolkata zone, photo session with a top fashion photographer of the state and cover face of The Eclectic the no.1 Magazine from the North East the organizer of this mega event. The Eclectic celebrating its 2nd anniversary thought of this unique break by a magazine as the eclectic always believe in North East being very beautiful and the women too can compete any one in the globe outlined Nibir Hazarika-the editor of the...
One suspected hardcore Gorkha Liberation Army (GLA) outfit militant Arjun Chetri of Nagaland was today nabbed by state police at Dheraichuli while he was coming from Dalgoan towards Dekhiajuli in Sonitpur district. Well placed sources told Assam Times that Mr. Chetri was arrested with AK-47 rifle, a Chinese made pistol and hand grenades and modern arms and ammunitions. Interrogation is on while more details is awaited.
Tata Motors today launched the new generation of the country's first and only fully indigenous car- the Indica Vista at a function at Hotel Landmark, Guwahati. The all new Indica Vista has been given a complete makeover. A complete new skin houses an all new interior and sculpted evolutionary, yet very contemporary body makes a bold styling statement. At nearly 3.8m length and 1.7m width with a wheel base of 2470mm, the car has grown size, mostly in the interior space. Photographs of the car would not speak that lot till one sees and tries it.Speaking to selected media persons at the launch Nitin Seth, Head Car Product Group Tata Motors Ltd. Said, "The second Generation Indica Vista...
Dr Bhupen Hazarika will be given the first-ever Asam Ratna Award in recognition of his contribution to Assamese culture and music. This was revealed by the Govt. of Assam on the celebrated singer's birthday yesterday.The newly instituted award would comprise a citation and Rs 3 lakh. The honour will be presented to Dr Hazarika by either the President of India or the Prime Minister at a venue to be finalised later said the press release.The Chief Minister announcing the award described Dr Hazarika as a pride of Assam, hoped that he would continue his artistic journey and enrich Assam with his invaluable work.Dada Saheb Phalke Awardee Dr Hazarika was born in 1926 at Sadiya in Upper Assam in...
One of the most awaited highlights of Techniche'08 started off after a little delay in the auditorium of IITG. Mr. Prabhu Chawla, known by one and all to be a journalist of caliber and experience, enlightened the audience with his presentation on the changing scenario's of Indian Politics. India, which was once ruled by a single party winning absolute majority, was now changing and in at least the next 25 years will be governed by multi party coalitions. This shift from absolute majority governments to coalitions has not been easy for the country. The speaker attributed this shift more to the spheres of dominance of variety of leaders having influence over their region/caste/religion. The...
Who wasn't the part of a grand celebration that this years edition of Techniche08 - from scientists of NASA to archeologists from France, everyone added a new flavor to the extravagant techno-management festival. But day-3 took Techniche to a different level all together when the mentor of all IIT'ians, Professor Harish Chandra Verma came to meet his (virtual) students. Professor H.C.Verma joined the department of physics in 1994 at IIT-Kanpur and has rendered his services to the institute since then.He started his speech by classifying it into two main divisions- the situation of science and technology in India and simple experiments to learn physics, but when the session ended everyone...
Students admiring advanced Indian army warfare at the TECHNICHE08'-an annual technological festival of Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati one of the premiere Information Technology(IT) institute in the world located at North Guwahati, Assam. The festival attracts over 10,000 participants from other states and speakers across the globe besides over 4000 students of IIT-G and some thousands visitors of various schools and institutes.
HTML clipboard Almost all the Assamese of yesteryears has got special likings for the immortal songs 'Chinaki Chinaki mur monar manuh' and 'Asom desor bagisare chowali'. The singer of these immortal songs is Usha Mangeshkar, the youngest sister of the famous Mangeshkar family. Music of these songs were of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika, the inimitable singer from this part of the country. Lata Mangeshkar introduced her youngest sister to Dr. Hazarika during their rehearsal for the song 'Jonakore Rati' from the film 'Era Bator Sur'. In their first meeting itself, Dr. Hazarika offered Usha Mangeshkar proposal for singing some Assamese songs and she accepted it with all her sincerity. This was the...
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