Health check up at press club
Guwahati Press Club in association with the Sun Valley Diabetic Care and Research Center, Guwahati has organized a health check up camp for media persons on December 31 next (Thursday). The camp, to be held at the press club premises, will start at 10 am (and continue till 2 pm). Senior surgeon Dr Sudhir Jain with Dr Bikash Bhattacharya, Dr Mukul Bora will attend the camp and be available for consultation. Member-journalists of the press club are encouraged to participate in the camp.
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Bhupenda was sleeping in a glass covered box and for 36 hours uncounted number of his fans paid their tribute to him. Bhupenda will be cremated on the bank of Brahmaputra near to Gauhati University. His son Tej Hazarika has already arrived in Guwahati from his workplace New York.
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