During celebration of India's 60th independence, Nehru Centre (the Cultural Wing of the High Commission of India) is going to screen Jahnu Barua's Kushal Konwar - The great martyr of Assam on 27 August, 2010. Quit India Movement in Assam is a saga of patriotism of such martyrs as Kushal Konwar, whose birth centenary falls this year.
Multi National Award winner, Jahnu Barua’s films have won over 20 awards at international film festivals including Silver Leopard at Locarno. His films brought Assamese cinema and culture to the international audience.
On 13 August, 2010 - Basundhara : The earth written and directed by Hiren Bora will be screened. The film is about conflict between man-elephant in the forested area of Sundarpur, revealing the ecological disaster wrought by the loss of habitat for the elephants due to illegal trafficking of wood, an unlicensed stone quarry and uncontrolled poaching.
“Basundhara-The Earth” has won much critical acclaim. The film has had an impressive showing at the Kolkata Film Festival and the “Third Eye Asian Film Festival” in Mumbai. It was the first Assamese film to be released in 2010. It also won nine state awards.
Hiren Bora, stage actor turned film maker, story & script writer, depicts the socio-economic development issues through celluloid. It has been organised by Rini Kakati, NRI-Co-ordinator for UK.
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The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council has announced the results of its Higher Secondary Examination, 2008 held in February-March showing a percentage of successful candidates of ten year high in the all the science, arts and commerce streams.The percentage of successful candidates in arts stream is 65.33 per cent, and the figure stands at 80.73 per cent in science. The percentage of successful candidates in commerce stream is 69.96 per cent.Out of 15,093 candidates in science stream, 4,629 candidates have secured first division, 6,368 in second division and the successful candidates placed in third division are 12,185.In arts, the number of candidates appeared is 1,37,270 and out of...
Nitul Khatoniar from Cotton College has been seen among his fellow mates in the college premises in Guwahati on 14-05-08 after he ranked topped in the 2008 Higher Secondary Science stream results that announced today. Pix by UB Photos.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is leaving for China on a seven-day official visit with a view to boosting commercial ties with the neighbouring country. According to information, Gogoi is set to visit several areas to get first hand information about the development taking place in China in sectors like progressive farming, tourism, vocational training institutions, bamboo cultivation and bamboo-based industries. He is scheduled to visit the Xier hydel power plant and exchange views with Indian students studying in Dali University in Kunming. Gogoi is also schedule visit the Yunnan Academy of Social Science besides holding series of meetings with leaders of the Yunnan provincial party and...
Pradip Ranjan Kar, APS Additional Superintendent of Police North Cachar District has been awarded by the Governor of Assam Lt. Gen. (Rtd) Ajai Singh, for his outstanding contribution to lead from the front in Counter Insurgency Operations in North Cachar District in Guwahati on 14-05-08. Pix by UB Photos.
The Railways have taken Assam's volatile law and order issue with the Union Home Ministry and seek adequate security for its employees. According to information, the ministry has written a letter written to Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta, and expressed grave concern over the militant threat to the railway projects and the recruits. Work on the crucial Lumding-Silchar gauge conversion project in Assam is forced to remain disrupted due to reports on attack. The work has been disrupted at all the sites following insurgent attacks in a number of projects. Two workers were killed and another injured when the militants opened fire on a labour camp site near Migrandisa railway station in Assam...
Anandita Bora of Dibrugarh Salt Brook Academy and Nitul Khataniar of Cotton College have jointly toppped the Higher Secondary examination in science while the same position in arts and commerce streams have gone respectively to Mukul Haloi from Nalbari and Nikita Jabak in the results announced here on Wednesday.The percentage of successful candidates, highest in the last ten years, in science is 80.73, in arts is 65.33 while 69.96 candidates have come out successful in the commerce streams. Out of 15,093 candidates in science, 4629 ranked in first division and 6368 in second division. In arts stream the number of candidates appeared is 1,37,270 and the number of first division candidates is...
Sunaina Jain, KC Das Commerce College has been ranked 4th in the 2008th Higher Secondary Commerce Stream Result seen with her parents after the announcement of the result at the college premises in Guwahati on 14-05-08. It is mentionable that in this year 69.96% Students from the Commerce stream becomes successful. Pix by UB Photos.
The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council is announcing the results of the Higher Secondary Examinations, 2008 just a short while from now. The results of the Examinations in all arts, science and commerce streams will be available at 11 in the morning, informs Assam Higher Education Council sources.The results are available online at http://resultsassam.nic.in.
The North Eastern Council has finalised the roadmap for development of the region with the Vision 2020 at its plenary session at Agartala.Aiming at rapid development at per with other states, the docoument has featured maximizing self governance, good governance and poverty elevation, capacity building of the people, infrastructure and connectivity development.The North Eastern Council is in the need of a huge Rs 13 lakh crore to ensure all round development of the region in the next 12 years as it is there in the vision 2020 document. The document is being finalised after a series of sectoral summits and meetings undertaken during last three years. NEC chairman and DONER minister Mani...
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