International Women’s Day was observed at Gram Vikash Parishad’s Head Office, Rangaloo jointly by Jan Sikshan Sansthan, Nagaon, Gram Vikash Parishad and Social Welfare Department of Nagaon on 8th March 2011. To mark this auspicious occasion a day long programme was held. Officers from different departments of the district and well known persons were present in the open session presided over by Md. Siraj Uddin Ahmed General Secretary of Gram Vikas Parishad. Valuable speeches were delivered by the eminent guest speakers including Mrs Jarjina Begum (Retired Subject Teacher), Moni Deepa Saikia (District Social Welfare Officer), Rosie Kalita (Additional S.P. Nagaon), Dr. Roslin Zahan (Professor Nagaon Girls College), Based Ali (Asstt. Teacher Rangoloo High School), Abdul Munnaf (President, Gram Vikas Parishad), Rumi Begum (Senior Supervisor Kathiatali ICDS Project), emphasizing over the main objective of observing Women’s Day, women empowerment and awareness.
On this occasion tree plantation, devotional song, drawing competition and a one act play performed by JSS & GVP staff written and directed by Kajol Choudhury were one of the important parts of the day long programme including open session. Few eminent social workers felicitated on this occasion were Nagaon Zila Mahila Congress Committee president Mrs. Eliza Ahmed, District Social Welfare Officer Ms. Moni Deepa Saikia and senior advocate and former lecturer of Nagaon Law College Mrs. Deepa Saikia.
More than three hundred women participants were gathered in a slide presentation based on International Women’s Day celebration theme of the year 2011, ‘Equal access to Education, training and science and technology, pathway to decent work place for women’ Md. Siraj Uddin Ahmed, Chairman of Jan Sikshan Sansthan, Nagaon & General Secretary. Gram Vikas Parishad.
Mritunjoy 108 workers took part in the open session and spoke about the first aid- precautionary measures to be taken at emergency.
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A senior official of a Chennai-based firm has been missing since Sunday from near Kaziranga National Park.
According to police, Ganapat Kumar, a project engineer of Afcon Infrastructure, went...
The Gauhati Press Club has urged State Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma as well as the Health Department to provide COVID-19 vaccines to all journalists irrespective of their ages due to the deterioration of the pandemic situation . In a statement signed by Manoj Nath and Sanjoy Ray, the president and general secretary of the Press Club, respectively has said that a number of journalists across the country already has succumbed to the deadly virus infection. “ At the outset, let us express our sincere gratitude to you(Health Minister) and the Health and Family Welfare department for facilitating a vaccine camp for media persons above 45 years of age.
However, with the battle...
Sports is what brings people closer and teaches them about love and loyalty. Not only that, but numerous famous sportspersons have acted as role models to many young kids and motivated them to pursue their dreams, regardless of how difficult the road may be.
Assam is one of the states where sports are popular and it is one of the things that the state is well-known for, apart from its natural wildlife and archaeological sites. We wanted to take a closer look into this topic and name some of the most popular sports in Assam. Let’s check them out.
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One interesting thing that we wanted to mention on the sports topic, is that the...
Defection from a party to another party by elected representatives has already become synonymous with the Indian politics, especially after 2014. Several Congress and other parties' heavyweights across the country defected their parties to the BJP after Narendra Modi became Prime Minister of the country for the first time around 7 years ago. Despite the Parliament enacting the anti-defection laws in the 90s, the defection by elected representatives continue to occur in the country. Defection by a number of Congress heavyweights already rocked the party. One more Grand old party leader in Assam may defect the party, as a section of political pundits viewed. A few days ago, Amguri Congress...
Creating more fear among the COVID-19 panic-stricken people, an earthquake measuring 6.4 magnitude on Richter Scale shook Assam and some parts of the NE India today morning. The tremor was felt at 7.52am followed by atleast two aftershocks.
No major loss is reported so far. As per the National Center for Seismology under the Ministry of Earthscience, the magnitude of the earthquake was 6.4 on Richter Scale. “It was really a big”, said Dr. Geeta Dutta, in her facebook post. The epicenter of the massive quake was in the Sonitpur district,Assam at the depth of 10 km.
In Guwahati, people hurriedly moved out from their houses after feeling the tremor.
Security forces have rescued two abducted ONGC officials from Nagaland last night. Sources revealed that the officials were rescued in a joint operation carried out by the Indian Army and Assam Rifles in a populas area of the Mon district. The outlawed ULFA(I) has kidnapped three ONGC officials from the Lakuwa rig. Among the three two were rescued, security forces claimed. The rescued officials are identified as Alakesh Saikia and Moni Mohan Gogoi. Security Forces also recovered an AK 47 rifle during the operation. They keep the operation to rescue the other abducted.
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Amidst the Coronavirus scare, a group of armed people has, reportedly, abducted three ONGC officials from its oil rig in Lakuwa, Sivasagar last night. As per reports, the abducted have been identified as Ritul Saikia, Titabor, Mohini Mohan Gogoi, Sivasagar and Alakesh Saikia of Jorhat. After receiving the information, the police have launched investigation.
Mentionable is that the ULFA(I) abducted two officials of an oil company a few months earlier and released them just a few days ago.
Former Chief Minister of Assam and senior Congress leader Dr. Bhumidhar Barman is no more. He was 91. The octogenarian political leader passed away today evening after a brief illness. He was also former health minister during the chief ministership of late Hiteswar Saikia from 1991 to 1996. After the demise of Saikia, Dr. Barman was elavated as the chief minister of the state for a brief while.
The Centre is likely to restore the employees' Dearness Allowances(DA) effective from July, this year. The government had decided to not dole out the Allowances after the onslaught of the new coronavirus and the subsequent prolonged lock-down imposed to contain the meance in the country However, as its earlier decision the government, reportedly, mulled to restore the DA, which would benefit lakhs of its empolyees.
On March this year, the government informed in the Parliament that the Central government employess' would receive the upcoming July DA.
If it happens, the DA of the Central Government employees would leap to 28 percent from the current 17 percent.
After a massive protest, the Central government has, reportedly, decided to restore the Rongali Bihu holiday for its employees posted in Assam.
The government, of late, announced no holiday in the upcoming bihu for its employees posted in the state, which has created a massive uproar.
Realising the gravity of the situation, the concerned authority announced restoration of the Rongali bihu holiday. In a meeting of the Central Govt. Employees Welfare Co-ordination Committee organised at the Accountant General office located in the Beltola area of the Guwahati, on Monday, it was resolved to restore the bihu holiday .
In a communique, the Committe's General Secretary said, “ As...
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