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.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is likely to take a final call on the simmering dissidence within the Congress legislature party.Top AICC leaders told Assam Times that a worried Gandhi is keen to settle the entire issue this week itself.But she has yet to discuss the Mallikarun Kharge findings with Rahul Gandhi who has arrived in New Delhi on Sunday. “Gandhi does not want Tarun Gogoi to go. But in the same breath she wants to keep the dissident legislatures calm. That’s why, she has been trying to strike a balance between the two,” said n AICC top leader who refused to be named before Assam Times.Notably, Gandhi is set to talk to Rahul Gandhi in a day or two to finaly settle the issue...
Security forces are still fanning in Chirang district in search of the youths who exploded two grenades in the district on Sunday. A massive search operation is underway to nab the culprits. Top police and civil officials of the district administration rushed to the spot and reviewed the situation. Unidentified militants struck again in the area leaving three people injured on Sunday in Chirang distrcit. Three people sustained serious injury when some unidentified miscreants lobbed a grenade in Bijni in the afternoon. Three motorcycle borne youths lobbed a grenade near Bolanguri bus stand at Kuklun Road area where three persons were left critically injured as they were working at a...
The All Assam Students’ Union on Monday has threatened to launch a massive agitation across the state if the Centre allows resumption of big dam construction. At the end of the day long satyagraha in protest against the move to the Modi government, the students’ body strongly criticized the Centre alleging its double standard role on the big dam construction in Arunachal Pradesh. They made it plain and simple that they won’t halt if the Centre is averse to listen to the voice of protest. Earlier in the morning, the student body leaders and activists thronged in the district and sub divisional headquarters and started staging dharna asking the Centre to stop the construction of the NHPC...
Security forces are fanning in Chirang district in search of the youths who exploded two grenades in the district on Sunday. A massive search operation is underway to nab the culprits. Top police and civil officials of the district administration rushed to the spot and reviewed the situation. Unidentified militants struck again in the area leaving three people injured on Sunday in Chirang distrcit. Three people sustained serious injury when some unidentified miscreants lobbed a grenade in Bijni in the afternoon. Three motorcycle borne youths lobbed a grenade near Bolanguri bus stand at Kuklun Road area where three persons were left critically injured as they were working at a garage....
A huge explosion rocked Chirang district on Sunday forcing security forces to step in. The incident took place near No 2 Bhetgaon area ten minutes after the Bijni town explosion where three workers sustained injury. But nobody was injured in the explosion. Minutes before it, militants struck again in the area leaving three people injured on Sunday in Chirang distrcit. Three people sustained serious injury when some unidentified miscreants lobbed a grenade in Bijni in the afternoon. Eyewitnesses told Assam Times that three motorcycle borne youths lobbed a grenade near Bolanguri bus stand at Kuklun Road area where three persons were left critically injured as they were working at a garage...
Bombs are back in BTAD areas. Unidentified militants struck again in the area leaving three people injured on Sunday in Chirang distrcit. Three people sustained serious injury when some unidentified miscreants lobbed a grenade in Bijni in the afternoon. Eyewitnesses told Assam Times that three motorcycle borne youths lobbed a grenade near Bolanguri bus stand at Kuklun Road area where three persons were left critically injured as they were working at a garage. Identified as Palan Mandal, Sujannam Das and Sujan Arya, the trio have been rushed to the hospital in a critical condition.
MRIDUSMITA DAS, BARPETA Cases of Japanese encephalitis refuse to die down in Barpeta. Yet another patient lost his life in the district creating panic among the people of all walks of life. Idetified as Jumi Begum, the resident of Durgapur in Bhella died of this dreaded disease recently when she was undergoing treatment at the Gauhati Medical College Hospital. The death of the pregnant woman sent shockwaves across the district. Another resident of the same district Rajnikanta Das died after suffering from the same decease on June 28. With this, the death toll in Japanese encephalitis has gone up to 3 in the district. However, a number of patients hailing from Bahari, Sarthebari, Bhella...
Both Tarun Gogoi camp and the dissidence group are deposing before the AK Atony panel in New Delhi on the recent Lok sabha poll debalce in the state. Led by Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma, the dissident faction is all set to blame it all on Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for for the electoral defeat. But Gogoi and his loyalists are equally blaming the dissident ministers and MLAs for the poll route alleging that the group was trying its level best to ensure the poll defeat in order that Gogoi is ousted. Antony panel, however, wil not look into the dissidence within the Congess legislature party. The panel has been studying only the reasons behind the poll defeats in the states. Chief Minister Gogoi...
The overall flood situation starts improving on Sunday following the halt of rains in the catchment areas of Arunachal Pradesh. The water level of the Brahmaputra and its tributeries are gradually receding during the last 24 hours. “The waterlevels of the mighty river are expected to recede further during the last 24 hours,” water resources development department officials told Assam Times on Sunday. Surface communications that came into a grinding halt in Jorhat, Sivasagar, Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur and Dhemaji have been restored after flood waters damaging crops in several hectors in Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts.
Assam is most unsafe for women. The state tops the list of crimes against fair sex in the entire north eastern region. According to the National Crime Records Bureau report the state remains in the seventh place in the all India level. Assam jumped to 17,449 cases of crimes against women in 2013 as against 13,544 in 2012. Assam leads the list for all recorded crimes against women, including rape, kidnapping and abduction, dowry deaths and cruelty by husband and his relatives. The state reported 1,937 incidents of rape in 2013 as against 1,716 in 2012 to be followed by Tripura, where 233 cases were registered as against 229 in 2012. again Assam tops the list with 170 deaths reported over...
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