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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Kashmiris have been restricted from communicating outside their country for 50+ days.
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At what point do we question whether PM Modi shares our values?
Kashmiris have been restricted from communicating outside their country for 50+ days.
In Assam, almost 2 million people are being asked to prove their citizenship. This is how the Rohingya genocide started.
At what point do we question whether PM Modi shares our values? pic.twitter.com/xazzwfiR61
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The latest incident of journo-murder has been reported from Andhra Pradesh, where a young reporter was hacked to death by miscreants. K Satyanarayana, 50, who worked for Telugu daily ‘AndhraJyothy’, was targeted at Annavaram village of East Godavari district on the night of 15 October 2019.
“Local scribes revealed that Satyanarayana was targeted in an earlier occasion too and it was...
Foundation for Social Transformation (FST) going to organise 7th conversation on "Urban Lifestyle and Its Impact On Climate Change" on October 22 at its office in Guwahati.
The event will bring together students academicians/youth /working professionals and public in general across Northeast under one roof to share, discuss, communicate and learn from each other on the issues relating to climate change and its consequences and solution.
Date: October 22, 2019 (Tuesday),
Venue: Foundation for Social Transformation office premises from 3 pm onwards.
RSVP:
FST
House No 1, J N Borooah Lane
Jorpukhuri, Guwahati-781001
Ph No: 9435553373
PTI Dhubri District Correspondent Om Prakash Todi passed away on Thursday evening at 7.30 pm in Dhubri.
He had gone for news coverage at 3 pm, complained about chest pain at 4 pm.
He was taken for ECG at around 5 pm and then passed away at 7.30 pm, according to his son Ravindra Todi who is also a Journalist.
Todi had contributed news to PTI for over 25 years and was the senior most district correspondent of the news agency.
He was in his early 70s when he passed away.
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Governor Prof. Jagdish Mukhi administered him the oath of office at a solemn function in presence of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal held at Darbur Hall in Raj Bhavan.
The Governor administered him the oath of office under article 219 of the Constitution of India.
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Total 72 teams, each consists of two nos. of child-scientist from different schools of the Kamrup Metro District presented their project reports at the district congress.
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Dr. Dilip Datta (80 years), Professor of Mathematics, University of Rhode Island passed away between 2:30-4:00 am New York time on 26th September 2019 at his Rhode Island residence in USA.
Prof. Dilip Datta was a noted author and had authored many books, novels, etc, including -
1. Bhupen Hazarikar Geet aru Jibon Rath,
2. Phali Lua Biranji
3. Mur Sikkha aru Mur Sikhhak
4. Miss Gauhati (Novel)
5. Mone mur koina bisare, which was converted into a movie, including many books on Mathematics.
Dr. Datta was very close to Late Shri. Bhupen Hazarika.
He was also ex-President of Asomiya Sahitya Sabha and was running a School at his place of birth at Jorhat.
Dr. Dilip Datta was the...
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