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.
Khagen Mahanta’s sudden is a irrepairable lost on Assam’s cutural front. This was more or less if what a cross section of the people told Assam Times on Friday.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who visited Mahanta’s bereaved family on Thursday apart from attending the funeral function in Panjabari said that Mahanta united the people of the various castes and creeds with his songs.
BJP, AGP, AIUDF leaders also joined the condolence with a number of messages. All Assam Students Union said that a permanent site is necessary to keep his works alive.More and more condolence messages are pouring in from different parts of the state.
Noted singer Khagen Mahanta is no more. The exponent in folk and traditional music of Assam died a sudden death at his own residence in Guwahati on Thursday afternoon. The end came at 3 in the afternoon sending shockwaves across the state.
Popularly known as the king of bihu, Mahanta is survived by his wife Archana Mahanta and son Angaraag Mahanta . Mahanta was born to Harendra Nath Mahanta and Laxmipriya Deviin in Nagaon who showed his musical talent in his childhood. A pall of gloom descends in the entire state following the untimely death of this legend.
The simmering dissidence within the Congress legislature party would soon die down if senior AICC leader Ghulam Nabi Azad is to be believed.
Talking to reporters in New Delhi on Wednesday evening, the AICC leader dealing with the crisis along with Dr CP Joshi and Motilal Vhora said that the amicable solution was in sight and that the party will gear up for the 2016 Assembly polls.
When asked about the fate of the sitting Chief minister Tarun Gogoi, Azad parried a direct reply to it and said,”let’s see what would take place.”
Whatever Azad told reporters in New Delhi assumes significance hours before he was scheduled to meet Dr Sarma, who is camping in New Delhi to meet Congress president...
Karbi Anglong police recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition during a combing operation against UPLA inside a dense jungle on Wednesday.
These include 6 AK-47 rifles, 21 grenades, a pistol along with many other ammunitions-- --seized from Nawang area in the district bordering Meghalaya.
According to information, the UPLA militants managed to escape from the inaccessable jungle where they have been camping for the last couple of months.
Police claimed to have achieved this success a day afte they arrested the UPLA militants responsible for killing of Hamren SP Nityananda Goswami and his PSO Ratul Nunisa.
Assam police and Nagaland police launched the combing operation a week after...
Agriculture minister Nilomoni Sen Deka met Sarat Borotoky Wednesday on fuelling the specualtion of Chief minister’s new measures to contain the dissident ministers and MLAs.
Deka, the trusted minister of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi arrived in Sarat Borkotoky’s official residence at 11 in the morning.
The duo held a close door meeting for nearly one hour in presence of Gautom Roy who is also known to be a close associate of Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Later talking to reporters Deka said that the visit was purely a personal and that they had not discussed anything about the dissidence.
He futher sais that it is for chief minister Tarun Gogoi to take a decision on holding CLP meeting....
Health and education minister Dr Himanta Biswa has been camping in New Delhi to call on Congress president Sonia Gandhi to formally raise the demand for change in CLP leadership.
According to sources, Gandhi is unlikely to meet Dr Sarma on Wednesday. However, the dissident minister is free to meet Dr CP Joshi, Dr Ghulam Nabi Azad and Motilal Vhora who have been monitoring the widening difference within the Congress legislative party.
Forest guards in Kaziranga claimed to have killed a rhino poacher at an encounter on Wednesday. But four others managed to flee from the spot.
The heavy gun battle took place near Gobrai forest camp where five poachers were believed to have been trying to kill a rhino on Tuesday midnight.
One of the poachers was killed while four others managed to escape from the spot. Operation is still going on to flush out the rhino poachers who have already killed over 20 rhinos so far this year.
Police on Tuesday claimed to have captured 6 UPLA militants responsible for killing of Nityananda Goswami and Ratul Nunisa who were killed at an encounter in Karbi Anglong district last week.
The UPLA militants including their deputy commander in chief Nikunj Kathar were captured during a combing operation inside the a dense jungle in the hills district bordering Meghalaya.
The huge operation was launched from Monday evening four days after the Karbi militants killed the Hamren SP Goswami and his PSO Ratul Nunisa at an encounter which created no less flutter across the state.
DGP Khagen Sarma along with top ranked officers have been closely monitoring the entire operation armed with over...
SDRF team finally rescued Manashi Rabha 5 hours after she fell into 40 feet deep well in Golapara district on Tuesday.
The college girl in Bapuji Nagar area was rescued at 8 in the morning after SDRF team launched the operation. Then she was rushed to the Goaplara Civil Hospital for treatment.
She remained trapped from 2 in the wee hours in a well after she slipped into it forcing the authority to deploy SDRF team to ensure her safe rescue.
Three minor boys were believed to have been met watery grave after they slipped into a stone quarry in Golaghat district on Monday. The incident took place at Bijuli Quarry in Bokakhat where the trio went to bath.
Suddenly , they slipped into the deep quarry where they could not come out of it. Rescue operation continued for several hours to fish the bodies to be identified as Bimal Ingty, Longri Ingty and Jinsang Taro.
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