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.
Sarvananda Sonowal took oath as Union minister of state from President Pranab Mukherjee at a function in New Delhi on Monday.
Arunachal Pradesh BJP leader Kiren Rijiju also took in the same capacity in the swearing in ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan premises in the evening.
Chief Minister Tarun also attended the swearing in ceremony along with his other counterparts.
There is no trace of the South Korean tourist 12 hours after he went missing in Bokakhat on Sunday night. Security forces are fanning in the entire area at Latabari where he got down from the bus.
Local residents who looked for the tourists recovered his sopples in the morning. A section of the villagers told Assam Times that two leopards have been unleashing terror in the area during the last couple of days.
“We wont find it hard to believe he might be a victim of feline attack,” said a villager who along with some others joined the search operation.
He was on his way to Shillong from Dimapur via Guwahati. Search operation is underway in Bokakhat from where he went missing.
People of all walks of life in Dibrugarh and Lakhimpur are celebrating in a big way when they got to know the ministerial berth for Sarbananda Sonowal.
As the encouraging news started spreading like wildfire on Monday morning, people of all sections of the society thronged the public places to celebrate the big day.
“We have big dreams. We hope a lot. Sonowal will do something forus,” this was what Joganka Das told Assam Times in Dibrugarh.
Hundreds of people in the public places and clubs and BJP offices have organized feast to celebrate the ministerial berth for the state BJP president.
“We will celebrate the ocassion in a big way,” said the local...
In yet another major development, APCC has cancelled its extended executive body meeting slated for May 29 in Guwahati.
According to sources, APCC wil hold the meeting of the district Congress presidents on May 29 instead of the executive body meeting where AICC observers were scheduled to attend.
The state Congress committee has yet to finalise the new date for holding the crucial meeting to examine the reasons behind the poll debacle and to listen to the dissidents who have been replacement of Tarun Gogi’s resignation as chief minister.
In response to the dissidents’ demands party high command asked AICC observers to listen to the dissidents’ demands after Tarun Gogoi sought Sonia...
Its confirm. Sarvananda Sonowal get a berth in the Narendra Modi’s council of ministers on Monday.
Modi himself confirmed it to Sonowal at a meeting in Gujarat House in New Delhi in the morning.
Sonowal is expected to be sworn in as the minister of state in independent charge at the Rashtrapati Bhawan at 6 in the evening.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi will attend the swearing in ceremony along with his other counterparts.
In a bizarre incident a South Korean national has gone missing in Golaghat district on Sunday.
Identified as IM King Bum, he has gone missing from Lotabari area in Bokakhat. He remains clueless immeditely after he got down from the Guwahati bound bus from Dimapur on Sunday midnight.
He was on his way to Shillong from Dimapur via Guwahati. Search operation is underway in Bokakhat from where he went missing. Details are awaited.
Massive water logging in many parts of Guwahati paralyzes norml life in the city on Monday.
Many roads and by lanes in the city have been submerged in waters following a downpur in the wee hours which lashed the city for nearly one hours.
The worst-hit areas include Chandmari, Anil Nagar, Zoo Road, Nabin Nagar, Lachit Nagar where rain waters wreaked no less havoc in the morning.
Parts of the Guwahati-Shillong Road also came under the rainwaters on Monday morning causing much inconvniance for the people in this premier north eastern city.
The massive waterlogging is resulting in the traffic snarl in the RG Baruah Road, GS Road where normal life remains disrupted. ...
Narendra Modi is believed to have inducted an Assam MP in his cabinet would are expected to take oath on Monday.
According to sources, state BJP president Sarbananda Sonowal has been inducted in the new council of ministers.
Sonowal, who ensured a huge successin in Assam apaprt from defeating Union minister Ranee Narah from Lakhimpur in the recent Lok Sabha polls are set to get a crucial portolio in the new council of ministers.
Meanwhile, all state BJP top leaders along with the newly elected MPs have been camping in the capital to attend the swearing in ceremony.
Chief miniser Tarun Gogoi is scheduled to attend Narendra Modi’s swearing in ceremony in New Delhi on Monday.
Gogoi will be among several other top Congress leaders and chief minister to attend the ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi are alsoscheuled to attend the ceremony where President Pranab Mukherjee will administer oath to Modi as prime minister along with around 50 other ministers.
In yet another setback for the state’s aviation sector, the Indian Airlines will pull out of Tezpur and Jorhat within a few days.
According to sources, a team of the country’s premier domestic career has decided to stop its operation in Lakhimpur after the receipt of the assessment report prepared by a special team. The assessment of the Jorhat and Tezpur operations are underway to pave the way for the closure in Jorhat and Tezpur.
If it takes place, it will further result in the infrastructure bottleneck in the state where yawning communication gap has been a matter of concern.
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