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.
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.
The dissident Congress leaders skipped their visit to the governor after the AICC announced CLP meet by May 28 to sort out the difference.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi was believed to have told Sarat Borotoky that AICC would depute Motlal Vora to attend the CLP meet forcing them to halt for a few days.
Top AICC sources told Assam Times that Vora, Congress treasurer has yet to schedule his much-hyped fence-mending visit to Guwahati. It has become clear that the CLP meet is unlikley by May 31.
In a move that signalls a temporary ceasefire, a group of dissident ministers and MLAs is on a visit to Bihar. Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma, the front face of the dissident group is leading the 10...
Amid the height of dissidence, the ministers and MLAs camping in New Delhi to lobby for Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi have left the capital on Sunday.
The senior ministers including Rockybul Hussain, Pradyut Bodoloi, Nilomoni Sen Deka left the national capital after Gogoi asked them to go back to Guwahati.
Gogoi in a statement which is available to Assam Times made it clear that he had not invited anybody to New Delhi to lobby on his behalf.
The stages are set. The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council is all set to announce the results of the HS examinations on May 30.
The council told Assam Times that the results of the examination conducted in February and March thus year would be available for the 2,60,000 candidates acorss the state at 10 in the morning.
The results for arts, science and commerce streams would be available on www.ahsec.org from 10 in the morning. This is apart from the result booklets to be available for the schools and colleges in the district and sub divisional headquarters.
Notbly, the Board of Secondary Education, Assam will annunce the results of HSLC examinations on Wednesday...
Racial discrimination towards the north east people refuses to die down in New Delhi where the students from the region have been bearing the brunt.
In yet another case of racial discrimination in the capital, goons in New Delhi assaulted a Nagaland student at a court premises. The incident took place on Friday evening when the Naga student moved the Tis Hazari Court in protest against an incident on Thursday where a Naga girl was beaten up by the goons at a metro station in the capital. The North East Students association in New Delhi will chalk out a series of agitation to protest the recurrence of the incidents.
A sensational revelation seems to have generated no less heat within the Assam Congress these days. That too in the time of deepening dissidence within the Congress legislative body.
Trouble seems to have brewed for a former Union minister who is believed to have been harbouring dissident activities in the state. The former union minister is one among the twenty political leaders who are accused of holding account in foreign bank.
His name figures in a list submitted before the Supreme Court by senior leader Ram Jethmalani who charged him with stashing Rs 3,025 crores in foreign country.
The development assumes significance at a time when dissidence has paralyzed the Tarun Gogoi cabinet...
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