The Early Birds, an organization for animal care recently conducted a free veterinary vaccination cum treatment camp around the Pobitora Wild Life sanctuary on 27th and 28th Oct'07. Altogether 487 cattle were covered in the villages of Kholabhuyan, a fringe area. Medicines worth Rs five thousand were also freely distributed. Three veterinary final year students Sri Rupam Bhattacharya, Sri Anil Deka and Joy Prakash Sharma took part while two life members Sri Mukul Talukdar and Sri Pulakesh talukdar coordinated and liaised with the forest department. Early Birds eco-club members from Mayong also assisted the team. The D.F.O (WL) and the R.F.O , Pabitora offered field support . These vaccination camp was the 27th at Pobitora in last 14 years and 109th for all the Wild Life areas of Assam and Meghalaya covered by Early Birds.
28 Apr 2012 - 11:36pm | editor
North Eastern Frontier Railway on Saturday announced a special train from Dibrugarh in to Yesvantpur to ferry the students of the north eastern region and north Bengal to appear for medical and...
14 Sep 2011 - 3:21am | DigantaTalukdar
Golden Jubilee celebration of Nowgong Girls’ College is underway in Nagaon. The inaugural function was graced by Meghalaya Governor R.S. Mooshahary. Dr. Durlav Chamua, MLA Nagaon also...
15 Jan 2015 - 6:30am | editor
Defying a biting cold wave mejis were burning bright to mark the magh bihu celebration across the state on Thursday.Amid traditional pomp and gaiety, people in Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Sivasagar, Jorhat,...
2 Mar 2011 - 2:48am | editor
The wait is over.Assam is all set to go to the assembly polls on April 4 and 11. This was announced by chief election commissioner Dr SY Qureshi. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday in Delhi,Dr...
Altogether niner people have been injured when a leopard attack the villagers in Sibsagar district on Sunday. According to information, a leopard which is supposed to have come down from the dense forest areas along the Assam Nagaland border areas in Sivasagar distgrict's Deopani Misajan village attacked the villagers in the evening when these people were coming to the field. Severaly injured Quotobudding Ahmed and Mohboob Ali have been rushed to the Assam Medical College Hospital in Dibrugarh. Others left injured people namely Abdul Hakim, Bitu Ali, Bosob Ali, Dhiru Mirdha, Julukha Begum and Bhaity have been admitted to the Sibsagar Civil Hospital. This is for the third time feline terror...
Popular music artist and keyboard player Nupur Bordoloi died on Saturday. He was 37 and he was suffering from blood cancer for the last couple of years. He is survived by his wife Pori Gogoi and his daughter. The end came at 5-45 in the morning on Saturday while he was undergoing treatment at a city nurshing home. But within this period, he attained commanding popularity. Several artists have condoled his untimely and premature death.
The explosion of seven digital meters at a city apartment created panic among its residents in the city’s Beltola area on Saturday. It all took place at around 11 in the morning at the Ranibagan Apartment Housing Society’s Tarokeswar Block No 6. Initially a boy saw some sparks at a digital meter and told his father. His father Lokesh Agarwala came down with a fire extinguishing cylinder. But he saw the fire dispersed to six other meters. Some other residents also arrived with fire extinguishers and later on the fire was extinguished. On the other hand, after information the ASEB officials reached thr apartment only an hour later. But they said blamed it all on the flawed wiring...
Assam also join the country’s holi festival with a splash of colour across the state from Friday. Forgetting political and religious affiliation, the people of all section are playing holi with their gulal smeared faces. Barpeta continues to hog the limelight where thousands of people attend the four day long festival. From early in the morning people in large number came out to the streets with gulals to make it really a festival of colour. The celebration at the Dol Govinda temple in north Guwahati is pulling up huge crowd on both Friday and Saturday with people from far flung areas. Holi songs, cultural function were organized in different parts of the state to celebrate the...
Assam Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Ajai Singh along with children celebrating Holi, the festival of colour, at Raj Bhawan, Guwahati on March 21, 2008. Photo by Pitamber Newar.
A Dhubri ULFA cadre was killed in Golukganj area while police and Amy jawans were launching a joint operation nea the Rupsi Aiport early in the morning on Friday. According to information, the incident took place at around 3 early in the morning. The youth maer identified as Manindra Ray was coming on a bicycle near the Rupsi Airport under Golukganji police station. The police asked him to stop while he was tying the leave the spot. Manindra instead dropped a grenade at them and started firing. When the police and army jawans retaliated Manindra died on the spot. Later police recovered a revolver three rounds of bullets, a mobile handset and diary have been recovered from his possession.
AASU activists in the city staged a two hour long hunger strike on Thursday demanding exemplary punishment for those involved in the recent blast in Dhemaji where four people killed and as many as sixty others injured. They gathered at the Latasil Field in the city and staged a two hour long hunger strike. They demanded exemplary action for those mired in the recent grenade blast in Jonai. Notably, four people have been killed and as many as 85 others injured when a powerful grenade exploded at a Mishing cultural function in Jonai on March 15 evening.They alleged that the government has been failing to provide the people safety and security to the people in general and that the culprits...
Assam health and family welfare minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has threatened to arrest noted cardiac surgeon and genetic engineer Dr Dhaniram Baruah if the later proceeds further with the vaccine prepared by him. But Dr Baruah has made it plain and simple that he is not ready to halt even an iota saying he has not violated the laid down rules and regulated.It’s a strong message to Dr Dhaniram Baruah from Assam health and family welfare minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. Addressing a press conference in Dispur on Thursday, the minister has warned Dr Baruah of dire consequences if he fails to desist from applying his vaccine on human body. According to Sarma, the doctor could be arrested...
The Gauhati High Court has ordered suspension three top ranked police officers for probing into the teacher recruitment scam with out arresting two kingpins involved in it.According to information, a division bench comprising Chief Justice S Salameswar and Justice Amitabh Roy in the order asked the authorities to suspend the then Nalbari police policed superintendent Dilip Kumar Dey, officer in charge of Nalbari police station K C Phukan and assistant sub inspector Sujit Saikia. The court further has asked the Assam Government to file a report on nest Wednesday.
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