Skip to content Skip to navigation

Anti-tobacco bill soon

By AT News |

Health minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma is hopeful that the bill to ban tobacco is on the cards. Dr Sarma informed the Assam assembly on Wednesday that the bill would be moved after cabinet approval.

Comments

surendra's picture

Submitted by surendra on Thu, 04/04/2013 - 12:52
the govt should inform all the trade bodies what products are banned or what not banned to save the petty traders from the meaningless harassment from the govt officers and so called many organisations. the sale of smoking items should also be banned in the state. 

Pages

Add new comment

Random Stories

ONGC, OIL benefit Assam

3 Dec 2010 - 2:59pm | editor
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Oil India Limited produced 13.73 MMT Crude Oil in Assam Sector during the Last 3 Years. The oil giants have spent about Rs 6.60 Crore in the state on social...

One dies in road accident

20 May 2017 - 11:47pm | Ranjanjyoti Mahanta
One motorcyclist died on the spot  and another Critically injured in a road accident on the Nagaon-Dhing road near Bhetiani, Batadrava on Saturday afternoon. The accident took place when a mni...

Flood-hit Barpeta cries for help

29 Aug 2015 - 8:59pm | Abdul Kalam Azad
Assam is one of the most flood prone states in the North-Eastern region of India. Flood has almost become an annual event in Assam creating devastation among the people. This year, the first web of...

PPFA bats for preserving Netaji’s INA headquarter in Yangon

7 Dec 2018 - 9:28am | AT News
Guwahati: As President of India, Ram Nath Kovind sets to visit Myanmar next week, an Assam based patriotic citizens’ forum appeals to the Head of the State for pursuing his counterpart in NayPyiTaw...

Other Contents by Author

Bihali toll mounts

The death toll in the Chauldhua attack gas gone up to 12 with the recovery of one more body in Hatipota area.The decomposed body was recovered by the local villagers on Monday morning. It has yet to be identified. Hardly a week has passed since 11 people were found to have been killed by the Arumachal Pradesh miscreants at a camp in Chauldhuwa resulting in the indefinite economic blockade against the neighbouring state.  

Protest against racial bias

Hundreds of students in Guwahati hit the streets in the city in protest against the Lajpotnagar incident in New Delhi where goons killed an Arunachal Pradesh student.With placards and banners in their hands, the students in large number shouted slogans demanding measures to curb the increasing incident of racial attack on the north eastern people in the national capital. Identified as Nido Tania, the student from the neighbouring state was beaten to death by a group of shopkeepers following an altercation in the Lajpotnagar area in the capital on Thursday.Photo: Protest rally at Shillong. 

NCLT behind Bihali massacre!

Amid an indefinite economic blockade against Arunachal Pradesh in protest against the Bihali attack, NCLT is accused of masterminding the Chauldhuwa incident where 10 villagers were killed in firing.Sources further have charged a Tawang district council member with masterminding the incident.

Bihali situation monitored

Sonitpur police have registered two cases in connection with the Chauldhuwa massacre. This was what formally DGP Khagen Sarma told reporters in Tezpur on Sunday.Sarma, who reviewed the situation in the district with Deputy Commissioner Lalit Gogoi and Superintendent of Police Sayukta Parashar along with Army officials at a high level meeting in Tezpur Circuit House said that the Arunachal Pradesh government has also registered a case in this connection.

KLO leader killed in Kokrajhar

Counter offensive against the insurgent outfits are getting intensified in the BTAD areas.Security forces claimed to have killed a dreaded KLO militant at an encounter in Kokrajhar on Saturday. According to information, the fierce gun fighting took place at Salakati area at night during the combing operation against all militant outfits in the area.KLO leader Brindabon Rajbanshi died on the spot and another dreaded militant managed to escape from the spot. Combing operation is going on in search of the militant on the run.   

Kejriwal assures safety

North East students have reiterated demand for steps to ensure their safety and security in New Delhi.A delegation of the students from the region called on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday and strongly placed their demands.They further demanded immediate arrest of the goons involved in the lynch of Nido Tania in Lajpotnagar area on Thursday. Kejriwal assured the delegation of steps to provide them safety and security in the capital.  

Tuki announces compensation

Amid simmering tension and indefinite road blockade in protest against the Chauldhuwa incident, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki on Saturday announced compensation to the victim’s family members.The announcement came up when he met a delegation from Assam in Nahorjan. Tuki expressed utter shock at the incident and said that the culprits would not be spared.

Dalai Lama in Guwahati

Spiritual leader Dalai Lama is on a two days visit to Guwahati. With a hectic schedule, he arrived in the city on Saturday with an appeal to the people to maintain peace saying that there is no alternative to peace.He attended a function at the Ravindra Bhawan in the evening. On Sunday, he has two public meetings in Nehru Stadium and Sankardev Kalakhetra. People in large number received the spiritual leader and preparations are afoot to make both the events success on Sunday.

Health insurance again

The Assam government has announced a rare dose of ambitious schemes for the patients.Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Saturday, health minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the government will launch a scheme of health insurance for the patients suffering from critical diseases.He said that the patients suffering from cancer, heart and kidney transplant would get Rs 2,50,00 against the insurance amount of Rs 200.Beside, the state will get 20 cancer hospitals apart from one each in the six medical colleges.

Advancement of health services

It’s a step for increasing and highly beneficial use of computer and software techniques and knowledge for rendering better health services. Courtesy the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). The Kolkata based group conducted a workshop on Health Care Knowledge System at the Academic Hall of the Guwahati Medical College Hospital on Guwahati on Thursday. It aims at highlighting the increasing use of computer and software techniques through empowering public with Health Knowledge in the state.According to the group, senior health and family welfare department officials along with the officials from the AIDS control society, NRHM and ITProfessionals attended the meeting. More...