Society / Assam

GUWAHATI, May 9 ? The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has proposed preservation and overall development of about 20 archaeological monuments during the 2002-2003 fiscal in the North East region, said superintendent Archaeologist of the ASI, Guwahati Circle, Syed Jamal Hasan here. The proposal includes provisions of gardening, pathways, boundary walls and structural repairs of the monuments, besides providing the sites with the basic amenities like toilet, drinking water facilities so as to augment the flow of visitors. The monuments include the Dimapur Fort built by the Kachari Kings, the...

BISWANATH CHARIALI, May 9 ? The Lohitmukh area, about seven kilometres from Kalabari under Gohpur subdivision in Sonitpur district, has been deprived of basic amenities even after 55 years of Independence. Inhabited by more than 34,000 people belonging to the Mising tribe, the area lacks proper health care, irrigation and communication facilities due to apathy of the authorities concerned. It may be mentioned that an irrigation scheme was launched in the area way back in 1990 spending lakhs of rupees. However, the scheme soon ran out of order and the machines have now been lying idle since...

DIGBOI, May 9 ? Assam?s Minister of State for Home, Prodyut Bordoloi inaugurated the ?Moh-Mol? festival of the Tangsa tribe, as the quest. The fest at Changlang, in Arunachal pradesh on April 25. This festival is observed by Tangsa people to welcome the New Year. They worship different gods and goddesses according to their customary ritual, for more yield of crop and also pray for the departed souls during the year for eternal peace. In his inaugural speech, Bordoloi stated, ?Every ethnic group or tribe has its own tradition and culture to prove their identity. The ?Moh-Mol? festival of the...

GUWAHATI, May 4 ? Time is up perhaps for setting up an authority on Satriya dance form so that the artistes performing the art form can be made to adhere to some uniform code of conduct, or else, in the post-recognition period as a major Indian traditional dance form, it will soon land itself in chaos. There are many artistes nowadays who are expressing their eagerness to promote the cause of Satriya dance, but in many cases their attempts are confined within their individual limits so far as giving the art form a repertoire suiting a secular platform is concerned.

A good number of artistes...

GUWAHATI, May 4 ? Mising Ba:ne Kebang, the apex council of the Mising people of Assam and Arunachal, which remained defunct since 1994 after the Bilmukh incident, has been revived by Mising people at a special convention held on April 27 and 28 at Gogamukh in Dhemaji district. Mising Ba:ne Kebang is the oldest and largest organisation of the Mising people and was formed in the pre-independence period in 1924 under the presidentship of Sri Sri Pitambar Dev Goswami, the Satradhikar of Gormur Satra. Eminent persons of Assam like English Officer Tolstoy, ex-Chief Minister late Sir Sadullah, late...

GUWAHATI, May 3 ? Former president of Asom Sahitya Sabha and the founder Editor of Dainik Asam, Kirtinath Hazarika died at a city hospital at 8-25 pm today. He was 77 and is survived by his wife, two sons and a host of relatives. The noted litterateur and revered journalist of the State suffered a massive stroke while he was shopping at Silpukhuri area here at around 2 pm today and was immediately rushed to Down Town Hospital in a critical condition. He was in coma for hours before he was declared dead, hospital sources informed.

Kirtinath Hazarika was born on July 22 in the year 1925 at...

GUWAHATI, May 2 ?The Assam Agricultural University and colleges under the varisty have been closed down for an indefinite period from 6 pm today followeing vandalism by a group of students. The varsity authorities also asked the students to vacate their hostels immediately in order to maintain peace in the campus. A university release said that the students forcefully entered the chamber of the Vice-Chanchellar (VC) about 10.30 am today, snapped all telephone connections and started shouting slogans demanding resignation of the VC and relieving Dr P C Deka from the post of Dean. To...

TEZPUR, May 1 ? Coinciding with the centenary celebration of the cultural icon Rupkonwar Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, the Sonitpur district administration has decided to renovate ?Poki?, the ancestral home of Rupkonwar and popularly known as Jyoti Bharati on the north bank of the river Brahmaputra through the MP fund, said Sri Sanjoy Lohiya, Deputy Commissioner Sonitpur. Talking to this correspondent, Sri Lohiya said that the State PWD deportment has been entrusted to submit an estimate and added that Rs 2 lakh has been sanctioned as an initial grant for renovation. Besides that a new committee with...

GUWAHATI, April 29 ? A stake-holders meeting on Majuli Island World Heritage Site proposal held at the Circuit House here today decided to accept the State Department of Culture as the nodal agency and HS Das, Finance Commissioner of the State, as the nodal officer for the purpose of preparing the nomination dossier of the island which to reach the UNESCO headquarters at Paris latest by May 2004. The meeting held under the auspices of the UNESCO Association, Guwahati and conducted by its secretary general Dr Aswini Sarma, also decided to include the State departments like the Flood Control...

GUWAHATI, April 28? There is some good news for the persons planning to buy second hand cars as the Assam Police, in collaboration with the National Crime Records Bureau, is opening an auto theft information centre in the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on May 6. Police sources revealed that detailed reports of auto theft and recoveries would be available in the information centre and anyone planning to buy a second hand car can get information from the centre on the payment of a nominal fees.

Police sources pointed out that very often the genuine purchasers are...