Society / Assam

IMPHAL, April 26 ? Four children were killed and four others injured when a bomb exploded inside a school compound in Manipur today, official sources said, reports PTI. The bomb, planted by unknown persons, went off at 11.40 am at a school compound at Hangeipat area under Saikul police station in Senapati district killing four children on the spot. Four others sustained grievous injuries, sources said. They were admitted to J N Hospital here while the bodies were sent for post mortem. Police launched a combing operation to find out the culprits but no arrest was made so far.

GUWAHATI, April 26 ? The Asam Sahitya Sabha has postponed its proposed agitation scheduled to begin from May 18 next, on the issue of implementation of the State Language Act, in view of the State Government?s forming an eight-member advisory committee to study the problems and recommend measures for implementation of the Act.

Meanwhile, the Sabha has decided to remake the first Assamese film Joymati made by Rupkonwar Jyoti Prasad Agarwalla synchronising with the birth centenary of Rupkonwar. The Sabha has also made considerable progress in the production of the Assamese Encyclopedia (Asamiya...

GUWAHATI, April 25 ? The Assam Police, under the Project Aashwas, will soon launch a baseline survey of the trauma and requirements of the families of the victims of terrorism. Police sources said that a reputed agency has already been engaged to carry out the survey and the project will be financed by the UNICEF. Sources pointed out that so far no scientific survey of the trauma and needs of the victims of terrorism was carried out in the State. The survey will take at least a year.

The second component of the project, that is training of police personnel and other officials to change their...

GUWAHATI, April 24 ? Poetry is the voice of humanity. Since time immemorial poetry has been reverberating with its sound in the deep recesses of mortal humans. Wherever there is man there is poetry. Whenever one tries to listen, each person can hear in the quietness of his own mind the flowing cadence of dawn and dusk, of truth and beauty. Noted poet Padmashree Nilamani Phookan said this after he was conferred with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship ? the highest honour of the Akademi ? here this evening.

Conferring the Fellowship on the poet, Sahitya Akademi president Ramakanta Rath said Sri...

GUWAHATI, April 23 ? The State does not have its State Central Library since the shifting of the State capital to Guwahati in the early 1970s, the condition of the district libraries in the State is not praiseworthy either. Even, among the NE States the State?s library service is poorly placed. These were the findings of a country-wide survey of the condition of State Central and District Libraries conducted by the Raja Rammohan Library Foundation (RRLF) of the Union Ministry of Culture last year. But, the State Government has no excuse left to it for saving its skin. It can not cite dearth of...

GUWAHATI, April 23 ? Rongali Bihu this time witnessed tremendous web interface by the global Assamese community. Enthusiastic Assamese abroad ? Non-Resident Assamese (NRAs) ? as well as in India were requesting living legend Dr Bhupen Hazarika for their favourite numbers and exchanging views through on-line interaction and live webcast on the internet. The programme, displayed on three giant screens at the Pub Guwahati Bihutoli, Chandmari by SM Computer Consultants Pvt Ltd, Guwahati through its popular website www.vedanti.com witnessed unprecedented response from almost one corner of the world...

GUWAHATI, April 18 ? Only a number of Assamese books can be covered by the National Bibliography, compiled, edited and published by the Central Reference Library, Kolkata, since 1958. The Bibliography has the records of the books published in 15 Indian languages, including English. Other than Assamese, books published in NE languages could not be listed by the Central Reference Library (CRL) in the Bibliography. Disclosing this, K K Kochukosky, Librarian, CRL, told The Assam Tribune during his visit to the State in connection with the five-day workshop on preparation of bibliographies in NE...

GUWAHATI, April 16 ? Renowned historian and former president of the Indian History Congress Dr Heramba Kanta Barpujari is no more. The renowned historian who was honoured by the Asam Sahitya Sabha in 1997 with the title ?Itihas Acharjya?, passed away at his Rajgarh Road residence here at 7.05 pm today due to old-age ailments. He was 89. Born on August 31, 1912, Dr Barpujari dedicated his life to historical research and academic activities. It was his single handed effort which brought recognition to the North East region, and particularly Assam from the historians of other parts of the world.

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ITAKHOLA, April 10 ? On a journey by boat, particularly after the onset of autumn along the Brahmaputra from any part of Assam, one can see numerous small and large chars (river islands) inhabited by religious minority people. Is there any one to think about these people? No, the political leaders use them as vote bank. The chars mostly dotted with huts and cultivation around hardly attracts anyone?s attention. The inhabitants of the chars who consist of 30 per cent of the total population of the State usually remain detached from the mainstream of the state. The people have to leave in most...

DIBRUGARH, March 26 ? The nursing profession in Assam has very little to cheer about these days. For months on end, nurses in the three medical colleges of Assam have not been receiving their pay. Though nurses at the Gauhati Medical College and the Silchar Medical College are a little better off, those here told reporters recently that the modern day Florence Nightingales here have been made to feel that their services are of no consequence to the medical profession in general. The AMC unit of All Assam Nurses? Association staged a ceasework agitation for 72 hours from March 18. This was...