GUWAHATI: “Salute Tiranga has been making an untiring effort to make a strong and self-reliant India, by giving paramount importance to the national interest to make India a Biswa Guru,” Saalute India founder and national president Rajesh Jha said here on Sunday. Addressing the first-ever state executive meeting of Assam Pradesh Salute Triranga at the PWD Convention Centre here, Jha said” “Salute Tiranga has been working to establish a unique identity across India on account of its style of functioning. This was all possible due to devotion, labour and patriotism of hardworking companions of Salute Tringa only.” Jha…
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GUWAHATI: Guwahati International Airport Limited (GIAL) completed two years of its 50-year concession period of operations, management and development of Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport (LGBIA) in Guwahati. The Airport Authority of India (AAI) handed over the airport to GIAL, a company of Adani Airports on October 8, 2021. The celebration was organized at the present terminal building amongst the staff and officers of GIAL and other stakeholders of the airport. Many senior officers of GIAL and the senior commandant of CISF LM Thakur spoke on the occasion and relived the glorious journey together. During this period…
GUWAHATI: Finally, a UNESCO specialist of the Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), Lim Chen Sian arrived at the site of the maidams in Charaideo on Saturday on a three-day visit. Sian will visit the Charaideo Maidam site on October 8 and 9 to have a close look at the preservation efforts, management blueprint, futuristic planning and various stakeholders’ roles in the efforts. Charaideo Maidam, home to over 90 royal burial mounds, is also referred to as the Pyramids of Assam. The Indian government has nominated this historic site for the prestigious UNESCO World Heritage Site. If selected,…
GUWAHATI: Union minister for ports, shipping, waterways and Ayush, Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday announced that 6 new Ayush hospitals are being planned to be set up in Assam. Of them, four 50-bed hospitals to come up in Kaliabor, Morigaon, Kokrajhar and Baksa, while one 30-bed hospital will come up in Diphu and one 10-bed hospital in Bajali. Apart from these, Sonowal also confirmed the operationalisation of 289 Ayush Health & Wellness Centres in the state, while 200 more AHWCs will be operational in Assam soon. Sonowal further announced that 100 Ayush dispensaries will be set up in…
GUWAHATI: The move to cut down a tree, a habitat of the endangered Lesser Adjutant Stork, landed into a controversy in Guwahati city. The siris (rain) tree, which is believed to be 100 years old, houses six pairs of the Lesser Adjutant Stork (popularly known as bortukula). The tree stands near Nayan Filling Kishan Sewa Kendra on Dharapur-Palashbari Road. The National Highway Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL) has decided to remove the tree to widen of the road stretch from Dharapur to Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport (LGBIA). The move of the NHIDCL has promoted a nature…
GUWAHATI: As many as 23 species of amphibians are on the verge of extinction in Northeast India as climate change is emerging as one of the biggest threats to frogs, salamanders, and caecilians, according to a study published in Nature on Wednesday. “The study has found that 23 species are threatened with extinction in the Northeast of which 7 are critically endangered and 10 are endangered. Further, 27% of the species (40) are poorly known and lack sufficient information to assess, indicating the need for basic research on this least studied group of animals,” said M Firoz Ahmed, scientist and…
GUWAHATI: Members of the Committee on Tribal Unity (CoTU) staged a sit-in protest at Sapormeina in Kangpokpi district of Manipur on Wednesday to register their voice against “biased arrest” and detention of innocent Kuki-Zo by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the past few days. More than 100 women members of the organization also took part in the protest and voiced for separate administration for Kuki-Zomi-Hmar communities living in hill districts of Manipur. Women protestors raised slogans like “CBI & NIA should act as Centre agencies and not state puppets”, “CBI & NIA should…
GUWAHATI: As the ethnic clashes between Kuki-Zomi-Hmar communities with Meiteis entered five months, the Zomi Council Steering Committee (ZCSC), representing the nine Zomi tribes of Manipur, on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi for an early political solution to the vexed issue. In a memorandum to the Prime Minister, the ZCSC also clarified that there is no infiltration of Kuki-Zomi-Hmar people from Myanmar and Bangladesh and to wage war against the Indian government. Highlighting the ever-changing situation in Manipur, the ZCSC said the Meitei community under the leadership of Chief Minister N Biren Singh aimed at discrediting the Zo people…
GUWAHATI: North Eastern Development Finance Corporation (NEDFi) has focused on substantial growth through innovation and strategic initiatives in the 2023-24 fiscal, NEDFi chairman cum managing director PVSLN Murty said here on Wednesday. “The NEDFi will extend support to micro and small enterprises, microfinance, skill development, and women’s empowerment in this fiscal. Core principles include innovation, continuous enhancement, and customer-centricity,” Murty said addressing the 28th annual general meeting here. Murty said the NEDFi is steadfast in promoting startups by offering resources, funding, mentorship, and guidance. Ongoing efforts in risk management signify a commitment to financial robustness and future progress. Highlighting NEDFi’s…
GUWAHATI: Fintech credit and payments startup Slice is being proposed to be merged with Guwahati-based North East Small Finance Bank (NESFB). Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued the no objection certificate (NOC) to the deal and will see Slice becoming an SFB, a first-of-its-kind development in the fintech and banking space. This is a pathbreaking move to accelerate their joint vision of expanding tech-enabled financial accessibility to the interiors of the Northeast in addition to across the other states of the country. In the forthcoming months, NESFB will work towards receiving the requisite approval from other regulatory bodies namely…