Mass Communication toppers bestowed with Amit Nag memorial award

SILCHAR, Jan 3: The prestigious Amit Kumar Nag Memorial Achiever Award was given away to two brilliant students, Zahir Alam Zakaria and Sayan Dey, for bagging the first position in the Master of Mass Communication examinations under Assam University for 2011 and 2012 respectively, here at a function last evening.
The Award was instituted by the family in the name of the noted journalist of the region, Amit Kumar Nag, who passed away in 2007. The prize, which carries a citation and a cash amount of Rs 5,000, goes to the topper of the department of Mass Communication of the Assam University every year. Last year, the award ceremony had to be put on hold due to some unavoidable reasons.
Addressing the assembly, the noted academician and journalist, Joydeep Biswas, explained the significance of the event. Biswas who also compared the well-knit event, observed that some of the write-ups of the veteran journalist ‘hold a special significance especially in the contemporary context.’ He also added that the process of compilation of some of the scribe’s work for publication is underway. He hoped that such a publication would help in spreading the principles championed by late Amit Kumar Nag.
Speaking on the occasion to mark the 80th birth anniversary of the scribe, Badal Dey, the president of the District Sports Association, referred to the distinct brand of journalism late Nag had championed. He sounded a note of caution to the young awardees about the menace of ‘yellow journalism’ plaguing the mainstream media in the Valley in their promising professional career ahead, and advised them to follow the footsteps of Nag who, he said, ‘had never compromised despite all odds during his long and chequered career as a journalist’. Professor Shubhra Nag from the Department of Philosophy of Assam University lamented the fact that the local print media had lost its credibility before the readers. And in the same vein, she wished Zahir and Sayan to pick a lesson out of the life of Nag who, in her opinion, had been a hallmark of committed journalism in the North-East. Roma Purkayastha and Shamita Nag Dhar, among others, spoke on the occasion.
Earlier in the evening Tagore’s song by Debashis Das produced a serene opening to the simple ceremony organized in the residence of the Nag family. Apratim Nag, the only son of the late journalist, read out the citation. In their acceptance speech both Zahir and Sayan offered their gratitude to the Nag family and expressed the ‘feeling of excitement being associated with the name of a great scribe’. Zahir recalled how the saga of Amit Nag had, ‘in fact drew me to the career of journalism.’

Source The sentinel

Bike rally for blood donation awareness flagged off

SILCHAR, Jan 2: With a mission to create mass awareness on blood donation, twenty members of Barak Valley Voluntary Blood Donors’ Forum on ten motor cycles left the town today for Wagah, a village, bordering Pakistan.
As part of its campaign, the motor cycle rally, which is organized to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda by the Forum, was kicked off from Sutarkandi in Karimganj district, bordering Bangladesh, yesterday. After taking shelter in the town, they started for Haflong early in this morning and will take night halt there, before starting for Guwahati on the following day.
The rally will move through 150 districts of the country and later would assemble at Wagha, a village in Punjab, bordering Pakistan and from where they will again return back to Sutarkandi on February 7, covering around 8,600 km distance. It will move through the eight State capitals of the country- Shillong, Guwahati, Kolkata, Ranchi, Lucknow, Delhi and Chandigarh.
Among 20 participants, there are 7 government employees. The oldest participant is Hiralal Debnath, a 63-year-old retired employee, and the youngest is Biswa Kalyan Purkayastha, a 24 year-old-student. The longest rally ever organized by any forum in Northeast to create awareness on blood donation, will cross around 4,290 km distance on its way to Wagah, while returning back to Sutarkandi, it will cover around 4,435 km. Moreover, 30 members of the West Bengal Voluntary Blood Donors’ Forum will join this rally at Barasat of West Bengal.
The Forum will hold street corner meetings to disseminate the messages of voluntary blood donation.
At a time when the entire country is undergoing through a social degradation, this attempt by the Forum has earned applaud from all sections of the society. Ashu Paul, secretary of the Barak Valley Voluntary Blood Donors’ Forum, said that this was an attempt to create mass awareness on blood donation, clearing all the misconception about it. “There are so many people who still feel scared to donate blood. The rally is an attempt to increase awareness in the community on safe and sustainable blood donation,” he said.
Paul said that they would meet the Minister of Health and Education, Himanta Biswa Sarma, at Guwahati and the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, on their way to Wagah.
The Barak Valley Voluntary Blood Donors’ Forum had consecutively won 1st prize in 2006, 2007, 2008 among the 10 best organizers of voluntary blood donation camp. The Forum also has won the award in this year. Established in 2002, the Forum has been organizing various blood donation camps in different parts of the Valley for the last 10 years.


Source: the sentinel assam

Weights and Measures week

SILCHAR, Jan 2: To create awareness about weights and measures among the consumers, the district authority concerned has been observing ‘weights and measures week’ since last Friday. As a part of which, the concerned authority informed that all sorts of balance equipments should be repaired after every two years. It said that the necessary information on all the packets of goods especially which are imported from foreign countries should be well printed. Apart from this, the size and price should be written on every packet of shoes, readymade clothes and other such things. It is illegal to sell cement as a packet and the department instructed the consumers to buy it on the basis of weight. Wood, sand and stones should be sold based on cubic meter or centimeter. The department also instructed the customers to verify the weights, prices and sizes of the goods before purchasing it. It also said that all the shop owners should provide cash memo against all the commodities sold by them.

Source : The sentinel Assam

State Election Commission announces rules for submitting nomination paper

SILCHAR, Jan 1: Assam State Election Commission have observed that the candidates have to submit the necessary documents at the time of submission of nomination paper as per the Section 22 of Assam Panchayat (Constitutions) Rules, 1995. According to it, the candidate concerned had to submit the certificate of his National or regional political party, caste certificate if the candidates claim to be either SC or ST. Other necessary documents which are need to be submitted by the contesting candidate included 21 years completion certificate, a copy of the voter list having the name of the candidates and his nominees and supporter. Besides, the candidate also has to submit a declaration form as per the section 3 of Assam Panchayat Rule, 1994, declaring the non-existence of criminal charges against him.  At the time of submission of nomination paper, another individual has to sign a form, identifying the candidate as the citizen. Contesting candidate also has to submit his favourable symbol along with a certificate which should be signed and sealed by the President of the district committee or the State committee. This information has been shared by DIPRO, Cachar district. 

Source The Sentinel Assam

Ashok Varma's new book released

SILCHAR, Jan 1: Poet and writer Ashok Varma’s new book Ekti Abastav Kabya Natika was released at the ongoing 21st Silchar Book Fair underway at Bipin Chandra Ground recently. The book is a collection of stories and plays and was published by Diganti Publication.  Amalendu Bhattacharjee, former head of the department of Bengali, Gurucharan College, Dr Subir Kar, former professor of Bengali, Assam University and Nihar Ranjan Paul, Secretary, Book Fair Committee, were present at the function.
Amalendu Bhattachrjee dwelt on the various skills of the writer. He appreciated the Verma as a writer, poet and educationist. Dr Kar threw light on the subject of the book. 

Source: The Sentinel Assam

Assam Rifles nabs DJNA cadres along with weapons and ammunition

SILCHAR, Jan 1: With the increased activities of militant groups in Halflong, the security forces have stepped up their operation against the insurgent groups in the district.
A recent input received by the Army Intelligence Unit suggested a possible procurement of explosives at Haflong for further use to carry out sabotage activities. Based on the development of this input, it came out that an auto-rickshaw ferrying cadres of recently launched DJNA outfit would arrive in the market area. Accordingly, the Haflong based Assam Rifles Battalion along with Assam Police jointly established a vehicle check post to nab the cadres.
At around 10.30 am on last Sunday (December 30), an auto Rickshaw with the registration number of AS-08-3538 approached the Check Post. After thorough search of the vehicle, one 7.65mm Pistol (USA made) was recovered with magazine along with 5 live RDX and one Chinese Grenade. The cadres later revealed before the security personnel that they were working for the DJNA outfit and had come to Haflong with an intention to carry out extortion and give effect to sabotage activities.
In a series of successful operations in the last four weeks, the Haflong based Assam Rifles Battalion has broken another link of the DJNA outfit and caused a setback to their evil intention to harm the people of the Dima Hasao district.

Source:  The Sentinel Assam

Assam Rifles donates computers and furniture to Grace Standard English School

SILCHAR, Jan 1: In continuation of its Civic Action Programme, the Haflong based Assam Rifles under the aegis of Headquarters 22 Sector Assam Rifles distributed computers with accessories and furniture to Grace Standard English School, Doiheng, in the Dima Hasao district.
The principal, students and staff members of the School along with head man and villagers were present on the occasion. The principal expressed his gratitude towards Assam Rifles for providing assistance to the school. During the distribution ceremony, a small cultural programme was organized.
The event witnessed unprecedented synergy between the civil population and the security forces which will definitely help to foster good relations between them. 

Source:  The Sentinel Assam

Goats and handloom sewing machines distributed under IWMP scheme

SILCHAR, Jan 1: Under the Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP), 2009-2010, of ‘production system and micro enterprises based livelihood activities’, goats and handloom sewing machines were distributed to the several self help groups of Joypur part II of Lakhipur constituency in Cachar district yesterday.
As part of the distribution ceremony, a meeting was convened in the premises of 1335 no. Rasmoni Paul LP School, Joypur Part-II, under the Presidentship of Baikontha Goala, project manager and District officer as well, Cachar Soil Conservation Division, Silchar.
Addressing the assembly of villagers, Goala said that the IWMP scheme was an initiative of the Central Government to make the villagers independent. According to him, the scheme enables multi-cropping and the introduction of diverse agro-based activities, which, help to provide sustainable livelihoods to the people residing in the watershed areas in the Country.
One of the aims of IWMP is also to restore the ecological balance by harnessing, conserving and developing degraded natural resources such as soil, vegetative cover and water.
Throwing light on the other aspects of the scheme, the project manager requested the people to come forward in order to take benefits of this scheme. The scheme has been taken for 5 years. He said that 15 departments have been amalgamated under the scheme to provide better service to the people.
A Munaf, Handloom and textile inspector, said that the given handloom machines were completely modern and had easy techniques of operation. He pointed out that a seven-day long training workshop would also be held to make people aware about the process of using the machines.
Under the Handloom and Textile, around 12 sewing machines were distributed to six units and three goats had been given to each of 29 villagers under the livelihood scheme on the occasion.
C M Gogoi, range officer, Harinagar and A Borgohain, vetenary surgeon, also spoke on the occasion, highlighting different benefits of the scheme.
Among others present on the occasion included B Bhowmick, Ohadur Rehman, S Z Barbhuiya, Ali Ahmed Laskar and Alok Purkaystha. 


Source : The Sentinel Assam

Probe demanded into mysterious death of Assam university student

KARIMGANJ: A high level enquiry has been demanded into the mysterious death of Assam University student Kishlay Dutta Choudhury here in south Assam in October.
Prominent socio-cultural organisation of Barak Valley, 'Goirik Bharat', today demanded a high level probe into the death of the central university student through a memorandum to Cachar district additional deputy commissioner Debashis Chakraborty.

The memorandum expressed doubt about the police or administration's efforts to investigate into the incident even as the police failed to find any clue to the death after nearly two months of the incident.
According to Goirik Bharat's organising secretary, Mani Bhushan Choudhury, Kishlay had disappeared under mysterious circumstances when he was in a procession for immersion of Goddess Durga's idol at Sadarghat here.
Kishlay's body was recovered by police when found afloat on river Barak near Katigorah, 30 km from here, a few days later.
Choudhury said his students wing 'Bharat Chhatra Morcha' will also prevail upon the administration, both civil and police, for a proper investigation to find out the mystery behind the student's sudden disappearance from the procession and his subsequent death.
Meanwhile, Kishlay's father Kishore Kanti Dutta Choudhury has submitted several petitions to the authorities concerned for positive action to unearth the circumstances in which his son died.
Representations from various organisations, student and youth bodies have also been submitted to the authorities for necessary action, Choudhury added.

Source :http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-12-29/news/36051114_1_mysterious-death-mysterious-circumstances-student

Ex-Silchar MP's son dies after suicide attempt

SILCHAR: A doctor based in Silchar, who had attempted suicide by shooting at himself with a pistol on November 30, died at the Silchar Medical College and Hospital (SMCH) on Sunday.
The 32-year-old dentist, Kunal Bhattacharjee, is the son of former Congress MP from Silchar Kamalendu Bhattacharjee.
A senior police officer said Kunal had pumped a bullet into his head around 12.30 pm on Friday at the toilet of his private clinic at Church Road. He was taken to SMCH in critical condition.

He was on ventilation at the intensive care unit of the hospital for the last three days. He succumbed to his injuries at 10.45 am on Sunday.
The pistol used by him is yet to be recovered. Police have started investigation.

Source:  http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-12-02/guwahati/35547979_1_suicide-attempt-silchar-medical-college-intensive-care-unit

Barak students move PM for expediting railway projects

SILCHAR: Representatives of All Cachar Karimganj Hailakandi Students Association (ACKHSA) on Tuesday met Prime Minister Manhohan Singh and submitted a memorandum to him to ask the railway authorities to take measures to expedite the completion of key railway projects of southern Assam. These include the Silchar-Lumding broad gauge project, the Silchar-Mahisasan-Sylhet-Akhaura-Kolkata tracks and Silchar-Agartala-Akhaura-Kolkata tracks. The student body also demanded early completion of the Silchar-Saurashtra East-West Corridor project.
ACKHSA said the broad gauge project was initiated way back in 1983 and it was then proposed that the broad gauge tracks be laid between Sukritipur and Lanka, avoiding much of Dima Hasao hill district. The total outlay for the project was Rs 600 crore. The engineering-cum-traffic survey was done, but, surprisingly, the project was shelved.

After that a proposal came from the Railway Board to connect Silchar with Jogighopa through the broad gauge tracks, most of which would go through Meghalaya. The people of Meghalaya, however, objected to the proposal as they were not didn't want their state on the railway map for fear of easy infiltration by outsiders, ACKHSA added.
It's almost three decades since the project was initiated, but connectivity in southern Assam, Mizoram and Tripura hasn't improved. The progress of the present 214-km Lumding-Silchar broad gauge project through Dima Hasao has been delayed because of government apathy. Although the foundation of the project was laid by the-then Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda and it was declared a National Project in 2004 by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the project has witnessed little progress over the years, the student body said. It said the project may again fail the fresh deadline of December, 2013 given the tardy progress.
ACKHSA said in response to the repeated demands of the people of this region, New Delhi sent a proposal to the Bangladesh government for revival of the defunct railway transit facilities between India and the neighbouring country through Mahisasan point on the international border in Assam's Karimganj district.

Source :  http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-12-27/guwahati/36021655_1_broad-gauge-project-lumding-silchar-railway-projects

Barak Valley joins protest against Delhi gangrape

SILCHAR: Students of Assam University, Silchar, and several other colleges evening brought out a candlelight procession here on Monday morning seeking speedy justice for the 23-year-old paramedic who was gang-raped in a moving private bus in Delhi.
The students in Barak Valley areas have been taking to the streets in line with the nationwide protest for last few days. Silchar, Karimganj, Hailakandi towns witnessed several protest rallies and some more are on the pipeline.

Posters seeking capital punishment for the six culprits involved in the crime have been pasted on many roadside walls and buildings.
The candlelight procession, which was organized by the university and collage students of Silchar, started from the statute of martyr Kshudiram Bose at 5 pm during the day and moved through the main streets of the town. The students, who were carrying banners and posters, decried the government for its highhandedness in dealing with the ongoing protests in different places of Delhi.
"There's presence of a large number of students from the northeast in Delhi and they are often subjected to molestation and other harassments by goons. NE students enjoy little security and justice in such cases. We demand a halt to such incidents and a suitable atmosphere for security of students in Delhi coming from across the country," said Rupali, a student of GC College, who joined the protest. "We will help spread the agitation against the brutal rape of a paramedic in Delhi throughout the country. We will not stop until the authorities pronounce capital punishment of the six rapists," said Ashok, a student of AU.

Source : http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-12-25/guwahati/35999621_1_ne-students-protest-rallies-barak-valley

BSF-BGB meet decides to start Indo-Bangla border survey in Nov

SILCHAR: A sector-level meeting of senior officials of Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) was held on Saturday at Sutarkandi trade centre in Karimganj district. The meeting decided that the survey of border areas of the two countries will start on November this year.
While the team of BSF officials was led by its sector commander (Silchar) deputy inspector general UC Hazarika, the Bangladesh officials were led by BGB sector commander (Sylhet) Col Muhammad Khair-uz-Zaman.

Source :http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-21/guwahati/34627370_1_bgb-bsf-indo-bangla

Frequent power cuts create public woe

SILCHAR, May 29: The scorching heat, frequent power cuts and high humidity have made lives of the people of Barak Valley miserable in the last few days.
The frequent power cuts in this hot and sultry summer have become quite irritating for the people of Silchar in general. The power supply has totally gone out of control with no predictable pattern to the power cuts.
Bidyut Debnath, a resident of Kanakpur, said that there is a power cut after every one hour and sometimes it takes two to three hours to back.
Madhumita Acharjee, a student, who is preparing for LLM entrance said, “My entrance examination is very near. But it is very hard to concentrate on studies because of this excessive heat and undue power cut.”
The power cut is not limited to only day’s hours. People of here are also suffering from power cuts at night.
Chunilal Das, a resident of Co-operative lane, said that he was unable to sleep during the night. Due to the sweltering heat, the fan had become a must. Without it, the sweltering heat of the summer makes sleep impossible.
Angshuman Dey, a resident of Ambicapatty, said that between 6 am and 6 pm, there are at least six hours of power cuts. During night , there are more six-hour of power cuts, taking the total power cut duration to 12 hours every day.
Moreover, in the night, there is a power cut after every one hour for which people can’t sleep properly. It is being forecasted that the heat would increase sharply in the coming days, but chances of heavy rain is also there.
However, the ASEB earlier assured that power supply would get normal, but hue and cry over power supply among public remains constant.

Source: http://www.sentinelassam.com/cachar/story.php?sec=2&subsec=12&id=119132&dtP=2012-05-30&ppr=1#119132

Youth Congress gherao on DTO

SILCHAR, May 24: The members of Silchar Youth Congress gheraoed the office of the district transport office demanding the action against the illegal carrying of over-loaded goods by the super buses in their day to day journey particularly in Silchar- Guwahati route, which might jeopardize the life of general people, on Wednesday.
The members of youth congress in an operation, early on Thursday  morning, to the Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT) at Ramnagar found eight passenger buses with overloaded goods, where they stopped all the buses and informed the transport authority. The youth congress leaders thereafter gheraoed the office of the district transport officer and sought his intervention in this regard.
Abhijit Paul, president, said that they have submitted a memorandum regarding this issue nine days ago but still no action has been initiated. He further said if it continues they would think of mass movement.
S Alam, district transport officer, called a meeting with the enforcement officers and asked them to take proper action. He also ordered the managers of the Capital and the Jagannath travels not to carry over loaded goods. He further assured the members of Youth congress that adequate steps would be initiated to deal with the issue very soon.
The leaders who were present in the operation included Papon Deb, , vice president, Rahul Amin Laskar, general secretary, Bandita Divedi Roy, Anita Das Chowdhury, Anupam Paul, Rinku Borlaskar, Shyamal Saha.

Source: http://www.sentinelassam.com/cachar/story.php?sec=2&subsec=12&id=118562&dtP=2012-05-25&ppr=1#118562

Consumers’ body slams UPA Government, Opposition fumes

SILCHAR, May 24: The Grahak Suraksha Samiti (GSS) of Cachar has slammed the UPA Government for hiking the petrol prices by nearly a Rs 8 per litre. “It is quite intriguing that the decision was taken by the Government just after the Parliament session on budget was over”, said Biplob Kumar Goswami, general secretary of the consumers’ body. It was according to him a surreptitious method of avoiding Parliament to push up the price and pass on the burden on common people, already reeling under the heat of spiralling prices of sorts of commodities, both essential and non essential. It is the steepest hike ever since the Government of Dr Manmohan Singh came to power in 2002. Between March 2011 and May 24, petrol price has been increased by 6 times from Rs 62.50 to Rs 77.81 per litre. This is one of the records on price front of the Government that cries for ‘aam aadmi’, he pointed out.
Goswami attributed the abnormal increase in petrol price to the gross fiscal mismanagement and erroneous economic policy which together have combined together to devalue the rupee against dollar and a shaken investment climate. He said afraid of facing the opposition in the Parliament, the Government took the decision unilaterally and arbitrarily. Even its allies in the coalition were not consulted and taken into confidence. The ground cited was the depreciation of rupee in the international market which has been disputed by all the well known economists of the country. In fact, as he pointed out increasing trade deficit and lack of reformist approach has messed up the situation, he stated.
The timing of hike was also unjustified with no elections round the corner excepting the Presidential election. The Government wanted to play . The hue and cry raised by the allies of UPA, according to him, was drama. Mamata Banerjee did raise her pitch, but it was all sound and fury. Goswami said, “It reflects on the failure of the Government to meet the crisis, enmeshed as it is in scams and scandals.”
It can neither control run away prices nor hold a check on massive leakages of development funds. The austerity measures being talked of by the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee lose all sense and sensibility, as Goswami pointed out, by following the proverbial policy of running with the hare and hunting with the hound. By taking recourse to pushing up price, it is now trying to balance the deficits. It is an exercise to offset the subsidies on diesel and LPG, he maintained.
Goswami further brought out the paradox. When the prices of international crude have dropped in March last, the UPA Government has taken the unusual step. In the past, the Government passed the onus on international price to justify every hike. Oil companies have always put the pressure on the Government to increase prices.
He was of the opinion along with austerity measures as planned by the Finance Ministry, the Government should recover crores of rupees lost in colossus scams of 2 G Spectrum and CWG, besides bringing Back enormous amount black money stashed in foreign banks. The Samiti would launch a district level public agitation to pressure the Government for roll back. Other option Is that the Central excise duty of Rs 14.78 a litre and the states’ sales tax ranging from Rs 10.30 to Rs 18.74 a litre should be reduced or slashed.
The opposition political parties, BJP, AGP, CPM, CPI, AIUDF, SUCI, have come down heavily on the Government for its anti people policy. Kiriti Bhushan Purkayastha, Cachar district president of BJP, in a statement here said, the hike was unwarranted and a cruel joke with people. Dulal Mitra of CPM termed the hike as pandering to the interests of business houses and industrialists. While left parties are sharpening their arsenal for attacking the Government, other parties are planning to hit the streets. CPI(M), its leaders and supporters today staged protest demonstration against the hiking of petrol price and demanded the UPA government should scrap the hike.

source: http://www.sentinelassam.com/cachar/story.php?sec=2&subsec=12&id=118560&dtP=2012-05-25&ppr=1#118560

LPG crisis: GSS gheraos IOC

SILCHAR, May 24: Grahak Suraksha Samiti of Cachar gheraoed the office of Lalit Kumar Dule, manager of Indian Oil Corporation, on Wedneday, by demanding immediate measures in LPG crisis.
Biplab Kumar Goswami, general secretary, said that the situation has become so critical that it takes more than 45 days in the processing of booking and gas cylinder delivery.
He pointed out that the delivery man has the responsibility to provide the bonafide consumers with LPG cylinders within the time schedule of booking by them. But, it has been found in most of the cases that the delivery man take recourse to malpractices by diverting the cylinders of consumers to black market for unlawful gains. Even most of the persons who are entrusted with home delivery do not have any proper registration. Surprisingly after lodging complaints by the citizens of this valley, no action is initiated for corrective measures.
The members of the Consumers’ body said that the black marketers are cashing in on the sudden rise in LPG prices. The cylinders, priced at Rs 398, are now being sold at anything between Rs 900 and Rs 1,000 each, an all-time high. They alleged that the several gas agencies are looting the general public and pointed out that to take a new connection gas agencies are charging Rs 5,000 to Rs 6,000 instead of Rs 1,820, which is the prescribed fee.
They further alleged that the Sahid Nandachand Gas Agency does not have any delivery man at Srikona, which has created a huge problem for the people. Moreover, they demanded the immediate steps should be taken in solving the problems of Rupali Gas Agency of Udharbond.
However, Lalit Dule, who joined here just three days back, assured the members of the Suraksha Samiti that he would take immediate measure to meet the required demand of LPG cylinders.
The members of the consumers’ body were present included Amrit Kumar Acharjee, Dilip Kumar Das, Mussobbir Ali, Dilip Das.

source: http://www.sentinelassam.com/cachar/story.php?sec=2&subsec=12&id=118563&dtP=2012-05-25&ppr=1#118563

Donation to Cachar Cancer Hospital

SILCHAR, May 24: On the eve language martyrs’ day, which falls on May 19, a few benevolent person of the city extended their helping hand to Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Institute .
Manju Bhattacharjee of Link Road along with Dr Nirmali Barman, professor of Assam University, Gauri Bhattacharjee, Konkona Nath of CR Avenue, and Shreya Shipani handed over a cash of Rs 25,000, Rs 15,000, Rs 3000, Rs 10,000 and Rs 3000 respectively to Dr Rabi Kannan, director of Cachar Cancer Hospital. Dr Kannan expressed his gratitude on behalf of the Hospital to all for the financial assistance and he assured that the grant will be meaningfully utilized in the interest of the people. Others were present in the function included Kalyan Chakraborty, Superintendent, Dr Ikbal Bahar, Dr Pronoti Dhar.

Source: http://www.sentinelassam.com/cachar/story.php?sec=2&subsec=12&id=118566&dtP=2012-05-25&ppr=1#118566

Media should play a responsible role: Arunodoy Saha

SILCHAR, May 23: “Media should play a responsible role in covering news” said Arunodoy Saha, Vice Chancellor of Tripura University, at Rajib Bhavan in a programme organized by a local NGO Aashiyan, here on Monday.
He said that most of the media houses are now running after sensationalism, but this brings down the credibility, which is the most important asset for a house.
He urged the media not to sensationalize news and maintain credibility in view of the vital role played by newspapers and TV channels in shaping people’s opinion in a democracy. He added to say the media have a big role to play in the parliamentary democracy. By citing different examples of the impact of media on the general public, Professor Saha said that now a days people are more dependent on the media than before. He further said that earlier a political party used to depend on their cadres in order to reach the mass, but now the situation has changed and a political party can disseminate their views to a huge audience through newspapers and TV channels.
Professor Saha said that the media should give wider publicity to people who endeavour for changing the society for good. He pointed out that the attack on an individual by any newspaper or news channel just for their interest is not acceptable in a democratic country.
The Vice Chancellor further urged the journalists to follow the code of ethics in the news covering. He said that paid news is not good for healthy growth of the society and is putting question mark on the credibility of the media. Dissemination of wrong facts some times leads to disaster and need of the hour is to dissuade from such practices in the larger interest of the public good, he added.
Professor Saha also said that a thin line should be drawn by the journalists. He requested the journalists to maintain the objectivity and integrity in their profession.

source: http://www.sentinelassam.com/cachar/story.php?sec=2&subsec=12&id=118452&dtP=2012-05-24&ppr=1#118452

Scarcity of LPG creates public ire

SILCHAR, May 23: Everyday hundreds of people stand in long queues but after a day long wait, most of them return home disappointed. Scarcity of LPG cylinder has become a major problem for the common people of Barak valley.
The members of Youth Against Social Evils (YASE) submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner of Cachar, in which they have requested him to take appropriate measure to solve the present crisis of LPG cylinders in the district and to publish a public statement in this regard, on Wednesday.
Sanjib Roy, president, said that for last one and half month there has been a great scarcity of LPG cylinders in the entire district of Cachar and it is increasing gradually. Now-a-days the crisis has created a havoc among the common mass and the black-marketers are using the circumstances to the extreme, he added.
He also said that the crisis of LPG cylinder in the district has helped the black-marketers to sell the LPG at exorbitant rate. He further said that the consumers had no options other than to purchase the same from them at the inflated rates for their livelihood.
He pointed out till date no measures have been taken by the district administration or by the deputy Director of supply (DDS) to deal with the situation. Though a control room service has been set up for the matter by the district administration but it is not enough to control the black-marketers, he added.
The members of the organization requested the district administration to release a public statement regarding the reason behind the shortage of LPG cylinder in the district, how many days it will take to meet up the crisis and the measures taken up by the district administration. They also seeks the intervention of district administration to catch hold the unscrupulous elements.
The members were present included Sabir Ahmed Raj Barbhuiya, secretary, Ramnath Nunia, Sahab Uddin, Bandita Trivedi, Dinesh Kahar, Digbijoy Bhattacharjee, Rajan Ahmed, Ankur Banik.

Source:http://www.sentinelassam.com/cachar/story.php?sec=2&subsec=12&id=118451&dtP=2012-05-24&ppr=1#118451