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| Assamese boy designs sign language translator |
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, July 6: Assamese boy Ranjay Krishna has done his State and country proud. He is one of the three Cornell University engineering students who have built a power glove that translates sign language gestures into spoken words.
A big challenge in sign language is to translate it for people who do not know how to begin a conversation with the deaf and ... |
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| Campaign to garner support for Om Chetry |
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, July 6: Eight-year-old Om Chetry has rocked the dance floor of Dance India Dance (DID) Lil Masters Season-2 with many a splendid performances. His dance moves have impressed celebrities like Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra. Om Chetry’s father Ghan Bahadur Chetry and the Om Chetry Supporting Committee (OCSC) have now appealed to the people of the Nort... |
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| Jugdol murder case: Dulal Bora claims threat to his life |
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, July 6: Dulal Bora, businessman and one-time close friend of State Social Minister Akon Bora who had alleged that the minister was involved in the Jugdol murder case, has now claimed that his life was under threat.
Addressing a press conference in Guwahati today, Bora said, “After receiving threats in January this year, I had registered a ca... |
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| Demand to form commission to screen cases of D-voters |
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, July 6: A delegation of the Citizens’ Rights Preservation Committee, Assam, met the Chief Election Commissioner of India Veeravalli Sundaram Sampath and other Election Commissioners in New Delhi today.
The delegation submitted a memorandum highlighting the deprivation of basic rights, humiliation and harassment being faced by the linguistic ... |
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| SSB commandants' conference |
GUWAHATI, July 6: A commandants’ conference of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) was held at the SSB Guwahati headquarters on Thursday under the chairmanship of Somesh Goyal, Inspector General, SSB Frontier Guwahati. A press release stated that the purpose of the meeting was to discuss opertional, intelligence-related and administrative difficulties faced by the units and to assess the challenge... |
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| 40 kg ganja seized |
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, July 6: Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel today arrested a person named Ranjit Kumar Srivastava and seized 40 kg ganja from his possession.
According to police sources, Srivastava hails from the village Chonara in Bihar. He was bringing the ganga from Dimapur and was travelling in the Dibrugarh-Delhi Brahmaputra Mail. He was arrested from ... |
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| DMA organizes awareness programmes on landslides |
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, July 6: The District Disaster Management Authority (DMA) of Kamrup metro has taken steps to create awareness about landslide mitigation. The authority has been also taking preventive measures in various hills for landslide mitigation.
Steps have been taken from today for crushing into pieces a bulky stone of 100 feet width at Saraswati hill with technical... |
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| Certificates to have barcode |
GUWAHATI, July 6: The district administration of Kamrup (metropolitan) has decided to introduce a new system where certificates like PRC, certificate of next of kin, non-creamy layer, NOC for birth and death, including land sale permission certificates, will have barcode from now onwards. It has already been implemented in respect of PRC (permanent residence certificate) from July 6, 2012. Other c... |
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