Sentinel Digital Desk
The Assam Police has decided to expeditiously install IP (Internet Protocol) and SIM based CCTV cameras at all entry and exit points of Guwahati city. This was announced before media persons by the Special DGP (Law and Order), GP Singh after a review meeting with the high-ranking officials of the Guwahati Police Commissionerate.
Concern has emerged of the Deepor Bill gradually losing its Ramsar Site status, it had received in 2002. The water body which boasted of 219 varieties of birds in 2002, now recorded the presence of only 66 species of birds in a recently concluded survey.
The North East Indigenous People’s Forum has urged Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma to make public the findings of the judicial inquiry instituted by it, as well as any other inquiry conducted by specific Central investigative agencies, into the recent violent incident at Mukroh on the Assam-Meghalaya border.
A major fire gutted 10 rented rooms in the Noonmati area of the city on Sunday night. As per sources, the fire broke out at one of the residences and soon spread to 6 rented rooms in the complex. Subsequently, another 4 rented rooms in the neighborhood also caught fire. Damage caused by the fire is estimated to be several lakhs.
The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati has signed a MoU with Oil India Limited, under which the institute will design and develop a prototype for Remote Ignition with Pilot Burner Flame Detection System for the company's Duliajan plant in Assam.
Nearly a hundred persons with disabilities staged a protest in front of the Janata Bhawan on Monday demanding immediate announcement of the results of the recruitment examination for reserved Grade-IV posts conducted by Gauhati University.
Guwahati girl Kismat Bano is one of eight young artistes selected for the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar Award for the year 2020 for her excellence in acting in theatre. The Award is given to artistes below the age of 40 years is aimed at giving them a national recognition early in life, so that they may work with greater commitment and dedication in their chosen fields.
An important executive meeting of the Journalists Association of Assam held on Nov 27 under the chairmanship of its president and eminent journalist Dhirendra Nath Chakraborty demanded a hike in pension of journalists and increasing the rate of government advertisements by 100%.
The 400th birth anniversary of Mahabir Lachit Barphukan was celebrated at the Guwahati campus of the Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankaradeva Viswavidyalaya (MSSV) recently by staging a drama ‘Mahabir Lachit’ scripted by Prof Jagadish Patgiri along with recitation and discussion.
NCC cadets of South Point School, Guwahati celebrated NCC Day and the 400th birth anniversary of Bir Lachit Barphukan recently at the school premises with a cultural programme and a presentation of the activities and achievements of the school boys’ and girls’ units.