Oct 2020

ASSAM Assam to get country’s 1st multimodal logistics park   Union minister Nitin Gadkari  will lay the foundation stone of Jogighopa Multimodal Logistics Park (MMLP) in Bongaigaon, the first of its kind in India, with road, rail and waterways to boost domestic and international trade. The development project includes railway sidings, container terminals, warehousing, non-cargo processing, a … Read more

ASSAM   Webinar on conservation of greater adjutant stork   Celebrating the ‘Wildlife Week’, a webinar on conservation of highly endangered greater adjutant stork was conducted at Regional Science Centre in Guwahati (RSCG), where eminent conservation biologist and Green Oscar awardee Dr Purnima Devi Barman was the chief speaker. Director, Tata Zoo, Jharkhand Bipul Chakrabarty expressed his … Read more

ASSAM   People celebrate Kati Bihu festival in Assam   People celebrated Kati Bihu festival in Assam’s Bongaigaon area. The Kati Bihu is also closely related to agriculture. Kati Bihu is celebrated on the first day of ‘Kati’ month in the Assamese calendar. On the occasion of Kati Bihu, women, both in urban and rural … Read more

ASSAM   Assam CM, Sarma to lay foundation of 104 schools in tea garden areas Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal and education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will lay the foundation of 104 high schools in tea garden areas across Assam. This is the second time in eight years that a state government is setting up schools in these areas since Independence. Prior to … Read more

ASSAM     IIT- Guwahati signed MoU with the C-DAC to establish 650TF supercomputing facility Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). The aim is to establish Rs. 17 crore worth of 650TF Supercomputing Facility under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). The MoU was signed … Read more

ASSAM   Assam ranks 15th in growth among large states Assam has been ranked 15th in terms of growth, while Kerala has emerged the best governed state in the large states category, according to the Public Affairs Index 2020 (PAI 2020) report released by the Public Affairs Centre (PAC) . But overall Assam has been ranked … Read more