Assam’s elementary education sector is facing an acute crisis with over 16,000 posts of teachers lying vacant in schools across the state. With elections around the corner, Dispur has initiated steps to expedite the recruitment processbut it appears to be a Herculean task, sources in the education department indicated today. The posts have been lying [...]
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Over 480,000 poultry birds have been culled in the bird flu-hit areas of West Bengal and Assam as officials further intensified their awareness campaign to prevent recurrence of the disease in new areas.A total of 483,726 birds have been culled in West Bengal and Assam, said the animal husbandry department Tuesday. Avian influenza was reported [...]
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Dispur today gave kidney transplant patients a New Year gift by launching a free medication scheme for those who have undergone the critical surgery. Launched by Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi , the “challenging and novel” scheme initiated by the state health and family welfare department would provide free post-kidney transplant immuno-suppressive drugs essential to maintain [...]
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Field trials were being conducted for a repellant for the black fly whose sting could virtually paralyse a security person for a month. Director of the Tezpur laboratory of Defence Research Development Organization (DRDO) Prof R.P. Srivastava said on Sunday that the insect has proved to be a menace for security forces deployed for anti-insurgency [...]
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A five-year-old boy, Simon, from Arunachal Pradesh, was rescued from the house of a relative of Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG), Assam, at AECS Layout near Parappana Agrahara on Wednesday. Simon was rescued by a team comprising members of the Association for Promoting Social Action (APSA), the Labour Department and the police. The malnourished child [...]
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The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Assam has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with 23 tea gardens in Assam under Public Private Partnership (PPP) to provide better health care facility to the tea garden workers and non-workers. “The primary objective of the partnership is to extend the health care services to tea garden areas as [...]
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Clearing the air over the seismic survey on the Brahmaputra riverbed, the Multi Disciplinary Advisory Group (MDAG), constituted by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests for providing guidance on seismic survey, today clarified that Oil India Limited (OIL) had not been allowed to carry out any survey. “OIL has got no clearance for carrying [...]
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Indian health officials have been dispatched to the northeastern state of Assam to monitor people with flu-like symptoms after an outbreak of avian influenza. A massive culling operation of poultry is under way. India has sent avian influenza experts to the northeastern state of Assam to diagnose people who are suffering from flu-like symptoms. Read more at http://voanews.com/english/2008-12-13-voa18.cfm
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