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21 Aug

trained IAF’s 1st batch of women pilots. ‘Gunjan Saxena’ gets a lot wrong

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I trained IAF’s 1st batch of women pilots. ‘Gunjan Saxena’ gets a lot wrongWhen the first batch of women pilots arrived at the Air Force Station at Yelahanka in 1994, they were treated no differently by the IAF. Unlike what ‘Gunjan Saxena’ shows. The year was 1979. As a young, newly married ‘Pilot Officer’, I was set to attend a welcome party for my wife. As we entered the anteroom in the Officers’ Mess, all officers including the commanding officer stood up and wouldn’t sit down till my wife, accompanying the junior-most officer in the room, was seated. This was…

21 Aug

Singer Taylor Swift has donated £23,000 to a London-based student

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Taylor Swift's cash gift helps student take up degreeSinger Taylor Swift has donated £23,000 to a London-based student struggling to raise the funds to take up a maths course at the University of Warwick. Vitoria Mario's online fundraising page details how she has lived in the UK for four years after moving from Portugal. But she is not eligible for maintenance loans or grants. Vitoria said: "I was worrying too much about the money, what I have to do and if I have to look for a job. She actually made my dream come true." The American singer,whose 16 top…

21 Aug

“Season four won’t be the end,” Ross Duffer told the Hollywood Reporter in a new interview

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Though the next season of Netflix’s Stranger Things remains mostly shrouded in mystery, as is tradition, there’s a scrap of new information for fans to cling to as they await the series’ return. According to creators the Duffer Brothers, the show won’t wrap with its upcoming fourth season.“Season four won’t be the end,” Ross Duffer told the Hollywood Reporter in a new interview, noting that the production delay forced by the novel coronavirus has been beneficial when it comes to story planning. “We know what the end is, and we know when it is. [The pandemic] has given us time…

21 Aug

Swachh Survekshan 2020: Guwahati’s Rank Degraded To 356

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Swachh Survekshan 2020: Guwahati’s Rank Degraded To 356Although Assam ranked first which has cities with population less than 1lakh as the cleanest city in Swachh Survekshan 2020 survey results declared on Thursday, Guwahati’s rank gone down to 356. Guwahati which secured 303 position in 2019 secured 356 position in 2020. However, the other cities in the state have secured positions in different categories. The Swachh Survekshan 2020, conducted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affair, has declared Jorhat as the “cleanest city” in the northeast zone. We congratulate Jorhat from Assam for being awarded 1st place in the “Cleanest…

21 Aug

Bandhan Bank Turns 5: Going from strength to strength

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Bandhan Bank, India’s youngest universal bank focussed on serving the needs of the unbanked and underbanked sections of society will be completing five successful years of operations on August 23, 2020. In June 2015, the Bandhan Group, which addresses the financial needs of those at the bottom-of-the-pyramid across India’s rural and semi-urban areas, was given the final approval by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up a universal bank. For around two decades, Bandhan has tirelessly worked for the upliftment of India’s economically weak through access to timely microcredit, freeing the poor from the clutches of usurious moneylenders. …

21 Aug

Sonowal distributes sanction letters to schools in Majuli for playground development

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Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal today laid the foundation stone of playground development works at Majuli ME Parijat High School, Ratanpur Miri High School and Selek Janajati High School in Majuli under Chief Minister Samagra Gramya Yojna. The Chief Minister also formally handed over the sanction letters of Sports Department worth Rs 20 lakh each to the school authorities. He also distributed power tiller, roofing sheets and solar lamps among the beneficiaries under schemes of Plain Tribes Development Project. Speaking at the programme held at Majuli ME Parijat High School, the Chief Minister stressed on the need to shape the young…

21 Aug

Chief Minister’s Media Advisor lays foundation stone for beautification of pond and its peripheries in the midst of Howly

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Stresses on reviving of glorious traditions of Howly Chief Minister’s Media Advisor Hrishikesh Goswami today inaugurated the newly augmented Howly Electrical Sub-station in presence of Minister of State (independent charge) for Urban Development Pijush Hazarika at a programme held at Howly. He, at the same time laid the foundation stone of the beautification work of the pond at the centre of Howly today along with the beautification of its peripheral areas. It may be noted that the scheme for the beautification of the pond involves a financial outlay of Rs 1 crore. Speaking at a simple programme organised on the…

21 Aug

Mega Parental Education Training on Digital Communication & Ethics to reach over 1.5 lakh parents

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Samagra Shiksha, Kamrup, along with Bharti Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Bharti Enterprises, has initiated an extensive training program on Parental Education on Digital Communication & Ethics. Bharti Foundation brings in their expertise and experience in Parental engagement though Satya Bharti Home Mentoring process for parents. Under the program, virtual training will be conducted for nine Block Resource Persons, 159 Cluster Resource Centre Coordinators who will reach out toaround 5570 teachers,and these Teachers will train and conduct various activities for awareness of over 1.5 lakh parents across the district. The program is now all set to impact on a scalable…

21 Aug

Assam State govt striving to benefit 68,000 MSMEs under Aatma Nirbhar Bharat: Sonowal

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Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal today reviewed the implementation status of the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme for MSMEs of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts under Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan at a meeting held at the Deputy Commissioner’s office, Dibrugarh. He also held a discussion with the MSME owners of the two districts and urged them to take advantage of the Atma Nirmal Bharat initiative. Saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had started the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan with financial outlay of Rs 20 lakh crore to revive and revitalise the country’s economy affected by COVID-19 lockdown, Sonowal stated that the state…

21 Aug

Sonowal visits construction site of multi-purpose sports complex,

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Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal today visited the construction site of the multi-purpose sports complex being built with NLCPR funds at Khanikar in Dibrugarh today. While taking stock of the quality and the progress of construction, Chief Minister Sonowal asked PWD (Building) to complete construction of the main stadium by February next year. It may be noted that the sports complex is being built in line with the sports complex of Sarusajai in Guwahati. He asked the implementing agency to make good use of the construction season and time, use the manpower in three shifts to complete the construction in time.…