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In present education system, where most of the teachers of schools are running parallel commercial coaching in their tuition centres and compelling students to take private coaching but to break this commercialization of education in the name of private tuition centres,  a seed of education is already planted this year at Gauripur (Assam) with 100's of students in the name of Assam Heritage Senior Secondary School with the message that "Our students don't need any private tuitions as because we are with them".

This newly established higher secondary school at Gauripur really is an example and takes challenges to break the parallel tuition system which is slowly killing the aim and objective of the schools and colleges in the society.

It is a fact, that the interest of students to attend the school is gradually losing, rather they become ironically dependent on private tuitions of their school teacher and if this goes on, the country will lose the best brains and talents who cannot afford the fees of private tuition.

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 In a two-day visit to Dhubri district, Director General of North East Centre For Technology Application and Reach (Nectar), Dr. Arun Kumar Sarma inspected various production units including Asharikandi Terracotta cluster villages near Gauripuri on November 21 and 22.

 Nectar is an autonomous body of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India providing techno know-how to upgrade the product with value addition by applying environment friendly plasma technology.

 Dr. Sarma also held series of meeting with the entrepreneurs and exchanged views with artisans involved in making traditional and indigenous items but unable to compete in the market due to high cost of production.

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Majestically spreading their wings in the sky and traversing almost 5,600km from Mongolia, when the Amur falcons come to Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Assam, Nagaland and other parts of Northeast India, the people rejoice.

Manipur and Nagaland are particularly important as the Amur falcons mainly throng there. The villagers in the two states also consider the arrival of Amur falcons as the sign of goodwill and prosperity. Since the time immemorial, they had been coming and the people too had been rejoicing: the matter of a long tradition.

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With much of high drama in political upliftments of Maharashtra, with many twist and turns, Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray is the new Chief Minister of Maharashtra also the first to occupy the Chief Minister position from the Thackaray family and as the eight minister to take an oath for the responsible post.  He is the third Sena Chief Minister after Manohar Joshi and Narayan Rane. The first Sena Chief Minister of a secular government is propped up by the support of two unlikely allies paired with ideological opposite Congress-NCP alliance to form the government in Maharashtra under the aegis of a new alliance - Maha Vikas Aghadi. From Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party state unit chief Jayant Patil and senior leader Chhagan Bhujbal were sworn in at the ceremony held at the iconic Shivaji Park in Mumbai along with Congress camp, Maharashtra unit president Balasaheb Thorat and former state minister Nitin Raut. From the Shiv Sena, its leader Eknath Shinde and Subhash Desai took oath as a minister which marks up an end to the for long political instability in Maharashtra for a while.

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1917iTEAMS Connecting Farmers to Markets

Launched on 29^th December 2017 with the tagline of ‘Connecting Farmers to Markets,’ 1917iTEAMS is a collaborative initiative of the Government of Meghalaya through the Department of Agriculture in partnership with Digital India Corporation, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, the Meghalaya Small Farmers Agri Business Consortium, the Department of IT, the Department of AH & Veterinary, Meghalaya Institute of Entrepreneurship (MIE) and  Central Agriculture University. Administered by the MIE as the Programme Management Unit, 1917iTEAMS facilitates and services farmers’ and buyers’ need through the three main verticals of;

a) Market connect b) Agro advisory services and c) Affordable logistics solutions.

It is a disruptive, first of its kind ICT driven, cloud based innovative platform that marries the wide reach of mobile telephony, a state supported extension cum decision support advisory system, market connect and intelligence with affordable on ground evacuation/transport logistics for farmers. The platform is easily accessible through a single nationwide toll free number (1917), a web portal and a smart phone based application for registered farmers of the state, for buyers within and outside the state, entrepreneurs and extension personnel. Through these channels a farmer can connect, communicate and negotiate directly with registered consumers and buyers or vice versa. Once a deal is made farmers or buyers can simply call 1917 to book a 1917iTEAMS cargo vehicle for transportation of  their  produce to the buyer or market at a very minimal freight cost of Rs. 0.02 per kg per kilometre. Farmers can also avail of the agro advisory services of 1917iTEAMS at various stages of production to consult with domain experts online or over the phone and are also linked to an animal healthcare and agriculture extension network that stretches across the state. In addition farmers and buyers are provided near real time market intelligence with regards to availability of produce, demand, quantities and pricing to enable them to make informed marketing decisions.

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Indian Columnist and political commentator Sunanda Vashisht's speech has taken the social media by storm after she testified at the US Congressional hearing on Human Rights on November 14. Organised by Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, a bipartisan US congressional caucus was held in Washington to examine the human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir in the context of the region's history. 

During her speech, Sunanda highlighted some of the crucial human rights situations in the Valley, India’s successful attempts to fight against insurgencies in J&K, milestones achieved post abrogation of article 370 and made several other important statements in the context of Kashmir's human rights violations over the years. The hearing also addressed the Valley's lockdown situation including restrictions on internet and communication.

Here’s her exact wordings addressed in the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission: 

 I would like to thank the Tom Lantos human Rights Commission, for inviting me to testify here as the witness. Today is worth remembering, that this commission is named after the late Congress man Tom Lantos, a Hungarian born Holocaust survivor. In July 2003, he said, Indians & Jews share a passionate commitment to respect for others, for the rule of law and for the mindless, vicious, fanatic Islamic terrorism. Am also reminded today, of American Journalist Daniel pearl, who was kidnapped and beheaded by Pakistani terrorists. His last word, my father is a Jewish, My mother is Jewish and I am a Jewish. Honourable members of the Tom Lantos Commission, I speak before you, the last words of Daniel pearl in my own words, my father is a Kashmiri Hindu, my mother is a Kashmiri Hindu, I am a Kashmiri Hindu, and her home and lives were destroyed by radical Islamic terrorism. As I begin to speak, I am choked by the thought of those voices, I represent here, because their voices were extinguished in most brutal fashion. I am the member of the minority Hindu community from Kashmir, victim of the worst ethnic cleansing witnessed in the independent India. I speak here today, because, I am a survivor.