Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to provide free national roaming benefit voice call, SMS and data service through special tariff voucher (STV) and combo voucher in all areas where BSNL operate.
This scheme is quite beneficial for people who travel frequently such as Army personal, journalist, and students. Though at present STV benefit are available at every state through License service are (LSA) but post 15TH August such benefit will be available at every places. This will make easy for every individual to recharge even when one travel out from his registered hometown.
The Meghalaya Swimming Association (MSA) taking the 2022 National Games as their top priority has decided to provide free training for enthusiastic swimmers in the under-14 categories. The training includes Diving and all styles of Swimming. Speaking at the 13 Annual State Swimming Competition at the Caroline Swimming pool, Mr. Joe Marwein urged all the parents to support their children in the quest to become professional in this water sports. He called out the youngsters to come out and get trained under the Association to prepare for the 2022 National Games which will be held in Shillong.
Nar Bahadur Bhandari, who became one of the longest (3 times) serving Chief Minister of Sikkim from 1979-1994 passed away on July 16 at New Delhi following cardiac arrest. The three term Chief Minister of Sikkim, Bhandari was 76.
People believe that with the demise of former Chief Minister, Bhandari, it was an end of an era. He was born on October 5, 1940 in Malbasey, West district of Sikkim. Before floating his political career, he was a school teacher and taught in different schools of Sikkim for 11 years.
Flood leads to dead of more than 140 animals in Assam
The second wave of floods in Assam has inundated 80 per cent of the 481 sq km area of the famed Kaziranga National Park and claimed the lives of over 140 animals, including seven rhinos.
Since August 10, seven rhinos, 122 swamp deer, two elephants, three wild boars, two hog deer, three sambhar deer, one buffalo and one porcupine died, KNP Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Rohini Ballav Saikia said. "Carcasses are being recovered daily," the official said.
Out of the seven dead rhinos, six drowned while the other died of natural causes.
Water of the Brahmaputra river entered the KNP, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, through river Difloo.
Intensified water patrolling was on by KNP guards, task force, protection force along with those from NGOs, Wildlife Trust of India and forest department employees for rescuing, recovering and making assessment of species trapped or dead in the KNP, Saikia said.
At present, animals in KNP are moving in search of food available on both sides of the NH-37 and the adjacent tea gardens towards the higher altitudes of Karbi Anglong district. As per DFO, Forest department and security personnel are fixing hoardings, posters, banners to restrict speed limit of vehicles on the NH-37 passing through the park between 20-40 km per hour.
As one is aware of, Assam has long been faced with a host of age-old problems such as burgeoning unemployment, flood and erosion, illegal immigration from Bangladesh to mention a few. With the inordinate delay in resolving all the intractable issues afflicting the people in the State, peace that is considered to be the first condition to congenial atmosphere for a rapid economic growth, is still an elusive as before following periodic agitations by various home-grown leading social organizations such as All Assam Students Union (AASU) and the All Assam Kriskak Mukti Sagram Samity (AAKMSS) led by Akhil Gogoi, to press for an immediate solution to the complex problems.
