This
Puja will always remain special for me : Debojit
High on festive spirit
- It was a heady mix of shows & fans for the singer this
Puja
IDOL CHAT Telegraph India
Voice of India Debojit Saha speaks about the “rocking” Durga
Puja he had this year...
This Puja will always remain special for me. Never before
did I think that I could steal public attention, even
momentarily, from Ma Durga. But this did happen at Noida
this year, thanks to Zee TV.
The experience added an exciting dimension to the gala time
I was already having. The confused look on some teenagers’
face, as they wondered whether I was really Debojit or
merely a close resemblance, still amuses me.
I was in Delhi to stage a series of shows during Durga Puja.
It was my first real stage performance in the nation’s
capital. Previously, I had shared the stage with others
before the Delhi crowd as a contender for the Voice of India
title.
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Sontosh Mohan sees ‘India Shining’ in the down-trodden
DANFES
ELECTED
from the Silchar Lok Sabha constituency — always the
target of BJP, Minister for the Heavy Industries in
the
Manmohan Singh Government,
Santosh Mohan Dev, no doubt faced the toughest
of the electoral challenges in a political career that
spread over several elections over the past decades
when he almost won the elections since 1980. He
agreed that the challenge this time was indeed tough
with Mulayam Singh’s Samajwadi Party, CPM and others
taking was indeed substantial chunk if his votes and
even some within his own party sabotaging his
election. Even then he won by about 22,000 votes.
North India should learn from NE:
Preity Zinta
From our
Correspondent Sentinel Assam
SHILLONG, Oct 31: Bollywood Actress
Preity Zinta today said that North India should
learn from the North-east the social status it confers on
the “girl child” and its women in the society. She said
that she was impressed by the matrilineal society that
holds its women in high regard.
Preity Zinta is shooting in
Shillong for the film Har Pal directed by Jhanu
Barua. The film also features actors Shiney Ahuja and
Dharmendra, and the entire film crew has been
camping in
Shillong shooting for the last 10 days.
Talking to reporters at the shooting site in Laitlum,
Preity said she has been involved with the cause of women,
and has been working for their betterment. She said in
other parts of
India, female infanticide has become a social
menace and she has been involved in trying to create
awareness and improve the social condition of women. In
the film, she plays a local Shillong girl but refused to
divulge the entire story of the film.
Preity said that she was amazed by the beautiful landscape
of Shillong and felt it has huge potential for becoming a
shooting location and would one day become a top tourist
destination in the country.
Preity said Bollywood films have so far been choosing
Kashmir or Himachal Pradesh as shooting locations
whenever they required shooting to be done in hill
stations. She, however, said Shillong can hope to become
another hill station destination for shooting Bollywood
films as it has picturesque landscapes, rolling hills and
cascading water falls.
Bollywood he-man of the yesteryears
Dharmendra said he liked Shillong for its serene
atmosphere and “peace.” He said Bollywood should
concentrate in making North-east and Shillong its
permanent location for films shooting. He said when a film
is shot in a particular place, the location gets promoted
as a tourist destination.
Marathon in Silchar
Hailakandi: Assam Cardiology Society and Cardiological Society of India, Northeast branch, organised a marathon in Silchar on Saturday, reports Satananda Bhattacharjee. The 6-km race started from Rangirkhari point and ended at Silchar Medical College and Hospital. Footballer Paijan Rongmei finished first, while Rajesh Yadav and Bipul Sinha came second and third respectively.
Zubeen is a born singer
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Now, the charming Zubeen makes his debut on television in
a reality show, Jhoom
India.
New age musician Zubeen Garg sincerely believes he is a
born singer. At an age when most toddlers barely warble,
Zubeen learnt to sing a few notes! He was barely three
years old, when his musical journey began back home in
Assam. A trained singer, Zubeen studiously stayed
away from professional music until he graduated. He found
celebdom in mainstream Bollywood, with the chartbusting Ya
Ali number in Gangster last year.
Now, the charming Zubeen makes his debut on television in
a reality show, Jhoom
India. A self-confessed sufi singer, Zubeen insists
he’s also been influenced by western music, Sting being an
all-time favourite.
Zubeen’s debut Assamese album, Anamika, was a huge hit and
since then he has never looked back. In fact, Zubeen says
he wasn’t particularly sold out to the
Mumbai dream. He says, I sing as many as 600 songs
a year in
Assam and my albums sell 20 lakh copies. I always
felt that when I live like a king in
Assam, why should I look out for work in
Mumbai?
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Debojit’s new act
9 Oct 2007, 0000 hrs IST
,Ranjib
Mazumder,TNN
Debojit’s claim to fame has been his singing.
Debojit Saha, winner of Sa Re Ga Ma Challenge,2006, will host a show for the channel's new entertainment arm. Debojit’s claim to fame has been his singing. The channel has decided to capitalise on that in a music-based show called Rock the Dhun. Reportedly, the show bears a strange similarity with Harmony which has recently gone off air. Some prominent singers will appear as guests on the show. They will sing both old and new songs, with a live orchestra playing. Says Debojit, "I'm really excited about my new show. I'm happy that they chose me to host it. Alongside hosting, I will also sing on the show with the guests." Like all other reality show winners, Debojit has been busy with stage shows. "I have been travelling and busy doing shows in different parts of the country. I have, so far, shot only two days for the show. Shooting for the second schedule is set, for this month end," he adds. |
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Multi-crore-rupee projects coming up at Karimganj
From our
Correspondent
KARIMGANJ, Nov 2: A nursing school-cum-training centre
would be established at Brajendranagar in Karimganj
district at a cost of Rs 4.5 crore. This was revealed by
MLA MR Das at a meeting held on the occasion of the
foundation stone laying ceremony of an auditorium.
Karimganj deputy commissioner A Goel, presiding over the
meeting informeed that work for the proposed tourist lodge
at Karimganj would start soon, adding that an amount of Rs
75.75 lakh has already been allotted for the project.
Earlier, Excise Minister Gautam Roy said that though both
the projects for the construction of tourist lodges at
Hailakandi and Karimganj were being cleared one at a time,
the Karimganj project is yet to be started while 80 per
cent work for the Hailakandi project has been completed.
Abdul Muktadir Choudhury, former minister, informed that
initiatial work for establishing an engineering college
was going on.
Durga Puja ends peacefully at Badarpur
From Our
Correspondent
BADARPUR, Nov 2 –
Durga Puja, the biggest festival of the Bengali Hindu
community, was celebrated with traditional religious fervour
and gaiety at the Barak Valley railway headquarters town
Badarpur. This year, the total number of pujas in entire
Badarpur circle was more than 100 with Badarpur railway town
accounting for most of them.
Although a few drops of early morning rain and cloudy
weather dampened spirits of the devotees on Saptami day, the
weather cleared after a few hours and the people were
blessed with bright sunny days throughout the festival.
This year, the Durga idols and decorated mandaps which
attracted and were appreciated by the people and the
administration were ST Road Durga puja committee, Badarpur
Bazar durga puja, Yuva Samiti, Radha Nagar Sarbajanin Durga
puja, GRP Colony, New Wireless Colony, Badarpur Ananda Dham
Kalibari, Badarpur Saheb Colony, Prantik Club, Railway
Hilline Colony and others.
Expansion of
cargo services in Barak Valley stressed
From Our
Correspondent
KARIMGANJ, Nov 3 — In view of the poor road and rail
communication between Barak Valley and the rest of the
country Mission Ranjan Das, MLA, North Karimganj has urged
the Union Minister for Water Transport and Shipping to take
steps to explore the possibilities and expansion of cargo
service in Barak Valley.
He further said that if cargo services between
Kolkata and Karimganj via
Bangladesh could be made available throughout the
year besides extension of services to other areas of the
valley adjoining the Barak river and other rivers,
transportation cost would be cheaper.
In a letter addressed to the Union Minister, Das said that
there was ample scope for large scale commercial cargo
services in the Barak valley. If the water route upto
Karimganj is used in a big way, the people of Barak Valley
and adjoining areas of Tripura, Manipur and Mizoram will get
goods at a cheaper price and people will have
an alternative cheaper route too,” he mentioned in the
letter.
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Puja celebration:
It was a synthesis of
cooperation and coordination. Alert administration,
responsive organisers and an equally conscious devotees
joined hands together to make the celebration of the
greatest Hindu festival of Durga worship a memorable event.
Amid tight security in and around the valley the pujas
passed off peacefully not without of course four Kuki
militants falling into the dragnet of Cachar police.
Security forces were kept on maximum alert following
intelligence reports of strikes by jehadi elements from
across the border as well as by desperate militant groups
from NC Hills.
ASEB kept its promise of uninterrupted power supply the rain
gods however looked unkind with heavy downpours lashing the
valley for more than a week. After the first four hours of
wet Saptami, sun gradually emerged from the dark clouds and
thereafter it was all shiles for the mandap-hopper. Dusty
muddy roads with potholes and craters dried up to their
delight. One big question did agitate their minds: Will Rs
175.5 crore earmarked for Silchar roads be utilised
properly? Bad shape of roads in Karimganj was also the cause
of trouble for the people. The police for a change did a
remarkable job. There were no irritating traffic jams on
roads. It was easy floup for devotees and vehicles.
In
Silchar alone 223 puja mandaps came against above 100 in
Karimganj.
Lakhs of devotees
rushed to Ramkrishna Mission of Silchar and Karimganj and
offered pushpanjali there.
Militant activity increases: Of late various areas of
Lakhipur subdivision have witnessed heightened militant
activity. There have been many cases of abduction,
intimidation and extortion by the militants. As a result
people are suffering intensely from a sense of insecurity.
With a view to instilling confidence in public minds, 4 Raj
Rifles currently encamping at Sribar, have started intensive
patrolling in different parts of the subdivision. The
Riflemen achieved a great success in tracking down the
abductors of three contractors employees. 4 Raj Rifles men
zeroed on the abductors in the area of Kalinagar forest
village recently. On seeing the armymen the militants opened
fire and the armymen retaliated. In the exchange of fire one
militant was shot dead and another was arrested. The
riflemen also recovered one AK-56 rifle, 3 magazines, one
Chinese made grenade and some documents.
Patrols of 4 Raj Rifles have been making regular rounds to
villages like Harinagar, Kumacherra, Kalinagar, Molong,
Dipucherra, Upper and Lower Lodi, Jinan Valley, etc. Col HBS
Lacshar and major Aminesh Jatrana have taken the lead in
reassuring the people about their safety.
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Cachar Express speeds
along ICL track
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Hailakandi, Nov. 6: He may not be as fast as
the Rawalpindi Express, but the Cachar Express is
speedily building a reputation as a strike bowler.
Alas, he is no longer bowling for Assam.
Nicknamed so for his ability to consistently bowl
fast, Pritam Das is enjoying his spell with the Indian
Cricket League (ICL) and has described his joining the
rebel league as the turning point in his career. After
a 16-day camp in
Chennai from October 10 to 25, the teenager
received an overwhelming welcome on his homecoming.
It was his first trip home since leaving for
Chennai over three months ago to play in the
Minteck Buchi Babu Tournament for Assam, from where he
joined the ranks of the ICL.
Coming from a middle class family based at Gossai-para
in Silchar, Das has not had it easy. His father, Laru
Gopal Das, is a trader and mother Archana a homemaker.
Talking to The Telegraph, Das said he had
attained a new level of confidence “with the kind of
professionalism that I have experienced at the ICL”.
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Thermal power plant to be set
up in Cachar
SILCHAR, Nov 6: Union Heavy Industries and Public
Enterprises Minister Santosh Mohon Dev has said that a
100-MW capacity thermal power plant will be set up in Cachar
district shortly. He also said that the power problem of
Barak Valley will be solved after the commissioning of the
project as the demand for power in the Valley is 70 MW only.
The Union Minister, while laying the foundation stone of the
Rs 191-lakh Prime Minister’s Gramin Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)
road project at Kashipur in Cachar district yesterday, said
the people of this locality will be benefited when this 6.5
km-long road from Kashipur to Gangapur Ghat is constructed.
Among others, MLA Kutub Ahmed Mazumder, Cachar Additional
Deputy Commissioner HA Laskar, Cachar Superintendent of
Police Satyen Gogoi and journalist Taimur Raja Chowdhury
addressed the function.
SP Home Chowdhury, superintending engineering, PWD (Road),
Cachar circle presided over the foundation-laying ceremony,
a press release stated.
Encroachment in Karimganj RFs on
From Our
Correspondent
KARIMGANJ, Nov 5 – The problem of encroachment in reserve
forests under Karimganj forest division is posing a serious
threat to forest resources.
There are six reserve forests in Karimganj district.
According to the data provided by Dr SU Choudhury, DFO,
Karimganj, 837 families have encroached 1197 hectare in the
15,139.30-hectare-large Langai RF; 684 families are
occupying 1322.36 hectare of the 7513.81-hectare area of
Badshahitilla RF; and 268 families have occupied 795 hectare
out of the 3478.28 hectare of Duhalia RF.
In Singla RF, 661.17 hectare land out of 12429.53 hectare
has been occupied by 881 families; 191 families are living
on 107.20 hectares of the 1848 hectare area of Tilbhum RF
while 469 families are encroaching 414.55 hectare of the
7647.35 hectare area of Patharia Reserve Forest.
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Student activists burned a railway station near Lumding
Arson
at Assam rail station
- Students prime
suspects
OUR BUREAU
Nagaon/Silchar, Nov. 7: A railway station in Assam’s North
Cachar Hills district was partially damaged today when
suspected student activists set it ablaze.
The incident took place during the 36-hour bandh called by
the All Dimasa Students’ Union in protest against the
government’s reluctance to accede to the community’s demand
for a separate state called Dimaraji. The bandh ended at
5pm.
Railway spokesman T. Rabha said a mob entered Bagetar
station, under Lumding division, around 1pm and set the
station on fire, using vehicle tyres.
“Our employees managed to escape but property, including
furniture and telephones, were damaged,” he said.
The burst of arson disrupted train services between Jatinga
and Lower Haflong for several hours, he added.
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Cable theft disconnects
valley
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Nov. 7: About 2,000 telephone connections in
the Barak Valley went “dead” over the past fortnight,
leaving subscribers ranging from traders to the office
of a superintendent of police without their telecom
lifeline.
A group of thieves has taken to stealing copper wires
used in optic fire telephone cables in the middle of
the night and selling them in black, ensuring that
hundreds of BSNL subscribers are saddled with “dead”
phones for days.
The civil administration and BSNL woke up to the
catastrophe only on October 28. when all the five
telephones in the office of the superintendent of
police of Hailakandi district went dead.
BSNL officials in Silchar traced a pattern in the
spate of burglaries but have yet to apprehend the
thieves.
The method is simple.
The gangsters dig and dig till they reach the optical
fibre lines and then cut through the cables to fish
out the copper wires.
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I’m fluent in Bengali : Singer Zubeen Garg
Zubeen is contented
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Zubeen Garg
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Ya Ali continues to be your claim to fame...
Who’s denying that? It’s a gifted song. I had sung thousands in Assamese but Ya Ali earned me recognition.
Isn’t competition a cause of concern?
Competition is there with new talents coming in. But it will always be survival of the fittest.
So, who’s number one?
I don’t compete with anyone. Shaan, KK are all doing good work. There’s room for everyone.
What made you cut an album in Bengali?
I’m fluent in the language. The eight songs are the translated versions of my popular Assamese hits.
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Rs 72 lakh for Lakhipur town’s
development
From Our Correspondent
SILCHAR, Nov 10 – Dinesh Prasad Goala, Minister for Uurban
Development and Housing recently stated that Lakhipur town
will get Rs 72 lakh from the Urban Development Ministry
out of the Rs 30 crore sanctioned for Assam Government. On
November 8, Goala laid the foundation stone of two
community halls and one crematorium in Lakhipur town.
In the meeting, Goala said that to make Lakhipur town
beautiful every initiative has been taken. A big water
treatment plant is going to be constructed which will
cater to the needs of the entire town area. The meeting
was presided over by sub divisional officer Mrinal Kanti
Das, Chairman of Lakhipur Municipal Board. Kalan Chandra
Dey said in Lakhipur town, 21 roads and five community
halls are under construction. In the meeting, executive
officer Ranajit Kumar Laskar was also present.
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Country road, take me
home...
- Singer reunites with childhood friends in his ancestral house |
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Voice of
India Debojit Saha recounts a nostalgic
reunion this
Diwali....
In that one hour as I travelled on the dusty, broken
village road to Palonghat, a sleepy rural hamlet 22
km from Silchar town, memories of my schooldays and
friends kept coming back like a flashback in a
movie.
It was the deep, dark night of Kali Puja when I
reached Palonghat, with a mixed feeling of joy and
nostalgia. Joy, because I would meet so many of my
childhood friends who were waiting to receive me and
my wife Vandana all afternoon (I learnt that later).
And nostalgia because I would return to the place
where I grew up, went to school and spent most of my
childhood.
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BSF seized about 1.32
quintals of hilsa in Karimganj
BSF fishes for ‘catch’
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Nov. 9: The BSF and the central customs
department have a somewhat slippery assignment on
their hands — to prevent hilsa from
Bangladesh from landing up on
dinner plates in south
Assam.
Delhi has instructed the two agencies to
conduct frequent raids on the 132-km stretch of the
international border along south
Assam to give cross-border smugglers of hilsa
a “taste” of their own medicine.
With the hilsa count plummeting in recent times,
Bangladesh has banned the export of its
national fish, which is in great demand across the
border, particularly in West Bengal and the
Northeast.
This week, the BSF seized about 1.32 quintals of
hilsa neatly stacked beneath ice in wooden boxes in
Karimganj. The boxes were seized during two raids
near Balia village under Nilambazar block, one of
the most porous sites along the border.
The catch has been handed over to the customs
department to be auctioned.
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Clash over rohu fish at
a village market in Karimganj
Clash over fishy deal
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Oct. 25: A petty quarrel between a fish trader
and a customer looking for a good bargain triggered a
free-for-all at a village market in Karimganj district
on Wednesday night.
At least 25 people were injured, most of them
critically, in the clash between residents of two
villages.
Police said a customer, Abdul Majid of Syedpur
village, entered the market at Bagarsangan village
around 8pm and haggled with a fishmonger over the
price of a large rohu. Just as the two were
engaged in the usual bargaining routine, another
person, Kala Mian of Bhitargul village, approached the
seller and insisted that he had chosen it first.0
One by one, everyone in the vicinity got entangled in
the quarrel, which later spread across the market. As
soon as news of the fighting reached the villages to
which the two prospective buyers belonged, thousands
of people from both areas converged on the fish market
with sticks and sharp weapons. Both groups battled it
out for a while.
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GUWAHATI, Oct 25 – Shortage of bamboo has affected the functioning of Hindustan Paper Corporation’s (HCP) Cachar Paper Mill in North Cachar Hills. According to HPC authorities, the “precariously low” stock of bamboo is basically due to the failure of the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council (NCHAC) to honour its agreement with HPC for supplying bamboo.
As per the agreement signed on October 11, 2006, the NCHAC was to supply 1,80,000 MT of bamboo per year by rail/road to Cachar Paper Mill. However, following a request from the NCHAC, HPC agreed to receive an additional supply of 1,10,000 MT of bamboo by rail/road to Nagaon Paper Mill. Complete News Here:
Gogoi inaugurates rural
indoor stadium of Katlicherra in Hailakandi
Gogoi inaugurates rural indoor
stadium
OUR CORRESPONDENT TELEGRAPH
INDIA
Hailakandi, Nov. 12: Chief minister Tarun Gogoi inaugurated
the 12,000 sq foot rural indoor stadium of Katlicherra in
Hailakandi district on Friday.
The stadium has been built at an cost of Rs 54 lakh. Of
this, Rs 25 lakh has been sanctioned from the MP’s local
area development fund while Rs 29 lakh was sanctioned from
the Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana.
The stadium will be able to hold badminton, volleyball,
table tennis, basketball and other rural indoor sports. It
will have a cricket pitch for practice in all seasons, a
record room, a library for sportsmen and sports lovers.
A local sportsman said this stadium would be able to tap the
hidden talent in rural areas not only in Hailakandi but also
in Barak Valley. He added that the stadium was a milestone
in the development of rural sports in the area.
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Blame game in Assam
varsity
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Silchar, Nov. 15: Assam University authorities
are in a soup after the
University Grants Commission (UGC) pointed out
a host of glaring irregularities in the promotion of
at least 66 of its non-teaching employees.
Vice-chancellor Tapodhir Bhattacharjee blamed his
predecessor Subhash Chandra Saha for all such “highly
irregular appointments”.
He told reporters here last evening that the
appointments were made by Saha last year “in a hasty
manner”, in violation of official norms. The
promotions were made in posts ranging from clerks to
deputy registrars, he added.
Bhattacharjee said the UGC, under the Union ministry
of human resource development, had threatened to
realise the additional grant in salary either from the
monthly pay packet of each of the employees who had
been benefited from the promotions or from the
university’s funds, which did not flow in from the
central coffers, in a retrospective manner.
He said the UGC had sent to him at least three
official letters since August 13, pointing out the
“gross irregularities” in the promotions and the
manner in which they violated UGC circulars. It had
asked him to take quick remedial steps in this regard.
The vice-chancellor said the UGC had clearly
underscored the norms of fresh appointments and
promotions in the portal of Indian universities. The
norms point out that 80 per cent of the vacancies in
the non-teaching posts should be filled by fresh
appointments through notifications in the media and
employment offices and the rest of the posts should be
filled in by way of promotions.
“My university has violated this rule and I am now in
the vortex of an ethical strife while considering
steps against my predecessor,” he said.
Bhattacharjee said he had set up a three-member review
committee to probe the violation of norms and suggest
a future course of action regarding promotions.
The committee will comprise senior academicians and
officials of the university and would have pro-vice
chancellor G.D. Sharma as its convenor.
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