Everything you need to know about Jorhat Engg College: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Jorhat Engg College: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Washington, May 15 (ANI): Having a hysterectomy with or without ovary removal in mid-life does not increase a woman's risk of cardiovascular disease compared to women who reach natural menopause, a new study has revealed.
After the declaration of results of class 12th board has started, students appeared or passes class 12th exam are quite excited about their further studies. The most common as well as popular course among the students of science stream with subject combination Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics is engineering these days as doing engineering from a reputed college promises a bright career ahead. Career in Engineering after 12th is an excellent option for students at present.
Majuli island, May 10 (ANI): For the residents of Majuli Island, ferries are the only means of transportation. Now, the people of the island have got a speed boat to facilitate commuting.
Houston, May 10 (IANS) If there was any doubt about the benefits of sharing your home with a pet, here is something to mull over -- scientists claim that the presence of a pet greatly reduces the risk of heart disease.
Washington, May 8 (IANS) Scientists have shown that consuming fatty foods can affect alertness and result in fatigue, says a study.
London, Apr 19 (ANI): Slapping a child to discipline is acceptable provided it is accompanied by love and affection, a new study has revealed.
Los Angeles, April 17 (IANS) Scientists have shown that a component of plant cells can be transformed into starch which consequently could be a potent source of nutrients.
New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) A Manipuri student committed suicide in his hostel room in Delhi University's Hindu College, police said Sunday.
Guwahati, April 14 (IANS) The Supreme Court's landmark ruling on the hanging of condemned convicts is likely to impact the case of Assam's death row murder convict Mahendra Nath Das, whose mercy plea was rejected by the president in 2011.
Guwahati, April 7 (IANS) A student of the Assam Agricultural University in Jorhat district was found dead under mysterious circumstances, police said Sunday.
Jorhat, Apr 5 (ANI): S S Siddhartha, a national level martial art instructor, in a bid to enter the Guinness Book of World Records, recently performed as many as 55 yoga postures on a speeding motorbike.
New Delhi, Apr. 2 (ANI): The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given its approval for the four laning of the 'Numaligarh-Jorhat' section of National Highway-37 in Assam.
Agartala, April 2 (IANS) With the aim of radically improving air connectivity in India's northeast, fresh bids have been invited for a dedicated airline in the region, a senior official said here Tuesday.
Jorhat, Mar 29 (ANI): In order to inculcate the importance of donating blood among youngsters, a blood donation camp was recently organised in Jorhat, Assam.
Chennai, March 22 (IANS) Not to be left behind in the growing Indian elevator and escalator market, Japan's Mitsubishi Electric is exploring options to set up a production base in India through its joint venture Mitsubishi Elevator ETA India Pvt. Ltd., a top company official said.
London, March 19 (IANS) In an attempt to treat obesity and diabetes, scientists have shown that the joint effect of two hormones, important in metabolism, can work to reduce appetite.
London, Mar 14 (ANI): Scientists have created a potent new gene therapy technique, which could bring hope to millions crippled by arthritis pain.
Jorhat, Mar 3 (ANI): Playing 315 different musical instruments, artists from across the globe achieve a new world record. And this record was recently made in Assam's Jorhat district.
Guwahati, Mar 3 (ANI): A heritage pony race held every year in Assam's Jorhat district is one of the oldest sporting events that witnesses record footfalls.
Guwahati, Mar 3 (ANI): Insurgent outfits have continued to trigger blasts in Assam in order to create a fear psychosis among the people.
Washington, Mar 3 (ANI): All employees are accountable for something, but very few fully understand exactly what they are accountable for, according to a new study.
London, Feb 15 (IANS) Wide-faced men tend to act more aggressively and also make racist remarks, says a new study.
Guwahati, Feb 14 (IANS) Assam's tea industry is gearing up for the annual 'Jorhat Races', the historical equestrian event held in Jorhat, Upper Assam. The event, started in the days of the British Raj, has been held for almost 140 years.
Washington, Feb 13 (IANS) A group of American scientists have successfully managed to selectively shut off in mice the ability to feel cold while leaving the sensation of touch and heat intact.
Jorhat (Assam), Feb. 5 (ANI): Mysterious death of seventeen migratory birds en route from Siberia has baffled the forest officials in Jorhat, Assam.
New Delhi, Feb 5 (ANI): Twenty-three-year-old Guinness world record holder Abhijeet Baruah from Assam, who has numerous records to his name, has done it again. This time he has gone one up by breaking his own record.
Washington, January 30 (ANI): Male Savannah sparrows sing distinctly different songs today than did their ancestors 30 years ago - changes passed along generation to generation, according to a new study of more than three decades' worth of sparrow recordings by University of Guelph researchers.
The Country's highest civilian awards Padma Awards for year 2013 has been declared on the eve of 64th Republic Day. There are three categories of Padma Awards - Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri - delivered every year to those who have done excellent work in their respective fields like arts and culture, science and medicines, games, cinema and entertainment, social works, politics and peace etc.....................
New Delhi, Jan.26 (ANI): About 108 personalities from various fields have been selected for the Padma Awards this year.
Jorhat, Dec 28 (ANI): Bikash Bharali, a progressive farmer from Assam's Golaghat District, who runs a modern dairy farm provides an example of self-reliance that the youth of the region can follow.
Jorhat (Assam), Dec. 26 (ANI): Scenic beauty, magnificent outdoors and mild climate in the northeast provided a perfect environment to play Golf. Recently, the Super Autumn Golf Tournament was organised at the Kaziranga golf resort near Jorhat in Assam.
Melbourne, December 26 (ANI): Smiling and cheerful teens are likely to earn more money than morose adolescents when they grow up, according to a study.
Washington, Dec 20 (IANS) Violations of personal space, unwanted borrowing of fashionable clothes, or arguments over whose turn is it to play a new video game, can fuel sibling squabbles that are linked to greater anxiety and lower self esteem in children.
London, Dec 2 (IANS) The manuscript of a 212-year-old dictionary written by a British polymath employed by the East India Company in the late 18th century has been traced in the British Library, shedding new light on the history of words in Indian languages.
Guwahati, Dec 2 (ANI): With the aim of creating employment opportunities in Assam, the Institution for Culture and Rural Development (I-CARD) at Bhagchung in Jorhat district is training uneducated youth, mainly school drop outs.
London, Nov 22 (IANS) A web?based system could give your clothes a perfect fit and revolutionise online clothes shopping.
London, Nov 20 (IANS) Happy adolescents are more likely to grow into wealthy adults, independently of every other influence, says the first indepth study in this regard.
Guwahati, Nov 16 (IANS) ULFA's anti?talk faction has called for a 12?hour dawn?to?dusk shutdown in Assam Monday to protest against the killing of three people in a staged gun?battle Nov 14.
Sydney, Nov. 9 (ANI): A prestigious Jewish school in Sydney's eastern suburbs has scrapped a history assignment after a teacher suggested students to dress up as members of the Hitler Youth.
New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the central government on a petition that has sought direction to put in place a permanent mechanism for preventing floods in the Brahmaputra river in the northeast.
Sydney, Oct 16 (IANS) A genetically modified mouse has been created by US scientists to help detect landmines.
Jorhat (Assam), Oct. 15 (ANI): The passion for boxing is rising among youth in the noertheast, especially after the success of Mary Kom and Devendro Singh at the international level.
Guwahati, Oct 14 (IANS) Guinness World Record holder Assam policeman Abhijit Baruah has scored yet another record by hitting the maximum number of punches in a minute on a boxing pad.
Jorhat (Assam), Oct.7 (ANI): Renowned Assamese cardiologist Dibya Kumar Baruah recently presided over a day-long health camp here, and gave free prescription to patients.
Washington, October 4 (ANI): We come to place more value on the options we chose and less value on the ones we rejected be it choosing between presidential candidates or household objects, researcher say.
Washington, Oct 1 (IANS) When children suffer from allergies and asthma induced by dust mites, finding relief seems an uphill task. Researchers now claim that three years of allergy shots would offer long-term control of allergic asthma.
Jorhat, Sept 30 (ANI): Football is more than a sport for the Assam youth; it's more like a religion for them. Today, many of them are willing to take it up as a profession, and efforts are on to identify soccer talent from remotest corners of the state.
London, Sep 27 (IANS) A key factor which slows down muscle repair during ageing can also be reversed, potentially opening the way to their renewal, says a study conducted on mice.
Guwahati, Sep 23 (IANS) The flood situation in Assam is grim with over 800,000 people affected in at least 15 of the 27 districts in the state, officials said Sunday.
Guwahati, Sep 21 (IANS) At least seven districts of Assam have been affected as flash floods have hit the state again, affecting lakhs of people and killing two youth in Tinsukia district, officials said.
London, Sep 13 (IANS) Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen probably suffered from an inheritable form of temporal lobe epilepsy that gave him abnormally large breasts, according to the Daily Mail.
Washington, September 6 (ANI): The stories young people tell about themselves vary depending on the teens' gender, say a University of Missouri psychologist and her colleagues.
London, September 3 (ANI): Scientists are working on a way of measuring the level and location of pain felt by patients using a special "pain map" of the brain.
Washington, Aug 31 (IANS) A new software relying on smartphones' global positioning system (GPS) and imaging abilities can fix the exact location of distant objects as well as monitor the speed and direction of moving objects, says a study.
Jorhat (Assam), Aug 22 (ANI): A sacred lamp in a Vaishnavite monastery has put Assam's Jorhat town on the world map.
Guwahati, Aug 18 (IANS) Frustration and despair etched on their faces at leaving their jobs, thousands of people from the northeast, mostly youth, arrived in Guwahati Saturday on the three special trains arranged by the Karnataka government.
London, August 14 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a completely new route by which male androgen hormones fuel the growth of prostate cancer, raising the prospect that existing drugs could be used to treat the disease.
Jorhat (Assam), Aug 5 (ANI): The Jorhat Sangeet Vidyalaya, the oldest in Assam, is training Assamese youth in classical Indian music, to revive and preserve the traditional dance forms.
Islamabad, Aug 5 (IANS) Young women medical professionals and nurses in Pakistan are among the many groups vulnerable to workplace violence and sexual harassment, a leading Pakistani daily said Sunday.
London, July 27 (IANS) Some people are very good at spotting deception... liars themselves.
London, July 16 (ANI): Half of all the athletes competing at the London Olympics will be tested for drugs, which is being billed as the biggest anti-doping procedure in the history of the Games.
Garmur (Assam), July 14 (ANI): Governor of Assam J.B Patnaik surveyed the river island of Majuli and met flood victims recently.
Jorhat (Assam), July 13 (ANI): The return of peace and normalcy in the region has spelled better health for Jorhat, as the residents are getting good medical attention here.
Washington, July 13 (ANI): Researchers have developed a device that could help millions of people suffering from multiple sclerosis, parkinson's, muscular dystrophy, spinal cord injuries or amputees to soon interact with their computers and surroundings using just their eyes.
London, July 13 (IANS) Millions suffering from multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, muscular dystrophy, spinal cord injuries, which impacts nerve cells and amputees may soon be able to interact with computers and surroundings using just their eyes, thanks to a new device that costs less than 40 pounds.
London, July 13 (ANI): The falling cost of DNA testing means that Britain is on the verge of a new era of eugenics, a leading scientist has claimed.
London, July 11 (ANI): Wandering eyes are seen as a sign of disinterest or that the person is lying, but a new study has suggested that the involuntary movement occurs when people try and access their long-term memory.
Washington, July 10 (ANI): Scientists have announced a discovery that confirms a key prediction in the prevailing theory of how the universe's current web-like structure evolved.
Jorhat (Assam), July 9 (ANI): Police in Assam's Jorhat city recently recovered a huge cache of arms from two 2 ULFA cadres.
Guwahati, July 6 (IANS) The toll in floods and landslides in Assam has risen to 117 but the overall situation across the state has improved, officials said Friday.
Guwahati, July 5 (IANS) In a jolt to the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) faction opposed to peace talks, a cadre of the outfit and a surrendered militant were arrested in Assam's Jorhat district and a cache of arms seized, police said Thursday.
Guwahati, July 4 (ANI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday announced an ad hoc support of Rs. 500-crore for flood-hit Assam. He added that the Centre would decide on the exact financial support for the State after the Central team, which has reached the State to make an assessment of the damage, submitted its report.
Tel Aviv, July 3 (IANS) Compared to the average three-year life span of a common rat, the 10 to 30-year life of the naked mole rat, an underground rodent native to East Africa, is amazing.
Guwahati, July 1 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi will make an aerial survey of some of the flood-affected areas of Assam Monday, a minister said Sunday, as the death toll in the floods, affecting 27 districts of the state, has gone up to 61.
Guwahati, June 27 (IANS) The Tea Board of India is to shift its northeast zonal office from Guwahati to Jorhat in Assam, a top official of the board said Wednesday.
New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) Art is making a serious effort to reach the masses in India with expositions in vantage public places despite official hurdles and poor awareness about art as a medium of dialogue that engages with the geography, society and culture of the site.
Melbourne, June 18 (ANI): Love is not only blind, it also makes you stupid, a new research has claimed.
Melbourne, June 18 (ANI): Love is not only blind, it also makes you stupid, a new research has claimed.
Washington, June 6 (ANI): A new study by an optometrist at the University of Houston (UH) has offered new hope for more effective treatment of nearsightedness in children.
Jorhat (Assam), May 27 (ANI): A group of young students in Jorhat, Assam, have launched a drive to stop the use of plastic bags.
Jorhat (Assam), May 21 (ANI): Youth in the upper Assam region are working to bring a socio-economic change here, with a group of young men providing free education to the needy.
Guwahati, May 16 (IANS) Carrying two severed heads of men, seven people from a tea-tribe community Wednesday surrendered at a police station in Jorhat district, saying they had hacked two brothers to death and beheaded them, said police.
Jorhat (Assam), May 13(ANI): Assam police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel arrested four militants belonging to the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) in a joint security operation here.
London, May 7 (IANS) Injecting a protein into the brain could protect its nerve cells from prion disease, a condition which causes the brain to wither away, says a new study.
Guwahati, May 4(ANI): Abhijit Baruah, an athlete from Jorhat ,Assam has made it to the Guinness Book of World Records for becoming the first person in the world to cover 150 km barefoot in 24 hours.
Jorhat, Apr 28(ANI): A weeklong Advanced Soccer Coaching Camp, aimed at promoting football talent of the northeast, is underway at Jorhat.
New Delhi, April 22 (Xinhua-ANI): India will declare tea as the national drink by April next year, the country's top planner has said.
Guwahati, April 21 (IANS) Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia Saturday assured the tea planters in Assam that he will take up the issue of declaring tea as India's national drink with the union ministry of commerce and industry.
Municipal Corporation of Delhi has started sanctioning building plans of industrial plots through online system from today itself.
Guwahati, April 17 (IANS) A 22-year-old Assam Police constable was Tuesday officially entered in the Guinness World Records as the longest barefoot runner, having run 156.2 km in 24 hours.
The research was carried in rats at Imperial College London showed that the effect of heart failure on the cardiac muscles is not permanent as people generally think. The findings of the research could help the scientists to discover new treatment strategies.
Washington, April 2 (ANI): A new study has revealed that structural changes in heart muscle cells after heart failure can be reversed by allowing the heart to rest.
London, April 2 (IANS) The damage to cardiac cells after a heart failure can be undone by allowing the heart to rest, according to new study.
Jorhat, Mar 29 (ANI): Leela Charan Dutta from Charigaon village in Assam's Jorhat region is a rising young entrepreneur of the state, who started a bee-keeping business two decades ago.
Jorhat (Assam), Mar.27 (ANI): Folk artists from across northeast India showcased their unique folk cultures through their performances during the two-day long 'Spring festival', which aimed at strengthening national integration.
Jorhat, Mar 23 (ANI): As the demand for Assamese silk rises across the country, both the state and the central government are taking several initiatives to promote the sericulture industry in the region.
Guwahati, Mar 10 (ANI): Several NGOs and self help groups active in the northeast region with support from the government are training uneducated and school drop outs in Assam in different vocational skills to help them get jobs and become financially independent.
Jorhat, March 1 (ANI): Jorhat District authorities are imparting vocational training to school dropouts and young women to make them self-reliant.
Jorhat, March 1 (ANI): Jorhat District authorities are imparting vocational training to school dropouts and young women to make them self-reliant.
Jorhat, Feb 21 (ANI): Kaziranga University, with a campus spread over 50 acres, will soon open in Jorhat, popularly known as "the Knowledge City" of Assam.
