Tezpur Varsity wins Sweden India Nobel Memorial Quiz qualifier
Guwahati: Tezpur University Saturday won the qualifying round of The Sweden India Nobel Memorial Quiz at the Indian Institute of Technology organised by the Embassy of Sweden. “The team of Tezpur University, comprising Ashutosh Das, Anubhav Joshi and Subhasish Dutta did their institution proud by winning the Guwahati finals,” a release from the Embassy of Sweden said. The event in Guwahati was attended by the Ambassador of Sweden to India Harald Sandberg. Winners of the Guwahati round will represent the city at the National Finals, which will be held at The Hindu College, University of Delhi on November 1, 2014. “Apart from Guwahati, the Quiz will also be held in Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Indore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Mumbai and New Delhi,” the release said.The National winners will get an all-expenses paid trip to Sweden, where they will visit headquarters of global Swedish companies, Swedish Universities and the Nobel Museum among other things. Partnering Swedish companies for this year’s Sweden India Nobel Memorial Week are ABB, Atlas Copco, Ericsson, IKEA, SAAB, Sandvik, Scania, SEB, SKF, Tetrapak, Volvo Cars and Volvo India. The Sweden India Nobel Memorial Week is a multi-city, multi-activity annual event organised by the Embassy of Sweden in India in cooperation with Swedish companies. The week is instituted in memory of Swedish innovator, entrepreneur and philanthropist Alfred Nobel and it celebrates the Indian Nobel Laureates as well. The Sweden India Nobel Memorial Week 2014 is the 8th edition of the week. (PTI)
Tripura official wanted for embezzling from central fund
Agartala: The Tripura Police have raided many places in Agartala and its outskirts to arrest an education department employee who illegally pocketed around Rs.12 lakh from a central education scheme, an official said here Saturday. “We have raided several places to arrest education department cashier Arnab Chakraborty. He is now on the run. We will arrest him soon,” police officer Milan Datta told IANS. He said an FIR (first information report) was filed Friday night by the department against Chakraborty for withdrawing around Rs.12 lakh after forging the signature of senior officials. Education department sources said Chakraborty was dealing with the fund of the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), a centrally sponsored scheme of the union human resource development ministry for the expansion of secondary education in public schools across India. Top education department officials met here Saturday and decided to conduct a thorough evaluation of the entire fund under the RMSA. Recently, the state government suspended education department deputy director and in-charge of RMSA Ambalika Datta and also cautioned additional director of school education D.K. Debbarma for issuing an order to purchase books written by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and former chief secretary Sanjay Kumar Panda. The order was issued without taking permission from the appropriate authority. (IANS)
Body of slain businessman sent to Kerala
Itanagar: The mortal remains of K P Chako, the slain businessman, who was abducted and later killed, was flown to his native village in Paddupaulli district of Kerala. Arrangements were made for airlifting the body as requested by Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy to his Arunachal Pradesh counterpart Nabam Tuki on Friday. Chandy had reportedly rung up Tuki after the news of recovery of Chako’s body was flashed. Chako was a prominent entrepreneur, having 30 years of business experience in Arunachal Pradesh, who was kidnapped by a group of unidentified miscreants at gun point from his Naharlagun residence on August 28. He was reportedly shot by the kidnappers when he refused to comply with the command of his abductors. Since his abduction, the police has launched a series of search operations in different locations to rescue him. However, his decomposed body was finally found Friday afternoon by a police search team. (IANS)