[Assam] India’s promise should be supplemented by the UN involvement in line with the East Timo r creation as RESTORATION of the Sovereignty of A ssam is the actual issue here.

2006-08-22 Thread Bartta Bistar
Security shield for Ulfa duo - Mamoni extracts promise from Delhi - http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060822/asp/frontpage/story_6640813.asp NISHIT DHOLABHAI New Delhi, Aug. 21: Delhi has guaranteed security to top Ulfa leaders Arabinda Rajkhowa and Paresh Barua if they come for

[Assam] Few Mobile Facts

2006-08-22 Thread Mridul Bhuyan
FEW MOBILE FACTS:- 1) Emergency number - The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the mergency number for you, and

[Assam] Tie beam snapped - help the victim's fam ily

2006-08-22 Thread Himendra Thakur
Title: Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement Dear Barua, With reference toyour advice to young entrepreneurs on the topic of "Rainwater Harvesting System", I want to add what I wrote in my letter dated 8-20-06 to you : We must not give up hope. Young engineers of Assam today can

[Assam] A Bowstring Winter - By Dhruba Hazarika

2006-08-22 Thread Rajiv Baruah
Hello All, I heard of "A Bowstring Winter"during my holiday in Shillong last week. I mm told captures the Shillong of the 70's very accurately - I have not had the chance to read it as yet. Dhruba and his sibling were our heroes in those days, especially his brother who was a black belt in

[Assam] (no subject)

2006-08-22 Thread Sanjeeta Das
Axomis no longer the land of 'lahe lahe'. I have seen young people in Delhiand Banglore working long shifts and under adverse conditions in call centers to earn their bread. We have the potential, ability and the man power to make Axom a flourishing land. All we need now is the initiative in the

[Assam] FW: Fwd: FW: Why God created children

2006-08-22 Thread mc mahant
From:"Sanjiv Goswami" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To:[EMAIL PROTECTED], "Aneisha Sarma" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Dr. Santanu Kr Barua" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Jayanti Chakravarty" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Sunayana Gohain" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Sarwat Irshad Hussain" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Manjeet Kaur" [EMAIL

Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement

2006-08-22 Thread Rajib Das
The big problem is there is no water under your land in Guwahati. As there are areas, including my house, where city water supply does not reach. Not that it would help greatly. At least 3 to 4 months of a year, it is the same problem. So the problem exists. The solution is not under your plot

Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement

2006-08-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
This whole notion of a city, with as large a population as Guahati, not having a municipal water supply system is absolutely atrocious, and that while sitting on the bank of the Brahmaputra. It is entirely a result of the dysfunctional desi-system of governance; which is unaccountable to

[Assam] Ya Ghali....

2006-08-22 Thread bg
http://arabic-media.com/clip/23/Guitara-Ya_Ghali.htm -- Babul Gogoi / বাবুল গগৈ, নতুন দিল্লী ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org

[Assam] A story of grit and determination

2006-08-22 Thread Ankur Bora
Nothing is impossible if one has grit and determination. Cheers , Ankur Austin , TexasIt’s all for love of art: From bearing bullet wounds to switching handsGUWAHATI, Aug 21: He fell prey to the assault of some gun-toting youths. In fact, he was shot at and left to die by some

[Assam] Historic Math problem solved -CNN

2006-08-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
For those interested in this kind of stuff. http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/08/22/math.genius.ap/index.html ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org

Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement

2006-08-22 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
Hi C'da: If the Center did not steal our Brahmaputra from us, we would have got water in every house in Guwahati. Don't you think? :) From: Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: assam@assamnet.orgSubject: Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcementDate: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:55:48 -0500This whole

Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement

2006-08-22 Thread mc mahant
Not just no- drinking/washing water- No solid waste management/garbage collection/disposal fit for a city No sewer/sewage treatment/ storm-water disposal Raw sewage from so-called Septic tanks of 2 million peoplejust dumped into the pure river.What happens to the health of

Re: [Assam] Historic Math problem solved -CNN

2006-08-22 Thread mc mahant
in this kind of stuff We all ought to be interested ! Anybody in applied MATHS line in assamnet? How about explaining the beauty of Poincare Space and why it had to wait 100+ years to be finally unriddled by an obscure Russian 35 year old? mm From:"Ram Sarangapani" [EMAIL

Re: [Assam] Historic Math problem solved -CNN

2006-08-22 Thread Roy, Santanu
It is indeed a landmark event. Some more interesting details about the mathematicians involved and the problem itself (Poincares conjecture) were contained in a New York times article Elusive proof, elusive prover last week: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/science/15math.html

Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement

2006-08-22 Thread mc mahant
Center did not steal Center never did that. They do not know how to . mm From: "Alpana B. Sarangapani" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], assam@assamnet.orgSubject: Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcementDate: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:09:58 -0500 Hi C'da: If the Center did not steal our

Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement

2006-08-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Hi A: Obviously you don't agree with my views. So why don't you tell us: A: How, what I wrote is wrong. OR B: WHY do you think things are what they are? And if you can pin down the problem, you can lead us to solutions too. You go girl :-)! c-da At 11:09 AM -0500 8/22/06, Alpana

Re: [Assam] Historic Math problem solved -CNN

2006-08-22 Thread mc mahant
Santanu thanks-something to start!Poincaré’s conjecture can sound either daunting or deceptively simple. It asserts that if any loop in a certain kind of three-dimensional space can be shrunk to a point without ripping or tearing either the loop or the space, the space is equivalent to a sphere.

Re: [Assam] Historic Math problem solved -CNN

2006-08-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
Thanks Santanu. That was an interesting piece. andit is interesting this quote aboutDr. Perelman. "He came once, he explained things, and that was it," Dr. Anderson said. "Anything else was superfluous." It is no surprise that he is also not interested in the fame and the prize money. On

[Assam] Europe's Mega Bridge

2006-08-22 Thread mc mahant
Friday, 30 June, 2000, 13:17 GMT 14:17 UK Scandinavian mega-bridge set to open The Oresund Link: One of Europe's biggest ever building projects By BBC News Online's Laurence Peter One of the world's longest bridges will be opened to road and rail traffic on 1 July with the inauguration of the

Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement

2006-08-22 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
And Delhi's very own Refinery dumps daily 100 tons of Oil waste direct to river or through Guahati drain system/Bharalu and no Pollution Control Board dares to touch them. I thought that the dumped oil waste was from Guwahati Refinery, which is ours - the people of Assam, I mean. Does it come

Re: [Assam] Orkut - Gauhatians on the move

2006-08-22 Thread umesh sharma
One of the strange things due to Internet connectivity is that I am realizing that even as I am leaving US nearly after 2 years (I had come here on Sep 4th, 2004) to go to Canada (I hope I get the visitor visa tomorrow) one thing is certain. The students of Jaipur School whom I taught or

Re: [Assam] A story of grit and determination

2006-08-22 Thread umesh sharma
good one. Though it seems he had a series of bad luck -he passed all the tests.UmeshAnkur Bora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Nothing is impossible if one has grit and determination. Cheers , Ankur Austin , TexasIt’s all for love of art: From bearing bullet wounds to switching

Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement

2006-08-22 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
Sorry C'da, couldn't pass that one up, though Ihad a feeling thatit would irritate you...just couldn't stand youraccusation (rather false :))anymore. :) The Center's been unfair, there are unruly people that rules the country all over - outside Assam - in the north, particularly, etc., etc. But

[Assam] Is Nation-state system obsolete ?

2006-08-22 Thread Dilip/Dil Deka
The topic of the discussion below is interesting, though the author did not do full justice to it. Is globalization going to kill nation-states and international borders as we know them today? Is sovereignty of a country in jeopardy in the powerful hands of MNCs and Super banks?

Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement

2006-08-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement Hi A: Is thisa simplistic one again? *** That will be the least disagreeable term :-). The Center's been unfair, *** How does the center GET to be unfair A? What gives it the right to be fair or unfair? That is where the problem starts.

Re: [Assam] Is Nation-state system obsolete ?

2006-08-22 Thread mc mahant
form public opinion if there is a major violation of human rights as happened in Iraq and on going crisis in Lebanon. Does Bush care? First solve that to liberate humanity. mm From:Dilip/Dil Deka [EMAIL PROTECTED]To:ASSAMNET assam@assamnet.orgSubject:[Assam] Is Nation-state system obsolete

Re: [Assam] Historic Math problem solved -CNN

2006-08-22 Thread mc mahant
Primarily this: If all the water comes down hills from North and South, and a massive lot of water flows away to sea doing nothing, and people waste 100's of sunlit humid days waiting for rains-only to have a pool of 100mm on some wretched paddies which have never seen

[Assam] Google Video -Assamese

2006-08-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
Google has come up with their video player and a search on Assam brought out some interesting videos/songs. Some are priced around $1.99 but there is a preview, while others are free for downloading. Of course, Google wants you to download their player.

[Assam] Is that a first for Indians? Teaching kids in US

2006-08-22 Thread umesh sharma
Hi,While gathering my documents to show at the Canadian embassy tomorrow I read a letter I had received from Ms Carole Prest - the regional Vice President (Mid Atlantic region) for the www.bellnational.org where I had worked. I had seen this letter after returning to DC on August 8th this

Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement

2006-08-22 Thread Barua25
Not just no- drinking/washing water- No solid waste management/garbage collection/disposal fit for a city No sewer/sewage treatment/ storm-water disposal Why we don't hear any of these news in Kharkhowa News Papers? Why the news papers in are interested in news from mainland India instead?

[Assam] Fw: Conference on Diplomacy, The War on Terrorism and Security Cooperation in Washington, DC

2006-08-22 Thread Barua25
- Original Message - From: Ram Narayanan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:50 AM Subject: Conference on Diplomacy, The War on Terrorism and Security Cooperation in Washington, DC US-India Institute (USINI) jointly with Jewish Institute for National Security

Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement

2006-08-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement Rajen: It is an Assamese problem of inferiority complex. Nobody will save the Assamese. We should stop blamimg the GOI. *** Can you explain how or why it is an Assamese problem only, free of any connection or responsibility of GoI? It is