Runima Kakoty
The exhibition will take place in the ball room of Cannon Hall museum of Barnsley and all the art work will be up for sale.
Hospice fund raiser, Sue Miller said, "We are absolutely delighted that Runima has agreed to stage this exhibition on our behalf."
Born in Assam, India Runima came to live in Barnsley in 1975 where her husband Prakash Kakoty is a medical general practitoner. She taught in Sheffield for a number of years but now devotes all her time to painting.
World Summit on Sustainable Development
An opportunity for students to express their expectations of the future world !
Students from schools of North-East (including Sikkim) can be a part of India's preparations for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). The Summit, being held 10 years after the Earth Summit, will address issues significant in shaping environment and development policies in this century the world over. Around 200 countries would be represented at the Summit, many of them by the Heads of State.
Air-India to Commence Guwahati-Bangkok Flights from April 4, 2002
The flights will be operated with an A310 aircraft on the Mumbai-Kolkata-Guwahati-Bangkok-Kolkata-Mumbai sectors every Thursday and on the Mumbai-Kolkata-Bangkok-Guwahati-Kolkata-Mumbai sectors on Mondays.
AI-352/353 (on Thursdays) Sector Departure Arrival (Local Time) (Local Time) Mumbai-Kolkata 0820 hrs. 1050 hrs. Kolkata-Guwahati 1150 hrs. 1300 hrs. Guwahati-Bangkok 1400 hrs. 1830 hrs. Bangkok-Kolkata 1945 hrs. 2045 hrs. Kolkata-Mumbai 2145 hrs. 0020 hrs. AI-350/351 (on Mondays)
Rongaali Bihu in Dubai
For more details of the program, please contact the organizers at assamdubai@mail.com or visit the website http://assamtoday.tripod.com
Sent by D K Borah, Assam Society, Dubai.
E-mail: assamdubai@mail.com