MORE than a month after the second wave of floods hit Assam on June 24, life is yet to return to normal gear in the state. Of the more than 1.5 crore people whose houses were wholly or partially submerged in the flood waters of the Brahmaputra and its numerous tributaries, about 15 lakh are yet to return home — largely because there are no houses to return to.

They named her Aparajita – the undefeated one. But it did not take long for their illusion to be dispelled. Aparajita seemed to drool a lot, her eyes seemed unfocused. There was no co-ordination in her movements. Worse, she took inordinately long to reach the normal baby milestones. While others her age began to walk and talk, Aparajita simply drooled and struggled to stand. The apple of their eye, their pride and joy, quickly turned into a painful embarrassment.

CIC has been established for ICT development in Block Level.CIC has established in every Development Block in Northeast under Department of Information Technology, Govt of India.

The Main Objective of CIC are:

Rural Cyber Cafe, Training,Government to Citizen Service, Access to database of socialinterest for public, Market Access & E-Commerce, E-Medicine, E-Consulting, Entertainment Centre.

It is a on_line Technology base communication(VSAT) Centre. The main purpose of these centres are to communicate rural people to the other part of world through Internet.

From September 3 to 5, the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati would host Techniche 2004 their sixth annual national-level technical festival. The festival aims at providing a common platform for the young science enthusiasts of the North East, where they can interact and compete with a promising lot of science enthusiasts from other parts of the country. The event would familiarise science enthusiasts with some cutting edge developments in science and technology.