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July 2004

From The Editorial Desk

Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/26/2004 - 20:58

Water is everywhere. Year after year, people face the same tragic situation as Wif there is no viable way out of this perennially tragic plight. In the midst of a sea of water, one cannot even find a drop of clean potable water to give a dying child. We are resigned to a lack of solution and the problem of flooding has no end in sight. We have all the resources, but still we remain poor, not able to make efficient use of them. There seems to be no proper planning and no scientific research of the problem and its solution. Every year the situation becomes more serious.

Ganesh Bora Wins Coveted Prize for Farm Machinery Development

Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/26/2004 - 18:23

I had visited Kansas and Missouri along with my wife Bonmayuri during the Memorial Day weekend at the end of May, 2004. We camped at Ganesh Bora’s at Manhattan, Kansas, and from there visited Topeka, Kansas City, and Wichita.. Symanta Saikia, a student at WSU double-majoring in Computer Science and Aerospace Engineering gave us a tour of his beautiful campus situated in Kansas’s biggest city Wichita. Ganesh Bora with his invention at KSU I also had a chance to visit Ganesh’s laboratory. Ganesh is a PhD candidate in Biological and Agricultural Engineering at KSU.

A Simple IT Solution for the Petroleum Retail Outlets

Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/26/2004 - 18:05

By Roshmi Choudhury
Numaligarh, Assam

Petroleum retail outlets in the advanced countries are fully automated – the automation includes product dispensing and accounting, inventory accounting and management, product loss/gain calculation, online measurement of tank level and automatic invoicing. While it may not be possible to automate Retail Outlets in the North East to such an extent because integration with equipments would prove to be very expensive, yet some benefit is possible with software developed for the purpose.

Destination, South Korea

Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/26/2004 - 17:26

By Pranjal Saikia
Seoul, South Korea

South Korea is located in Eastern Asia, on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula bordering the East Sea and the Yellow Sea. It has an area of 98,480 sq Km, which is slightly bigger than our Assam.

St. Louis Great Gardens Contest Award Goes to Chandan Mahanta

Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/26/2004 - 17:00

This year, in the annual Great Gardens Contest conducted by the St. Louis Post Dispatch for its readership area, Banti and I were awarded the top prize in the amateur home gardens category for our tall-grass prairie and ornamental garden. It is a popular contest and is supported by most of the major nurseries, a local TV station and the Missouri Botanical Gardens, a highly regarded, internationally known institution. The top prize also came with merchandise coupons for $1,000 from various businesses involved with gardening and a laser-cut iron plaque by a local St. Louis artist.

Continuing Devastating Floods in Assam

Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/26/2004 - 15:43

  By Kalyan Dutta-Choudhury Louisiana Once again, Assam is in the grip of a devastating flood and, once again, the Assamese people are clamoring for the miracle to happen – that floods in Assam be declared a national problem and thus have the problem solved once and for all. That’s understandable. But, the clamor will die down along with the receding flood waters. The floods, in addition to causing extensive damage to life and property, would leave a lingering bad taste in the psyche of the Assamese people.

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