South Point enter final

South Point School marched into the final of the Munindra Chandra Paul Guwahati Sports Association inter-school cricket tournament, beating Little Flower School by six wickets in the first semi-final at Parade Ground in Dispur here today.

Little Flower won the toss and elected to bat. They posted a challenging total of 191 for seven in the stipulated 25 overs. The South Point boys chased the target successfully, scoring 193 for four in 23.4 overs.

Abhijit Mandal topscored for Little Flower with an unbeaten 63 and was ably supported by Sanjay Das, who remained not out on a quickfire 48.

Hirokjyoti Bharali of South Point captured three wickets for 20 runs and Himjyoti Sarma chipped in with two for 22.

Antariksh Barma (53) was the topscorer for South Point while Subham Dutta remained not out on 34. David Chhetri of Little Flower claimed a wicket for 28 runs.

Shrimanta Sankar Academy will play Presidency School in the second semi-final tomorrow.

Yoga way to kids’ health - Gogoi stresses promotion of physical activity in schools

The Assam government is taking steps to ensure that the only bug that will afflict schoolchildren in the state is the fitness bug.

Yoga will soon become a part of the school curriculum in the state, with chief minister Tarun Gogoi expressing concern over an increasing number of cases of diabetes and obesity among children, because of a sedentary lifestyle.

An official at the chief minister’s office told The Telegraph that Gogoi held a high-level meeting with education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to introduce yoga in all schools and help students to lead a healthy and disciplined lifestyle.

Schools reminded of fire safety norms

The state fire service department has said most of the city’s schools that had been earlier issued notices for not adhering to safety norms, are in the process of installing the facilities.

Officials of the department said schools which would fail to put in place required safety measures even after being given sufficient time, would be closed down.

The officials have been monitoring these schools for more than a year now.

Last year, the GMC was compelled to seal one school in the city after it was found that the school administration had grossly violated safety norms even after getting the notice.

Car rally rolls into Silchar - Bordoloi flags off Second part today

The four-country car rally that aims to strengthen the bond of fraternity among the south Asian countries of Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar rolled into this second biggest town of Assam to a tumultuous welcome this afternoon.

The rally was flagged off in Calcutta by Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday after six years of preparation. It will culminate at Kunming in Yunan province of south China on March 5, traversing a distance of 3,000km.

Hundreds of people lined the streets to welcome the participants from the four countries on their way to Silchar DSA stadium where the Cachar district administration had arranged a colourful performance of Assamese, Bengali, Mizo and Manipuri dances.

KMSS vegetable shops draw huge crowd in Guwahati

In a bid to rid of middlemen, the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) today opened two ‘fair price’ stalls for vegetables at Chandmari and RG Baruah Road Tiniali after procuring the produce in bulk from farmers in Barpeta Road where they had been deprived of their due remuneration due to large-scale presence of middlemen and illegal syndicates in the trade.

Both the stalls run by the KMSS drew overwhelming response from the citizens who made a beeline to the stalls to get vegetables at half the price sold in the city markets.

“The response has been so great that we exhausted our supply meant for the proposed six stalls in the first two stalls itself. We are committed to sell vegetables at half the market price here, and will open eight more stalls in the city,” KMSS publicity secretary Kamal Kumar Medhi said.