Kokrajhar, Jan. 16: A 33-member athletics team from three SAI centres — Guwahati, Kokrajhar and Tinsukia — left for Etawah in Uttar Pradesh to participate in the Inter-regional SAI Athletics meet from January 19 to 22.

Felicitation: Chief minister Tarun Gogoi today handed over a cheque for Rs 10 lakh to Beijing Olympics gold medallist Abhinav Bindra in a felicitation ceremony in New Delhi. Gogoi also presented traditional Assamese mementoes to Bindra’s father A.S. Bindra at the same function, says our staff reporter from Guwahati.