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05 Aug

AASU protest against Raha ASEB office

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Raha unit of All Assam Students Union (ASU) protested in front of the Assam State Electricity Board (SEB) office. Criticizing the irregular supply of electricity by ASEB to Raha and its surrounding areas, AASU leader Sanjay Kakti said, ” Residents of Raha have been suffering for many years due to irregular power supply by ASEB. As there is no fixed period of load shedding here, students, the business community, industrial establishments and others are suffering due to irregular power supply." Later Gautam Sharma, SDO, ASEB, and Raha's office came to hold talks with the protestors and assured the AASU workers…

05 Aug

Himanta Biswa Sarma urging other CMs to include Lachit Borphukan in syllabus

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma has written to his counterparts in other states, requesting them to include a chapter on the great Ahom warrior Lachit Borphukon in the curriculum of schools, and colleges in their respective states. Lachit Borphukon's heroic leadership led to the final defeat of the mighty Mughals at the Battle of Saraighat in 1671, inscribing a unique place for him in the annals of Assamese history. The Chief Minister believes that the saga of Lachit Borphukan's valor should spread far and wide, instilling a sense of pride in every Indian for the heroic deeds of this…

05 Aug

Assam’s five-member to visit Mizoram for border talks

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A five-member delegation headed by Assam Border Protection and Development Minister Atul Bora will be on a two-day visit to Mizoram from 9 August to discuss issues related to the inter-state boundary dispute. A special officer and private secretary to Assam's border security and development minister informed the Mizoram government on Wednesday that the Assam delegation would arrive in Aizawl next Tuesday for two-day talks on the border issue, officials said. The decades-old border dispute between the two northeastern states originally stemmed from two colonial demarcations in 1875 and 1933. Mizoram accepts the boundaries under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulations…

04 Aug

Assam Logs 431 New Cases

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The northeastern state of Assam reported 431 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the whole caseload to 7,40,449. As per the report, 7,833 samples were tested for COVID-19 in the day. Kamrup Metropolitan District, Guwahati city reported 42 new cases. 32 new COVID-19 patients were reported in Dibrugarh, followed by 29 in Cachar, 25 in Kamrup and 24 in Tinsukia. Assam currently has 4,917 active cases and total of 7,27,511 people have recovered from the disease.

04 Aug

Active Jihadi activites in Assam, Assam CM concern

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Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma said Assam has become a hub of "jihadi activities" with five modules linked to the Bangladesh-based terror outfit Ansarul Islam on Thursday. Six Bangladeshi nationals belonging to Ansarul Islam had entered Assam to indoctrinate youths, and one of them was arrested when the first module was broken into in Barpeta in March this year, Sarma told a press conference. Indoctrination of Muslim youth in private madrassas by imams from outside the state is worrisome, says Chief Minister. He added, "Only one of these Bangladeshis has been arrested so far, and I appeal to the public…

04 Aug

West Bengal Police in Assam for investigation

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A four-member team of the West Bengal Police arrived in Guwahati on Wednesday as part of the investigation into the cash seizure case involving three Jharkhand MLAs, which has implicated Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma. The Congress has alleged that the BJP is trying to topple the coalition government with the JMM in Jharkhand by offering Rs 10 crore and a ministerial post to each MLA. As per the report, they have extended full cooperation to their counterparts from neighboring states in the investigation of the case. “The rumor that we have detained them is completely wrong. In fact,…

03 Aug

Check Posts in Arunachal Border to stop illegal liquor trade

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has directed Excise officials to set up temporary check posts along the state’s boundary with Arunachal Pradesh to check the illegal influx of liquor from the neighboring state. Presiding over a review meeting of the excise department on Tuesday evening, Sarma asked senior officials to fill up vacancies in grade-3 and grade-4 departments so that the department functions with full capacity and efficiency. The Assam Assembly's Divisional Standing Committee on Development (A) Departments, in its report for the Excise Department for 2021-22, also said that many sets of rules are being violated and asked…

03 Aug

CM Himanta Biswa Sarma undertakes measures to avoid road accidents

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In an effort to reduce road accidents in the state, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma has asked the transport department to take several measures. Sarma asked Transport Minister Parimal Suklabaidya to hold a meeting with the PWD and Transport Department to introduce necessary safety rules in accident-prone areas to reduce the incidence of road accidents. Most of the road-related fatalities are due to not wearing helmets or not using seat belts, so the transport department and the police will jointly launch a fortnight drive to create awareness among the public about following safety rules ahead of the upcoming Durga…

03 Aug

Assam MLA stages protest against govt decision to teach maths, science in English in schools

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Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma on July 28 decided that mathematics and science will be taught in English in all government and provincialized Assamese and other local medium schools from the next academic year. Raijors Dal party president Akhil Gogoi on Wednesday staged a sit-in protest demanding the rollback of the state government's decision to teach science and mathematics in English in local schools from Class 3 onwards. Along with it the leadership of Assam Sahitya Sabha (ASS), Bodo Sahitya Sabha (BSS), All Assam Students Union (AASU) and All Bodo Students Union (ABSU) decided to submit a joint petation to…

02 Aug

Rs 15-crore drugs; 3 arrested in Assam

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Heroin and morphine worth Rs 15 crore were seized and three persons were arrested from Assam's Karbi Anglong district on Tuesday. According to a senior police officer in the district, the three were coming from Manipur in a car and were heading towards Siliguri in West Bengal when they were nabbed at a place under Dilai police station in the wee hours of Tuesday.. “Acting on a tip-off, our team launched an operation. They impounded the vehicle and arrested three people, all of whom hailed from Manipur. Police have also seized a large quantity of drugs,” he said. The seizure…