2 held with 8cr heroin in Karbi Anglong

Police on Sunday seized nearly 1 kg heroin smuggled from Dimpaur in Nagaland and worth Rs 8 crore in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district and arrested two persons in this connection.The accused have been identified by the police as Solomon Thuwer and Simon Thuwer. Both hail from Nagaland.

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19 madrassa students interrogated after teacher’s arrest for ‘jehadi links’

Nineteen students of Jamiul Huda Madrassa in Assam’s Morigaon district were questioned by police on Sunday in connection with a case, which led to the arrest of a teacher of the institute recently.

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Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma denies Congress charge of bid to topple Jharkhand govt

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said he continues to be in touch with Congress leaders because of his long association with the party, downplaying the allegations of his involvement in a ploy to topple the JMM-led Jharkhand government.

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Commonwealth Games 2022: President Murmu, PM Modi & CM Zoramthanga greet Mizoram teen Jeremy Lalrinnunga as he brings home gold

Jeremy Lalrinnunga from Mizoram's capital Aizawl city won the gold medal for India in the men's 67 kg category in weightlifting at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games on Sunday. Jeremy Lalrinnunga (19) lifted a total of 300 kg - 140 kg in snatch and 160 kg in clean and jerk.

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Tricolour at Rs 18 each in fair price shops: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said the tricolour will be available in government fair price shops across the state for Rs 18 a piece. He said the state government has left no stone unturned to make the "Har Ghar Tiranga" movement a grand success in Assam.

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FIR against Himanta Biswa Sarma for Jharkhand toppling bid, Assam CM hits back

Speculation and allegations of a deep political plot played out following the confiscation of Rs 49 lakh in the car of three Jharkhand Congress MLAs travelling through Bengal Saturday, as a fellow party legislator accused the trio in an FIR Sunday of trying to bribe him at the behest of Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and BJP bigwigs to topple the Hemant Soren-led coalition government in the state.

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Bike rally to wean away AP youth from drugs

The Assam Rifles battalion deployed in the Tirap, Changlang, Longding (TCL) region of Arunachal Pradesh have together embarked on a mission to create awareness about the ill-effects of drug abuse among the local residents.

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NNPGs slam NDPP for showing more interest in polls than Naga solution

The Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) comprising seven outfits, which have concluded their dialogue with the Centre nearly three years back, have slammed the ruling Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) for showing more interest in election than the Naga solution.

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Pachhunga Univ College scores big in NAAC rating

Pachhunga University College (PUC), the constituent college of Mizoram University, has achieved the coveted A+ grade in the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) evaluation. The NAAC peer team visited the institution on July 20 and 21.PUC had the best score of 3.

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Tezpur Univ scholar discovers new stars with int’l researchers

Tezpur University research scholar Anshuman Borgohain and his team of international researchers have discovered new stars forming beyond the visible boundaries about 1.5 to 3.9 billion light years away from the earth.

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Linking Aadhaar with voter info not must: Assam chief electoral officer

The Assam chief electoral officer (CEO), Nitin Khade, on Saturday said connecting Aadhaar numbers with voter information is going to be purely voluntary even as the ECI has initiated a slew of reforms for young voters.

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Guwahati Police burn 935 kg of drugs seized during raids in recent past

In a mass destruction of drugs as part of the Azadi Ka Amit Mahotsav, Guwahati Police on Saturday burnt down 935 kgs of drugs, which included heroin, cannabis and raw methamphetamine, at Hatishila Daampara under Pragjyotishpur police station.

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Assam’s move to teach maths, science in English draws flak

From teachers’ unions and student bodies to opposition parties, the Assam government’s decision to teach mathematics and science in English language drew flak from various quarters in the state, which accused the BJP-led government of putting a death knell on vernacular medium schools.

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Youth held for killing friend in Silchar

Police have arrested a youth for allegedly killing his friend at Tarapur locality in Silchar on Friday.The victim, Bibek Dey (22), was a resident of Malugram.

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Bodies of 5 missing Assam workers found in Arunachal

guwahati search and rescue teams have traced the bodies of five of earlierpolice sdrf and local teams are continuing the search operation to locate the remaining three missing labourers“the bodies have been located between huri and tapa but the bodies are not in a condition for retrieval.

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Ansar preaching ‘jihad’ through cell phone: Cops

All the eight members of the Bangladesh-based radical Islamic group Ansar ul-Islam, a chapter of the All Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), arrested from lower Assam’s Barpeta district on Thursday, had illegally entered India in 2020 and were engaged in spreading jihadi literatures and

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BBCI conducts NE’s 1st bone marrow transplant on a child

Dr B. Borooah Cancer Institute (BBCI), Guwahati, has conducted the first successful Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) on a child in northeast India. The 16-year-old patient from Meghalaya was discharged on Friday.

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CM inaugurates seva kendra to streamline pension process

Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday inaugurated the first Pension Seva Kendra (PSK) at the office of the district elementary education officer here as a first-of-a-kind platform to streamline the procedures to ease the hardship faced by pensioners of the state.

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Headmaster held for ‘raping’ student

Police arrested the headmaster of a government school in Karimganj district for allegedly raping a minor student of the school recently.Bazaricherra police station’s officer in-charge Chiranjit Kumar Bora said on Friday that the accused was arrested on Thursday.

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Hold urban polls in Nagaland by Jan: SC

Peeved by 12-year delay in conducting the elections to urban local bodies in the state, the Supreme Court on Friday directed the Nagaland state election commission to complete the polls and declare the results by January, 2023.

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Covid-19 positivity rate in Assam drops to 8.46% after three weeks

The Covid positivity graph has started showing a declining trend in Assam after almost three weeks, bringing some respite to the health department.The positivity rate dropped to 8.46% on Wednesday after the corresponding figure touched 8.94% and 9.

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Assam to make schools co-ed, teach maths & science only in English

The state cabinet on Thursday took several key decisions in the education sector, which includes making all schools co-ed, except those girls-only with long history, replacing social studies with history and geography as compulsory subjects and teaching of mathematics and science in

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Madrassa teacher among 10 AQIS members held in Assam

Ahead of Independence Day, at least 10 members of two modules of Bangladesh-based radical Islamic group Ansar ul-Islam, a chapter of al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), were arrested in Assam in the last 48 hours. A madrassa teacher is among those held.

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Cops: al-Qaida chief’s ‘go to Assam’ call disturbing

Assam has termed al-Qaida chief Aymenn al-Zawahiri’s appeal to do “hijrah” or migrate to Assam “disturbing” as police continue to bust modules of Ansar ul-Islam, a chapter of al-Qaida in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), in the state.

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NE can act as springboard to boost trade with SE Asian nations: CM

Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the northeast can play a pivotal role in strengthening Indo-ASEAN and Indo-BBN relationship not only as a means of being a gateway to the South East Asian nations but as a springboard to facilitate bilateral trade and commerce with these

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Marak brought back from UP to Meghalaya on transit remand

Meghalaya Police on Thursday brought back state BJP vice-president Bernard N Marak, who is accused of running a brothel at his farmhouse, to Tura on a transit remand from Uttar Pradesh where he was arrested on Tuesday.

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After 17 months, Dibrugarh University gets new full-time V-C

Assam governor and Dibrugarh University chancellor Jagdish Mukhi has appointed registrar Prof Jiten Hazarika as the new vice-chancellor (V-C) of Dibrugarh University. He will take over charge from present V-C in-charge Prof Lila Kanta Nath.

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GSI report blaming slope cutting for Manipur landslide premature: NFR

The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) on Wednesday said the report of the Geological Survey of India (GSI), which said that “extensive cutting of slope for construction of a railway station” was a cause of the landslide in Manipur’s Noney district on the intervening night of June 29-30,

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Assam cop held for false case against doc, teacher

A police officer in Assam’s Darrang district was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly framing a false theft case against a doctor and a teacher and demanding Rs 5 lakh from them for withdrawing the case.The accused cop, Utpal Bora, is the officer-in-charge (OC) of Kharupetia police station.

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Cong’s Assam minder vows strict action against cross-voters in Prez poll

AICC general secretary and party’s Assam in-charge, Jitendra Singh, said strict action will be taken against Assam MLAs who voted in favour of NDA nominee Droupadi Murmu in the presidential election. Singh will arrive in the state to verify the MLAs who are under the scanner.

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IIT-G seals joint PhDs with 4 foreign univs

The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) has taken a big leap during pandemic years by finalising joint PhDs with Heidelberg University of Germany, Curtin University of Australia, National Institute of Material Science (NIMS) Japan and Shantou University, China.

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Author Atulananda Goswami passes away at 87

Sahitya Akademi Award-winning litterateur Atulananda Goswami, who passed away at Gauhati Medical College Hospital (GMCH) early Wednesday morning following age-related conditions, was given a tearful adieu at Nabagraha crematorium by family members and host of his admirers.

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Nagaland polls: BJP, NDPP renew alliance

BJP and its partner in the government in Nagaland, Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), have renewed their alliance and have decided to contest the assembly polls early next year with the same seat sharing formula as in 2018.

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RSS oppn to Naga flag, constitution delaying final settlement: NSCN-IM

The NSCN (IM) has said the delay in arriving at a final solution to the Naga issue started after the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its “manifesto of Hindutva” opposed its twin demands of separate flag and constitution, which have long been resolved in the Framework Agreement (FA)

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Govt launches free spoken English app for Seba students

After Delhi, the Assam government on Tuesday launched a free spoken English course through a mobile app for school students. The Assam government has mulled a hybrid model of education where maths and science classes will also be imparted in English language.

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After 2 months, water supply from Satpukhuri to resume

The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) is likely to resume water supplies from the Satpukhuri water treatment plant reservoir in early August.

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Six Cong MLAs voted for Murmu, says Borah

Assam PCC president Bhupen Borah on Tuesday left for New Delhi to lodge a complaint with the party high command against at least six Congress MLAs, who allegedly voted for Droupadi Murmu in the presidential election.

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Proud of his sacrifice: Kargil martyr’s mother

Captain Jintu Gogoi, havildar Narain Singha and gunner Udhab Dass of the Indian Army from Assam, who sacrificed their lives in the Kargil War in 1999, were remembered on Tuesday along with other martyrs for their exemplary courage.

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Meghalaya BJP leader accused of running brothel held in UP

Meghalaya BJP vice-president Bernard N Marak, who has been on the run since Friday after police filed a case against him for allegedly running a brothel from his farmhouse at Tura in the state, was arrested in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday evening.

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PPE kit row: Sisodia prays for quashing of defamation case

Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia has prayed for quashing the civil defamation case filed by Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma’s wife Riniki Bhuyan Sarma for allgedly linking her to to an alleged PPE kit supply scam in the state in 2020.

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Pogag re-arrested, this time in Majuli

Police on Sunday night arrested Rana Pogag, who was recently granted bail by a local court in Nagaon in a previous case on fraud charges filed by his cop fiancée Junmoni Rabha in May, in a new case on the same charges lodged in Assam’s Majuli.

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13 Ahom monuments set to get complete facelift this yr

Thirteen historical monuments of the Ahom era protected by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) will get a complete facelift after more than 300 years.

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Assam transport dept issues strict rules for school buses

In accordance with the Supreme Court guidelines, the Assam transport department on Monday issued certain directions for the school authorities, both private and government, including installation of CCTV cameras inside the school buses.

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Hesitancy brings down daily Cov tests in Assam, positivity rate 10%

After vaccine hesitancy, the state health department is finding resistance from people while trying to increase the number of daily tests through aggressive contact tracing.

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Manipur cop, Assam Rifles jawan held with 20 crore Yaba tablets

A Manipur police personnel and an Assam Rifles (AR) jawan were arrested with banned Yaba tablets, worth around Rs 20 crore in international market, in Guwahati on Sunday. The consignment was being smuggled from Manipur's Moreh town along the Indo-Myanmar border, police said. The arrested police personnel has been identified as Letminching Haokip and the AR jawan as Thangkhogin Haokip - both are natives of Manipur.

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IAS officer dies of Covid complications as Assam's positivity rate hovers over 10%

A senior IAS officer died of post-Covid complications here on Sunday, even as the state's Covid positivity rate continued to hover at around 10%. A 1995-batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre, Rajesh Prasad breathed his last in a private hospital. He was 52.

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Assam: Branded 'witch', 56-yr-old woman killed in Kokrajhar

Police on Sunday detained three persons for allegedly killing a 56-year-old widow on suspicion of practicing witchcraft in lower Assam's Kokrajhar district, under the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR). It is the second such incident since May in the district. The detained persons arrested for the crime on Saturday have been identified as Naresh Behmbram, Sujit Hembram and Ramesh Hembram. They are relatives of the deceased Pano Hasda. On May 9, a 45-year-old woman, Anjali Murmu was allegedly killed and hung from a tree on suspicion of practising witchcraft at Mohanpur village in the district.

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2 more Assam workers rescued in Arunachal

The ground rescue teams on Sunday managed to locate and rescue two more missing workers from inside the forests in Arunachal Pradesh’s Kurung Kumey district, taking the total number of rescued men to 10.

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2 Assam students in joint 2nd rank on ISC merit list

Two students from Assam jointly shared second rank in the ISC (Class 12) Board Results, 2022, announced by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Sunday evening.

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Rights panel seeks relief for ‘genuine citizens’ excluded from NRC

The Citizen’s Rights Preservation Committee (CRPC), Assam, has demanded relief for genuine citizens excluded from the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) and getting rid of “wild allegations” regarding their citizenship that resulted in mental and physical harassment.

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NE stares at LPG crisis as truckers begin strike today

LPG transporters will stop transportation of cooking gas cylinders throughout the northeast from Monday, demanding a hike in ferrying charge from IOCL.

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Marak framed: Meghalaya BJP chief stands by leader

Expressing solidarity with its state vice-president Bernard N Marak, who has been named as the prime suspect by police in a prostitution racket, Meghalaya BJP on Sunday condemned the police for “framing” its leader from the Garo hills region of the state.

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North East India Festival in Bangkok from July 29

In a bid to take forward the Act East policy, the second edition of the three-day North East India Festival, 2022 will be held in the Thailand capital Bangkok from July 29.

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BJP leader running brothel, say police; accused denies charge

Meghalaya Police on Saturday said it has busted a “brothel” allegedly operating from the farmhouse owned by state BJP vice-president Bernard N Marak Rimpu at Tura in West Garo Hills district and arrested 73 people from the premises.

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Assam minister to review Barak Valley post-flood situation

Assam minister for public health engineering Jayanta Malla Baruah on Monday will visit three districts of the Barak Valley to review the post-flood situation.

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Tribal villagers near Chandubi protest felling of trees for roads

Tribal villagers settled around Chandubi Lake, one of the biggest tourist attractions (65 km south-west of Guwahati), have vowed to resist government bulldozers, if rolled out to uproot over-a-century-old saal trees in the forest land surrounding the freshwater lake.

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Assam to set up NCDC centre

The Assam government will set up a National Centre for Disease Control unit at Rani in Kamrup Metropolitan district, state health minister Keshab Mahanta has said. Mahanta selected the land, adjoining the community health centre, at Rani in West Guwahati, for the purpose on Friday.

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Assam’s pineapples make way to Dubai market

In a bid to harness the export potential of naturally grown fresh pineapples from the northeastern states, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) on Saturday organised an in-store export promotion event in Dubai, to promote Assam’s pineapples,

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Pvt security guards replace CISF jawans in non-core airport areas

Private security guards have replaced CISF personnel in ‘non-core security positions’ inside the Guwahati Airport within a year from the takeover of the northeast's largest airport by the Adani Group.

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8 of 19 missing Assam workers rescued

After 18 days, the search teams have traced and rescued eight of the 19 missing construction workers engaged in a road construction project of Border Road Organisation (BRO) in Arunachal Pradesh’s Kurung Kumey district.

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Lone BJP MLA in Mizoram, 12 others convicted in graft case

The court of the Special Judge (Prevention of Corruption Act) on Friday convicted 13 people, including former minister and lone BJP legislator Dr Buddha Dhan Chakma and chief executive member (CEM) of the Chakma Autonomous District Council (CADC) Buddha Lila Chakma, in a graft case.

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Congress, AIUDF MLAs voted for Murmu: CM

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said Congress, Badruddin Ajmal’s AIUDF and Independent MLAs voted for President-elect Droupadi Murmu in Assam, which gave her an extra 22 votes.

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Assam: Four suspected Bangladeshi women held at Kamakhya station

Railway Protection Force (RPF) on Friday apprehended four suspected Bangladeshi women at the Kamakhya railway station. A senior RPF official said the women were below 18 years of age and had entered Tripura through the Indo-Bangla border and travelled to Guwahati by train.

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Practise healthy lifestyle to reduce stroke risk: Doctors to youngsters

The growing burden of stroke or brain stroke in the northeast may be linked to ethnicity, doctors said on World Brain Day on Friday. They appealed to the young generation to practice healthy lifestyles to reduce the risk.

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ATTSA seeks 20 lakh relief for victim of tea factory mishap

Assam Tea Tribe Students’ Association (ATTSA) demanded Rs 20 lakh compensation for 24-year-old Maina Nayak, who sustained severe head injuries while working in CTC (crush, tear and curl) machine at Lepetkata tea factory in Dibrugarh on Tuesday and is fighting for her life at Gauhati

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‘Semkhor’, ‘Bridge’ win big at national film awards

Dimasa film ‘Semkhor’ directed by actress Aimee Baruah and Assamese film ‘Bridge” directed by Kripal Kalita were declared as best feature films in languages category by the jury for the 68th National Film Awards on Friday. ‘Semkhor’ also has been honoured.

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