Congress leader Rahul Gandhi wrapped up his eventful two-day tour of troubled Manipur on Friday with an appeal for peace, saying the ongoing violence was a “horrible tragedy” that needed healing.
With several tiger reserves in the country on the radar of organized gangs of Bawaria poachers from Haryana, the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), a statutory body under the ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC), has issued a red alert.
Water coming down from Bhutan changed character in the Bajali subdivision of Barpeta district after 2008, inundating areas which were not historically flood-prone. Local activists have asked the Centre to assess the "dam angle" to clear their doubts.
The girl was allegedly asked by a police officer to undress and thereafter, he took obscene photographs.
For Assam, the funding will make The Assam State Secondary Healthcare Initiative for Service Delivery Transformation (ASSIST) Project ($251 million) operational with a goal to improve access to high-quality secondary healthcare services in Assam by directly serving at least 1.8 million people.
The incident took place at Umsyiem village near Dawki town close to the Bangladesh border
The flood situation in Assam showed signs of improvement as the number of affected people came down to about 2.70 lakh, an official bulletin said on Sunday. No rivers were in spate in the state with the number of affected districts also coming down to 14 in the last 24 hours.
The Centre has cleared the decks for a strategic tunnel under the Brahmaputra to transport soldiers to the LAC with China and bring about rapid development of the area with minimal disturbance to the environment. Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said technical bids for preparation of the detailed project report for the proposed 35kmlong corridor between Gohpur and Numaligarh will be opened on July 4.
A recent meeting of the Mizoram State Animal Welfare Board (MSAWB), chaired by the state's minister for animal husbandry and veterinary, Lalrinawma, decided that the Mizoram Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Dog Breeding and Marketing) Rule 2017 should be implemented more stringently.
According to the daily report of ASDMA, the lower Assam districts are the worst affected. Bajali district in lower Assam is the worst hit district with over 2.6 lakh population. Bajali is followed by Nalbari (80,061 people affected) and Barpeta (73,233 affected).
The first death was reported in the Assam floods which turned critical on Thursday in several districts in the past 24 hours. The number of flood-affected people went up to 4.95 lakh on Thursday evening - up from 1.2 lakh - reported on Wednesday evening.
The woman - Amina Khatun - had lodged an FIR at the North Lakhimpur sadar police station on May 15 against Rabha on the basis of which a case on extortion charges was registered against the cop.
In the past 24 hours, 85,000 more people have been hit by the first wave of floods that has affected 20 districts and sub-divisions across the state as on Wednesday evening.
The Royal Government of Bhutan's weather advisory on Tuesday warning more rainfall in isolated areas of Bhutan in the next couple of days may lead to rising water levels in the Brahmaputra and its tributaries in Assam.
The number of districts and subdivisons affected in the first wave of floods rose to 18 on Monday evening from 14 the previous day.
Mansukh Mandaviya chaired a meeting with the central and state agencies to review preparedness for flood management during the monsoon season in Assam
Three people were killed in landslides and one was swept away by floodwaters and is feared dead in Assam and Meghalaya in the last 24 hours even as the number of people affected by the deluge in Assam crossed 37,500 on Saturday evening.
Over 5,000 more people have been affected in the last 24 hours by the ravaging floods in Assam taking the total affected population to over 34,000 across seven districts in the state, according to the daily bulletin of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA).
The flood situation worsened in Assam on Thursday with 9,000 more people hit in Lakhimpur, Dhemaji and Dibrugarh districts in upper Assam, reports Kangkan Kalita. Till Wednesday, 21,000 people were affected in Dhemaji and Lakhimpur districts. Kamrup (Metro), Cachar and Nalbari districts remain affected by urban floods.
A total of 19 villages in Dhemaji and Lakhimpur have been inundated and crops in 13.5 hectares of land have been inundated, the bulletin said.
NIA arrested four suspected members of Bangladesh-based radical Islamic group Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), a chapter of the Al Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent (AQIS), in Assam's Goalpara and Bongaigaon districts in the last 24 hours, police said on Sunday.
Excise sleuths seized 5.8kg of heroin in the Zemabawk neighbourhood of Aizawl on Sunday. Four persons from Cachar district in Assam were arrested for illegal trafficking and possession of the contraband.
Sources said the incident took place between the Baraigram and Kanaibazar railway stations around 2.40am on Friday night.
A drop box meant to deposit arms looted from police stations and armouries of Manipur Rifles and IRBNs outside the house of a BJP MLA in Manipur's Imphal East district has grabbed everyone's attention.
With 62 more internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Manipur entering Mizoram during the last 24 hours, their number has risen to 10,152 as of 5pm on Thursday, state home department officials said.
From an educated unemployed youth's coaching institute to one of state's top educational institutes - the Ramanujan Senior Secondary School, Nagaon - is now famed as one of institutions where success in board examinations has almost become a "guarantee".
