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The Tea Research Association Tocklai, the oldest and the largest tea research institute in the world, on Friday issued detailed advisories on the management of adverse stress conditions due to a drought-like situation in Assam.
Guwahati Commissioner of Police Guwahati MP Gupta, while taking into account the Election Commission’s broad guidelines for the counting day on May 2, on Friday issued a prohibitory order to prevent breach of public peace and tranquility and danger to human life.
With the surge in Covid-19 cases across Assam, the state government has decided to ramp up testing. However, officials of two districts have alleged that they have run out of testing kits due to supply crunch.
The CPI-affiliated Nikhil Bharat Krishak Sabha (NBKS) and members of Students’ Federation of India (SFI) on Friday staged a one-hour protest demanding a free universal mass vaccination programme and lashed out at the government for not expediting the vaccination drives in Assam.
Nearly 35,000 counting officials and agents, who will be on duty on May 2, underwent mandatory Covid-19 tests in Assam on Friday following an order from the the Election Commission.
Unidentified gunmen fired indiscriminately at the office of United People’s Party Liberal’s (UPPL) youth wing in Kokrajhar district in lower Assam, police said on Friday.