The explosion of seven digital meters at a city apartment created panic among its residents in the city’s Beltola area on Saturday. It all took place at around 11 in the morning at the Ranibagan Apartment Housing Society’s Tarokeswar Block No 6. Initially a boy saw some sparks at a digital meter and told his father. His father Lokesh Agarwala came down with a fire extinguishing cylinder. But he saw the fire dispersed to six other meters. Some other residents also arrived with fire extinguishers and later on the fire was extinguished. On the other hand, after information the ASEB officials reached thr apartment only an hour later. But they said blamed it all on the flawed wiring. Notably, the the Assam State Electricity Board has been claiming that digital meters are safe and that there is nothing to be worried. This has once again proved that the digital meters run the risk of fire incident at any time.
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Assam Governor J B Patnaik and Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday conveyed heartiest greetings to the people on the occasion of Durga Puja.
In a statement the governor appealed to the people to maintain peace and spread the message of amity and unity in keeping with the true spirit of such festivals and tenets of every religious faith and order.
The chief minister also appealed to the people to maintain peace and calm and hoped the festival would promote a bond of brotherhood among all sections of society.
The Gauhati High Court on Friday asked the Centre and the Assam governments to explain the system for identification, declaration and deportation of Bangladeshi immigrants from Assam.
Taking up a writ petition filed by one Mohammad Ataur alias Ataur Rahman, who has been on detention for being a suspected illegal immigrant, Justice B K Sharma observed that the petitioner was in a detention camp for last two years but the respondent (government) had been unable to take any action to deport him to Bangladesh.
The Kaziranga National Park would open from Nov 1 for the tourists. According to KNP authorities, maintenance of roads and other infrastructure are going on inside the park. He said that the tourist would have to wait for a few days to visit the whole park as some low-lying areas are still under water.The UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in Assam for domestic and foreign tourists, mainly due to the one-horned rhinos.According to government data, the park has been recording an increasing number of tourists every year.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has called upon the civil society to support the government in eliminating crime against women.
Inauguration the ceremony of the new office of Assam State Commission for Women in Guwahati, he said that along with the government, the NGOs and other social organisation will have to take initiative to struggle for eradicating crimes committed against women.
He said that steps were taken to increase reservation for women in panchayats of Assam to 50 per cent, from the current 33 per cent.
As a part of adolescent education programme and enhancement of life skills city based Hindustani Kendriya Vidyalaya had organised a day-long programme for its students on Friday at its conference hall. The session on life skills was moderated by Neeru Basumatary who has been working on life skills training. Ratna Singh, Principal of HKV moderated the other session who is also a trained person on life skills and conducted many training programmes in different parts of the country. Life skills have been one of the important skills which is focused by Central Board of Secondary Education for its students. Life skills help a teenager in coping with many things which help in their growth....
Amway India and Guwahati Traffic Police have joined hands together to announce a ‘Road safety awareness campaign’ for the festive season in Guwahati city on October 18, 2012. The objective of the initiative is to sensitize the denizens of the city about the importance of adherence to a slew of road safety rules and traffic signals in order to avoid accidents and secure long life. The awareness drive specially focuses on the students across schools and colleges of Guwahati with an objective of educating the youth on traffic rules for a better future.
At a formal function at Guwahati Press Club, the Superintendent of Police, Traffic Guwahati, Bibekananda Das and Amway India...
Police recovered a decomposed body of a child in Tezpur on Thursday. The body suspected to be of a kidnapped boy, was recovered from a gunny bag near a pond at Chitralekha Nagar. A man who claimed to be the father said that his son was missing from Tezpur town since October 8. But the persons arrested in connection with the kidnapped case have claimed that the child is alive. The body would be sent for DNA test to confirm the identity of the child.
Kamrup district (metro) administration has chalked out a two-layer traffic arrangement for the ensuing Durga Puja in Guwahati.Police (Traffic) has imposed certain restrictions on the movement of vehicles from October 21 to October 24.The goods-carrying vehicles have been restricted from 1 pm to 4 am from Jalukbari, Garchuk, Lokhara, Beltola, Khanapara, Hatigaon and Chandmari side.Trucks will be allowed to enter the city from 4 am onwards up to 10 in the morning. The RP Road will be one way only from the Ganesh Mandir side. There will not be entry for vehicles coming from the Zoo Road side to Ganesh Mandir. Vehicles will move via Service Road, GS Road and Supermarket Point.
One more rhino was found dead in Kaziranga on Thursday. KNP officials called it a case of natural death. Its horn was recovered by the park authorities in Bagori range. In yet another incident, a tusker was found dead after it was trapped inside the dense jungle at Burhapahar range on Thursday.
BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Thursday flagged off the BJYM’s rally organized to honour the Indo-Chino war heroes.In his address at the flag off function at Machkhowa, Gadkari said that the rally would be a source of inspiration for the youths. The rally left for Arunachal Pradesh and on Saturday the concluding function would take place at Bomla in Arunachal Pradesh.
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