At least ten people sustained injury when a city bus rammed into an auto rickshaw along with a two wheeler in Guwahati on Thursday. The tragic accident took place at around 11 in the morning at the busy Paltanbazar area when a Ganeshguri bound city bus rammed into a two wheeler after the driver lost his control over it. A college student who was sitting on the stranded two wheeler received serious injury to be rushed to the GMCH where he is battling for life. Then it again rammed into an auto rickshaw before halting beside the Vishal Mega Mart. Three people who were travelling on the ill fated auto rickshaw also sustained injury. Seven other passenger who sustained serious injury are battling for life at the MMC and GMC Hospitals.
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The student name is Ajoy Kumar Das, he is a Guwahati city office secretary of akhil bharatiya vidyarthi parishad (ABVP). Now he is admitted in Gnrc Sixmile.
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Guwahati: BJP MLA from Hojai Shiladitya Dev will quit the ruling party on Tuesday alleging utter in discipline inside the party.
Dev told media on Sunday that utter in discipline would put the party in dire straits in the future.
"On a number of occasions, I brought many things to the notice of the party leadership. But of no avail. I feel it's better to take retirement from the party, " said Dec.
Without naming anybody he said that as of now the party has too many leaders which is why many dedicated leaders have gone nowhere.
Dev said that he has already sent a message of his decision to the state party president Ranjit Das and that he won't join any...
Guwahati : Assam chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal had a stock taking video conference with all district authorities in the time of COVID-19.
Sonowal asked Deputy Commissioners to take all possible measures to keep the killer virus at bay.
Health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his junior minister Piyush Hazarika were conspicuous by their absence from the meeting on COVID-19.
Sarma along with two senior cabinet ministers on Wednesday reviewed the situation and knockdown in Guwahati at a meeting with chief minister.
The meetings assumed significance after Indian Medical Association and All Assam Medical Students Association alleged utter mismanagement of the menace.
Guwahati: The Indian Medical Association has strongly criticized the COVID19 care and management in Assam and suggested the government to formulate measures taking the medical experts into confidence.
In a letter to health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, IMA's state unit alleged a number of anomalies in the system which why, the number of infected doctors and health workers has gone up on every passing day.
The association further questioned the government's intention on the violation of ICMR guidelines for home treatment of the asymptomic patients.
Professor S B Roy, Chairman of the Indian Institute of Bio-Social Research and Development and Manoj K Das, MD of the North East Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation (NERAMAC) are in conversation with Senior Journalist Kaveree Bamzai about how to boost the tribal economy and move past the staggering impact of the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns.
Guwahati: As many as 1200 prisoners at the Guwahati Central Jail staged sharna on Saturday demanding release of Akhil Gogoi whom the police arrested 7 months back in a number of cases.
The prisoners thronged near the jail gate and started Sharna and shouted slogans raising their demands.
The further treatened to intensify their demands if the peasant leader is not released under relevant sections of the laws.
Gogoi was jailed under NSA and later police imposed a number of sections to keep him in jail.
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“These defenders, many of them students, appear to have been arrested simply because they exercised their right to denounce and protest against the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act), and their arrest seems clearly designed to send a chilling message to India’s vibrant civil society that criticism of government policies will not be tolerated,” the experts said.
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Around 1600 families in 1.5 km radius have been camping at safe distance and most of them alleged to have lost their houses in the inferno.
Local residents have further alleged lost of paddy fields which won't be cultivable for the next many years.
State industry minister Chandra Mohan Patowary drew flake as he was allegedly trying to downplay the incident during his to a relief camps.
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