Much to a major boost for Congress in rank and file in Assam, Prashant Kishore has agreed to help the ruling party in the assembly polls March next year.
The brain behind the grand alliance in Bihar, who held a round of informal talks with Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi recently, left New Delhi for Guwahati on Thursday afternoon.
Sources told Assam Times in New Delhi that the poll Chanakya will hunker down with Tarun Gogoi and Rahul Gandhi on Friday to finalise the pre poll strategy when the Congress vice president will on a two days visit to the state on Friday.
"Gogoi recently talked to Prashant at the instance of Rahulji who agreed, in principle, to help Gogoi retain the power in Dispur," said a senior AICC leader.
Notably, former Chief Minister and AGP leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta met Kishore in the capital on Tuesday evening and discuss the strategy an anti-Congress and anti-BJP wave in Assam. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar helped Mahanta met the poll strategist at the Bihar Bhawan in the evening.
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Police flogged the protesters when...
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A team of police men on Monday afternoon picked up the senior AIUDF MLA to the office of superintendent where he was grilled for nearly 2 hours.
According to police sources, Islam could be arrested as soon as they get green signal from the state assembly Speaker since he is a sitting MLA.
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Guwahati: The United Liberation Front of Asom(I) has urged the people to skip the upcoming Rongali Bihu in the time of COVID19 menace.
In a video message, a senior leader of the outfit said from an undisclosed location that the celebration of the festival might disrupt social distance which is the key mantra to keep the killer virus at bay.
He further said that the outfit was also not celebrating it's foundation day on Tuesday because of the COVID19 menace.
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Guwahati: The North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation Ltd (NERAMAC) has inducted Manoj Kumar Das in its helms at a time when enterprising fraternity in the northeastern region are having a tough time.
Das joined as managing director in the Central Public Sector Enterprise in addition to his current assignment in the North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd. (NEDFi) as Deputy General Manager.
Earlier Das served as the Director of Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE) Guwahati for close to three and harf years and revived it with several innovative initiatives.
NERAMAC hopes same temperament in Das to be back on tracks.
Guwahati: The figure of COVID19 cases has reached 20 with 4 more people tested positive on Friday.
According state health minister Hemanta Biswa Sarma, of these three from Nalbari while the remaining one is from North Salmara.
He said that all patients who have travel history to Nizamuddin in Delhi are now stable.
New Delhi: UP police have caught 13 people from Assam in Moradabab who were hiding at a local mosque.
According to information, police tracked down all these 13 people from Assam at a mosque in Barwalan area on Wednesday.
According to SP in Moradabad Amit Kumar Anand, they have been shifted to quarantine for treatment.
This was revealed hours after health minister confirmed 16 COVID 19 cases in the state. They are from Jagiroad, Galaghat, Nalbari and Goalpara.Moradabad: 13 people who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation at Nizamuddin Markaz in Delhi have been picked from a mosque in Barwalan area. Amit Kumar Anand, SP City says,"they are all...
Guwahati: More and more COVID 19 positive cases have been surfacing.
Two more people have tested positive in Goal para with travel history to Delhi where they attended the religious congregation at Nizamuddin.
Before that health minister confirmed 14 cases in Karimganj, Jagiroad and Nalbari with the same travel back ground.
Alert ~ 3 more #COVID19 positive cases in Goalpara, Assam, taking the total to 16.
These three new cases are also of those who joined #TablighiJamaat congregation at #NizamuddinMarkaz.
Update at 12:15 am / April 2
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) April 1, 2020
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Talking to reporters, the RTI activist, who was arrested amid escalating protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. 2019 dared CM Sarbananda Sonowal to read the writings on the wall saying that he also might face the consequences.
"I am ailing. I am multiple diseases and instead of releasing me police have been arresting me on a number of cases " said Gogoi.
Gogoi further rued" my mother's condition is very bed. She had not been able to undergo an eye surgery in my absence."
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Guwahati: The participating people in the religious function at the Nizamuddin shrine have been figured after the state confirmed the first one COVID19 patient undergoing treatment at the Silchar Medical College Hospital in Delhi.
According to information, altogether 299 people attended the function along with 3000 others from the country and abroad on March 13 and 14.
Those who have been listed out have been under to undergo medical scanning at this stage.
Kpkrajhar MP Nabo Sarania also visited the shrine. But he told a Guwahati based media that he visited the place to meet one of the participating people.
Silchar: Finally, the state confirmed it's first COVID19 patient with a travel history to Delhi where the cancer patient attended a religious function at Nizamuddin recently.
The 55 year old patient from Karimganj was undergoing treatment of cancer at the Silchar Medical College for the last couple of days.
Doctors attending on him advised quarantine treatment which he defied and kept moving in Mehekpur area in the Barakvalley town.
After preliminary confirmation, the sample was sent to Pune for laboratory confirmation which suggested it a COVID 19 positive case.
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