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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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.
The authorities have been investigating and scrutinizing his profile. He confessed his participation in...
Guwahati: In a bid to give some sort of respite in the time of nationwide lock down, the Assam government is launching a slew of schemes targeting 72 lakh families in the state.
Presided over by CM Sarbananda Sonowal, the meeting resolved provide free rice for 58 lakh families under the National Food Security (NFS) Scheme from Wednesday.
This is in addition to Rs 1000 each to the poor families whom NFS Act has not covered. The meeting allowed the trucks ferrying essentials commodities to enter into the State from Wednesday.
Tea gardens will start resuming operations from the same day. But the authorities will have to follow the rules of the health department. Same rules...
Amid the killer corona menace, the authorities have stepped up activities to firmly deal with illicit liquor racket.
A huge consignment of illicit liquor has been seized and destroyed by Police in Duhnoi on Monday.
Golaghat: Amid the strict enforcement of nation wide to fight the killer COVID19, the gruesome assault of police on two farming women has triggered no less shock and anger among the local resident.
The incident took place at Bagijan area on Saturday when a group of policemen came to see two women villagers in the paddy fields and mercilessly assaulted them for violating the lock down which is expected to be over by April 15.
" Both the women maintained social distancing and they were alone in the paddy field. What mistakes they have done to be beaten up so mercilessly," said Lokomoni Saikia, a local housewife.
Balwan Phukan a villager said," since they worked for livelihood and...
Guwahati: Even as COVID19 has not reached the state, Assam is remaining on maximum alert to keep the killer virus at bay.
Roads, mostly in the rural areas are lying deserted since the people are confined to their homes.
But in many urban areas, including the city of Guwahati some people are still found on the road bereft of any reason forcing the police to read the riot act.
Towards the afternoon s section groceries opened for a couple of hours to help the people gather essential commodities.
"But the government lacks coordination which was why, the people are confused, " said Debabrata Saikia. According to the Opposition leader in the state...
New Delhi: The nation wide lock down is more a reign of terror and less a measure to keep a virus at bay if a section of the observation of a country's legal fraternity is to be believed.
Be it in the case of police excess or the absence of essential commodities, the 21 days Pan India lock down seems to have been crushing the spine of millions of the people living in abject penury across the nation life never before.
The worse has yet to come. This has forced a New Delhi based lawyer to write to the Chief Justice of India for immediate intervention before the situation goes from bad to worse.
Here is the letter of Gaurav Jain, the lawyer, who has been relentlessly...
Tezpur: In a rare show of solidarity, a group of Muslim people reached out to a Hindu family to help the members overcome a crises of humanity.
The incident that sets an example of Hindu-Muslim bonhomie took place in Bihpuria in Biswanath district on Thursday when a group of Muslim villagers came out to a Hindu family at Ward No 1 where a women breathed her last on Monday midnight.
The family members was caught on dire trouble since the neighbours refused to come out of their homes fearing COVID infection. The body of the 68 year old lady remained abandoned.
Then the Muslim villagers on Thursday came out to rescue the family and took away the body observing all Hindu...
New Delhi: The Delhi police have arrested a 40-year-old man a week after he spat on a girl from Manipur and called her Corona triggering no less acrimony among the north eastern people.
According to information, he was picked up by a team led by Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of West Delhi from Mukherjee Nagar area on Wednesday.
He is the man who spat on a 23 years old Manipuri girl after calling her Chinese corona virus. He was arrested by Delhi Police today. Thank You @DelhiPolice, @ArvindKejriwal ji, @AmitShah ji, @KirenRijiju ji. #StopRacism pic.twitter.com/ZcA12BqHjy— Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) March 25, 2020
Initially, the individual called her...
Guwahati: The State governments of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Mizoram have declared Statewide lockdowns till the midnight of March 31.
Till date Manipur has reported a single case of COVID-19 on Tuesday morning.
According to a Manipur Directorate of Health Services pres release issued on March 24, 2020, one young women returned from the United Kingdom found positive. "One 23 year old Manipuri person returning from UK (England) has tested positive today morning. She belongs to Thangmeiband Lourung Purel Leikai, Imphal West district. She is under care and treatment at JNIMS Isolation Ward."
The department appeals people to help tracking others who might be in contact...
Guwahati: Even after COVID 19 has not afflicted the state, a 5 days lock down is in place across Assam from Tuesday to keep the killer virus at bay.
State health minister Hemanta Biswa Sarma said the lock down is coming into force from 5 in the morning where the civilians would be allowed to be on the road only for groceries and pharmacies.
"Police would arrest if anybody is found on the road bereft of any reason. Groceries and pharmacies would remain opened and offices would have to run with minimum staff," said Sarma.
All medical colleges are procuring ventilation facilitaties for treatment of COVID19 and have been receiving required medicines. Sarma said that the OPD...
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