Poaching refuses die down in the flooded KazirangaNational Park where 3 rhinos were killed for horns during the last 24 hours. That too in the presence of forest minister Pramila Rani Brahma, who arrived in the national park on Wednesday afternoon.
Poachers have killed a full grown rhino on Thursday wee hours when a huge portion of the world heritage site is still reeling under flood. The incident took place in the Bagori range where the forest guards spotted the carcass in the morning. Poachers were believed to have taken away the horn. The incident took place a day after poachers killed a full grown female rhino along with her calf on Wednesday. A section of the KNP officials has tried to blame it all on the flood. But the missing horn has proved, beyond doubt, that it was case of rhino poaching.
1 Apr 2010 - 11:37pm | editor
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Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday said the the government wont tolerate any crime against women. Talking to reporters in Guwahati on Wednesday, Gogoi said that a special task force would deal with the case. According to the chief minister, post mortem report suggests no rape. He hoped the truth would come to light soon.
Five days have passed since a woman was brutally attacked and dumped on the roadside in Lakhimpur who succumbed injuries at the GMCH. But police have yet to arrest the perpetrators which runs into a hail of protest accross the state. Thousands of people have been staging dharna in Lakhimpur demanding immediate arrest of the culprits. The protestors made it clear that they would remain calm only after the examplary punishment of the perpetrators. The incident took place in Boginadi when the mother of 8 year old child was brutally attacked after she got into a tempo on her way to take her child back from school...
The minor boy critically injured in the Bongaigaon blast died in Guwahati on Wednesday. The three year old boy died three days after he was rushed to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital. The minor boy was critically wounded in Bongaigaon on Sunday as he was on the way to attend the Raas festival in the evening along with his parents. Suspected NDFB-B exploded the powerful grenade in the town leaving 10 injured.
Three more people of a family were killed in the name of witch hunt. The incident took place at Rangalibasti area five days ago. The bodies of the Karbi family were recovered on Tuesday night four days after they went missing. The incident came to light after one of the family members found them traceless. He approached police alleging that on several earlier occassions a section of the villagers inflicted inhuman torture suspecting witch craft. Police arrested three persons in this connection and acting on their confessional statement police dug up the bodies from a jungle.
Despite stepped up security measures, Golaghat town has turned into a den of criminals. In a sensational incident, a gang of dacoits looted the Digambor Jain temple after killing the securityman on Tuesday. The incident took place on Wednesday wee hours when the dacoits attacked Parasuram Goala as he was trying to them from entering into the temple at Chandan Nagar. Goala died on the spot before the dacoits looted the temple. Golaghat police have detained 3 persons in this connection.
Two dreaded NDFB-S militants are believed to have been killed at a fierce gunbattle in Kokrajhar on Tuesday. The encounter took place in the evening during a joint offensive against the militants---mongering trouble in BTAD areas in the form of killing, extortion and kidnapping.
Revenue minister Prithvi Majhi had a narrow escape when a powerful explosion blew off a vital bridge five minutes after he crossed it in Cachar on Tuesday. It took place at 7.30 in the evening on the National Highway No 54 in Lakhipur. Majhi and Dinesh Prasad Goala were way back to Silchar after attending a public meeting. The bomb was planted under the bridge which exploded with a huge sound and the bridge blew off. There is no report of any casualty.But surface communication remained heavily disrupted. No outfit has so far claimed the responsibility.
In a major breakthrough into the Rajib Pathak killing case, security forces claimed to have captured the main culprit behind the broad day light killing of the irrigation department engineer in Haflong. Haflong police and Army's Madras Regiment jawans held Imranjit Bathari alias Aeroplane Dimasa during a joint operation at SS Road in Mahur on Tuesday evening. Bathari was the armedman who shot dead Pathak at his office chamber a few days after Pathak joined as executive engineer of the irrigation department.
Ten people including 5 children sustained when NDFB(S) exploded a powerful grenade in Bongaigaon on Monday. The explosion took place place in front of a Showroom at around 6.30 in the evening. According to eyewitnesses, two motorcycle born youths lobbed the grenade which exploded with a huge sound. Atleast 10 people sustained injury five of them are battling for life in the hospitals. No outfit has owned up the responsibility but the needle of suspecion points towards NSCN-S. Combing operation is in progress.
The crime against women seems to have touched a new low in Assam when a women died after being gangraped in Lakhimpur. The woman died at GMCH on Sunday two days after she was dumped in critical condition at Boginodi area by three youths on her way to take her boy from the school. The critically wounded women couldnot divulge the real story. But injury marks on some particular parts of the body suggested it a case of physical torture and gangrape. On the other hand, thousands of people blocked the national highway in Lakhimpur demanding immediate arrest of the...
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